Contents of research practice and research interests: social inequality research, gender, heteronormativity and social relations, disability studies, poverty, care for people in life crises, work and social security, social justice, (non-)utilization research and everyday life research as criticism, working methods in the social sphere, urban research / community work.

Research projects:

• Current contexts of democracy, justice and distribution (completed) - Prof. Dr. Jörg Reitzig
• Occasions and Results of the Schlecker Employees' Solidarity Fund - A Contribution to the Assessment of an Insolvency and its Consequences (completed) "further information " - Prof. Dr. Jörg Reitzig
• Conception of a Center for Participatory Urban Research in Ludwigshafen am Rhein (ongoing) - Prof. Dr. Andrea Lutz-Kluge
• Social education and democracy as a social order and way of life (ongoing) - Prof. Dr. Jörg Reitzig
• Participatory research in gender contexts (ongoing) - Prof. Dr. Andrea Lutz-Kluge
• What could "from below" mean today? Community work in difficult times of populism and the "activating welfare state" (ongoing) - Prof. Dr. Ellen Bareis
• Participation and health (ongoing) - Prof. Dr. Regina Brunnett
• Heteronormativity-critical analyses of social conditions (completed) - Prof*. Dr. Karen Wagels
• Gender-theoretical analyses of social work (ongoing) - Prof*. Dr. Karen Wagels