Curriculum
Through constant quality assurance and evaluation of our program with our students, graduates and lecturers, the curriculum is both programmed to provide a profund theoretical-methodological focus on research towards the application of practical skills, and to suit professional perspectives on the job market.
Structure
The modules are organized in blocks as our lecturers are not all based in Berlin but come from our internationally renowned partner universities in Sweden, Scotland and Slovenia.
In the first two semesters, our program consists of two weeks classroom teaching and two weeks virtual blended e-learning. Following the third semester, students can choose between different elective compulsory classes from the B and C modules that are held in one week in class teaching and one week e-facilitated teaching.
The fourth semester is dedicated to the conceptualization and realization of a practical or research-based project linked to the issue of social work and human rights, as well as to the elaboration of the master's thesis.
Upon request and if advisable from an academic point of view, the Master thesis can also be postponed to a fifth semester. In either case, the research and writing of the final thesis will be completed over a period of one semester.
Modules
These modules are compulsory for all students.
A - Social Work and Human Rights (15 ECTS)
The integration of human rights as a regulative idea in the discipline and profession of social work:
- the history of social work and human rights in theory, international documents, and practice
- pioneers and key contributors to the theory and praxis of social work worldwide
- the triple mandate of social work
- philosophical foundations: human dignity, human rights and social justice as core dimensions of social work
- social rights and social policy
- the identification and analysis of human rights violations
- normative (ethical) perspectives on social work
- action guidelines and methods of social work for the implementation of human rights
A - International Law: A Social Work Perspective (15 ECTS)
This module is concerned with the significance of international law for social work both on national and international level. In this context the question is raised how social work is affected when conflicts and violations are discussed in terms of human rights. Critical issues including vulnerable groups and relations between the Global North/Minority World and Global South/Majority World, globalization and the legitimacy of the United Nations and other international legal institutions are studied from a socio-legal perspective. The course also examines the theories, the UN mechanisms and institutionalized practices of human rights and the significance of human rights politics for the structure of social work on a national and international level. The aim is to be able to contextualize, analyze, evaluate, and apply various concepts of human rights. The concepts of international law, its legitimacy, subjects, and sources as well as selected aspects of enforcement of human rights protection under international law essential for vulnerable groups will be addressed.
A - Global Social Work (15 ECTS)
The main thematic fields to be discussed include:
- global policy issues: the globalization of social justice, of democracy, social policy and the role of human rights for and in these debates;
- power structures and actors in world society
- globalization of progressive social movements – especially human rights informed movements
- global environmental justice
- the role of Europe and Europe-originated ideologies within world society, European colonialism and Eurocentrism.
A - Critical Social Science Research (15 ECTS)
The course covers different qualitative and quantitative social science research methods, as well as mixed method approaches. It addresses the key dimensions of research design, research ethics, critical research thinking, and the use of the comparative approaches in social sciences within the international setting.
Unit I: Qualitative Research Methods
- Research design, conceptual mapping and grounded theory
- Data collection and analysis through interviews, focus groups, and case studies
- Action research, Participatory action research
- Ethnography and ethnographic methods, text analysis fieldwork, field notes, writing diary, visual methodologies
- Evaluation in social sciences and the use of mixed methods
- Doing historical research in social work
- Ethical considerations; doing research with people in vulnerable contexts
- Intersectional, postcolonial, ecological, feminist, poststructural perspectives in interpreting research data.
Unit II: Quantitative Research Methods
- quantitative data collection methods: quantitative research designs, secondary data analysis; mixed methods
- quality in quantitative data
- descriptive and inference statistics
- quantitative analysis methods: significance tests, predictive statistics (regression models), classifying statistics (cluster analysis and factor analysis)
Students select a minimum of two out of five offered modules.
B - Health and Human Rights in Social Work (7.5 ECTS)
This module discusses health as an issue of social inequalities and utilizes an intersectional perspective to show how inequalities get reflected in the health of individuals, groups, and communities. Apart from analysing and comparing the violation of health rights in different countries and social contexts as well as some ethical considerations, the course outlines strategies of successful access to the right to health. Social work is assigned to play an important role in the process of access to the right to health, health service delivery or health related social policies. The role of social workers as advocates, mobilisers of communities and social workers’ interventions as counsellors of the traumatized will be examined and highlighted. Fundamental concepts related to health and social inequalities such as resilience, recovery, and the life course perspective will be contextualized and discussed from a global perspective. Human rights are relevant to many health issues, like access to information and education on health, drugs and harm reduction, immunization, sexual and reproductive health, mental health etc. Particular attention will be paid to the health of marginalized and vulnerable groups, especially in the context of environmental disasters and environmental justice.
B - Migration and Racism (7.5 ECTS)
The prioritisation of immigration in the political agenda of many governments and international organizations worldwide has yielded the adoption of social policies, laws and practices that are at odds with the ethical and universal premise of human rights. In theory, international and regional human rights instruments confer rights on all human beings, including migrants. Yet, human rights regimes continue to struggle to extend protections to migrants. Tensions, at times acute, exist between human rights protection and the exercise of the state’s right to control immigration. Engaging with these tensions provides students with a valuable insight into the relationship between human right and social work in relation to migrants, especially those with a precarious immigration status, and understand the role that human rights can play in shaping social work services and practice as well as its limitations.
Racism and other forms of discrimination and human rights violations shape the everyday lives of users of social work services in a variety of ways. It is thus critical that social workers gain an understanding of the discrimination and marginalisation processes within society that lead to racism if they are to identify and respond to different articulations of racist practices. The module provides students with an analytical framework to investigate the mechanisms of racism and ways of intervening against racism as well as examine how racism manifests itself in social work.
B - Economic Justice, Empowerment and Resilience (7.5 ECTS)
Faced with unceasing socio-economic inequalities both within and across countries, exacerbated by daunting projections of ecological crisis and the rise of anti-democratic regimes all around the world, it is timely to question some of the core political economy premises of our times and to explore how individuals and communities can actively contribute to economic justice, empowerment, and resilience. The course addresses critical questions, such as what it means:
- to be (formally) equal amidst steep material inequalities, poverty and social exclusion
- to experience the economy as a sphere where people have little influence but bear large costs
- to maintain a standard of living at the expense of others (both human and non-human)
The course aims at critically rethinking our understanding of the economy as dominated by market forces, private property, the state and capitalist corporations. It explores how the recognition and valuing diverse economic practices, subjects, spaces, and trajectories based on the principles of commons and solidarity economies can enhance community economic empowerment, ecological resilience, equity and well-being from the local to the global level.
B - Gender and Human Rights (7.5 ECTS)
The module will give a global and a comparative perspective on gender and diversity as human rights issues and will analyze them within the framework of social work and social policy discipline. Topics include:
- gender, sexuality, intersectionality, queer and transgender theories from a historic perspective;
- commonalities and differences in ideas and movements in feminisms, women’s struggles, LGBTI+ activism advocacy (also via diverse authors, pioneers, and advocates);
- Theories of gendered violence, the role of social norms; social policies, social work responses and social movement struggles;
- reproductive rights of women and transgender people;
- confluent love, LGBTI+ families, social parenthood;
- gender inequalities in the area of paid and unpaid work; global chains of care work;
- the effects of gendered inequalities on health and mental health
- women on the margin: disability people’s movement and the voices of women, gender and disability
- the ethics of care and social policies;
- feminist leadership and social activism.
B - Children’s Rights (7.5 ECTS)
The module is concerned with the significance of children’s rights for social work practice from a global perspective. The module covers:
- a short history of the development of the UNCR emphasizing children as right holders and adults/ professionals/ organizations and governments as duty bearers; It will consider whether the CRC is a ‘western’ construct (despite universal approval), and the challenge posed to notions of individual children’s rights by tradition, culture and religion.
- philosophical discourses on rights and childhood including protectionists and liberationist notions of childhood and engaging students in discussion on empowerment and participation versus vulnerability, protection. This should also include a debate on rights versus responsibilities taking into consideration cultural contexts and environment;
- global perspectives on children’s full and meaningful participation including good practice examples and constraints/challenges; students will engage with specific social work examples of ‘moral dilemmas’ where they have to decide between cultural norms or adherence to universal rights
- the magnitude of violence against children within a global context and prevention of violence
- the relevance of the provision, participation and protection and the key principles of the UNCRC for social work decision making; challenges of children’s rights versus parental/adult and community rights and authority.
Students select a minimum of two out of four offered modules.
C - Human Rights Education (7.5 ECTS)
Human rights education is one of the most important instruments for developing a hands-on perspective on human rights, i.e., to point out their relevance for the everyday life of individuals in general, and of vulnerable groups in particular. Typical settings for human rights education include schools, adult education, and informal education. Starting with the Vienna World Conference on Human Rights in 1993 and the UN Decade for Human Rights Education, occupations and professions are also being addressed both with regard to the practical implementation of human rights and to human rights education in their fields of action.
C - Critical Approaches to Human Rights Practice in Social Work (7.5 ECTS)
This course critically discusses the entanglements of Human Rights and Social Work in a global setting. The focus is on genderrelated social work, development and migration. With case studies from around the world, discourses, legislations and institutions that promote and secure human rights in national settings are examined in relation to colonial relations and global power inequalities. While introducing theoretical interventions, the course also offers students a large number and variety of examples to engage with.
