Prof. Dr. Uwe Uhlendorff

Uwe Uhlendorff is Professor of Social Pedagogy with a focus on the didactics of social pedagogy. His teaching and research focuses on the one hand on the challenges of professional qualification for the fields of social pedagogy and on the other hand on learning and educational processes in social pedagogical contexts: Uwe Uhlendorff deals with didactic and content-related aspects of the training of teachers and educators. He is currently researching and developing innovative school and university teaching-learning arrangements that address social issues such as inclusion and heterogeneity as didactic challenges. His second focus of work is research into the educational processes of young people and parents in socio-educational institutions. The focus here 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 completing his studies, he worked as a research assistant in youth welfare. He completed his doctorate in education at the Georg August University in 1996. He then taught and researched as a university assistant for the theory and history of social pedagogy at the Department of Social Work at the University of Kassel, where he qualified as a professor in 2001. He has been a professor at the TU Dortmund University since 2004. Uwe Uhlendorff was a co-applicant and supervisor in the DFG Research Training Group Youth Welfare in Transition (2004-2009). Together with Prof. Ogushi, he headed 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 was a member of the scientific advisory board of the EU project FamiliesAndSocieties.
Uwe Uhlendorff is a member of the board and the scientific advisory board of the European Society on Family Relations (ESFR) and of the steering group of the German Academy for Pedagogical Leadership (DAPF). He is co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Sozialpädagogik.

Recent book publications:

• Uwe Uhlendorff / Stephan Cinkl: Sozialpädagogische Familiendiagnosen. Patterns of interpretation 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)
• Uwe Uhlendorff: Theory and Practice of Social Pedagogical Casework. A textbook. Weinheim 2023 (Beltz Juventa)
• Anja Schierbaum / Jutta Ecarius / Dominik Krinninger / Uwe Uhlendorff: Family, what for? An inventory of conceptual and theoretical perspectives in educational research on family. Wiesbaden 2023 (Springer VS.)
• Uwe Uhlendorff: On the emergence of the youth welfare office and the public educational mandate. In: Hilmar Hoffmann / Matthes Eva:
  100 Jahre Reichsjugendwohlfahrtsgesetz und Reichsjugendgerichtsgesetz. Göttingen 2024 (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht)

Ongoing research projects:

• 2024 - 2026 "Sustainable training in the building and social sector (NABASO)".(Further information)
• 2022 - 2025 "Enabling social participation of young people in residential educational support in times of pandemics (JuPa)".(Further information)

Completed research projects:

• 2013 - 2016 "Family concept-related learning and educational processes in the context of family transitions, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
• 2014 - 2018 "Sozialpädagogische Probleme in der Nachkriegszeit" funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) in cooperation with the University of Applied Sciences Munich (Prof. Dr. Peter Hammerschmidt).(Further information)
• 2016 - 2019 Project "Dortmunder Profil für inklusionsorientierte Lehrer/innenbildung" funded by the Federal and State Governments with funds from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).(Further information)
• 2018 - 2020 "Succeed! - Learning together in and for inclusive conditions in kindergarten" funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).(Further information)
• 2019 - 2023 Project "Dortmunder Profil für inklusionsorientierte Lehrer/innenbildung II" funded by the federal and state governments with funds from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).(Further information)

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

Academic career

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

1996
Doctorate in Education at the University of Göttingen on the topic: "Interpretation patterns and developmental tasks of adolescents. Foundations and application of hermeneutic diagnoses in social pedagogy". Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Klaus Mollenhauer

2001
Habilitation on the topic "Geschichte des Jugendamts. Entwicklungslinien der öffentlichen Jugendhilfe 1871-1929" at the Department of Social Services at the University of Kassel.

