Prof. Dr. Uwe Uhlendorff

Uwe Uhlendorff is a professor of social pedagogy with a focus on the subject didactics of social pedagogy. His teaching and research focus on the one hand on the challenges of professional qualification for the fields of work in social pedagogy and on the other hand on learning and educational processes in social pedagogical contexts: Uwe Uhlendorff deals with didactical and content-related aspects of the training of teachers and educators. He is currently researching and developing innovative teaching-learning arrangements in schools and universities that address social issues such as inclusion and heterogeneity as didactic challenges. His second research focus is on educational processes of adolescents and parents in socio-educational institutions. The focus is on the question of how learning and educational processes can be promoted through socio-educational interactions.

Uwe Uhlendorff studied education, sociology and communication sciences at the University of Göttingen. After his studies he worked as a scientific project worker in youth welfare. He received his doctorate in pedagogy from Georg August University in 1996. He then taught and conducted research as a university assistant in the theory and history of social pedagogy at the Department of Social Work at the University of Kassel, where he habilitated in 2001. Since 2004 he has been a professor at the TU-Dortmund. Uwe Uhlendorff was a co-applicant and supervisor in the DFG Research Training Group Youth Assistance in Transition (2004-2009). Together with Prof. Ogushi he led the research network "The Change of Social Integration - Perspectives for Social Services in Japan and Germany" (2002-2005). He was a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Tokyo (2009). Uwe Uhlendorff led the EU research project FAMILYPLATFORM (2009-2011), he was involved in several expert groups for the EU Commission and in the scientific advisory board of the EU project FamiliesAndSocieties. Uwe Uhlendorff is a member of the Board of Directors and the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Society on Family Relations (ESFR) and of the Steering Group of the German Academy for Educational Leadership (DAPF). He is co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Sozialpädagogik.

Recent book publications:

• Uwe Uhlendorff: Methods of Social Pedagogical Case Understanding in Social Work. A basic course. Weinheim/Basel 2022 (Beltz Juventa).
• Uwe Uhlendorff / Stephan Cinkl: Sozialpädagogische Familiendiagnosen. Deutungsmuster familiärer Belastungssituationen und erzieherischer Notlagen in der Jugendhilfe. Munich/Weinheim 2021 (Juventa Verlag/ 3rd revised and expanded edition).
• Uwe Uhlendorff / Matthias Euteneuer: Familie und Familienalltag als Bildungsherausforderung. Weinheim/Basel 2020 (Beltz Juventa).
• Uwe Uhlendorff / Matthias Euteneuer / Mathias Schwabe / David Vust: Systemic Interaction Therapy and Counseling in Educational Support. Theory and practice of a parent-activating approach. Weinheim/Basel 2020 (Beltz Juventa).
• Uwe Uhlendorff / Peter Hammerschmidt / Anne Hans / Melanie Oechler: Social pedagogical problems in the post-war period. Weinheim/Basel 2019 (Beltz Juventa).
• Uwe Uhlendorff / Michael Ledig / Gerhard Merget / Carsten Püttmann / Hannah Weyhe: Erziehen als Profession. Lernfelder 1-3. cologne 2019 (Westermann Verlag)
• Uwe Uhlendorff / Michael Ledig / Gerhard Merget / Carsten Püttmann / Hannah Weyhe: Erziehen als Profession. Lernfelder 4-6. Cologne 2019 (Westermann Verlag).

Ongoing research projects:

• 2019 - 2023 Project "Dortmund Profile for Inclusion-Oriented Teacher Education II" funded by the federal and state governments with funds from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).(Further information)

Research projects completed in the last five years:

• 2013 - 2016 "Family Concept-Related Learning and Educational Processes in the Context of Family Transitions, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)(further information: here).
• 2014 - 2018 "Social Pedagogical Problems in the Post-War Period" funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) in cooperation with the HS Munich (Prof. Dr. Peter Hammerschmidt).(Further information: here)
• 2016 - 2019 Project "Dortmund Profile for Inclusion-Oriented Teacher Education" funded by the German Federal and State Governments with funds from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).(Further information)
• 2018 - 2020 "Gelingen! - Learning together in and for inclusive(n) conditions in kindergarten" funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).(Further information)

Prof. Dr. Uwe Uhlendorff born on 15.3.1961 in Göttingen Chair of Social Pedagogy and Didactics of Social Pedagogy at the Department of Education and Sociology at the University of Dortmund

Academic career

1980 - 1986 Studies: Pedagogy, Sociology and Communication Sciences (Magister Artium) at the University of Göttingen.