C - Human Rights in the Context of Organisational Development/Innovation (7.5 ECTS)
This is an evolving module and based on co-design, i.e. students play an active part in shaping it. Guided by lecturers, students apply theoretical knowledge from the realms of organizational theory and new institutionalism and reflect on the process of the team-building and intervention itself. The students, as a group, work on a form of practical intervention with regard to an organization and/or social workers interested in introducing a human rights based approach into their own practice. Apart from contact with practitioners students will also practice and improve professional skills such as project management, presenting, communicating and team working.
C - Advocacy for Human Rights: Lobby and Communication Strategies (7.5 ECTS)
Social workers are increasingly dealing with service users who do not have the “right to have rights” (Hannah Arendt). Advocacy for social change through methods such as lobbying, media interventions, social advertising and campaigning are required to insure that issues of vulnerable groups can be addressed at the structural level, and also made visible in public debates. A critical and research-based presence of social work issues in the public field requires “classical” public relations skills, but also new forms of public interventions such as adbusting or the use of social media and the organization of public and/ or parliamentarian hearings.
This module is compulsory for all students.
In this module, students gain hands on experience in applying a human rights perspective to a concrete field of social work. Their work is guided by a precise, theoretically embedded research objective and they use the knowledge and skills acquired through their coursework to implement their praxis project.
This module is compulsory for all students.
The thesis is a central element of the MA-SWHR. In keeping with the research-oriented focus of the program, students are required to write a 15,000 words (+/- 10%) thesis based on empirical investigation, which accounts for a total of 15 ECTS credits. The thesis must relate to the substantive issues of the course, using the scientific research methods taught. Independent research and writing of the MA thesis under the guidance of two advisors, students have 25 weeks to work on the MA thesis. For theses based on empirical research, the length of time is 30 weeks.
Human Rights Praxis Project
Within the time frame of one semester, the students realize and develop their Human Rights Praxis Project that is linked to the issue of social work and human rights. With the expertise and guidance of lecturers from our Master program (and, or professional experts and contact persons of a practical field), students are encouraged to independently acquire additional methodical knowledge in their field of interest, and critically reflect and justify their strategies.
Abstracts from Previous Human Rights Praxis Projects
Eissa, Mohamed
Fenton, Stu
Fiebelkorn, Maria
Ghoshal, Debanjana
Gonner, Olivier
IMAGE THEATRE WITH TEENAGERS FROM REFUGEE ACCOMODATIONS IN MARZAHN-HELLERSDORF
Hanjoel, Mandy/ Maria Arul, Yuvana/ Opara, Helen
Hosseini, Mokhtar
Right to Life: A Communication Strategy on Ending Capital Punishment of Children in Iran
Medawar, Nadine
Art for Rights: Empowering Refugee Children through Creative Education
Neuner, Anja
Unifying Forces Mapping Actors in Social Work’s political self-organization in Germany
Owusu, Sandra (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Paiekht, Manila
Empowering Voices: The Impact of Afghan Women Interpreters in Germany's Refugee Camps
SWHR 08 student
From the Hands of the State to the Hands of the People: Creating a Berlin-Specific Wiki for Community Safety
Taylor, Madeline
Dialogues Amongst Social Workers: Towards an Anti-Oppressive Practice
Adam, Rimna ; Asselin-Roy, Maria ; Steinberg, Bex
I Made it Myself: Empowerment through Community Based Open Art Events
Ariza Cárdenas, Camila
Nannies and Babysitters: workers of the reproductive labor system in Berlin. Re-thinking care work.
Brisson, Chrystel (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Voices of International Students at ASH
Brossel, Courtney; James, Anna; Grethe, Johanna
Gender-Based Street Harassment: Body Mapping and Empowerment Workshop
Choi, Jungsik
Linguistic integration of migrants explored through Language cafe in Bremerhaven
Dolan, Jessica
Ellis, Hannah (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Gross, David
Teaching Art-Based Psychosocial Activities in Uganda
Mutebi, Edward (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
QUEER REFUGEE AND ASYLUM SEEKERS MENTAL HEALTH WORKSHOP REPORT
Ramamurthy, Sai Krishna
Health Education for Adolescent Refugees: Towards Tobacco Cessation
Rizopoulou, Lefkothea
"NOT JUST A PRIVATE ISSUE": WORKSHOP ON WOMXN'* AND GBV SURVIVORS' RIGHTS IN ARGOS ORESTIKO, GREECE
Rojas Endress, Francisca & Tipping, Patrick
Citizen’s Rights when being stopped by the Police - Creating accessible information card
Rojas Trejo, Francisco Javier (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Sakhi, Sara (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Semer, Francesca
Wolde, Tewodros
THE PRACTICE OF BEST INTEREST PRINCIPLE IN CHILD REUNIFICATION PROGRAM OF STREET CHILDREN IN ADDIS ABABA.
Agwu, Ugochukwu
Kamwar, Ahmad Ramish
Special Protection for Refugees as Vulnerable Groups
Kranjec, Julija (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Abebe, Hailu (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
The CRC in Promoting Children’s Rights Assessing Institutional Capacity in Benishangul Regional State, Western Ethiopia
Ackerman, Anna & Farahmand, Mubaraka & Hajizade, Ziaulhaq
Action Based Workshops on Domestic Safety & Violence Prevention
Afrin, Rifat (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Allman, Betsy (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR but not for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Creating “The Sprout”: A Radical Picture Book for Young Critical Thinkers
Bitew, Endeshaw
Blum, Robert & Schramm, Lea
Courville, Sarah
Cornilius Refem, Fogha Mc
The Voices Of Silence: Decolonising social work education and practice
Demelash, Melaku
Dunschen, Clemens
Professional Disobedience in the Work with Refugees
Garcia, Yasmin
Situated Knowledge - A Workshop
Hassan, Mohammed
Lachore, Wondemagegnehu (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Promote participation of Children with disabilities in School Activities: the case of Hawassa Haike Primary school in Ethiopia
Moltrer, Sebastiano (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Mubarak, Fatimah
Exploring the Feminist Conciousness of Saudi Women in relation to Opression
N.N.
Grassroots capacity building: Designing a reporting mechanism for volunteers working in a grassroots organisation
N.N.
Paul, Meera
A Study on: Retaliation of Indian Farmers and their concerned Human Rights
Staudacher, Rune (alumni can be contacted upon request)
System-Relevancy on an abandoned post - Frontline Social Work and the Coronavirus Pandemic
Steffen, Lili
Taherkouhestani, Elaheh
Gender Equality for Female Persian Group in Berlin/Marzahn-Hellersdorf with a Focus on the Impact of Covid-19
Taylor, Christopher
Exploratory Pedagogy in Kreuzberg: Critically Examining Gender Socialization
Abebe, Hailu Kibret (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Adwan, Dima & Riding, Sophie (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Anusi, Doris Dorathy (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public acces; alumni can be contacted upon requests)
Aulenbacher, Leonie & Esau, Katharina (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Assessing access and availability of adequate services around women*’s sexual and reproductive health rights in Berlin
Campbell, Tori (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Fowler, Fiona (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
The right to health, bodywork, and HTLV-1
Houeiss, Jad
The Scouts Club: Online interactions during the times of Covid 19
Meilin, Nitzan (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Helpline for the Israeli Migrant Community in Berlin
Mieser, Audrey (alumni can be contacted upon request)
Socially Distanced: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Impacted Berlin’s Homeless Population
Otto, Melinda (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Owusu, Bright Yeboah (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Human Rights and Child Labour Issues in Ghana: A Case Study along the Volta Lake.
Schmid, Jennifer (alumni can be contacted upon request)
"Wir gegen Corona" - A Platform for Cooperation, Solidarity and Cohesion in the Time of Coronavirus.
Schmiegel, Louisa (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Teferi, Tsedeniya Z. (alumni can be contacted upon request)
Human Rights Education for Children: A Participatory Approach.
Tibbetts, Joel
The Universal Basic Income and Mental Health in Australia. An Awareness Raising Campaign Plan.
Waldow Stock, Stephanie C. (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Human Rights Workships within the Volunteer Training Programme of the Organization EBM International.
Ararsa, Metti Dibaba
Bischof, Natalie
The children's right for education in ANKER centres in Bavaria. A concept paper how good and qualified school education could be done for children living in ANKER centres in Bavaria.
Chase, Sophie
Diangha, Mabel (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Drug Dealing (misuse and trade) amongst African Asylum seekers in Görlitzer Park, Berlin.
Friesenhahn, Marie
Psychosocial Support for Syrian and Iraqi Refugees. Capacity Development and Trainings on Psychosocial Support in the Middle East
Guglielmini, Cristina (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Johannes, Rebekka
Psychosocial Support of caregivers of persons with mental disabilities
Kumonik, Mure Moses Waigo
Prevention of Abuse, Exploitation and Rehabilitation of Street Children at Rumbek twon, South Sudan
Ladu, Lokudu Cosmas Ponsiano
Mobilising and engaging men to prevent domestic violence
Lawanson, Segun
HUMAN RIGHT EDUCATION FOR THE ROMA CHILD.
Lee, Abriel
Interviews with Thai Women Assisting Thai Women in Europe
Lee, Jennifer
Hows Schools Measure Success and the Psychosocial Costs to Students (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Lee, Seulbee
Participatory Action Research Project with Refugee Children Living in Berlin (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Meszaros, Doris (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access)
Participation of Persons With Disabilities: In Search of Good Practice. Participatory Video-Project in County Starnberg
Mulukwat, Jane Rebecca Modong
Rohal, Parul
Do Indians face racism and discrimination in Germany?