Professional activity

1988 - 1991
Scientific project assistant at the Evangelical Youth Welfare Service Obernjesa: Supervision of socio-pedagogical training and experience courses for adolescents with behavioral difficulties

1991 - 1993
Research assistant at the University's Pedagogical Seminar, responsible head of a research project funded by the "Stiftung Deutsche Jugendmarke" entitled "Adolescents with severe psychosocial problems - socio-pedagogical diagnosis and help planning"

1993 - 1995
Research assistant at the Schweicheln Diaconal Association

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 at the University of Kassel

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

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

PUBLICATIONS SINCE 2013 / PUBLICATIONS SINCE 2013

PUBLICATIONS SINCE 2021

Book publications

• Uwe Uhlendorff / Stephan Cinkl: Social pedagogical family diagnoses. Patterns of interpretation 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)
• Uwe Uhlendorff: Theory and Practice of Social Pedagogical Casework. A textbook. Weinheim 2023 (Beltz Juventa)
• Anja Schierbaum / Jutta Ecarius / Dominik Krinninger / Uwe Uhlendorff: Family, what for? An inventory of conceptual and theoretical perspectives in educational research on family. Wiesbaden 2023 (Springer VS.)
• Uwe Uhlendorff: On the emergence of the youth welfare office and the public educational mandate. In: Hilmar Hoffmann / Matthes Eva:
  100 Jahre Reichsjugendwohlfahrtsgesetz und Reichsjugendgerichtsgesetz. Göttingen 2024 (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht)

Essays

• Uwe Uhlendorff: A ray of light on the emergence of the Youth Welfare Office and the RJWG. Forum Erziehungshilfen, 2, 2022, 73-76. doi.org/10.3262/foe2202073

PUBLICATIONS 1992 - 2020

Book publications

• 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. Development lines 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)
• 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. Learning fields 1-3. Cologne 2019 (Westermann Verlag)
• Uwe Uhlendorff / Michael Ledig / Gerhard Merget / Carsten Püttmann / Hannah Weyhe: Education as a profession. Learning fields 4-6. Cologne 2019 (Westermann Verlag)
• Uwe Uhlendorff / Peter Hammerschmidt / Anne Hans / Melanie Oechler: Sozialpädagogische Probleme in der Nachkriegszeit. 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)