1996 Doctorate in Education at the University of Göttingen on the topic: "Patterns of Interpretation and Developmental Tasks of Adolescents. Foundations and application of hermeneutic diagnoses in social pedagogy". Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Klaus Mollenhauer

2001 Habilitation on the topic "History of the Youth Welfare Office. Lines of development of public youth welfare 1871-1929" at the Department of Social Welfare of the University of Kassel.

Professional activity

1988 - 1991 Scientific project worker at the Evangelische Jugendhilfe Obernjesa: Supervision of socio-pedagogical exercise and experience courses for adolescents with behavioral difficulties

1991 - 1993 Scientific project assistant at the Pedagogical Seminar of the University, responsible head of a research project funded by the "Stiftung Deutsche Jugendmarke" with the title "Psychosozial schwer belastete Jugendliche - sozialpädagogische Diagnose und Hilfeplanung" (Psychosocially severely burdened adolescents - socio-pedagogical diagnosis and help planning)

1993 - 1995 Research assistant at the "Diakonieverbund Schweicheln

1996 - 2002 University assistant for theory and history of social pedagogy at the Department of Social Work at the University of Kassel

2002 - 2004 University lecturer for theory and history of social pedagogy at the Department of Social Work of the University of Kassel

since 2004 university professorship for social pedagogy with focus on didactics of social pedagogy at the Technical University of Dortmund

2009 Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo/Graduate School of Education

• 2002 (funded by the German Research Foundation), presentation at the symposium "Social Pedagogy in Japan and Germany: Historical Roots, Theoretical References and Practical Problems" on August 1, 2002 at Tokyo Metropolitan University.
• 2004 (funded by the German Research Foundation), presentation at the symposium "Wandel der Sozialintegration. Reorientations of Social Services" at Nara University of Education, Center for Educational Research and Development (February 29 - March 1, 2004).

VERÖFFENTLICHTE SEIT 2013 / PUBLICATIONS SINCE 2013

Book Publications (Books)

• Uwe Uhlendorff / Matthias Euteneuer / Kim-Patrick Sabla: Social Work with Families. Munich/Basel 2013 (Ernst Reinhardt Verlag)
• Uwe Uhlendorff / Michael Ledig / Gerhard Merget / Carsten Püttmann / Hannah Weyhe: Erziehen als Profession. Lernfelder 1-3. Cologne 2019 (Westermann Verlag)
• Uwe Uhlendorff / Michael Ledig / Gerhard Merget / Carsten Püttmann / Hannah Weyhe: Erziehen als Profession. Lernfelder 4-6. Cologne 2019 (Westermann Verlag)
• Uwe Uhlendorff / Peter Hammerschmidt / Anne Hans / Melanie Oechler: Social pedagogical problems in the post-war period. Weinheim/Basel 2019 (Beltz Juventa).
• Uwe Uhlendorff / Matthias Euteneuer: Family and everyday family life as an educational challenge. Weinheim/Basel 2020 (Beltz Juventa).
• Uwe Uhlendorff / Matthias Euteneuer / Mathias Schwabe / David Vust: Systemic Interaction Therapy and Counseling in Educational Support. Theory and practice of a parent-activating approach. Weinheim/Basel 2020 (Beltz Juventa).
• Uwe Uhlendorff / Stephan Cinkl: Sozialpädagogische Familiendiagnosen. Interpretation patterns of family stress situations and educational emergencies in youth welfare. Munich/Weinheim 2021 (Juventa Verlag/ 3rd revised and expanded edition).
• Uwe Uhlendorff: Methods of Social Pedagogical Case Understanding in Social Work. A basic course. Weinheim/Basel 2022 (Beltz Juventa).

