Vanessa Hübner

Vanessa Hübner is a Scientific Associate at the Chair of Empirical Educational Research within the Faculty of Humanities at Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg. She holds a PhD in Educational Research (2025) and an M.Sc. in Empirical Educational Research (2021), with a B.A. in Education (2018). Her work focuses on academic risk-taking, self-regulated learning, and error beliefs in educational contexts.

• PhD: "Between mistakes and learning potential: An investigation of individual and contextual predictors of students' academic risk-taking" (2025)
• M.Sc.: Empirical Educational Research (2021)
• B.A.: Education (2018)

Her research explores how error beliefs, teaching quality, and motivational factors influence academic risk-taking in higher education. Publications highlight disparities in risk-taking across gender and socioeconomic groups, the role of webtools in self-regulated learning, and psychometric assessments of risk-taking scales.

Current projects include analyzing extracurricular tutoring effects and developing tools like the Open-vhb e-learning course for self-regulated learning. She collaborates with Prof. Dr. Maximilian Pfost and contributes to the University Teaching journal.