Research

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Main areas of work and research

  • Gender and intersectionality research
  • Transgender and queer studies
  • Sexual research and sexual pedagogy
  • Sexualized violence
  • Migrant-queer prostitution/sex work and sexual exploitation in post-migration societies
  • Digitality with a focus on sexualities, gender and migration
  • Participation, protection processes and organizational development
  • Qualitative/ethnographic methods and participatory research

Projects

Since 12/2022 Subjectivation, Practices, Discourses: Sexuality and Ethnosexualized Violence in Biographies of Queer-Migrantized Young People (working title of the ongoing doctoral project)
11/2021 - 12/2024 SchutzJu - Schutzkonzepte in der Kinder- und Jugendarbeit & Jugendsozialarbeit, BMBF-funded cooperative and participatory joint project, scientific collaboration at the Department of Sociology of Diversity, University of Kassel (project leader: Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Tuider)
05/2023 - 09/2024 EMMD - Structural Discrimination in Legal and Counseling Practice - Development of Methods of Multidimensional Discrimination Research, joint project funded by the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency, scientific collaboration at the Department of Sociology of Diversity, University of Kassel (sub-project leader: Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Tuider)
12/2020 - 06/2021 ParPEM - Participation, practical relevance, ethics and monitoring in the funding line Sexualized violence in pedagogical contexts. Sub-project: Literature monitoring, BMBF-funded joint project, scientific collaboration at the Department of Social Work and Health at Kiel University of Applied Sciences (sub-project leader: Prof. Dr. Anja Henningsen)
10/2020 - 03/2021 WUDID - Welcome culture and democracy in Germany. Sub-project: Voluntary and professional support work with and for refugees, BMBF-funded joint project, scientific collaboration at the Department of Sociology of Diversity, University of Kassel (sub-project leader: Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Tuider)
09/2019 - 04/2020 Re:Coding Algorithmic Culture, Volkswagen Foundation-funded interdisciplinary collaborative research project, research assistant at the Department of Sociology of Diversity, University of Kassel (project leaders: Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Tuider and Dr. Pinar Tuzcu)
03/2019 - 06/2021 ProtectionNorm. Protection concepts in child and youth work. Normality constructions of violence and sexuality among young people. Sub-project: International youth work BMBF-funded participatory joint project, scientific collaboration at the Department of Sociology of Diversity, University of Kassel (sub-project leader: Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Tuider)