Essays (Articles)

• Uwe Uhlendorff: Social pedagogical diagnostics for adolescents. In: Pädagogik Unterricht. The professional journal for the pedagogical subject group 4/2013 Jg. 33. VdP. Wesel. S. 2-10.
• Uwe Uhlendorff: Social constructions of reality. In: Sozialpädagogische Impulse 3/2014. MBC-Manfred Breindl Communications. Hollabrunn. S. 15-19.
• Uwe Uhlendorff / Matthias Euteneuer: Family and everyday family life as an educational challenge. A theoretical model for the empirical investigation of family concept-related learning and educational processes. In: Journal of Educational Science 4/2014. Springer. Wiesbaden. S.723-742.
• Uwe Uhlendorff / Matthias Euteneuer / Peter Hammerschmidt: Social pedagogical problems and social innovation - a contemporary historical reconstructive research approach. In: Journal of Social Pedagogy 4/2014. Beltz/Juventa. Weinheim. S. 377-401.
• Uwe Uhlendorff / Matthias Euteneuer: Familiy concepts - a social pedagogic approach to understanding family development and working with families. In: European Journal of Social Work. Vol. 17 5/2014. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
• Uwe Uhlendorff / Matthias Euteneuer: Challenges for families in Europe-possible starting points for social work. In: ISA Yearbook on Social Work 2013. Münster 2014 (Waxmann Verlag).
• Uwe Uhlendorff: Social pedagogical diagnostics for adolescents. In: Dieter Lozt (ed.) Heilpädagogische Diagnostik-Erkenntniswege zum Menschen. Berlin 2014 (BHP Verlag- Berufs und Fachverbands GmbH).
• Uwe Uhlendorff / Frank Mücher: Das fragend-begleitende Gespräch. Social pedagogical diagnostics in the context of youth homelessness. In: Social pedagogical perspectives on deviance 2015. Beltz/Juventa. Weinheim. S. 49-67.
• P. Hammerschmidt / U. Uhlendorff: On the genesis of the ASD - from the beginnings dis to the 1970s. In: Merchel, J. (ed.) Handbuch allgemeiner Sozialer Dienst (ASD). Munich/Basel 2015, pp. 10-31.
• Zoi Athanassiadou / Matthias Euteneuer / Frank Mücher / Uwe Uhlendorff: Familienkonzepte - ein sozialpädagogischer Blick auf die Gestaltung familialer Lebenswelten. In: New Practice. Journal for Social Work, Social Pedagogy and Social Policy. Verlag neue praxis, Lahnstein, 2015. pp. 12-24.
• U. Uhlendorff: Statement on the draft of a "Law to strengthen children and adolescents". In: neue praxis 4/2016, pp. 379-382.
• P. Hammerschmidt / A. Hans / M. Oechler / U. Uhlendorff: "Key children" in the post-war period. In: neue praxis 4/2016, pp. 320-334.
• Nicole Knuth / Michael Kluttig / Uwe Uhlendorff: Clearing procedures for unaccompanied minor refugees. In: Handbook for unaccompanied minor refugees. IGfH-Eigenverlag, Frankfurt/Main, 2017. pp. 104-112.
• Euteneuer, M./Mücher, F./Uhlendorff, U. (2017): Family concepts as constellations of family images relevant for learning and education. An exemplary analysis using the example of same-sex parenthood. In: Bauer, P. /Wiezorek, C. (Eds.): Family images between continuity and change - Analyses on the (social) pedagogical and educational reference to family. Weinheim: Beltz, pp. 229-245.
• Uwe Uhlendorff / Oliver Fähnrich: Sozialpädagogische Diagnostik im Jugendstrafvollzug. In: Handbook of juvenile delinquency / Interdisciplinary perspectives / 3rd edition. Springer, Wiesbaden, 2018. pp. 589-600.
• Magdalena Buddeberg / Jan Duve / Elke Grimminger-Seidensticker / Kerstin Heberle / Sabine Hornberg / Anke Karber / Christina Krabbe / Ulrike Kranefeld / Melanie Radhoff / Dorothea Tubach / Uwe Uhlendorff: Video-based casework in inclusive seminars. In: DoProfil - The Dortmund Profile for Inclusion-Oriented Teacher Education. Waxmann, Münster 2018. pp. 73-91.
• Stephan Cinkl / Uwe Uhlendorff: Sozialpädagogische Familiendiagnosen im Kontext von Erziehungshilfen. In: Handbuch Soziale Diagnostik. Perspectives and Concepts for Social Work. Edited by Buttner / Gahleitner / Hochuli Freund / Röh. Lambertus, Freiburg, 2018. pp. 281-292.
• Peter Hammerschmidt / Anne Hans / Melanie Oechler / Uwe Uhlendorff: Home education in the Adenauer era - On the home reform discussion and reform blockades. In: New Practice. Journal for Social Work, Social Pedagogy and Social Policy. Verlag neue praxis, Lahnstein, 2019. pp. 22-36.
• Peter Hammerschmidt / Anne Hans / Melanie Oechler / Uwe Uhlendorff: Social pedagogical problems in the postwar period. In: Syphilis, colonialism, social pedagogy. Journal of Social Pedagogy. Verlag Beltz Juventa, Weinheim, 2020. pp. 84-101.
• C. Equit, M. Euteneuer, & U. Uhlendorff: Single mothers figuring out their future family life - understanding family development after separation and divorce drawing upon the concept of configuration. In: Social Work & Society, Volume 20, Issue 1, 2022 ISSN 1613-8953, http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:464-sws-2763