Synan, Jenny & Richter, Angelina & Cook, Lindsay
Maintaining objectivity as a professional in social services
Tadesse, Michael Emru (alumni can be contacted upon request)
Wagner, Stephanie (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request))
A descriptive examination of asylum cases of trafficked women from Nigeria
Yong, Yu Wei & Hutchings, Jennifer & Amad, Dalal
Zeile, Agnija
The Duty of Care to the Berlin Youth in Custody
Iduoze, Evelyn Amenze
MOVING BEYOND CULTURAL PLURALISM IN ADDRESSING CHILDREN'S RIGHTS IN NIGERIA
Bugge, Marit
Refugee Housing in Berlin: "Active" and "Cosmopolitan" Citizenship towards Social Change.
Flihan, Noor
Psychological and Emotianal Support for Refugee Children.
Gerboc, Halle - Knox, Lisa and Rowe, Hannah (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Kandowe, Caroline
Klaßen, Louisa
Gender and Mental Health. A journey of personal narratives.
Mendoza, Ivis
"Sisterhood in our Student's Dorm". A Group to overcome isolation and promote women's solidarity.
Oenema, Ina
Okoye, Nnamdi
The Push and Pull Migration Factors: Issues of Nigerian Assylum Seekers in Germany.
Pallam, Kettu Monica Silas
Ramsay, Anne
Sabally, Demba
Sanghvi, Poonam (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Women rights in India and its awareness
Smith, Charity (alumni can be contacted upon request)
Albán, Alina - Mujuru, Rufaro and Rugumambaju, Beatrice
Documentary filmmaking with victims of the Colectiv - Fire
Baldus, Lena
Benjamin, Chantal
A Look at the Social Casework of "Eingliederungshilfe"
Bischof, Jasmin
Bolzman, Liat (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Art and Activism as tools for social change
Brulin, Lovisa
“Vem har rätt att bli mamma?” - Who has the right to become a mother?
Gerlach, Fee
Developing a social media-based Human Rights Education campaign
Karkoutly, Mariana (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Support groups with Refugees and asylum seekers in emergency camps
Keith, Catherine
Language Learning & Social Work
Lartigue, Sarah (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Mobilizing Youth For Political Participation in the French Quartiers
Mbeufonjoh, Nkaminyi P.
Saving General practitioner practice from closure and exploring the GP management Issues
Mujović, Mia (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Nowak, Janine.
Internship Report: Promoted Human Rights Field by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Mongolia
Roberts, Skyler
Siddiqui, Umair
Art and Social Change: A project for women's rights in Pakistan
Sglavo, Mariangela
Sweis, Maha
Honor Killings and Human Rights Violations in Jordan
Valladares, Berna Y.
Project: How I conducted the interviews with the street children in Casa Alianza
Aikins, Muna
Mapping Places of Empowerment and Participation for Newcomers in Berlin
Bubbelhoff, Jayda T.
Chow, Hei Man V.
Moving towards children's rights: Challenges and Opportunities
Gabriel, Rhoneil G. and Haring, Lisa M. (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
A critical perspective towards volunteerism
Ngoumou, Laurent F. (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Opio, Jackson
The Families of the Disappeared Persons in the Context of Enforced Disappearance in the Philippines
Yeboah, Josefine (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Master Thesis
In their final phase of our program, students elaborate on their Master's Theses. Under the guidance of two academic advisors and a successful proposition of an independent research question or statement, students critically realize their writing process and conclusions.
Since the Master's program is also aimed at opening the chance of obtaining a doctorate, students have the possibility of adapting the sub-topics form compulsory and elective modules, already in view of a prospective dissertation project. In that way the Master’s thesis – at least parts of it – becomes an intermediate step towards the doctorate.
Access | Copies of Master's theses can be found in the ASH Berlin library.
Abstracts from Previous Master Theses
Ariza Cárdenas, Viviana Camila
PRIVATE LIFE, FAMILY AND ADOPTION 1975-1991
Brossel, Courtney
Dolan, Jessica
AN EXPLORATION OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS’ ACCOMMODATION EXPERIENCES IN GALWAY CITY
Ghoshal, Debanjana
Grethe, Johanna
James, Anna
Medawar, Nadine
Neuner, Anja
Owusu, Sandra (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Rojas Endress, Francisca
Analysing International Human Rights Law within the context of women in Chilean prisons
Sakhi, Sara (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Wolde, Tewodros Mekuria
Adam, Rimna-Nahed
Challenging Coloniality of Power and Knowledge: An Exploration of Emancipatory Approaches in Social Work Practice
Bitew, Endeshaw Aynetu (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Brisson, Chrystel (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Choi, Jungsik
Eissa, Mohamed
ISLAMIC RADICALISATION PREVENTION AND CULTURAL HEGEMONY
Ellis, Hannah (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR; alumni can be contacted upon request)
The Role of Social Services in Supporting LGBTIQ Migrants - A Queer, Decolonial Approach.
Gonner, Olivier-Pascal
Mubarak, Fatimah
After 2018 Law, to what Extent are Saudi Women and Girls Free to Choose not to Wear the Hijab
Mutebi, Edward (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Paul, Meera
Ramamurthy, Sai Krishna
Rizopoulou, Lefkothea
Rojas Trejo, Francisco Javier (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
The Role of the Social Worker as a Creator of Cultural Public Policies An Analysis of the Policies of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin from a Decolonial Perspective
Semer, Francesca
Ackerman, Anna (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Agwu, Ugochukwu
Allman, Betsy (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR; alumni can be contacted)
Blum, Robert
Courville, Sarah
Cornilius Refem, Fogha Mc
A Self Redemptive Professional Suicide: A Case For Decolonising Social Work
Demelash, Melaku
Garcia, Yasmin (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Hassan, Mohammed
Hajizade, Ziaulhaq
Kamwar, Ahmad Ramish
Mental Distress among Afghan Refugees in Germany: A Qualitative Study
Kranjec, Julija (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Moltrer, Sebastiano (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Nasr, Sahra
Schramm, Lea Raphaela
Taher Kouhestani, Elaheh
Role of Social Work in Recognised Refugees Access to German Citizenship and Right to Vote in Berlin
Taylor, Christopher
Yuzbashov, Murad
Experiences of People with Disabilities during Covid-19 pandemic in Azerbaijan
Abebe, Hailu (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
The Global Compact on Refugees and Ethiopia’s Pledges Analyzing Progress in Gambella Region
Adwan, Dima (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Afrin, Rifat (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Bui, Ngoc & Steffen, Lili
Gebremariam, Nugus (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Engaging Men to End Gender-Based Violence in Patriarchal Societal Structure in Ethiopia
Iduoze, Evelyn
Evaluation of Child Rights Act Implementation in Nigeria
Lachore, Wondemagegnehu (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Staudacher, Rune (alumni can be contacted upon request)
Synan, Jenny (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Teferi, Tsedeniya (alumni can be contacted upon request)
Exploring the Informal Social System of Iddir: A Commons Practice
Waldow Stock, Stephanie Christina (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Anusi, Doris Dorathy (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Child Marriage in Gofye Kuje Area Council Abuja, Northern Nigeria: Implications for Girls
Aulenbacher, Leonie (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Bentham, Madeline (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Campbell, Tori (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Diangha, Mabel Njang (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Esau, Katharina
Exploring Incarcerated Women's Barriers to Reintegration: A Comparison to the Bangkok Rules
Fowler, Fiona (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Decolonising the human T cell leukaemia virus type 1: Resisting neglect through local story
Houeiss, Jad
People with disabilities and their families during the Covid-19 pandemic in Lebanon
Lee, Jennifer (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Equity in Education: The Case for Human Rights Education in the Era of Privatization
Meilin, Nitzan (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Mieser, Audrey Lee (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Otto, Melinda Richedenie (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Owusu, Bright Yeboah (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access)
Ethical Discrimination Among Public Servants in Ghana
Riding, Sophie (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Schmid, Jennifer (alumni can be contacted upon request)
Schmiegel, Louisa (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Accessibility Of Public Toilets For Persons With Disabilities. A Qualitive Study In Berlin, Germany
Tadesse, Michael Emru (alumni can be contacted upon request)
The Black Social Economy in Germany: A Study of ROSCAs by Ethiopian Immigrants
Tibbetts, Joel
Amad, Dalal
INTERSECTIONALITY IN PALESTINIAN FEMINIST, QUEER AND ANTI-COLONIAL STRUGGLES
Ararsa, Metti Dibaba
Effectiveness of Social Audits for Human Rights due Diligence of Business in Ethiopian Flower Sector
Bischof, Natalie
Bölle, Tina-Maleen
Chase, Sophie
Cook, Lindsay
Friesenhahn, Marie
Guglielmini, Cristina (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Hutchings, Jennifer
Johannes, Rebekka
Kumonik, Mure Moses Waigo
Ladu, Lokudu Cosmas Ponsiano
Lawanson, Segun
Lee, Abriel
Lee, Seulbee (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR; alumni can be contacted upon request)
The Perceptions on Neighborhood Environments of Refugee Children Living in Berlin
Meszaros, Doris (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access)
Mulukwat, Jane Rebecca Modong
Richter, Angelina
Rohal, Parul
Rowe, Hannah
STATE’S RIGHT TO CONTROL TO CONTROL IMMIGRATION AT THE COST OF MIGRANTS’ HUMAN RIGHTS
Smith, Charity (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Villarreal Mendoza, Ivis Saraí
Wagner, Stephanie (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Decisive Factors in Asylum Procedures of Trafficked Women from Nigeria- A Systematic Analysis
Yong, Yu Wei
Exploring living experiences of children in a Voluntary Children Home (VCH) in Singapore
Zeile, Agnija
Through thorns to success: Integration of sentenced persons into the labour market in Latvia.
