Educational Career

• 04/2009 to 06/2011: Master's degree program "Human Factors/Psychology," Technische Universität Berlin; major courses: cognitive psychology and neuropsychology; degree: Master of Science (title of thesis: "Emotional Stress, Working Memory, and Frontal EEG-Activation")
• 10/2006 to 03/2009: Bachelor's degree program "Psychology on teaching, learning and training", Universities of Erfurt and Jena; major courses: social psychology and research methods, minor course: social sciences; degree: Bachelor of Arts
• 06/2005: external Abitur exam for non-pupils
• 08/2001 to 07/2000: apprenticeship as radiographer at university hospital in Jena

Work Expirience

• since 07/2011: research associate in the project funded by DFG "Are boys left behind at school?"
• 11/2010 to 06/2011: research associate in the cooperative project of PHZ Zug and Freie Universität Berlin funded by the Jacobs Foundation "The academy of young volunteers".
• 12/2009 to 10/2010: research associate in the project "Fit for responsibility" (Roland Berger Foundation)
• 06/2009 to 11/2009: student research assistant in the project "The academy of young volunteers -Training for young volunteers working in extracurricular educational, mentoring and recreational programs"
• 01/2008 to 03/2009: student research assistant at the Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology (Prof. B. Kracke, Dipl.-Päd. K. Driesel-Lange), Universität Erfurt

Memberships in Academic Associations

• since 2011 Member of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs)

Performed courses

• SS 2013: „Concepts of learning and instruction II: lifelong learning“ (German, seminar B.A. Education, 3 hours per week)
• SS 2012: „Concepts of learning and instruction II: lifelong learning“ (German, seminar B.A. Education, 3 hours per week)
• WS 2011/12: „Sociology of education“ (German, seminar M.A. Education, 2 hours per week)
• SS 2011: „Education and arranging group processes“ (German, seminar B.A. Teaching, 3 hours per week)
• WS 2010/2011: „Teaching and learning in a knowledge based society“ (German, lecture B.A. Education, 2 hours per week) - awarded with the prize for good teaching
• SS 2010: „Education and arranging group processes“ (German seminar B.A. Teaching, 3 hours per week)

journal articles:

• Zander, L., Wolter, I., Latsch, M. & Hannover, B. (im Druck). Qualified for teaching physics? How prospective teachers perceive teachers with a migration background – and how it’s really about “him” or “her”. Journal of Gender, Science and Technology.
• Latsch, M. & Hannover, B. (2014). Smart girls, dumb boys!? How the discourse on "failing boys" impacts performances and motivational goal orientation in German school students. Social Psychology, 45, 112-126. DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000167.
• Kessels, U., Heyder, A., Latsch, M. & Hannover, B. (2014). How Gender Differences in Academic Engagement are Related to Students' Gender Identity. Educational Research, 56, 220-229. DOI: 10.1080/00131881.2014.898916.

oral presentations:

• Latsch, M. & Hannover, B. (2013). Wenn Junge-Sein zum Stigma wird. Intensivierung geschlechtstypisierter Identitätsaspekte als Reaktion auf das Stereotyp vom männlichen Schulversager. Vortrag auf der 14. Fachgruppentagung Pädagogische Psychologie. Hildesheim, 24.09.2013.
• Latsch, M. & Hannover, B. (2013). Hostiler Sexismus gegenüber Mädchen als Reaktion auf die Aktivierung des Stereotyps vom männlichen Schulversager. Vortrag auf der 14. Fachgruppentagung Sozialpsychologie. Hagen, 03.09.2013.
• Latsch, M. & Zander, L. (2013). Die Rolle von kultureller Herkunft und Geschlechtszugehörigkeit für die Einschätzung der Fachkompetenz von Lehrkräften. Vortrag auf der 1. Tagung der Gesellschaft für empirische Bildungsforschung (GEBF). Kiel, 11.03.2013
• Latsch, M. & Hannover, B. (2012). Stereotypenbedrohung für Jungen? Die Reaktion männlicher Schüler auf die mediale Diskussion ihres angeblichen Scheiterns. Vortrag auf dem 48. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie. Bielefeld, 27.09.2012.