VERÖFFENTLICHTE 1992 - 2012 / PUBLICATIONS 1992 - 2012

Book Publications (Books)

• Klaus Mollenhauer / Uwe Uhlendorff: Social Pedagogical Diagnoses I. On young people in difficult life situations. Munich/Weinheim 1992 (Juventa Verlag)
• Klaus Mollenhauer / Uwe Uhlendorff: Sozialpädagogische Diagnosen II. Selbstdeutungen verhaltensschwieriger Jugendliche als empirische Grundlage für Erziehungspläne. Munich/Weinheim 1995 (Juventa Verlag)
• Uwe Uhlendorff: Sozialpädagogische Diagnosen III. A socio-pedagogical-hermeneutic diagnostic procedure for help planning. Munich/Weinheim 1997 (Juventa Verlag)
• Uwe Uhlendorff: History of the Youth Welfare Office. Lines of development of public youth welfare 1871 - 1929. Weinheim/Basel/Berlin 2003 (Beltz/Votum)
• Uwe Uhlendorff / Stephan Cinkl / Thomas Marthaler: Sozialpädagogische Familiendiagnosen. Patterns of interpretation of family stress situations and educational emergencies in youth welfare. Munich/Weinheim 2006 (Juventa Verlag).
• Uwe Uhlendorff / Marina Rupp / Matthias Euteneuer (Eds.): Wellbeing of Families in Future Europe. Challenges for Research and Policy. Familyplatform - Families in Europe Volume 1. 2011 (lulu.com)