Bugge, Marit
Obedience and Dehumanization: Placing the Dublin Regulation Within A Histroical Context.
Bolzman, Liat (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Flihan, Noor Nizar
Voluntary Work and Social Work: Two Activities Encountering Human Rights Issues.
Gerboc, Halle (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Buen Vivir as an Economic Alternative in Latin America: A Feminist Perspective.
Klaßen, Louisa
Kandowe, Caroline Idah
Knox, Lisa
Online Solidarity: The Impact of Social Media Platforms on Female Survivors of Sexual Assault
Mujuru, Rufaro
The consequences of exposure to domestic and sexual violence and abuse on children and survivors.
Oenema, Ina Thyra
(Body)Mapping Statelessness: Bodies, Borders and Belongings.
Okoye, Nnamdi Chukwunweike
LGBT Community And Their Sexual Health Challanges in Nigeria.
Pallam, Kettu Monica Silas
Marriages as a Form of Child Trafficking in India
Ramsay, Sarah Anne Grace
Allies or Administrators? The Role of Social Workers With Unaccompanied Young People In Scotland.
Sabally, Demba
Sanghvi, Poonam (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Positive Impacts of CSR Activities on Human Rights
Siddiqui, Umair
Aikins, Muna
Empowering Refugees- A Focus Group Analysis Necessary Procedures for Effective Complaint Management
Albán Popescu, Alina Alejandra
Baldus, Lena (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access)
Self-determination of people with intellectual disabilities in assisted living facilities in Germany
Bischof, Jasmin
Brulin, Lovisa
Gerlach, Fee
Towards sustainable communities - A permaculture- based practice model for ecosocial work
Karkoutly, Mariana (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Keith, Catherine M.
Lartigue, Sarah (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Studying in a French sensitive urban zone - Institutional racism and youth in the Banlieues
Mbeufonjoh, Nkaminyi Percy
Mujovic, Mia (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Nowak, Janine
Urban Living in Mongolia- A Human Rights-based Approach
Roberts, Skyler
I cannot escape - Examining technologys role to facilitate abuse in an intimate Relationship
Rugumambaju, Beatrice
Sglavo, Mariangela
Memories of uprising of Syrian activists in Germany
Sweis, Maha
Early Child Marriage in Jordan as a Human Rights Issue - Universal Rights vs. Cultural Relativism
Valladares, Berna Yadira
Street Children in Honduras- Challenges to Improve their lives
Yeboah, Josefine (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access; alumni can be contacted upon request)
Bubeloff, Jayda Taylor
Chow, Hei Man Vivian
Moving towards children's rights in Vietnam: Opportunities and Challenges
Gabriel, Rhoneil Gonzaga
Haring, Lisa Maria (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access)
Ngoumou, Laurent Francis (available upon request for students and graduates of MA-SWHR as well as for general public access)
Asylum Rights, Regulations within the European Union: A comparative Study of Cameroonians homosexuals in Germany and Belgium
Opio, Jackson
Lecturers
As MA Social Work as a Human Rights Profession is intrinsically structured as an international cooperative study program, not all lecturers are located in Berlin. Classes, seminars and examinations are also held and guided by our lecturers from
Lecturers at the Annual Conference 2019
Teaching
| Name | Affiliated Institution | Module Title | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Afeworki Abay, Robel | Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences (Berlin, Germany) | B: Health and Human Rights in Social Work | afeworki-abay[at]ash-berlin.eu |
| Aikins, Muna | Max Planck Institute for Human Development(Berlin,Germany) | B: Migration and Racism | aikins[at]mpib-berlin.mpg.de |
| Dr. Alkan, Hilal | Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (Berlin, Germany) | C: Critical Approaches to Human Rights Practice in Social Work | alkan[at]ash-berlin.eu |
| Alseth, Ann Kristin | Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Social Work (Trondheim, Norway) | C: Human Rights Education | ann.k.alseth[at]ntnu.no |
| Dr. Aydin, Delal | Gerda Henkel Foundation (Berlin, Germany) | B: Gender and Human Rights, C: Critical Approaches to Human Rights Practice in Social Work | delalaydin[at]gmail.com |
| Dr. Başdaş, Begüm | Amnesty International Turkey | C: Advocacy for Human Rights: Lobby and Communication Strategies | |
| Dr. Bayad, Aydin | Bielefeld University (Germany) | A: Critical Social Science Research | aydin.bayad[at]uni-bielefeld.de |
| Dr. Borde, Elis | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Belo Horizonte (Belo Horizonte, Brazil) | B: Health and Human Rights | |
| Prof. Dr. Boryczko, Marcin | University of Gdansk (Gdansk, Poland) | A: Social Work and Human Rights | marcin.boryczko[at]ug.edu.pl |
| Büchy, Jenna | IFOK GmbH (Berlin, Germany) | C: Human Rights in the Context of Organisational Development/Innovation | post[at]buechy.de |
| Dr. Da Lomba, Sylvie | University of Strathclyde, School of Applied Social Sciences (Glasgow, Great Britain) | B: Migration and Racism | sylvie.da-lomba[at]strath.ac.uk |
| Chakraborty, Lahari | A: Social Work and Human Rights | ||
| Dr. Düzen, N. Ekrem | Bielefeld University (Germany) | A: Critical Social Science Research | ekrem.duzen[at]uni-bielefeld.de |
| Dr. Ellerbe, Cassandra | Workshop Diverse Learning Communities | info[at]cassandraellerbe.com | |
| Prof. Dr. Erdem, Esra | Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences (Berlin, Germany) | Program Director, Colloquium for D-/E-Modules | esra.erdem[at]ash-berlin.eu |
| Fischbach, Svenja | Workshop: International Social Work Theories | ||
| Dr. Fournier, Valerie | B: Economic Justice, Empowerment and Resilience | ||
| Dr. Gale, Christine | University of Strathclyde, School of Applied Social Sciences (Glasgow, Great Britain) | B: Children's Rights | chrissie.gale[at]strath.ac.uk |
| Gerlach, Fae | Edinburgh Refugee Sponsorship Circle (Edinburgh, Great Britain) | B: Migration and Racism | fae@refugeesponsorshipcircle.org |
| Prof. Dr. Großmaß, Ruth | Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences (Berlin, Germany) | (only available for thesis & project supervision) | grossmass[at]ash-berlin.eu |
| Gutsche, Peps | Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences (Berlin, Germany) | B: Gender and Human Rights | gutsche[at]ash-berlin.eu |
| Hildebrand, Bettina | German Institute for Human Rights (Berlin, Germany) | C: Advocacy for Human Rights: Lobby and Communication Strategies | hildebrand[at]institut-fuer-menschenrechte.de |
| Dr. Karim, Samina | University of Bradford (Bradford, Great Britain) | A: Social Work and Human Rights, C: Human Rights Education | |
| Dr. Keskin, Cem | University of Potsdam (Potsdam, Germany) | Workshop: Academic Writing | |
| Dr. Kjellbom, Pia | Linköping University (Sweden) | A: International Law: A Social Work Perspective | piakjellbom[at]me.com |
| Dr. Malmedie, Lydia | University of Potsdam (Germany) | C: Human Rights in the Context of Organisational Development/Innovation | lydia.malmedie[at]uni-potsdam.de |
| Merkhan, Leil | Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences (Berlin, Germany) | A: Social Work and Human Rights | merkhan@ash-berlin.eu |
| Dr. Milligan, Ian | University of Strathclyde, School of Applied Social Sciences (Glasgow, Great Britain) | B: Children's Rights | ian.milligan[at]strath.ac.uk |
| Niendorf, Mareike | Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences (Berlin, Germany) | A: Social Work and Human Rights | niendorf[at]ash-berlin.eu |
| Prof. Dr. Plöger, Andrea | Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences (Berlin, Germany) | C: Advocacy for Human Rights: Lobby and Communication Strategies: Social Work and Human Rights | ploeger[at]ash-berlin.eu |
| Prof. Dr. Prasad, Nivedita | Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences (Berlin, Germany) | A: Social Work and Human Rights, C: Advocacy for Human Rights: Lobby and Communication Strategies | prasad[at]ash-berlin.eu |
| Prof. Quinn, Neil | University of Strathclyde, School of Applied Social Sciences (Glasgow, Great Britain) | B: Migration and Racism, C: Advocacy for Human Rights: Lobby and Communication Strategies | Neil.quinn[at]strath.ac.uk |
| Rajanayagam, Iris | Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences (Berlin, Germany) | (only available for thesis & project supervision) | rajanayagam[at]ash-berlin.eu |
| Rohal, Parul | EBS (European Education Foundation GmbH) & Berlin Cosmopolitan School (Berlin, Germany) | C: Human Rights Education | |
| Dr. Ryberg Welander, Lotti | Linnaeus University (Växjö–Kalmar, Sweden) | A: International Law: A Social Work Perspective | lotti.ryberg-welander[at]lnu.se |
| Scott, Hanna | Linköping University (Sweden) | A: International Law: A Social Work Perspective | |
| Dr. Sobočan, Ana M. | University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) | Workshop: International Social Work Theories, A: Critical Social Science Research, B: Gender and Human Rights | AnaMarija.Sobocan[at]fsd.uni-lj.si |
| Dr. Staaf, Annika | Linnaeus University (Växjö–Kalmar, Sweden) | A: International Law: A Social Work Perspective | annika.staaf[at]lnu.se |
| Dr. Šumi, Irena | University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) | A: Global Social Work, B: Health and Human Rights, B: Gender and Human Rights | irena.sumi[at]fsd.uni-lj.si |
| Teloni, Dimitra-Dora | University of West Attica (Athens, Greece) | A: Social Work and Human Rights | dteloni[at]uniwa.gr |
| Dr. Üstündağ, Nazan | Gerda Henkel Foundation (Berlin, Germany) | B: Economic Justice, Empowerment and Resilience, B: Gender and Human Rights, C: Critical Approaches to Human Rights Practice in Social Work | nazanust[at]hotmail.com |
| Wolde, Tewodros Mekuria | Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences (Berlin, Germany) | A: International Law: A Social Work Perspective | |
| Prof. Dr. Zaviršek, Darja | University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) | A: Critical Social Science Research, B: Health and Human Rights in Social Work, B: Gender and Human Rights | Darja.Zavirsek[at]fsd.uni-lj.si |
