Forschung
Research
Ongoing Projects
How "social" is Turkey?Turkey's social security system in a European context
(Stiftung Mercator, 1.1.2017-31.12.2019)
Website: https://uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/soziologie/forschung/projekte/massit/
Towards Understanding Southern Welfare. Ideational and historical foundations of social policies in Brazil, India, China and South Africa
(International Research Group at Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Universität Bielefeld, 2016-2019) (funded by the ZiF; with Prof. Dr. Ulrike Davy, Universität Bielefeld, and Prof. Dr. Benjamin Davy, Technische Universität Dortmund)
Past Projects
Research Group 'Social cash transfers. The global construction and diffusion of the right to a monetary minimum' (FLOOR-B)
(German Research Foundation [DFG], 2010-2017)
For more details see: PDF
Website: http://www.floorcash.org
The road to global social citizenship? Human rights approaches to global social policy
Cooperation group at the Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF)/Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld (2011-2013) (with U. and B. Davy)
see also: Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF)
Publication: 'Exploring global social citizenship: Human rights perspectives', International Journal of Social Welfare, Supplement, October 2013
Editor of the translation of "Geschichte der Sozialpolitik in Deutschland seit 1945", Band 1, "Grundlagen der Sozialpolitik" (hg. vom Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Sozialordnung und Bundesarchiv, Nomos: Baden-Baden, 2001), into English (title: 'German Social Policy', 5 vol.s, Springer publishers)
funded by the Volkswagenstiftung and by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (2008-2013)
For German Social Policy Flyer see: PDF
Vom produzierenden zum regulierenden Wohlfahrtsstaat. Eine international vergleichende und interdisziplinäre Studie des Wandels der Alterssicherung in Europa (REGINA) / Towards a Regulatory Welfare State? State Regulation of Private and Occupational Pensions in Europe (REGINA)
(2003-2007, German Research Foundation [DFG], with U. Davy)
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Nachhaltige soziale Sicherung - Soziale Grundsicherungs- und Sozialhilfesysteme in entwickelten, Übergangs- und Entwicklungsländern / Sustainable social security systems. Social cash transfers in developed, developing and transitional countries
(research project and consultancy; Deutsche Gesellschaft für technische Zusammenarbeit [German Technical Cooperation], GTZ, 2004/2005)
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Globalization of the Welfare State? - The Emergence of Transnational Social Policy and 'New Welfare States'
(10/2003-2/2004, Leader of a research group with Dr. Miriam Abu Sharkh, Stanford, and Prof. Dr. Xiong Yuegen, University of Beijing; Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst)
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Social Security Reform in Rural China - Old-Age Pensions and Health
(2001/2002, Asian Development Bank) (team leader and principal investigator)
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Strategien des Umbaus im lokalen Sozialstaat, Chancen und Risiken der kommunalen Sozialhilfereformen (Hilfe zum Lebensunterhalt) unter besonderer Berücksichtigung neuer Informationssysteme / The new politics of the local welfare state in Germany - New Public Management and the use of knowledge
(1998-2001; Trade Union Foundation [Hans-Böckler-Stiftung])
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Reforming Social Assistance in Britain
(1998-99, Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of Industrial Society)
Schuldnerkarrieren / Debt careers
(1997-1999, University of Bremen, Co-leadership Dr. Monika Ludwig, Dipl.Soz.-Päd. Uwe Schwarze, with own resources)
Sozialhilfekarrieren / Social assistance careers
(1989-2001; research officer and principal investigator with S. Leibfried et al., Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 186 'Statuspassagen und Risikolagen im Lebensverlauf of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [DFG], University of Bremen)
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