Sports Management and Consulting staff

On these pages, the staff of the Department of Sport Management/Sport Economics introduce themselves with their tasks and main areas of work.

Prof. Dr.
Christoph
Bühren

Fakultät für Sportwissenschaft
Tasks
Leitung Sportmanagement
Address

Fakultät für Sportwissenschaft

2.031

Gesundheitscampus-Nord 10

44801

Bochum

Phone Number

Wiltrud
Herlitze

Fakultät für Sportwissenschaft
Tasks
Sekretariat
Address

Fakultät für Sportwissenschaft

2.027

Gesundheitscampus Nord-10

44801

Bochum

Phone Number
More about Wiltrud Herlitze

Office hours: mo. - thurs. 10 - 12 h (currently home office)

Short biography

  • Since 2014 Administrative employee at the RUB (e.g. Department 1 - Committee Office, Institute of Geography - Third Party Funding, since 2018 LFB Sports Management/Sports Economics)
  • 2013/14 and 2017/2018 University of Health, Bochum (President's Office and Nursing Science Dean's Office)
    1995-2005 Heimer & Herbstreit Landscape Architects, Bochum (landscape planning)
    1989-1995 SEWA GmbH, Essen (deputy group leader for sample preparation)
    Studied geography at the RUB, graduating in 1988 with a "Diplom-Geographin" degree

Main areas of work

  • Management of the LFB Secretariat Sports Management/Sports Economics
  • Administration of ongoing LFB projects (see also Torsten Schlesinger)
  • Co-administration of the Master's programme Management and Consulting in Sport

Special tasks and certificates

  • 2021 Acquisition of the certificate "Professional Management in the RUB University Secretariat".
  • Board member of the MTV group of the RUB and spokesperson of the MTV group of the faculty
  • Preparation team dvs-Sportwissenschaftlicher Hochschultag 2023

Andreas
Parensen

Fakultät für Sportwissenschaft
Address

Fakultät für Sportwissenschaft

2.021

Gesundheitscampus-Nord 10

44801

Bochum

Phone Number
More about Andreas Parensen

Office hours: tu 12.30 - 14 h

Short biography

  • Studied business administration and sports science in Cologne.
  • Many years of professional experience in management consultancy, with a service company, a sports marketing company and as a university lecturer
  • Active tennis player

Main areas of work

  • B.Sc.: Seminars Sports Business Administration, Financing & Investment in Sport, Event Management, Sports Facility Management, Project Sports Management
  • M.Sc.: Seminars Modern Organisational Design, Concepts and Methods of Counselling

Current projects

  • Sports association research: Satisfaction of sports clubs with their national associations
  • Pay-performance analyses in professional team sports
  • Prize money structures and distributions in individual sports

Franziska
Vollmann

Fakultät für Sportwissenschaft
Address

Fakultät für Sportwissenschaft

2.132

Gesundheitscampus-Nord 10

44801

Bochum

Phone Number
More about Franziska Vollmann

Office hours: by arrangement

Education

  • B.Sc./SP Sport Management (RUB); M.A. Sport, Media and Communication Research (DSHS)

Work experience

  • Association work: Consultant for "NRWbsK", "Bewegt ÄLTER werden" and "Bewegt GESUND bleiben".
  • Youth education officer
  • Freelance lecturer for training and further education at various district and city sports associations and the Academy for Sport and Health
  • Primary school physical education teacher
  • Research assistant at the RUB

Main areas of work

  • Dual career
  • Sports support system Bundeswehr
  • Educational decisions (Setting Bundeswehr)

Current projects

  • Project staff member "Top-class sport and the Bundeswehr - on the course of dual sport, training and professional careers in the Bundeswehr".

John Alexander
Menge

Fakultät für Sportwissenschaft
Address

Fakultät für Sportwissenschaft

2.023

Gesundheitscampus-Nord 10

44801

Bochum

Phone Number
More about John Alexander Menge

Office hours: th. 10 - 12 h

Short biography

  • Since 2021 Research assistant in the LFB Sport Management/Sport Economics (RUB)
  • 2020 M. Sc. Management and Consulting in Sport (RUB)
  • 2018 B. Sc. Sport Science with focus on Sport Management (RUB)
  • 2012 A-levels at the Rudolf Steiner School (Freie Waldorfschule, Dortmund)

Main areas of work

  • Macroeconomics of sport: Impact of major sporting events; Economic importance of sport.
  • Microeconomics of sport: models and factors of spectator demand

Current projects

  • Acceptance and willingness to pay for a possible Olympic bid of the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region
    Influence of hosting the Olympic Games on traffic congestion

Marvin
Guth

Fakultät für Sportwissenschaft
Tasks
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Address

Fakultät für Sportwissenschaft

2.023

Gesundheitscampus-Nord 10

44801

Bochum

Phone Number
More about Marvin Guth

Office hours: by arrangement

Short biography

  • Since 11/2021 Research assistant in the LFB Sport Management/Sport Economics (RUB)
  • 2021 M. Sc. in Geography (RUB)
  • 2018 B. Sc. in Geography (RUB)
  • 2013 A-Levels

Main areas of work

  • Methods of empirical social research, esp. quantitative methods
  • Geostatistical methods (Spatial Statistics)
  • Social geography
  • Urban movement spaces / walkability
  • Municipal monitoring
Research assistants and student assistants
Lecturer
Former employees
  • Prof. Dr. Thorsten Schlesinger
  • Matti Bartsch, research assistant
  • Dr. Eric Fass, research assistant
  • Martin Finger, research assistant
  • Florian Ingwersen, research assistant
  • Ann-Katrin Lüdecke, research assistant
  • Prof. Dr. Marie-Luise Klein, Management
  • Dr. Hyunwoong Pyun, research assistant
  • Tim Schneider, research assistant
  • Dr. Frank Schröder, research assistant
  • Dr. Timo Zimmermann, research assistant
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