| Dr. Zeybek, S. Ozan | Free University Berlin (Germany) | A: Global Social Work, B: Economic Justice, Empowerment and Resilience | zeybek[at]ash-berlin.eu |
Biographies
Dr. Robel Afeworki Abay is sociologist and Black Queer Disability Justice activist. In his participatory PhD project at the Humboldt University of Berlin, he critically examined the Intersectional Colonialities of Ableism and Racism in the context of labour market participation of Disabled BIPoC in Germany (2023). He is currently working as a guest professor of participatory approaches in the social and health sciences at Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin. He has recently co-edited an international volume with Karen Soldatic: Intersectional Colonialities Embodied Colonial Violence and Practices of Resistance at the Axis of Disability, Race, Indigeneity, Class, and Gender (Routledge 2024). Previously, he has worked as a research associate at the Institute of Sociology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany. Robel has studied Sociology and Political Science at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia and Cardiff University, Wales, UK, and Social Work in Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Kassel, Germany. His research and teaching interests include: Intersectional Disability Justice; Racism & Ableism; Gender & Queer Studies; Diversity & Intersectionality; Migration & Mobility; Postcolonial & Decolonial Theories; Climate & Social Justice; Participatory Research. Robel is also the Founder and Executive Director of the Network, Intersectional Disability Justice (IDJ): www.intersectional-disability-justice.org/en/intersectional-disability-justice-english/
Muna AnNisa Aikins is a social scientist, lecturer and author. She works as an independent consultant and trainer on diversity, anti-discrimination, and social justice. Aikins is a principal investigator of the communities-based Afrozensus research project at Each One Teach One e.V. (EOTO), which is the first survey study on anti-Black racism and discrimination in Germany. She is currently research director of EOTO's Center of Excellence on Anti-Black Racism(KomPad). Aikins is a predoctoral fellow of the Max Planck Research Group: Biosocial - Biology, Social Disparities, and Development at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development.
Dr. Hilal Alkan is an Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Georg Forster fellow at Alice Salomon Hochschule and Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient. She received her PhD in Political Science from the Open University. In her dissertation, she focused on civic charitable initiatives in Turkey, with the interdisciplinary lens of citizenship studies and economic anthropology. Alongside charitable giving and welfare provision, her research interests include gendered spatial formations, women’s experiences of war, and care ethics. In her recent project, she is working on informal neighbourhood initiatives aiding Syrian migrants in their resettlement in Istanbul and Berlin. She is also a member of the Women’s Initiative for Peace in Turkey, which works on gendering the peace process and documenting gendered rights violations in Turkey.
Ann Kristin Alseth is an Assistant Professor in public policy and administration at the Department of Social Work, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. Since 2001 she has been teaching diverse student groups at the Social Work Bachelor Programme at NTNU. Her research and teaching areas concern public policy developments in the welfare state, immigration and integration policy, human rights and social work practice, critical theory, critical pedagogy and social work education. At the moment she is working on a thesis (dr. philos) with the theme 'Social Work Education and practice in a changing Norwegian welfare State' and expects to complete the thesis in spring 2021. Recently, she has, together with a colleague, developed a new course called 'Global Ethics and Human Rights' (7,5 credits). The course is mandatory for students at their department, but is also open to other students at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Education and to Erasmus students at NTNU. She has also been teaching 'Human rights, social welfare and anti-oppressive social work' in Sweden at Mid Sweden University and Örebro University.
Delal Aydin is a visiting researcher at the Institute for Sociology (IfS), University of Duisburg-Essen, where she studies the dynamics of community formation within Kurdish political mobilization in Turkey and Europe. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the State University of New York at Binghamton, and her research interests include political anthropology, theories of the state, subject formation, social movements, youth studies, and cultural heritage. Aydin's forthcoming book, Friendship in Revolution: Kurdish Youth Mobilization in the Shadow of the State, explores the unexpected yet powerful role of friendship in shaping the Kurdish youth movement in Turkey. Currently based in Berlin, she is conducting research under the auspices of the Gerda Henkel Foundation, focusing on the historical and ethnographic dimensions of the Kurdish New Year (Newroz) in diaspora communities.
Aydın is a social psychologist who completed his BA at Uludağ University (Bursa), MA at Istanbul University (Istanbul) and PhD at Bielefeld University (Bielefeld). He is mainly interested in the ethnonational identification of minorities; nevertheless, he has conducted several research on political socialisation, identity conflict, peace psychology and value change which correspond to the different social-psychological processes of minorities in the face of cultural encounters with the majority population. After his primary studies on the Kurdish minority in Turkey was suddenly obstructed by the political turmoil and state violence, he started to work on Turkish minorities in Germany following his personal & indispensable migration to the same country. After that latest experience of being an exile, he is getting his head around the neoliberalisation of higher education and the history of psychology in Turkey. He is also running a political campaign entitled ‘Academic Solidarity across Borders’ funded by Hans Böckler Foundation.
Begüm Başdaş was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School. She received her PhD in Geography at University of California Los Angeles and her MA in Art History from UCR. Her BA was in Sociology at Boğaziçi University, Turkey. Her research interests are migration, human rights, political theory, gender and sexuality in EU and Turkey. Her research “In the Making of New Europe: Embodied Politics of Borderlands” studies the reconstruction of EU borderlands and how the material landscapes of the Greek hotspot islands have changed since 2015. Earlier, she was an Einstein Fellow at HU Berlin where she worked on the spatial politics of solidarity among Afghan refugees and rights defenders in Greece. She worked as a Human Rights Campaigner at Amnesty International Turkey. She produces a TV program titled “On the Move with Begüm Başdaş” to discuss current issues on migration with experts.
Dr. Elis Borde studied B.Sc. European Public Health at Maastricht University, holds a Masters degree in Public Health (National School of Public Health/FIOCRUZ) and a PhD in Public Health (National University of Colombia).
Elis is professor at the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) in Brazil where she teaches both undergraduate and graduate levels. Her research focuses on urban violence, social determinants of health and health inequities. She also works on Latin American Social Medicine and Collective Health and geographies of health inequality. Currently she is engaged in qualitative research on slum upgrading and health inequalities in Brazil.
Marcin Boryczko, PhD, Professor at the University of Gdańsk, teaches social work at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. As head of the Department of Pedagogy, he is responsible for the social work program at the University of Gdańsk. He serves as Poland's representative to the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW). Within the IFSW, he held the position of Human Rights Commissioner (for the European region) from 2020 to 2023, and he is currently a member of the Education Commission. His research interests primarily focus on the intersection of social work, human rights, and decolonization. His work often addresses the challenges posed by neoliberalism and authoritarian nationalism, with a commitment to advancing social justice and human rights through both theoretical and applied research. Additionally, he is deeply invested in examining the implications of global social issues such as migration, poverty, and health disparities on social work practices.
Jenna Büchy is a consultant for participation and dialogue processes at IFOK GmbH. Her focus is on workshop and event design, method development and open government. She is a social scientist (M.A.) and studied in Mannheim, Berlin and New York. In her work, she accompanies innovation and change processes in the public sector, especially with target group-oriented and design-based approaches. Previously, she coordinated university training programs in the field of Public Policy & Management at UP Transfer GmbH at the University of Potsdam. Jenna Büchy has extensive knowledge in the design and implementation of digital teaching-learning scenarios and blended learning.
Dr. Sylvie Da Lomba is a Senior Lecturer at the Law School of the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK. She has extensively published in the areas of migrants’ social and economic rights (with a focus on the rights of irregular migrants and asylum seekers); international, EU and national (UK, France and Canada) migration laws and policies; global and EU migration governance; and refugee integration. She is the author of a monograph on The Right to Seek Refugee Status in the European Union.
