Dr. Sina Motzek-Öz, who holds a doctorate in social work, teaches and conducts research at the University of Kassel on the topic of family, gender and health in the context of migration and flight, as well as diversity-conscious approaches to social work. In the summer semester of 2020, she accepted the call of the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society (HWG LU) to the Klara Marie Faßbinder Visiting Professorship funded by the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Her inaugural lecture, actually scheduled for April of this year but postponed due to Corona, entitled "Empowerment and Diversity: theoretical and methodological search movements around two central concepts for gender-aware social work" has now been made up for on Friday, July 17, 2020, in the auditorium of HWG LU.
Here you can find the recording of the lecture "Empowerment and Diversity".
Dr. Sina Motzek-Öz, lecturer for special tasks at the Institute for Social Work of the University of Kassel, taught and researched this semester in the context of the Klara Maria Faßbinder Guest Professorship for Women and Gender Studies of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate under the working topic "Gender, Diversity and Agency" at the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society (HWG LU). There, in addition to various keynote lectures, including on inclusive and discrimination-critical university teaching, the social worker with a doctorate in the Department of Social and Health Work held two (virtual) courses: in the bachelor's program in social work, Motzek-Öz gave an "Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Intercultural and Social Pedagogical Counseling," and in the corresponding master's program, she gave the seminar "Research in the Context of Multilingualism and Interculturality." Her inaugural lecture, originally scheduled for April, had to be postponed due to Corona. However, the lectures have now been made up: After the welcome by university president Prof. Dr. Peter Mudra and Prof. Dr. Peter Rahn, vice dean and head of the bachelor's program in social work, as well as thematic introductions by the equal opportunity representative Prof. Dr. Elke Raum and Prof. Dr. Karen Wagels, dean* of the social work program, the lecture took place. Karen Wagels, Dean of the Faculty of Social and Health Work, Dr. Sina Motzek-Öz spoke on Friday, July 17, 2020, in the auditorium of the university on the topic of "Empowerment and diversity: theoretical and methodological search movements around two central concepts for gender-aware social work". The event was also recorded and will soon be available on the university's homepage.
Dr. Sina Motzek-Öz studied social work in Cologne and Bielefeld and worked in anti-discrimination work as well as in integration support for people with mental impairments. In 2016, she completed her doctorate at the University of Kassel on the topic of "Handlungs(ohn)macht im Kontext - Eine biographische Analyse des Handelns von Migrantinnen in transnationalen Unterstützungskontexten". Having initially dealt with migration and interculturality in an empirical and theoretically critical way in her publications, Motzek-Öz has increasingly turned to the topics of refugee migration and professionalization in more recent work. Accordingly, her research and education focus on family, gender and health in the context of migration and flight, and diversity-conscious approaches to social work.
"With her clear positioning in women's and migration research, Dr. Sina Motzek-Öz was able to set an important impulse in the university landscape of Rhineland-Palatinate with her research work," emphasized Equal Opportunity Commissioner Prof. Dr. Elke Raum. At the same time, during her guest professorship, she showed the students "a kaleidoscope of perspectives" and encouraged them, as well as the teachers, to critically reflect on their own professional role, added Dean Prof. Dr. Karen Wagels: "These impulses have been set and will certainly have a lasting effect.
Klara Marie Faßbinder Visiting Professorship
The state of Rhineland-Palatinate has been funding this international and interdisciplinary visiting professorship for women's and gender studies since the winter semester 2001/2002 with the aim of giving impetus to and strengthening the research area of women's and gender studies in Rhineland-Palatinate. With Dr. Sina Motzek-Öz, the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society was able to benefit from the establishment of the visiting professorship for the second time on an unscheduled basis: Already in the winter semester 2016/2017, the visiting professorship in Ludwigshafen could be filled with the Swiss Dr. Tove Soiland.
The visiting professorship is named after Klara Marie Faßbinder, a scientist, university lecturer and activist in the peace and women's movement who was born in Trier in 1890.
Learn more about Dr. Sina Motzek-Öz's visiting professorship in the interview.
Subject contact:
Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society
Department of Social and Health Services
Prof. Dr. Peter Rahn
Tel. 0621/5203-545
E-mail: peter.rahn@ 8< SPAM protection, please remove >8 hwg-lu.de
University of Kassel
Institute of Social Work
Dr. Sina Motzek-Öz
Lecturer for special tasks
Tel. 0561 804-7725
E-mail: motzek-oez@uni-kassel.de
