Dr. Vincent Lesch
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Biographical Note
Vincent Lesch (born 1986) received his Ph.D. from the University of Hamburg in 2019. In his thesis "Nonprofit Education in Japan: NPO-led Career Guidance at Metropolitan Senior High Schools" he focused on the education system, NPO-sector and the transition from school to labor market in Japan. As a Ph.D. student, he was a stipend holder at the German Institute of Japanese Studies (DIJ Tokyo) and visiting researcher funded by the DAAD at Waseda and Sophia University (Japan). After his Ph.D. he taught at the City University of Bremen/Department for economics (Germany) and Aarhus University/Department of Global Studies (Denmark). Since 2019, he is also organizer of the section meeting “Education” of the German Association for Social Science Research on Japan (VSJF).
Current research project
Vincent Lesch’s research currently focusses on consumer education and consumer protection as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Japanese education system and society. He focuses on educational policies and frameworks as well as the implementation of consumer education and consumer protection on the micro-level. NPOs play a major role in the area of consumer education and consumer protection as well as the implementation of the SDGs in educational institutions and the Japanese society in general.
Since April 1st, 2022 the legal age of adulthood has changed from 20 to 18 years, moving the importance of informed consumer choices and financial literacy of young Japanese into focus. As a response to the change in law, the implementation of consumer education has been a joined effort of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the Ministry of Justice, the Financial Services Agency, and the Consumer Affairs Agency. The curriculum on all educational levels has been enhanced since the beginning of 2018 with the goal to teach basic skills as well as create a mindset that enables students to participate in and further develop a sustainable society.
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04/2022 – |
Research fellow, Heidelberg University, Institute for Japanese Studies |
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10/2021 – 04/2022 |
Research assistant, Aarhus University, Department of Global Studies (Aarhus, Denmark) |
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04/2021 – 09/2021 |
Adjunct lecturer, Bremen City University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Economics, Applied Business Languages and International Management – Japanese (Bremen, Germany) |
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01/2019 – 02/2019 |
Visiting researcher, Waseda University, Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies (Tokyo, Japan) |
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09/2018 – 10/2018 |
Visiting researcher, Waseda University, Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies (Tokyo, Japan) |
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04/2018 – 07/2019 |
Adjunct lecturer, Hamburg University, Asia-Afrika-Institute, Japanese Studies (Hamburg, Germany) |
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12/2017 – 03/2018 |
Visiting researcher, Sophia University, Institute of Comparative Culture (Tokyo, Japan) |
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04/2017 – 12/2017 |
Ph.D. fellow, German Institute of Japanese Studies (DIJ) (Tokyo, Japan) |
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10/2016 – 12/2016 |
Visiting researcher, Waseda University, Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies (Tokyo, Japan) |
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04/2016 – 12/2019 |
Ph.D., University of Hamburg Asia–Africa–Institute (Hamburg, Germany). Thesis title: Nonprofit Education: NPO-led Career Guidance at Metropolitan Senior High Schools |
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10/2015 – 07/2016 |
Adjunct lecturer, Hamburg University, Asia-Africa-Institute, Japanese Studies (Hamburg, Germany) |
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10/2013 – 03/2014 |
Hiroshima University, Department of Education, student exchange program (Hiroshima, Japan) |
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10/2012 – 05/2015 |
M.A., University of Hamburg, Asia–Africa–Institute, International Master’s Program (Hamburg, Germany) |
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10/2011 – 03/2012 |
Hiroshima University, Department of Integrated Studies, student exchange program (Hiroshima, Japan) |
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10/2008 – 07/2012 |
B.A., University of Hamburg, Asia–Africa–Institute, International Bachelor’s Program (Hamburg, Germany) |
Publications
- Lesch (2019): Nonprofit Education: NPO-led Career Guidance at Metropolitan Senior High Schools, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg, URN: urn:nbn:de:gbv:18-105747, URL: http://ediss.sub.uni-hamburg.de/volltexte/2020/10574, 270 Seiten.
- Kreitz–Sandberg and Lesch (2019): Die Entwicklung der sozialwissenschaftlichen Diskussion über Schulabsentismus in Japan: Neue Trends oder ein altes Phänomen?, in: Chiavacci, David and Wieczorek, Iris (Hg.): Japan 2019. Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft , München: Iudicium Verlag, S. 262–298.