Much of her work is cross-disciplinary; she has developed socio-legal theoretical frameworks based on the concepts of membership, citizenship and vulnerability to investigate migrants’ rights and the tensions that exist between the realisation of their rights and the exercise of the government immigration power. She has conducted comparative socio-legal research in these areas and has undertaken funded empirical research in the field of migrants’ social rights, including migrants’ right to health care. For example, she was the principal investigator in a research project on ‘Women Asylum Seekers’ Access to Free NHS Maternity Care in Glasgow after a Negative Decision on their Asylum Claim’. The research was funded by and conducted in collaboration with the Scottish Refugee Council.
She was a visiting scholar at the University of Montreal and the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
She teaches European Union Law, Human Rights Law and International Migration Law.
Dr. Cassandra Ellerbe completed a PhD in Comparative Cultural Studies and Anthropology in 2006 at the University of Ghent, Belgium and has worked as a researcher on migration and gender related issues in several EU research projects. Cassandra worked from 2016 - 2019 with Team180/Flucht & Asyl at the Agentur für Arbeit - Berlin Süd while lecturing on social justice & diversity as a faculty member at Bard College Berlin. 2019 - 2021 Cassandra worked as a Senior Researcher at the Berlin University of Technology in the Interreg Central Europe project “SIforRef. From April 2021 - November 2022 she was the officer for Diversity & Inclusivity at the University of Bremen, Germany in the EU project YUFE (YoungUniversities for the Future of Europe). She is a certified diversity, social justice and embodied social justice trainer and conducts internationally empowerment workshops for migrant and refugee women of colour.
Prof. Dr. Esra Erdem is Professor for Social Economics at Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin and Academic Director of the Master's Program Social Work as a Human Rights Profession.
She received a PhD in Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Her primary research areas include Solidarity Economies, Commons, Urban Studies, Critical University Studies and Migration Studies.
After completing my studies in Social Work (B.A. and M.A.) in 2014, I worked as a Social Work practitioner in various fields (Refugees' NGO, ASD/Jugendamt, Jugendberatung) and as a 'Fachreferentin' in Verband fuer Kinder- und Jugendarbeit Hamburg. In 2021, I migrated to Ljubljana, Slovenia, to do a PhD on the topic of women care migration from Serbia to Germany. This is framed/supported by an international PhD programme (funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020/Marie Curie research and innovation programme), a training programme in which 15 of us PhD students from around the world work closely together.
Link: www.jyu.fi/en/research/astra/esrs/esr11-svenja-fischbach
I have a long standing interest and experience in Alternative or Diverse Economies. I have supervised PhDs and Master’s dissertations in the area, and taught alternative organisational or economic models and concepts (for example, cooperative and communal organisations, ethical finance, degrowth or sustainability) on various Master’s programmes at the University of Leicester and Keele in the UK, and in seminars in the Universities of Creteil, Paris Dauphine and Lille in France. Throughout my academic career, my aim has been to invite students to envisage more socially and ecologically responsible ways of organising.
In terms of research, my focus has been to demonstrate the value and existence of alternative ways of organising, driven by an ethic of care (for people and the planet) rather than the pursuit of profit. For example, I have co-edited a volume on alternative organisations, as well as published papers on concepts central to the articulation of alternative economic models (e.g. degrowth, commons). Recently, I have become interested in biodiversity management , and in particular in finding ways of valuing biodiversity based on an ethics of care, rather abstract economic valuation. I am also currently involved in a European wide project aimed at researching and developing an International Master’s programme on Social and Solidarity Economy (SE4Ces ).
Dr. Christine (Chrissie) Gale received a doctorate and an MSc in International Development from the University of Bristol. She received her MA in Social Policy from the University of York. She is a Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Strathclyde where for four years, she also led the international work for the Centre for Excellence for Children’s Care and Protection (CELCIS). This post encompassed the management of a global portfolio of child protection programmes and development of knowledge exchange opportunities, including facilitation of several international Massive Open Online Courses. Chrissie has a career spanning more than 30 years in which she continues to promote child rights with specific reference to child protection, alternative care, and the protection of children on the move in an international context. In addition to her work leading global research projects, Chrissie has lived and worked in many different regions of the world combining her professional expertise in the employ of international bodies and organisations such as UNICEF, UNHCR, UNWRA and Save the Children, with an academic career. This includes the provision of technical support to State, UN, and non-governmental bodies in the understanding and application of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child to inform the development of national child protection systems.
Fae Gerlach is a previous graduate of the SWHR masters programme. She is an organiser and activist dedicated to developing intersectional, anti-oppressive leadership and enabling communities and organisations of tangible care in the struggle for migrants rights. For over 15 years, she has explored ways of creating social change. From youth work and teaching, to frontline response work and human rights advocacy, to organising and organisation and network-building, to project management and sociocultural, community-based work. Her work with migrant children, young people, trafficking victims and women throughout Europe informs her trauma-informed, non-oppressive and intersectional approach to solidarity, one that reflects the complex realities and relationships of those we organise with.
Peps Gutsche (they/them), B.A. Social Science (Humboldt-University Berlin), M.A. Gender, Media and Culture (Goldsmith College, University College of London) , M.A. Media and Education (University Rostock). Since 2020, Peps is working at the Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin supporting organisational development and offering counselling to deal with incidents of discriminination, sexualized harrasment und violence. They are an educator and facilitator around the topics of anti-discrimination, right-wing extremism and gender relations.
(only available for thesis and project supervision)
What is interesting to know about her professional background?
Subjects of studies: Philosophy, German literature, Education at RUB (Bochum) and Philipps-University (Marburg), short stays in Great Britain and France included; PhD at Bielefeld University (“Psychische Krisen und Sozialer Raum” – a research on counselling).
For more than 20 years she was an active professional counsellor, doing teaching and research side-line. Later on, in 2004, she decided to change priorities and was successful in applying at Alice Salomon Hochschule for the chair in Social philosophy and Ethics, which she held for more than 10 years, working on professional ethics and the philosophical backgrounds of social work. Towards the end of her professional career she was asked to build up the master program “Social work as a Human Rights Profession” – a task she really became interested in and identified with. In 2015 she retired, glad to hand over the program to Esra Erdem and Johanna Isensee, the current Program Director and Program Manager.
For further details on her activities at Alice Salomon Hochschule and her publications (most of them – sorry – in German), please visit the ASH profile.
Since 2003 Bettina Hildebrand is the head of communications and spokesperson of the independent German Institute for Human Rights in Berlin
She is a professional journalist with wide experience in print, radio and TV (ZDF, German public-service television broadcaster). She also worked several years as communications manager and spokesperson for the Media Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf, Germany.
1987 University degrees in philosophy, history and theology
2004/2005 Studies and graduation as Dipl. Fundraiser VMI, University of Fribourg/Switzerland
From 2006 to 2012 she regularly taught Iraqi security forces within the framework of the NATO Training Mission - Iraq on "Human Rights and Media."
Her fields of expertise are Media/Journalism, Public Relations and Human Rights.
Dr. Samina Karim (UK) is an academic in the field of social work, and a specialist in working with children and families. Her expertise is centred around the topics of child abuse, historic abuse, children’s rights and power within social work practice. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor at the University of Bradford and a programme director, and is involved in undertaking international research in order to examine the issue of child abuse in South Asia. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy with a PhD in Social Work from the University of Strathclyde and a Masters in Social Work from the University of Birmingham, UK.
2020–Present, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Potsdam
2019–Present, Adjunct Instructor, Alice Salomon University
2019–2020, Academy in Exile Fellow, Freie Universität Berlin
2018–Present, Adjunct Instructor, Freie Universität Berlin
2011–2017, Assistant Professor, Istanbul 29 Mayis University, Turkey
2005–2009, PhD in Linguistics, Utrecht University, Netherlands
2000–2005, Research Assistant, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
1999–2002, MS in Cognitive Science, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
1995–1999, BA in Linguistics, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
Research interests: syntax, morpho-syntax, diachronic syntax, language contact; clause combining, case, agreement, nominalizations, complex predicates, voice; Turkish, Balkan Turkic, Ottoman Turkish; linguistic rights, minority languages, language loss; critical thinking
Pia Kjellbom has a PhD in social work and is currently working as researcher and lecturer in welfare law at Linköping University in Norrköping, Sweden. Main interests are social work law, evictions, child evictions, housing and home especially for socially and economically vulnerable groups as well as human rights.
Dr. Lydia Malmedie is a doctoral researcher at the Economics and Social Science Faculty at the University of Potsdam, Germany with a scholarship by the German research council (DFG). Her thesis is on the EU’s foreign policy with regard to human rights for LGBTI persons in Sub-Sahara Africa and she carried out field research in Kenya and Uganda. Previously, Lydia worked for a London Fostering Agency and at Europe’s largest human rights charity for equality for lesbian, gay and bisexual people in the UK. She advised UK government and led on the highly sensitive primary school campaign ‘Celebrating Difference’. Invited by UNESCO, she contributed to the first ever international expert meeting on homophobia in education institutions. As an equality and diversity consultant, Lydia has worked with private and public sector organizations including SoundCloud and the German development cooperation (GIZ). She holds a European Master in Human Rights and Democratization and is the former president of the Alumni Association bringing together over 2,000 human rights experts, activists and professionals of EU funded Human Rights master programmes globally.