Essays

• U. Uhlendorff: On the design of life themes in the context of bodily experience - experiences from an experiential education project. In: 25th supplement of the Zeitschrift für Pädagogik. Weinheim 1990.
• E. Kokoschka / U. Uhlendorff: Exercise courses for adolescents with severe problems. In: Our Youth 2/1992. Munich 1992.
• U. Uhlendorff: The small pedagogy of photography. In: Our Youth 6/1993. Munich 1993.
• U. Uhlendorff: Self-endangerment through drugs - a socio-pedagogical-hermeneutical diagnosis. In: Birtsch, V./Kluge, Ch. et al. (eds.): Car crashing, S-Bahn surfing, drug use. 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-pedagogical diagnosis of the living environment of socially disadvantaged young people. In: Homfeld, G./ Ries, H. A./Steinmetz, B. (Eds.): Disadvantaged young people in Europe. Opladen 1994, pp. 181-193.
• U. Uhlendorff: Hermeneutic-biographical case understanding in working with young people from foreign families. In: Der pädagogische Blick 3/1997, pp. 151-159.
• U. Uhlendorff: Psychosocial and socio-pedagogical 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 era. In: neue praxis 5/1998, pp. 517-525.
• U. Uhlendorff: The model of public youth welfare in the Wilhelminian Empire. The example of the city of Mainz, Zeitschrift für Sozialreform 7/1998, pp. 494-516.
• U. Uhlendorff: The Anchor Stone Building Set - On the pedagogical idea of a toy. 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 the expectation of normality 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. Theoriebildung - Ausbildung / Professionalisierung - Methodenentwicklung in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. 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: Comments on Marcus Gräser's reply. 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: Help 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: Youth Welfare 5 / 2003.
• U. Uhlendorff: Im Dienst der bürgerlichen Sozialreform - Idee, Wirken und Zerfall des Vereins für Volkswohlfahrt in Mainz in der Zeit des Arbeitskampfes (1893-1914). In: Journal for Social Reform 6 / 2003.
• U. Uhlendorff / S. Cinkl: Social pedagogy, professionalism and diagnostics. A field report. In: Journal for Juvenile Criminal Law and Youth Welfare 4 / 2003.
• U. Uhlendorff / Th. Marthaler: Social pedagogical family diagnostics. In: Heiner, M. (ed.): Diagnostics in social work. Frankfurt 2004.
• U. Uhlendorff: Socio-educational family diagnosis 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. Uhlendorff / S. Cinkl / Th. Marthaler: Families in Youth Welfare: On the Social Pedagogical Diagnosis of Family Help Issues. In Archiv für Wissenschaft und Praxis der sozialen Arbeit 2 / 2005.
• U. Uhlendorff: Social pedagogical diagnoses: Traditions 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, Volume III (2009).
• U. Uhlendorff: Social pedagogical institutions. In: Böhm,W. / Frost, U. / Ladenthin, V. / Mertens, G.: Handbuch Erziehungswissenschaft, Volume III (2009).
• N. Rosenbauer / U. Uhlendorff: Didactic-methodical concepts of youth work. In: Otto, H.-U. / Coelen, T./ (Eds.): Basic concepts of all-day education. 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 print).
• N. Knuth / K.-P. Sabla / U. Uhlendorff: Das Familienkonzeptmodell: Perspektiven für eine sozialpädagogisch fokussierte Familienforschung und -diagnostik. In: Special issue of Neue Praxis 2009.
• U. Uhlendorff / O. Fähnrich: Socio-pedagogical diagnostics and prison planning in the juvenile justice system. In: Journal of Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Welfare 2010 (21) pp. 265-270.
• U. Uhlendorff: The socio-pedagogical problem. In: Dietrich, C., Müller, H.-R. (eds.): The task of memory in education. Bad Heilbrunn 2010, pp. 277-298 (Verlag Julius Klinkhardt).
• U. Uhlendorff: Social pedagogical diagnoses as "methodically controlled guessing games"? In: Journal for Social Pedagogy 1 / 2011.
• S. Cinkl / U. Uhlendorff: Social pedagogical family diagnoses in cases of child endangerment. In: Körner, W., Deegener, G. (eds.): Recording child endangerment in theory and practice. Lengerich 2011, pp. 278-293.
• Uwe Uhlendorff/Peter Hammerschmidt: On the history of the development of ASD - from its beginnings to the 1970s. In: Joachim Merchel (ed.) Handbuch Allgemeiner Sozialer Dienst. Munich and Basel 2012 (Ernst Reinhardt Verlag).
• Uwe Uhlendorff: Social pedagogical diagnostics for adolescents. In: Pädagogik Unterricht. The professional journal for the pedagogical subject group 4/2013 vol. 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 for Educational Science 4/2014. Springer. Wiesbaden. S.723-742.
• Uwe Uhlendorff / Matthias Euteneuer / Peter Hammerschmidt: Sozialpädagogische Probleme und soziale Innovation - ein zeitgeschichtlich-rekonstruktiver Forschungsansatz. 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: The questioning-accompanying conversation. Socio-pedagogical diagnostics in the context of youth homelessness. In: Socio-pedagogical perspectives on deviance 2015. Beltz/Juventa. Weinheim. S. 49-67.
• P. Hammerschmidt / U. Uhlendorff: On the history of ASD - from its beginnings to the 1970s. In: Merchel, J. (ed.) Handbook of General Social Services (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. p. 12-24.
• U. Uhlendorff: Statement on the draft of a "law to strengthen children and young people". 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 refugee minors. IGfH-Eigenverlag, Frankfurt/Main, 2017. p. 104-112.
• Euteneuer, M./Mücher, F./Uhlendorff, U. (2017): Family concepts as a constellation of family images relevant to 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 of (social) pedagogical and educational science references to family. Weinheim: Beltz, pp. 229-245.
• Uwe Uhlendorff / Oliver Fähnrich: Socio-educational diagnostics in the juvenile justice system. In: Handbook on Juvenile Delinquency / Interdisciplinary Perspectives / 3rd edition. Springer, Wiesbaden, 2018. p. 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: Videobasierte Fallarbeit in inklusionsbezogenen Seminaren. In: DoProfil - The Dortmund profile for inclusion-oriented teacher training. Waxmann, Münster 2018. p. 73-91.
• Stephan Cinkl / Uwe Uhlendorff: Social pedagogical family diagnoses in the context of educational support. In: Handbook of social diagnostics. Perspectives and concepts for social work. Edited by Buttner / Gahleitner / Hochuli Freund / Röh. Lambertus, Freiburg, 2018. p. 281-292.
• Peter Hammerschmidt / Anne Hans / Melanie Oechler / Uwe Uhlendorff: Heimerziehung in der Adenauer Ära - Über die Heimreformdiskussion und Reformblockaden. In: New Practice. Journal for social work, social pedagogy and social policy. Publishing house neue praxis, Lahnstein, 2019. p. 22-36.
• Peter Hammerschmidt / Anne Hans / Melanie Oechler / Uwe Uhlendorff: Sozialpädagogische Probleme in der Nachkriegszeit. In: Syphilis, colonialism, social pedagogy. Journal for Social Pedagogy. Published by 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, https://ejournals.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/index.php/sws/article/view/775/1367