Articles

• U. Uhlendorff: On the Design of Life Themes in the Context of Experiences Close to the Body - Experiences from an Experiential Education Project. In: 25th supplement of the Zeitschrift für Pädagogik. Weinheim 1990.
• E. Kokoschka / U. Uhlendorff: Exercise courses for severely troubled youth. In: Our Youth 2/1992. Munich 1992.
• U. Uhlendorff: The Little Pedagogy of Photography. In: Our Youth 6/1993. Munich 1993.
• U. Uhlendorff: Self-endangerment by drugs - a socio-pedagogical-hermeneutical diagnosis. In: Birtsch, V./Kluge, Ch. et al. (eds.): Autocrashing, S-Bahn-Surfen, Drogenkonsum. Frankfurt 1994.
• E. Kokoschka / U. Uhlendorff: Crisis intervention and socio-pedagogical diagnosis in youth welfare. In: Jansen, B./Jung, Ch./Schrapper, Ch./Thiesmeier, M. (Eds.): Crises and Violence. Causes, concepts and action strategies in youth welfare. Münster 1993, pp. 115-121.
• U. Uhlendorff: Starting points for a socio-educational diagnosis of the lifeworld of socially disadvantaged youth. In: Homfeld, G./ Ries, H. A./Steinmetz, B. (eds.): Disadvantaged Youth in Europe. Opladen 1994, pp. 181-193.
• U. Uhlendorff: Hermeneutisch-biographisches Fallverstehen in der Arbeit mit Jugendlichen ausländischer Familienherkunft. In: The Pedagogical View 3/1997, pp. 151-159.
• U. Uhlendorff: Psychosocial and socio-educational diagnoses in youth welfare. In: Wolff, M./Schröer, W./Möser, S. (Eds.): Lebensweltorientierung konkret - Jugendhilfe auf dem Weg zu einer veränderten Praxis. Contributions to the IgfH - Annual Conference 1996 in Dresden. Frankfurt 1997, pp. 66-80.
• U. Uhlendorff: Home revolts in Hamburg - first attempts to de-ideologize social pedagogy in the Wilhelminian period. In: neue praxis 5/1998, pp. 517-525.
• U. Uhlendorff: Das Leitbild öffentlicher Jugendfürsorge im Wilhelminischen Reich. The example of the city of Mainz, Zeitschrift für Sozialreform 7/1998, pp. 494-516.
• U. Uhlendorff: Der Anker-Steinbaukasten - Zur pädagogischen Idee eines Spielzeugs. In: Mitteilungen & Materialien, Journal for Museum and Education, No. 49/1998, pp. 24-33.
• U. Uhlendorff: Sociopedagogical hermeneutical diagnostics and educational program planning. In: Socialna Pedagogika, No. 4/1999.
• U. Uhlendorff: Body experience between normality expectation and social deviation. Tasks of youth welfare. In: Becker, P./Koch, J.: What is normal? Constructions of normality in youth welfare and youth psychiatry. Weinheim/Munich 1999, pp. 149-161.
• U. Uhlendorff: Search movements. In: Homfeld, H. G./Merten, R./Schulze-Krüdener, J. (Eds.): Soziale Arbeit im Dialog der Generationen. Theory formation - training / professionalization - method development in the second half of the 20th century. Hohengeren 1999, pp. 198-205.
• U. Uhlendorff: Social pedagogical diagnoses. In: Colla/Gabriel/Millham/Müller-Treusler/Winkler (eds.): Handbuch Heimerziehung und Pflegekinderwesen in Europa. Neuwied/Kriftel 1999, pp. 713-719.
• U. Uhlendorff: In Search of a Relationship between Public and Private. Youth welfare models in the Wilhelminian Empire. In: neue praxis 2/2000, pp. 155-165.
• U. Uhlendorff: Is the History of Youth Welfare in Need of Revision? In: neue praxis 1/2001, pp. 40-57.
• U. Uhlendorff: Notes on Marcus Gräser's replication. In: neue praxis 6/2001.
• U. Uhlendorff: Honor: A neglected topic in youth welfare. In: Bier-Fleiter, C. (ed.): Family and public education. Opladen 2001.
• U. Uhlendorff: Assistance planning. In: Schröer, W./Struck, N./Wolff, M. (eds.): Handbuch der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe. Weinheim/Munich 2002.