Dr. Ian Milligan is involved in international policy and practice development in the field of 'Alternative care' - children who are in foster, kinship or residential care. He is one of the authors of Moving Forward: Implementing the UN Guidelines on the Alternative Care of Children, published in 2013 and now translated into 6 languages including Russian and Chinese (Mandarin). Ian has provided consultancy, research, evaluation and training services in a number of countries. As International lead for CELCIS Ian is involved in building partnerships with UNICEF, NGOs and academic institutions to develop policy and increase the knowledge and skills of child welfare professionals across the world. Ian has acted as a consultant to the Scottish and UK governments.
Mareike Niendorf studied social work in Freiburg and is a graduate of the German-language master’s
program Social Work as a Human Rights Profession. Since April 2021, she has been a researcher,
lecturer, and doctoral candidate at the Alice Salomon University Berlin pursuing her doctoral
project “Human rights in professional work with people in vulnerable situations. Educational
processes regarding human rights orientation in study programs for social workers, health
professionals, and police officers “.
Previously, she worked for the German Institute for Human Rights for eight years. A particular focus
of her work was on (anti-discrimination) human rights education and the human right to education.
Andrea Plöger received her PhD in Political Science at the Free University of Berlin. She has studied Visual Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science at the same university. She has worked as a documentary filmmaker and media educator in different settings, as in the World Media Forum and World Social Forum context, as in the network Afrique Europe Interact, as with the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and as in international NGOs as well as in different local initiatives and organisations in the city of Berlin. Her field is "Social Cultural Work" - also in a community context. Her focus is on communication rights, media activism, media education and media literacy with a critical perspective on discrimination and coloniality. She is also helping to run the media lab at Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences.
Prof. Dr. Nivedita Prasad is a Professor for methods of Social Work and gender-specific Social Work at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences in Berlin. She is the director of the German MA Program “Soziale Arbeit als Menschenrechtsprofession” and teaches courses on Human Rights based Social Work, Intersectional Critical Social Work and methods for structural change in Social Work. She was awarded the first Anne Klein Prize in 2012 for her ongoing dedication to the Human Rights of migrant women.
Neil Quinn (University of Strathclyde) is Professor in Social Work and Social Policy, and Co-Director of the University's Centre for Health Policy. The Centre works across all faculties in collaboration with several local and international partners. He is an international leader in social work and public health has been invited to be a Visiting Professor at New York and Yale Universities.
He has a specific interest in global public health and social welfare policy and has expertise in social work, health and human rights. His human rights work focuses on migration, mental health, homelessness and looked after children. He is leading a national research programme on the right to health for marginalised groups. He is engaged in a number of key national policy roles, including the Scottish National Action Plan (SNAP) human rights group on health and social care and in a range of high-profile international work as an advisor to the World Health Organisation on mental health rights, co-author of the UNCRC Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children Handbook and collaborations with Yale and New York University on health policy.
He is committed to working in partnership with service users and communities and has 25 years’ experience in social work, community development and public health at a local, national and international level. He has led a major community development and health programme in one of Europe’s areas of highest deprivation, chaired the national Sanctuary programme working with asylum seekers and refugees and is on the steering group of People’s Health Movement Scotland. He is also a co-founder of the Declaration health and human rights arts festival.
(at the moment only available for thesis or project supervision!)
Iris Rajanayagam is a historian (MA Modern / Contemporary History, University of Cologne / Humboldt University Berlin / University of Dar es Salaam). She works on postcolonial theories, her focus particularly lying on colonial continuities in German and European migration, refugee and asylum policies, intersectionality as well as on theories and practice of antiracism and antidiscrimination. She is director of the non-profit organisation xart splitta and researcher and lecturer at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences in the module: “Racism and Migration”.
Iris Rajanayagam is also board member of the Migration Council Berlin (Migrationsrat Berlin), part of the Jury against Discriminatory Advertising of the Berlin Senate and co-founder of the radio show “Talking Feminisms” on Reboot.fm.
From 2013 to 2016 she was part of the editing team of the magazine “Leben nach Migration” (Eng.: “Life after Migration”) of the Migrationsrat Berlin.
I am Parul Rohal, born and raised in India. I moved to Berlin to pursue a master's in Social Work as a Human Rights Profession. I have vast experience in the field of Empowerment Projects, Migration and Children's Rights. For the last four years, I have been working as an educator at Berlin Cosmopolitan School, teaching children's rights and human rights to the children.
Lotti Ryberg Welander is licentiate of law and PhD in Sociology of law. She has been teaching law in social work since 2000 and is focusing on the welfare aspects of legal regulation. Her main interests are migration, human rights and international and supranational regulation of labour law and social security.
Hanna Scott is a lawyer and PhD student in welfare law. Her PhD research project is part-funded by the Swedish Victims of Crime Agency and investigates experiences of violence and law from the perspectives of young people who sought refuge in Sweden.
Prior to taking up her PhD, she worked for a social justice organisation in Sweden, running a legal advice and support clinic for unaccompanied children and migrant families together with social workers. She has also worked as a solicitor in London, England where she specialised in criminal defence and prison law work, representing mainly children and young people. She has experience of human rights research and advocacy in Russia and Australia.
As a teacher, Hanna is particularly interested in developing legal teaching to students of law and social work through critical pedagogies. She enjoys participating in interdisciplinary initiatives and work that involves co-operation between the academy and civil society.
At the core of her research interests are ethics and decision-making in social work, social work professional identity as well as research ethics. Currently, she is aiming to develop these topics in an international research group. Her research and teaching experience extend to gender as well as a social justice and inclusion take on different social groups. She is often engaged as a lecturer in an international arena (Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, USA) as well as a contributor in international research (Austria, Germany, Japan, Kosovo, Macedonia, Sweden, etc.). She has experience as an editor, reviewer in 8 scientific journals, translator and thesis advisor.
Furthermore, she leads the Social Work Chapter of the Slovenian Sociological Association; she was a vice-chair of the European Social Work Research Association (ESWRA); and has been active in Eastern-European Sub-Regional Association of Schools of Social Work. Additionally, she co-founded the Society for Business Ethics and Ethical Leadership; and is also a member of a few ethical committees in various institutions (i.e. Slovenian Human Rights Ombudsman Office).
She is employed as an assistant professor and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Ljubljana, where she received her PhD. The doctoral thesis, which she partially developed as a Fulbright scholar (at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) was recognized as the most excellent research work in social sciences in 2013 with an award by the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SAZU).
Dr. Annika Staaf is responsible for module A - International Law of the Master program SWHR.
She is assistant professor in social work with a speciality of Legal Science. Her research interest concerns mainly Constitutional law, administrative Law and Human Rights. Her PhD thesis described the rule of law in facilities providing involuntarily care and treatment for drug addicts in accordance with a Swedish legislation, The Care of Alcoholics and Drug abusers special provisions Act.
Irena Šumi, Ph.D. is an Anthropologist, specializing in anthropology of ethnicity, nationalism and boundaries; racisms and antisemitism; the Holocaust and survivors from Slovenia; Slovenian Jewry; Native American political history of the 20th century; postcolony and postsocialism studies.
Full bibliographical references at:
http://izumbib.izum.si/bibliografije/Y20160819044006-A2828899.html
Dimitra-Dora Teloni, MA in Research Methodology, PhD is Associate Professor in the
Department of Social Work, University of West Attica, Athens, Greece and Vice-Director in
the Master "Social rights and advocacy in social services". She is teaching social work from
2006 until today in both undergraduate and postgraduate level and had also worked as a
qualified and registered social worker with cancer patients and their carers, as well as with
drug addicted people. She activates in antiracist movement and in grassroots welfare
initiatives for people in poverty and she is also member of the Steering Committee of
International Social Work Action Network as well as Greek SWAN. Her publications and
research interests focus on immigration and social work, anti-racist social work, radical and
critical social work as well as social movements, human rights and advocacy.
Üstündağ received her Ph.D. in 2005 from the sociology department at Indiana University Bloomington. Between 2005 and 2018, she worked as an Assistant Professor at Boğaziçi University, Department of Sociology. Between 2018 and 2020 she was affiliated with the Transregionale Studien in Berlin as an Academy in Exile and IIE Scholar Rescue Fund fellow. Currently, she is receiving a fellowship from the Gerda Henkel Foundation Patrimonies program. Her work concerns political imaginaries, gendered subjectivities and state violence in Kurdistan. Her most recent articles appeared in the journals South Atlantic Quarterly, History of the Present and differences.
Tewodros Mekuria Wolde is a social worker currently living in Berlin.
With four years of experience, he had the privilege of working with young children, street-connected youth, and internally displaced young people.
He holds a master’s degree from Alice Salomon University in Berlin, where he specialized in social work as a human rights profession.
His final thesis focused on the role of social workers in reintegrating unaccompanied minors in his home country.
He is deeply passionate about advocating for vulnerable communities and creating supportive environments for youth.
This work drives his commitment to both social justice and community building.
In addition to his professional work, Tewodros is eager to connect with others who share a dedication to human rights and social change.