Reviews (Reviews)

• Christian Niemeyer / Wolfgang Schröer / Lothar Böhnisch (eds.): Grundlinien Historischer Sozialpädagogik. References to tradition, reflections and overlooked social discourses. In: Journal of Pedagogy, vol. 1997, pp. 835-840
• Volker Gedrath: Forgotten traditions of social pedagogy. In: Journal for 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: Kommunale Beschäftigungspolitik zwischen Sozialhilfe und Arbeitsmarkt. Kassel 1999
• P. Hammerschmidt / U. Uhlendorff: Welfare organizations between the principle of subsidiarity and EU competition law. Kassel 2003
• U. Uhlendorff: Handbuch Erziehungswissenschaft (ed.: Böhm,W. / Frost, U. / Ladenthin, V. / Mertens, G.), Volume III, Section 6, Umwelten / Sozialpädagogik (2009)

• 1991 - 1993 "Psychosozial schwer belastete Jugendliche - sozialpädagogische Diagnose und Hilfeplanung" (as project leader and applicant together with Prof. Dr. Klaus Mollenhauer), funded by the "Stiftung Deutsche Jugendmarke"; University of Göttingen
• 2002 - 2004 Applicant and head 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 Assistance, the University of Osnabrück, the Kassel Youth Welfare Office and the Brandenburg Institute for Family Therapy, funded by the "Stiftung Deutsche Jugendmarke" (German Youth Brand Foundation)
• 2004 - 2009 Co-applicant and supervisor: DFG Research Training Group Youth Welfare in Transition / TU Dortmund University and Bielefeld University (spokespersons: 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. An inventory", University of Dortmund
• 2008 Applicant and head of the pilot study "Changing 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 "German Youth Brand Foundation"
• 2009 - 2011 Applicant and coordinator of the EU project FAMILYPLATFORM, funded by the European Commission 7th Framework Program (SSH-2009-3.2.2 Social platform on research for families and family policies; further information)
• 2013 - 2016 Applicant 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)(further information: here )
• 2014 - 2018 Applicant and head of the research project "Sozialpädagogische Probleme in der Nachkriegszeit" funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) in cooperation with the University of Applied Sciences Munich(Prof. Dr. Peter Hammerschmidt). further information: here
• 2016 - 2019 Project "Dortmunder Profil für inklusionsorientierte Lehrer/innenbildung" 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
• 2018 - 2020 "Succeed! - Learning together in and for inclusive conditions in kindergarten" funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Further information on Gelingen!
• 2019 - 2023 Project "Dortmunder Profil für inklusionsorientierte Lehrer/innenbildung II" 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 the social participation of young people in residential educational support in times of pandemic (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