• U. Uhlendorff: Social-pedagogical-hermeneutic diagnoses in youth welfare. In: Werner Thole (ed.): Grundriss Soziale Arbeit. Opladen 2002.
• U. Uhlendorff: Social pedagogical family diagnosis: Method and research perspectives. In: Jugendhilfe 5 / 2003.
• U. Uhlendorff: In the Service of Bourgeois Social Reform - Idea, Work and Decay of the People's Welfare Association in Mainz in the Period of Labor Struggle (1893-1914). In: Journal of Social Reform 6 / 2003.
• U. Uhlendorff / S. Cinkl: Social Pedagogy, Professionalism and Diagnostics. A field report. In: Journal of Juvenile Criminal Law and Youth Welfare 4 / 2003.
• U. U. Uhlendorff / Th. Marthaler: Social pedagogical family diagnostics. In: Heiner, M. (Ed.): Diagnostics in Social Work. Frankfurt 2004.
• U. Uhlendorff: Social pedagogical family diagnostics in youth welfare. In: Krumenacker, F. J. (Ed.): Sozialpädagogische Diagnosen in der Praxis - Erfahrungen und Perspektiven. Weinheim/Munich 2004.
• U. Uhlendorff: The developmental-tasks conception and its significance for education and social work. In: Social Work and Society 1 / 2004.
• U. U. Uhlendorff / S. Cinkl / Th. Marthaler: Families in Youth Welfare: On the Social Pedagogical Diagnosis of Familiar Help Topics. In Archiv für Wissenschaft und Praxis der sozialen Arbeit 2 / 2005.
• U. Uhlendorff: Social Pedagogical Diagnoses: Lines of Tradition and Current Challenges. In: neue praxis 5 / 2005.
• U. Uhlendorff: Images of Poverty - On the Analysis of Pictorial Documents in Historical Social Research. In: Heimgartner, A. / Lauermann, K. (Eds.): Culture in Social Work. Klagenfurt/Ljubljana/Vienna 2006.
• U. Uhlendorff: The Social Pedagogical Problem. In: Böhm,W. / Frost, U. / Ladenthin, V. / Mertens, G.: Handbuch Erziehungswissenschaft, vol. III (2009).
• U. Uhlendorff: Social pedagogical institutions. In: Böhm,W. / Frost, U. / Ladenthin, V. / Mertens, G.: Handbuch Erziehungswissenschaft, vol. III (2009).
• N. Rosenbauer / U. Uhlendorff: Didaktisch-methodische Konzepte der Jugendarbeit. In: Otto, H.-U. / Coelen, T./ (Eds.): Grundbegriffe der Ganztagsbildung. The handbook. Verlag für Sozialwisssenschaften (2009).
• U. Uhlendorff / Spanu, S. / Spenner, C.: Personal relationships in adolescence. In: Lenz, K. / Nestmann, F.: Personal relationships. A handbook. Weinheim/Munich, Juventa Verlag (in press).
• N. Knuth / K.-P. Sabla / U. Uhlendorff: The family concept model: Perspectives for a social pedagogically focused family research and diagnostics. In: Special issue Neue Praxis 2009.
• U. Uhlendorff / O. Fähnrich: Social pedagogical diagnostics and correctional planning in juvenile justice. In: Journal of juvenile delinquency and youth welfare 2010 (21) pp. 265-270.
• U. Uhlendorff: The social pedagogical problem. In: Dietrich, C., Müller, H.-R. (eds.): The task of memory in pedagogy. Bad Heilbrunn 2010, pp. 277-298 (Verlag Julius Klinkhardt).
• U. Uhlendorff: Social pedagogical diagnoses as "methodically controlled guessing games"? In: Journal of Social Pedagogy 1 / 2011.
• S. Cinkl / U. Uhlendorff: Sozialpädagogische Familiendiagnosen bei Kindeswohlgefährdung. In: Körner, W., Deegener, G. (Eds.): Erfassung von Kindeswohlgefährdung in Theorie und Praxis. Lengerich 2011, pp. 278-293.
• Uwe Uhlendorff/Peter Hammerschmidt: Zur Entstehungsgeschichte des ASD- von den Anfängen bis in die 1970er Jahre. In: Joachim Merchel (ed.) Handbuch Allgemeiner Sozialer Dienst. Munich and Basel 2012 (Ernst Reinhardt Verlag).

