In my doctoral thesis, I examine the practice of non-governmental social counseling in dealing with welfare state boundaries. The focus is on professional ambivalence, collective orientations, and implicit knowledge that shape the everyday actions of social workers.

Poverty and Social Exclusion, Child Poverty, Educational Inequalities, Local Politics, Evaluation Research

My PhD-project follows political self-organizations in social work during the conception, organization, and implementation of political actions. The study aims to reconstruct knowledge and work processes while analyzing cross-textual organizational and institutional forms of the political in social work. It further investigates how ideas and discourses of the political are reproduced or transformed through political practice. The project draws on poststructuralist and radical democratic conceptions of politics and the political, as well as on feminist approaches. The research has the Institutional Ethnography as its methodological framework and introduces an iconographic, participatory mode of analysis.

In my doctoral thesis, I examine the diverse political strategies of social workers operating in the social environment  of Hamburg’s central train station. In between regulatory policies and social policy measures, a complex and ambivalent political situation emerges for social workers on all organizational levels. Using Adele E. Clarke’s situational analysis, I analyze qualitative interviews as well as relevant documents.

Islam and Social Work,
Participation of Muslim Organisations in the Welfare State, Islamic
Social Ethics

work and health, vocational rehabilitation, gender and labour market, children and youth in poverty, social policy