events
11.09. - 12.09.2025
Conference "Coercion and coercive contexts in social work"
Tilman Lutz, Michael Lindenberg, Patrick Zobrist, Daniel Rosch
The conference attempts to explore existing controversial positions, contradictions and commonalities and to raise open questions. The aim is to contribute to the further development of this controversial topic in the discipline and profession through constructive dialog.
22.11.2024
Symposium "Social work and the police. Police and social work. Current research perspectives and their significance for HeiP"
Research project HeiP: Prof. Dr. Zoë Clark, Prof. Dr. Tilman Lutz, Arne Ragunathan Wohlfarth, Annika Wisser, Olexandra Denysova, Jonas Kohlschmidt, Moana Kahrmann
Advisory board: Prof. Dr. Helen Ahlert, Prof. Dr. Rafael Behr, Prof. Dr. Helga Cremer-Schäfer, Prof. Dr. Norbert Pütter, Prof. Dr. Tobias Singelnstein (digital)
Speakers: Prof. Dr. Daniela Hunold, Prof. Dr. Sybille Münch, Prof. Dr. Esteban Piñeiro
The focus of the first symposium was on current police research and research on the relationship between social work and the police in order to discuss empirical findings and experiences from research practice and their significance for the "HeiP" project.
To kick things off, the current status and quantitative and qualitative interim results of the project were presented and then discussed intensively and constructively. Following this, sociologist and police researcher Prof. Dr. Daniela Hunold from the Berlin School of Economics and Law gave a presentation entitled "The relationship between police and young people - some empirical considerations". The focus was on contact between the police and young people, with her ethnographic research focusing on the police. After a short break, political scientist Prof. Dr. Sybille Münch from the University of Hildesheim gave a lecture on "Police networks, self-images and patterns of interpretation after "2015"".The empirical basis of her presentation was data that she and other researchers collected as part of the DFG project "Polizei, Politik, Polis - Zum Umgang mit Geflüchteten in der Stadt" (Geugjes et al. 2024). The very stimulating discussions that followed were continued during a joint lunch break.
The last external contribution to the symposium followed after the break. We were able to win Prof. Dr. Esteban Piñeiro from Northwestern Switzerland for this. In his contribution entitled "Delegative dynamics in the Swiss police context. On the interaction between civilian and police actors", he presented the initial results of a research project entitled "policing emotionally disturbed persons", which deals with police encounters with mentally disturbed persons. Against the backdrop of the HeiP project, he focused on the importance of the interaction between several actors in the production and processing of a case.
The professional and interdisciplinary expertise of the participants as well as the intensive and stimulating discussions contributed to the success of the event, which is merely the prelude to further cooperation, and proved to be extremely helpful for the continuation of the project.
12.06.2024
"Against powerlessness - The importance of addressing racial profiling in the context of home education"
Zoë Clark and Jonas Kohlschmidt
Workshop as part of the study day on social work and right-wing extremism at Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences
