Main address
Faculty Management, Social Work, Construction
+49/5531/126-209
Haarmannplatz 3 (Room HOA_219 )
37603 Holzminden
Office hours

Tuesdays from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. (appointments via StudIP) and by arrangement.

Function

Professorship in Diversity and Social Work; Program Director of the Master's Program in Social Work

Vita

Since October 2024:
Professor of Social Work and Diversity at HAWK University of Applied Sciences and Arts

January 2024
Doctorate (summa cum laude) from the Faculty of Cultural and Social Sciences at the University of Osnabrück on the topic of Policy Change in Turkey's Local Migration Regime. Published as Open Access in November 2024 (Nomos Publishing)

2012–2024
Head of Social Affairs and Commissioner for Integration, City of Osnabrück

2022–2024
Lecturer at the University of Osnabrück and University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück

February–September 2022
Research Associate, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA

2009–2011
Program Manager for KAUSA (Coordination Office for Training in Self-Employed Businesses with a Migration Background) at the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB), Bonn

2003–2009
Research Associate and Project Manager at the Central Agency for Continuing Vocational Education in the Skilled Trades (ZWH), Düsseldorf

2001–2002
Educational Staff Member at the Regional Office for the Promotion of Children and Youth from Immigrant Families (RAA) in Aachen

1995–2001
Studies in Political Science, Economic and Social History, and International Economic and Technical Relations at RWTH Aachen University, graduated with a Master of Arts (M.A.)

Memberships

  • German Society for Social Work (DGSA) e.V.
  • German Association for Political Science (DVPW) e.V.

Awards and Scholarships

- 2023: Manfred Rommel Scholarship from the City of Stuttgart  
- Publication Grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG) for the open-access publication of the dissertation  

As Commissioner for Integration of the City of Osnabrück:

- 2021: Lower Saxony Integration Award for the municipal mentoring project "Democracy.Empowerment.Integration"  
- 2018: Recognition in the national competition "Living Together Hand in Hand - Municipalities Shaping the Future," organized by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building, and Community  
- 2017: Nomination for the German Engagement Award (for the Integration Award "Yilmaz Akyürek" of the City of Osnabrück)