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-) use research and everyday life research as critique, ways of working on the social, urban research / community work.

Research projects:

• Current contexts of democracy, justice and distribution (completed) - Prof. Dr. Jörg Reitzig
• Occasions and results of the solidarity fund Schlecker-employees - A contribution to the balancing 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 Social Order and Form 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