Sandra Schiller obtained her M.A. and PhD from the History Department at Heidelberg University (Germany), specializing in the social history of the family and in national identity from a postcolonial perspective. She has been a lecturer in Occupational Therapy, Speech & Language Therapy and Phyisotherapy at HAWK University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Hildesheim/Holzminden/Goettingen, Germany since 2002. Sandra’s teaching and research interests are in the areas of Ethics and Diversity, Community Development and historical gender research in Physiotherapy. She is a member of the inaugural IPHA Executive.