Lectures

12/24 Workshop: "Participatory protection concepts in international youth work", 02.12.24, Networking and Qualification Day International Youth Work, Regionsjugendring Hannover e.V. and Region Hannover, Hannover
11/24 Workshop: "Participatory protection concepts in international youth work", 26.11.24, International Youth Work Conference of the Protestant Youth in the Rhineland, Solingen
09/24 Lecture: "Development and implementation of participatory protection concepts in international youth work", 27.09.24, 55th Hostelling International Conference & General Meeting, Berlin
  Lecture: "Intersectional discrimination: An investigation of legal and anti-discrimination practice", networking meeting of diversity researchers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland "Diversity und Diskriminierungsschutz weiterdenken", 11/09/2024, together with Manja Dimitra Kotsas, Hazal Budak-Kim, Tina Spies (CAU-Kiel), Elisabeth Tuider (University of Kassel)
  Ad-hoc group: "Intersectionality post-categorial? Intersectional discrimination in legal and counseling practice in Germany", symposium and scientific networking meeting of diversity researchers "Diversity und Diskriminierungsschutz weiterdenken" from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, 11.09.2024, together with Manja Dimitra Kotsas, Hazal Budak-Kim, Tina Spies, Eddie Steinfeld-Mertens (CAU-Kiel), Lean Haug (adis e.V. Tübingen), Doris Liebscher (LADG Ombuds Office Berlin), Elisabeth Tuider (University of Kassel)
08/24 Lecture: "Research on Discrimination: A Methodological Intersection of Discourse Analysis, Situational Analysis and Vignette based Research", 28.08.24, together with Elisabeth Tuider and Tina Spies, in the panel "Beyond Chicago School" at the 16th European Sociological Association Conference in Porto (Portugal)
06/2024 Organization of the conference "SaferFuture - Schutzkonzepte in der Kinder- und Jugendarbeit & Jugendsozialarbeit", 18.06.2024, together with the transfer and research network "SchutzJu", at the ECKD Center Kassel.
05/2024 Lecture: "Participatory research with young people on sexuality, violence and protection in (international) youth work", 02.05.24, online lecture series "Methods in health research", University of Education Schwäbisch Gemünd
02/2024 Lecture: "Sexarbeit queer-migrantisch gelesen", 27.02.24, Autonomes Schwulenreferat Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg
  Training (in-house): "Gender diversity in diversity- and protection-sensitive feminist organizational development", 15.02.24, LAGAYA - Verein zur Hilfe suchtmittelabhängiger Frauen e.V., Stuttgart
  Lecture and workshop: "Hybrid Streetwork: Debates on digitality, migration, sexuality and violence", 02.02.24, internal symposium of social work in the field of prostitution of the city of Stuttgart, Stuttgart
01/2024 Workshop: "Participatory development of protection concepts in international youth work: Normality constructions of young people on violence and sexuality.", 31.01.24, IJAB annual conference "Fachkräfte im Blick" in Bonn (together with Christoph Bruners, IJAB)
  Lecture: "Sexualized violence in international youth work: developing protection concepts in a participatory way", 10 January 2024, digital lecture series "Crossing Borders: Research in child and youth work", a cooperation between Kempten University of Applied Sciences, Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Koblenz University of Applied Sciences and the German Youth Institute.
12/2023 Session: "investigation and inquiry in international youth work" at international workshop "sexualized violence and protection concepts in international youth work", 01 December 2023, with Elisabeth Tuider (University of Kassel).
11/2023 Lecture: "Development and implementation of participatory protection concepts in international youth work" at international workshop "sexualized violence and protection concepts in international youth work", 30 November 2023, with Lisa Brauner, Elisabeth Tuider (University of Kassel) and Mareike Ketelaar (IJAB).
  Organization: international workshop "sexualized violence and protection concepts in international youth work", 30 November to 01 December 2023, with Christoph Bruners (IJAB, Bonn), Lisa Brauner, Elisabeth Tuider (University of Kassel), Margaux Richet (Moderation) and a working group (AG "Schutzkonzepte und international Jugendarbeit"), Cologne.
  Workshop: "Sexual-gender diversity in youth work", 17.11.2023, in the program for students of "50 years of social work at the SRH University Heidelberg".
10/2023 Organization and moderation: 9th interdisciplinary workshop "Critical Sex Work Research: Digitality, Vulnerability, Intersectionality", 06.10.2023 - 08.10.2023, International University of Applied Sciences Hamburg, together with Alisha Edwards (GSPF, University of Bochum), Olivia Schneider (GSPF, University of Oslo) and Thomas Wilke (IU International University).