Rezensionen (Reviews)

• Christian Niemeyer / Wolfgang Schröer / Lothar Böhnisch (eds.): Grundlinien Historischer Sozialpädagogik. Traditionsbezüge, Reflexionen und übergangene Sozialdiskurse. In: Journal of Pedagogy, 1997, pp. 835-840.
• Volker Gedrath: Forgotten traditions of social pedagogy. In: Journal of Social Reform 5 / 2003)

Activities as Editor (Editorial Work)

• U. Uhlendorff / A. Zimmer: Public/Private-Partnership. The production of public goods in historical change. Kassel 1997
• Ch. Sachße / F. Tennstedt / U. Uhlendorff: Municipal Employment Policy between Social Welfare and Labor Market. Kassel 1999
• P. Hammerschmidt / U. Uhlendorff: Welfare Associations between Subsidiarity Principle and EU Competition Law. Kassel 2003
• U. Uhlendorff: Handbook of Educational Science (Eds.: Böhm,W. / Frost, U. / Ladenthin, V. / Mertens, G.), Volume III, Subarea 6, Environments / Social Pedagogy (2009)

• 1991 - 1993 "Psychosocially severely distressed adolescents - socio-pedagogical diagnosis and help planning" (as project leader and applicant together with Prof. Dr. Klaus Mollenhauer), funded by the "Stiftung Deutsche Jugendmarke"; University of Göttingen
• 2002 - 2004 Applicant and leader of the research project "Families in distress - socio-pedagogical diagnoses of family distress and help concepts"; University of Kassel in cooperation with the International Society for Educational Help, the University of Osnabrück, the Youth Welfare Office Kassel and the Brandenburg Institute for Family Therapy, funded by the "Stiftung Deutsche Jugendmarke".
• 2004 - 2009 Co-applicant and supervisor: DFG-Graduiertenkolleg Jugendhilfe im Wandel / TU Dortmund and University of Bielefeld (speaker: Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Hans-Uwe Otto and Prof. Dr. Gaby Flößer
• 2005 Applicant and head of the expertise/research project on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth "Sozialpädagogische Diagnosen in der Jugendhilfepraxis. A stocktaking", University of Dortmund
• 2008 Applicant and head of the pilot study "Changes in Images of Childhood and Family in Public Education - Reform Processes of Social Services for Families in a European Comparison", funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research
• 2009 - 2011 Applicant and head of the research project "Social Pedagogical Work with Young Mothers and Fathers in Mother-Father-Child Facilities", funded by the "Stiftung Deutsche Jugendmarke".
• 2009 - 2011 Applicant and coordinator of the EU project FAMILYPLATFORM, funded by the European Commission 7th Framework Programme (SSH-2009-3.2.2 Social platform on research for families and family policies; further information)
• 2013 - 2016 Proposer and leader of the research project "Family concept-related learning and educational processes in the context of family transitions, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)(more information: here ) .
• 2014 - 2018 Applicant and leader of the research project "Social Pedagogical Problems in the Post-War Period" funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) in cooperation with the HS Munich(Prof. Dr. Peter Hammerschmidt) (further information: here ).
• 2016 - 2019 Project "Dortmund Profile for Inclusion-Oriented Teacher Education" funded by the German Federal and State Governments with funds from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Further information: http: //www.doprofil.tu-dortmund.de
• 2018 - 2020 "Gelingen! - Learning together in and for inclusive(n) conditions in kindergarten" funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Further information on Gelingen !
• 2019 - 2023 "Dortmund Profile for Inclusion-Oriented Teacher Education II" project funded by the federal and state governments with funds from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Further information: http: //www.doprofil.tu-dortmund.de
• 2022 - 2025 Research project: "Enabling social participation of adolescents in residential educational assistance in times of pandemics (JuPa)". Further information: https://isep.ep.tu-dortmund.de/forschung/forschungsprojekte/soziale-teilhabe-von-jugendlichen-in-stationaeren-hilfen/

Research projects

• 1991 - 1993 "Young people in need - Social pedagogical Diagnosis and Case management" (as project leader and applicant together with Prof. Dr. Klaus Mollenhauer) promoted by "Stiftung Deutsche Jugendmarke"/German Ministry of Education and Research; University of Göttingen
• 2002 - 2004 Applicant and leader of the research project "Families in Need - Socialpedagogical Diagnosis and Care Concepts"; University of Kassel in cooperation with the Federation Internationale des Communautes Educatives - Europe (German Section), with the University of Osnabrück, the youth welfare office of Kassel, and the Institute for Family Therapy Brandenburg, promoted by "Stiftung Deutsche Jugendmarke/German Ministry of Education and Research".
• 2004 - 2009 Applicant: Graduate School - Youth - Welfare in Change. (DFG / German Research Fund)
• 2005 Applicant and leader of the expertise/ the research project on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Family, Senior Citizens, Women, and Youth "Socialpedagogical Diagnosis in Youth Welfare Services. A Survey", University of Dortmund
• 2008 Applicant and leader of the pilot study "Change of Childhood and Family Images in Public Child-Rearing - Reform Processes of Social Services for Families in European Comparison", promoted by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research
• 2009 - 2011 Applicant and leader of the research project "Social Work with Young Mothers and Fathers in Residential Care", promoted by "Stiftung Deutsche Jugendmarke/German Ministry of Education and Research".
• 2009 - 2011 Applicant and coordinator FAMILYPLATFORM (SSH-2009-3.2.2 Social platform on research for families and family policies): funded by the European Union's 7th Framework Programme for a duration of 18 months (October 2009 - March 2011).(more information)
• 2013 - 2016 Applicant and coordinator "Learning and educational processes concerning family concepts in the context of family transitions" (DFG)(more information: https://gepris.dfg.de)
• 2014 - 2018 Applicant and coordinator "Social Problems in the post-war years" (DFG) in cooperation with the University of Applied Science Munich(Prof. Dr. Peter Hammerschmidt). Further information: https://gepris.dfg.de
• 2016 - 2019 "Dortmund Profile for Inclusive Teacher Training" supported by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Further information: http: //www.doprofil.tu-dortmund.de
• 2018 - 2020 Succes - Learning together for inclusive conditions in Kindergarten. Supported by Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Further information

Research Networks

• 1994 - 1996: Coordinator of "Alpen-Rhein" (together with Prof. Dr. Münstermann) in Cooperation with Federation Internationale des Communautes Educatives - Europe (FICE Europe)
• 2002 - 2005: Coordinator of the research network "The Change of Social Integration - Perspectives for Social Services in Japan and Germany" (together with Prof. Dr. Ogushi) sponsored by German Research Fund