Presentations

  • Informal aid networks from clients of social work. Lecture at the workshop “Networks and Social Work” of the working group on networks and social work of the German community for network research (DGNet) , 25th October 2018, Darmstadt.

  • BuT in the prevention chain. Municipal scope of action to strengthen the utilisation, usability free of stigmatization and integration in widely used participation settings. Lecture at the learning network meeting of the state coordination office “Municipal prevention chains” in NRW,  4th September 2018, Essen.

  • Governance and diversity in mediation counselling. Embedment, limits and possibilities of employer-oriented job placement. Speech at the international conference “Governance through counselling – counselling of governance”, 17./18.11.2016, Göttingen [together with Holger Bähr, IAB Nürnberg].

  • How can the participation of refugees succeed? Speech at the SOFI-conference “Demographic Provocations”, 19/20 September 2016, Göttingen.

  • Municipal implementation of educational and participation services – a short overview. Speech within the BuT-professional talk of the region Hannover on 7th October 2015.

  • Limits of activation – empirical findings of a long-term study, contribution to the Ad-hoc group: Crisis experience basic income? Individual consequences of long-term unemployment and basic income support at the 37th Congress of the German Community for Sociology in Trier, 09.10.2014 (together with Tine Haubner and Karin Scherschel).

  • Poverty, precariousness, participation barriers – a comment from a sociological point of view. Contribution to the workshop “Faces of Poverty” on 12.09.2014 in Rostock.

  • Social relations under the pressure of unemployment and activation, Speech at the conference “Social relations and social capital in critical life phases”, 20-21 June 2014, Hamburg.

  • Matching and more – Strategies and service of job placement, presentation at the SOFI conference “Participation barriers – Diversity and inequality in segmented educational and work systems”, 23-24 May 2014, Göttingen.

  • Placement and case processing in SGB II as micro politics, Speech at the specialist conference ‘Working at the Job Centre. In between demands and overload”, 24.05.2013, Hamburg.

  • Unemployment and Activation. A Regional Perspective, Speech at the Workshop "Precarity, Informality and Social Conflict - Experiences from Argentina and Germany", 13.-14.11.2012, Jena.

  • Precarious life and work in drawing SGB II, Speech within the ad-hoc-group “Living contexts in poverty and basic income support’ at the 26th Congress of the German Society for Sociology in Bochum, 04.10.2012.

  • Precariousness and social networks, Statement at the non-public expert discussion "Dimensions and perspectives of precariousness research", 19-20.04.2012, Hamburg Institute for Social Research.

  • Social networks in the zone of caring, short speech at the workshop “Precariousness as sociological concept”, 22.-23.03.2012, Jena.

  • Unemployment and social networks. Coping strategies of long-term unemployment in informal social relations, Speech at the conference “Networks and Job Market”, 08./09.09.2011, Nuremberg.

  • "But we don’t want that!" Fights around self-determination of long-term unemployed people, Speech at the workshop "Daily life and autonomy" of the Students’Union of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, 26./27.01.2011, Berlin.

  • Social networks in unemployment – coping strategies in informal social relations, speech within the ad-hoc-group "Social capital, network resources and labour market integration" at the 34. Congress of the German Society for Sociology, 6.-10.10.2008, Jena.

  • What does Activation mean for the 'Activated'? Findings on German Labour Market Policy, paper presented at the conference "The Transformation from Welfare to Work", 12.09.2008, Leeds/UK.

  • "…I don't use the word friends anymore" Influences of unemployment on friendly relations and on the meaning of friendship, paper presented at the conference "Friendship and Care: A Comparison of Theoretical Conceptions and Empirical Findings in Europe", 07.-09.11.2007, Hamburger Institute for Social Research.

  • "…the friend group, the group of contacts has changed completely."Reconstructions of social relation contexts for receivers of unemployment, Speech at the conference "A new paradigm in social sciences – network analysis and network theory", 27-28 Sept 2007, Frankfurt/Main.