09/2023 Workshop: "International youth work", 14.09.2023, symposium "Digital workshop discussion: (Further) development of rights and protection concepts - participation of young people" of the LVR-Landesjugendamt Rheinland, together with Christoph Bruners (IJAB, Bonn).
  Further training: "Sexual education and protection concepts in youth work" from 11.09. to 13.09.2023 at the Waldschlösschen Academy for full-time and voluntary staff in educational contexts, together with Elisabeth Tuider.
07/2023 Lecture: "Queer Vulnerabilities between Resistance and Participation", online lecture series "Feminisms in Social Work. Critical interventions in professional help systems", July 05, 2023, Ernst Abbe University Jena
05/2023 Lecture: "Schutzkonzepte partizipativ: Normalitätskonstruktionen von Gewalt und Sexualität junger Menschen", Autonome Ringvorlesung des FSR05 zu "Gewalt und Körper - Dimensionen sexualisierten Gewalt", 30 May 2023, University of Kassel
  Lecture: "Participatory development of protection concepts in international youth work", 11th working group meeting of the service centers for international youth work at state level on May 4, 2023 in Hanover
02/2023 Organization: SchutzJu BarCamp "Schutzkonzepte und Internationale Jugendarbeit", 09.-10.02.23, University of Kassel, together with Lisa Brauner, Elisabeth Tuider (University of Kassel) and Christoph Bruners (IJAB, Bonn).
  Lecture: "Normalitätskonstruktionen und Sichtweisen junger Menschen auf Sexualität, (Peer-)Gewalt und Schutz", Interdisziplinäre Einführung in die Geschlechterforschung der IAG FG, 08.02.23, University of Kassel.
11/2022 Organization and moderation: 8th interdisciplinary workshop "Critical Sex Work Research", together with Alisha Edwards and Sabrina Stranzl (GSPF), 04.-06.11.22, Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB).
08/2022 Further training: "Sexual education and protection concepts in youth work" at the Akademie Waldschlösschen for full-time and voluntary staff in educational contexts, together with Elisabeth Tuider, 29.08.22 - 31.08.22.
06/2022 Workshop: "Sexualized violence in schools - ideas for an own protection concept", two sessions at the symposium "Diversity and Inclusion" in Korbach, 07.06.2022.
05/2022 Info events: "Transfer- und Verbundprojekt SchutzJu - Schutzkonzepte und Internationale Jugendarbeit", together with Christoph Bruners (IJAB, Bonn), Elisabeth Tuider and Lisa Brauner (University of Kassel), 06.05. and 20.05.22. Online.
02/2022 Presentation: "SchutzNorm - zentrale Ergebnisse der partizipativen Verbundforschung mit Fokus auf die internationale Jugendarbeit" at IJAB - Fachstelle für Internationale Jugendarbeit der Bundesrepublik Deutschland e.V., together with Elisabeth Tuider, 15.02.22. Online.
11/2021 Presentation: Queer Migration Sexwork - Invisibilities and discursive boundaries
7. Interdisciplinary Workshop "Critical Sex Work Research", GSPF, 20-21.11.2021. Online.
  Lecture: Central results from the joint project "SchutzNorm"
Seminar "Jugendarbeit und Ganztagesbildung" (by Sandro Bliemetsrieder and Verena Ketter), 08.11.2021, Hochschule Esslingen. Online.
09/2021 Video presentation: Dialogical exchange on film sequences with the director Laurentia Genske from her documentary "Zuhurs Töchter"
8th Annual Conference of the Austrian Society for Gender Studies (ÖGGF), 20-22.09.2021. Online.
  Panel: Queer Migration: In_visibilities and Transformative Potentials (together with Verena Hucke, Olaf Tietje and Laurentia Genske)
8th Annual Conference of the Austrian Society for Gender Studies (ÖGGF), 20-22.09.2021. Online.
06/2021 Lecture: Who has the power? Möglichkeiten und Grenzen partizipativer Forschung (together with Alina Marlene Schmitz)
2nd trinational workshop "Partizipative Forschung in der Sozialen Arbeit". 02.-03.06.2021. Online.
  Symposium: LSBTIQ* - Gender identity and sexual orientation as a topic in (partial) residential care (together with Bastienne Pletat)
KVJS Baden-Württemberg and Aktion Jugendschutz Baden-Württemberg, 23.06.2021. Online.
  Fachtag: Prostitution und Sexarbeit im Fokus: Erscheinungsformen & Orte, ProstSchG, Queer Migration Sexwork (together with Giovanna Gilges)
Frauenrundreise der Aidshilfe Baden-Württemberg und der Deutschen Aidshilfe, 21.06.2021. Online.
05/2021 Workshop: #protection #proteción #koruma #beskerming - What is protection and how to protect (yourself)? (together with Alina Marlene Schmitz and peer researchers from the SchutzNorm project).
Digital Youth Festival "SchutzNorm - was ist normal?", 06.-08.05.2021. Online.
  Exchange forum: SchutzNorm podcast "CampCulture" (together with Alina Marlene Schmitz and peer researchers from the SchutzNorm project).
Digital youth festival "SchutzNorm - was ist normal?", 06.-08.05.2021. Online.

