The Social Work Research Center "Stadt, Land, Quartier" was established in 2020 by eight lecturers and three research assistants from the Department of Social Work. Its focus is on place-based, social and spatial theory research topics such as community work, neighborhood work and urban development. The focus is on socio-spatial approaches, conflicts over the use of space and topics from both rural and urban areas. In this way, urban research topics and socio-spatially oriented research projects are specifically located and competencies in this area are bundled.

A housing needs analysis on behalf of the city of Ludwigshafen and in cooperation with the Institute for Management and Innovation (IMI) as well as a research project on regional alternative cultural promotion on behalf of the BASF cultural promotion organization Tor 4 are exemplary research projects that were carried out within this framework.

Click here for the final report "Ethnographic investigation of the last round of the BASF cultural promotion program Tor 4".