Prof. Dr. Silke Boenigk

Prof. Dr. Silke Boenigk was a refugee representative at the Universität Hamburg from 2015 to 2018. Today she holds the overall management of the DAAD-funded refugee integration project #UHHilft – University to Help Refugees (INTEGRA and Welcome).

The coordination center for refugees wishing to study is headed by Ms. Jana Hesse and is located in Von-Melle-Park 5.

For questions please contact the #uhhhilft team at: uhhhilft"AT"uni-hamburg.de
phone: +49 40 42838-4547

Coordination Centre #UHHilft - University to Help Refugees
Von-Melle-Park 5, staircase D
20146 Hamburg
Room 2028 (and adjacent rooms)

• 2019-2021 Deputy member of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences (Prof. Dr. Marita Körner/Prof. Dr. Silke Boenigk)
• 10/2008 - today: (W3) Professor of Management of Public, Private & Nonprofit Organizations at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Universität Hamburg
• 02/2009: Habilitation at the University of Fribourg Switzerland
• Summer 2007: Guest researcher, Center on Philanthropy, IUPUI, USA
• 2006-2008: Senior assistant at the University of Fribourg and the University of Mannheim at the Chair of Public & Nonprofit Management (Prof. Dr. Bernd Helmig)
• 2002-2006: Lecturer at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Institute for Business and Regional Economics (IBR)
• 02/2002: Doctorate at the University of Basel with overall grade summa cum laude. Topic: "Customer churn and customer win-back processes".
• 1996-2002: Research assistant at and PhD candicate the University of Basel (WWZ)
• 1992-1996: Study of business administration at the University of Münster

All publications can be found in the list of publications (PDF) by Prof. Dr. Silke Boenigk.

Latest Publications: 

• Becker, A., Boenigk, S., & Willems, J. (2020). In Nonprofits We Trust? A Large-Scale Study on the Public’s Trust in Nonprofit Organizations, Journal of Public & Nonprofit Marketing, 32(2), 189-216. DOI: 10.1080/10495142.2019.1707744
• Mayr, M. L. & Boenigk, S. (2019): Knowledge Management in Public and Nonprofit Organizations: A Transactive Memory and Employee Perspective, Festschrift für Dieter K. Tscheulin, Zeitschrift für öffentliche und gemeinwirtschaftliche Unternehmen (ZögU), 42 Jg., Nr. 1-2, 155-175. DOI: 10.5771/0344-9777-2019-1-2-155
• Soliman, M. & Boenigk, S. (2019). Individual Life Events and Blood Giving. Journal of Consumer Marketing, 36/(7), 926-938. DOI: 10.1108/JCM-02-2018-2588
• Kreimer, A. & Boenigk, S. (2019). Widening Refugee Participation and Access to Higher Education through Collective Impact Initiatives – Insights from Germany, Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, Special Issue on Refugees, 21 (2), 141–167. DOI: 10.5456/WPLL.21.2.14.
• Schubert, P. & Boenigk, S. (2019). The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle: Empirical Evidence from a German Context. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 48(3), 467-491.  DOI: 10.1177/0899764018824669.
• Studte, S., Clement, M., Soliman, M., Boenigk, S. (2019). Blood donors and their changing engagement in other prosocial behaviors. Transfusion, 59(3), 1002-1015. DOI: 10.1111/trf.1508

• from 10/2020 Director of the M.Sc. Interdisciplinary Public and Nonprofit Studies Master's Program (alternating every 2 years with Prof. Dr. Rick Vogel)
• 2019-2021 Deputy member of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences (Prof. Dr. Marita Körner/Prof. Dr. Silke Boenigk)
• 2019-2020 member of the ARNOVA Travel Grant Committee
• Editorial Board member NML (Nonprofit Management and Leadership)
• Editorial Board  member NVSQ (Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly)
• since 10/2018 Scientific project management DAAD/#UHHhilft - University to Help Refugees
• 09/2015-10/2018 Refugee Commissioner of the University of Hamburg
• 08/2015-09/2018 Program Director of the M.Sc. Interdisciplinary Public and Nonprofit Studies Master's Program
• 2012-2015 Vice Dean for Academic Affairs of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences

• ARNOVA: Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Actions
• ISTR: International Society for Third Sector Research
• ERNOP: The European Research Network on Philanthropy
• WKÖ/VHB - The German Academic Association of Business Research). Chairwoman of the WKÖ (Section – Center of Excellence for Public Business Administration) 2009-2012.