04/2021 Presentation: Re:Coding sexualized violence (together with Elisabeth Tuider),
Symposium #selbstbestimmt - Human Forschungsprojekt, SRH Heidelberg, 13.04.2021. Online.
  Workshop: Recognizing and classifying mediatized sexualized violence (morning and afternoon together with Laura Kuhle), Symposium #selbstbestimmt - Human Forschungsprojekt, SRH Heidelberg, 13.04.2021. Online.
10/2020 Workshop: Re:Coding - sexualized violence using digital media (together with Fabian Rosemann and Rebecca Nemec)
Hybrider Gender-Fachtag der Stadt Stuttgart
06/2020 E-Seminar: Queerness in (partial) inpatient youth welfare (together with Bastienne Pletat)
Aktion Jugendschutz Baden-Württemberg and Kommunalverband für Jugend und Soziales Baden-Württemberg
06/2020 E-Workshop: Young people's views and constructions of normality on sexuality and violence in international youth work (together with Mirjam Hasselhorn and Elisabeth Tuider)
Symposium of the Fachstelle für internationale Jugendarbeit der Bundesrepublik Deutschland e.V.
05/2020 E-Seminar: Educational and counselling work on sexuality and sexualized violence in the context of youth work
Esslingen University of Applied Sciences
05/2020 E-LAB: Social Distancing in Times of Social Media (together with Pinar Tuzcu and Elisabeth Tuider), 12.05.2020
12/2019 Project presentation: SchutzNorm
Committee LAG Jungen*arbeit Baden-Württemberg
12/2019 Presentation: queer-migrant sex work
Protestant University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt
10/2019 Interpretation workshop: Analyzing normality constructions of sexuality and violence intersectionally (together with Elisabeth Tuider)
Final conference "Professions Ethics after 2010 - Sexuality and Power in Schools and Social Work", Kassel
10/2019 Lecture: Impulses for dealing with sexualities and power in schools. Current debates on protection and participation
Freie Hochschule Stuttgart
09/2019 Lecture: Normality constructions of sexuality and violence among young people (together with Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Tuider)
Network meeting "Dealing professionally with power and sexuality in the social and educational sector"
05/2019 Workshop: Diversity of genders and sexualities
BMBF joint project SchutzNorm, Kassel
11/2018 Lecture: Life realities of young refugees/migrants* in queer-migrant sex work scene contexts
Landesgesundheitsamt Baden-Württemberg
06/2018 Workshop: Diversity in teams and social work
Internationaler Bund, Stuttgart
06/2018 Workshop: Queer youth work on rainbow education (together with Bastienne Pletat)
Diversity Kongress, Stuttgart
04/2018 Training: Sexual pedagogical conception and case workshop in inpatient child and youth welfare (together with Patrick Herzog)
Akademie Leinerstift, Ostfriesland
10/2017 Sex education method day for queer young people, Stuttgart (together with Bastienne Pletat)
10/2017 Workshop: LGBTTIQ counseling in social work (together with Bastienne Pletat)
Evangelische Hochschule
03/2017 Conference "Intersectional violence-reflective sexual education (conceptualization together with Bastienne Pletat, Patrick Herzog and Olcay Miyanyedi)
HzE area, City of Stuttgart
10/2016 Workshop: Dealing with sexual-gender diversity in counseling facilities (together with Marion Römmele)
Symposium "Diversity of genders", City of Stuttgart
01/2016 Workshop: Sexual-gender diversity in youth social work
Symposium "Anchoring diversity", Genderqualifizierungsoffensive and LAG Mädchenpolitik Baden-Württemberg
12/2015 Presentation: Sexual-gender diversity and anti-discrimination in youth welfare
Aktion Jugendschutz, Landesarbeitsstelle Baden-Württemberg
10/2015 Presentation: Sexual-gender diversity in the prevention of sexualized violence
Working group of the specialist agencies for the prevention of sexualized violence Baden-Württemberg
10/2015 Workshop: Heteronormativity and sexualized violence (together with Saskia Reichenecker)
Symposium "Starting prevention...", Protestant Church, Filderstadt
08/2015 Presentation: Let's talk about barebacking!
Host seminar of the working group of German-speaking (queer-migrant) sex work organizations, Stuttgart
05/2015 Presentation: Prostitution, sex work and LGBTTIQ
Netzwerk LSBTTIQ Baden-Württemberg
since 05/2015 Lecture: Young men and trans* in prostitution and sex work scenes (together with Prof. Dr. Thomas Hörnig, every winter and summer semester)
Evangelische Hochschule Ludwigsburg