Prof. Darja Zaviršek, PhD. is sociologist, professor and chair of the „Department of Social Justice and Inclusion - Disability studies, gender and ethnicity" at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Work and the honorable professor at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin. Since 2008 she is the president of the Eastern European Sub-Regional Association of the Schools of Social Work, at the IASSW and the board member of the IASSW. She was the co-founder and chair of the Indosow- International Doctoral Studies in Social Work, 2009-2014. She is the national representative in the Academic Network of European Disability Experts ANED at the level of the European Commission, EU. She supported the development of social work education in several Eastern European countries (Ukraine, Georgia, Kosovo) and was recurrent visiting professor at different universities: Central European University (2005-2015, Gender Programme); University of Banja Luka (2000-2007, Dept of Social Work); University of Kiev Mohlya, Kiev, Ukraine (1997- 2010, Dept of Social Work); Tbilisi State University (2010-2015; doctoral studies Gender Programme); Univ. of Zuyd, Maastricht (1998-2011; international master programme). Currently she teaches at the Master Programme of the University of Applied Science Alice Salomon Berlin, "Social Work as a Human Rights Profession".
Areas of research: gender, disability, ethnicity studies, history of social work, violence. From 2012 – 2015 she served as the board member of the European Social Work Research Assitoation – ESWRA and in 2015, she was the organising Chair of the 5th European Social Work Research Conference in Ljubljana. In 2016 she was the International Hokenstad Lecturer at the anual CSWE conference. In 2017 her article "The humanitarian crisis of migration versus the crisis of humanitarianism: current dimensions and challenges for social work practice" became awarded as the International Social Work Article in the Social Work Education International Journal. She wrote, edited and co-edited 17 books in Slovenian and English language and wrote over hundreds of scientific and professional articles.
Selected books:
Darja Zaviršek (2000), Disability as a Cultural Trauma. Ljubljana cf.
Darja Zaviršek (2005), "With Diploma it was Easier to Work!" The 50th Anniversary of social work education in Slovenia. FSD, Ljubljana.
Shula Ramon and Darja Zaviršek eds (2009), Critical Edge Issues in Social Work and Social Policy. Comparative Research Perspective. Faculty of Social Work, Ljubljana.
Darja Zaviršek & Birgit Rommelspacher & Silvia Staub Bernascone eds.(2010), Ethical Dilemmas in Social Work. International Perspective. Faculty of Social Work, Ljubljana.
Darja Zaviršek (2012), From Blood to Care: Social Parenthood in Global World. [Od krvi do skrbi: socialno starševstvo v globalnem svetu] Aristej, Maribor. (in Slovenian language);
Darja Zaviršek, Ana Marija Sobočan eds (2012), Rainbow Families Go to School: Perspectives of Children, Parents and Teachers FSD, Ljubljana.
Dr. S. Ozan Zeybek received his PhD in Geography from The Open University in UK. He worked as an Associate Professor at Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey.
Dr. Zeybek works on more-than-human collectives and ecologies, state violence, militarism and different constructions of manhood. His recent publications include a study of stray dogs in Istanbul, livestock killings in the Kurdish region of Turkey during the forced displacement of the Kurdish population in the 1990s or the criminalisation of goats during the appropriation of forests in the early Republican period of Turkey. He teaches on how agriculture, financial capital and human health relate to each other or how human’s treatment of animals has been affected by the energy systems humans could extract.
He also writes children’s stories.
Research interests
Cluster A
Postcolonial studies
Spatial-temporal formations of modernity
Cluster B
Land dispossessions
More-than- human collectives
Animal Studies
Ecological Movements
Cluster C
Masculinity Studies & Militarism
Fatherhood & Parenting
Selected Articles
Citizenship and Objection to Military Service in Turkey In: Handbook of Citizenship, eds. Engin Isin and Jack Harrington, London: Routledge, 2014 [co-author Hilâl Alkan Zeybek]
Fraudulent” Citizens Of A Small Town: Occidentalism in Turkey
Antipode, Volume 44, Issue 4, 2012
Small Towns in Turkey: Footnotes in Somebody Else’s History
Journal of Historical Sociology, Volume 24, Issue 1, 2011
Geçmişle Yüzleşmek: Türkiye’de ve Almanya’da Hafıza Siyaseti [Politics of Remembering: A Comparison of Germany and Turkey], Cogito, Issue 90, 2018
Ekolojinin Politikası: Yeni Sınırlar, Yeni Aktörler [The Politics of Ecology: New Borders, New Actors], Toplum ve Bilim, Issue 138/139, 2016
Biyo-Politika, Güvenlik ve Anti-Piyasalar: Türkiye'de Endüstriyel Hayvancılığın Seyri [Biopolitics, Security, and Anti-Markets: Industrial Cattle Breeding in Turkey],Toplum ve Bilim, Issue 138/139, 2016
Fenni Ormancılığın Keçiler ve Köylülerle İmtihanı: Sömürge İmparatorluklarından Ulus Devletlere Orman Koruma [Scientific Forestry and Criminalised Goats: The Pursuit of Forest Preservation from Colonial Empires to Nation States], Toplum ve Bilim, Issue 137, 2016
İstanbul'un Yuttukları ve Kustukları: Köpekler ve Nesneler Üzerinden Bir İstanbul Tahlili [The Metropolis of Stray Dogs and Discarded Materials: Rescaling the City and Its Ecology], book chapter in Yeni İstanbul Çalışmaları, eds. Ayfer Bartu and Cenk Özbay, Istanbul: Metis Yayınları, 2014
Avrupa Düşüncesinin Talî Unsurları: Kölelik ve Sömürgecilik [Slavery and Colonialism in the European Enlightment], İnsan & Toplum3(6), 2013
"Bu Bebeğin Annesi Nerede?" Cinsiyet, Babalık ve Armağan İlişkileri [“Where is The Mother of This Baby?” Gender, Fatherhood and Gift Relations], Toplum ve Bilim, Issue 126,2013
Services
International ACTIVITIES
The International Office offers several activities, programs and projects in which you are warmly welcome to participate and mingle with other ASH-students.
GERMAN CLASSES
We regularly organize German classes for beginners at the start of each new academic year. Even though our program is completely held and guided in English, we invite all our students to take the chance and learn a little bit more about Berlin and Germany.
INTERNET ACCESS
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Finances
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Empowerment and Awareness
The Empowerment, Awareness and anti-racist institutional opening of ASH Berlin (EmpA) aims to improve the study conditions of international students, students with a refugee background and students of color through various offers such as PowerExperts, an expert Forum for international and BIPoC students to present their researches, or PowerTalk, where students can arrange individual and confidential talks with the EmpA team. You can find more information about EmpA and their offers here.
Downloads
SWHR Development & History of Master Program
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SWHR Development & History of Master Program
11.03.2024 · 309 KB
Application
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Scholarship Information Document 2024
Please refer to the available scholarships for your own field with the help of this compilation of scholarship information
19.02.2024 · 922 KB
Assessments / Assignments
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Formal Requirements for Assignments
Some information on the formal presentation of your papers, essays and thesis
18.03.2019 · 65 KB
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Overview of the German academic grading system, also used in our program
18.03.2019 · 7 KB
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M.A. Thesis Application Form: Change of MA Thesis Title
Application form for changing the Master's thesis title
18.03.2019 · 79 KB
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Human Rights Research Project (Module D) Application Form
Application form for the Human Rights Research Project in Module D
18.03.2019 · 143 KB
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Human Rights Research Project (Module D): Change of Project Title
Application form for changing the Human Rights Research Project title
18.03.2019 · 80 KB
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Modules A, B, C: Deadline Extension
Application form for deadline extensions in Modules A, B, C
14.05.2020 · 75 KB
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Modules D & E: Deadline Extension
Application form for deadline extensions in Modules D (Human Rights Project) and E (Master's Thesis)
14.05.2020 · 97 KB
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M.A. Thesis: Declaration of Authorship
Declaration of Authorship for M.A. Theses (submission by August 2020 or later)
20.07.2020 · 31 KB
Regulations
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SWHR Study Schedule (standard period of study: 4 semesters) (valid from September 2021 on)
13.09.2021 · 60 KB
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Detailed description of the modules, in English (valid from September 2021 on)
16.09.2021 · 468 KB
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SWHR Study and Examination Regulation - in German
2nd amendment to the SWHR Study and Examination Regulations, including module descriptions in English (valid from September 2021 on)
13.09.2021 · 582 KB
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ASH Berlin Study and Examination Regulations - in German
2nd amendment to the ASH Berlin General Study and Examination Regulations, in German (valid from September 2019 on)
13.09.2021 · 277 KB
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1st amendment to the SWHR admission statute, in German (valid from March 2021 on)
13.09.2021 · 113 KB
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ASH Berlin Study and Examination Regulations in English
2nd amendment to the ASH Berlin General Study and Examination Regulations, in German (valid from September 2019 on)
17.01.2022 · 314 KB
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SWHR Study and Examination Regulation - in English
2nd amendment to the SWHR Study and Examination Regulations, including module descriptions in English (valid from September 2021 on)
17.01.2022 · 72 KB
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Curricular Schedule and Module Descriptions
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Zugangs- und Zulassungssatzung MA-SWHR
Admission and admission regulations MA-SWHR (unfortunately only in German language)
24.10.2023 · 121 KB
Further forms and documents
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WiFi on Campus Information Sheet
How to get into Eduroam Wifi Network, in English language
18.03.2019 · 1 MB
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Affidavit for duplicate Campuscard after loss
Template for obtaining a new campus card after loss
28.10.2022 · 119 KB
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Affidavit to attach a police report of the theft of your Campuscard
Template for obtaining a new campus card after theft
28.10.2022 · 119 KB
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