Prof. Dr. Martina Ritter

+49 661 9640-1030

vpft(at)hs-fulda.de

Vice-President for Research and Transfer

Fulda University of Applied Sciences
Building 32, Room 201
Leipziger Straße 123
36037 Fulda

Consultation hours: by arrangement

CV

University studies in sociology and philosophy
Doctoral degree in the department of social sciences at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main in the field of sociology of technology
Academic assistant at the Institute for Social Research, Frankfurt am Main
academic assistant at the department of social and cultural sciences at Justus Liebig University Giessen
academic assistant (Justus Lieblig University Giessen)
Representative of the professorship for Microsociology (Justus-Lieblig-University Giessen)
habilitation at the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at Justus Lieblig University Giessen
Venia Legendi in Sociology
Professorship for Cultural Sociology, Political Sociology, Youth and Gender Sociology
2007 - 2022 Dean HS Fulda Department of Social Work
Member of the Centre of Research for Society and Sustainability (CeSST)

Teaching Areas

Gender, age and migration in social work
Social work related to social spaces
Methods of qualitative empirical social research and participatory social research
Democracy and social work, theories, concepts, methods
Honorary offices in social work

Areas of Research

Social work and democracy
Methods of qualitative empirical social research, participatory research
Age, migration, gender in social work and social space research
Volunteer research
Critical social work

Research Projects

2018-2022 DIWAN - Dialogue processes and touring exhibition for successful coexistence in the immigration society. Implementation project of RIGL - Fulda Regional Innovation Centre for Health and Quality of Life (supported by the federal-state program "Innovative University")

2014-2017 BUSLAR - Bürgerhilfevereine und Sozialgenossenschaften als Partner der öffentlichen Daseinsvorsorge und Pflegedienstleister - Modellentwicklung zur ergänzenden Hilfeleistung für ältere Menschen im ländlichen Raum, project manager together with Prof. Dr Monika Alisch (supported by BMBF/Silqua-FH)

2013 Regional participation indicators for people with disabilities/regional competences for skilled workers, European Social Fund, transition from university to the labour market and lifelong learning 2013, together with P. Gromann (duration until 2016)

2010 Practical research project: Gender-specific appropriation processes in social space - subjective strategies of women with a migration background for the appropriation of space (Fulda University of Applied Sciences)
Perspektive 50+, practical research in cooperation with the district of Fulda, together with Prof. Dr Monika Alisch

Since 2008 Development of a concept for social space-orientated youth social work in St. Petersburg, Russia in collaboration with the Centre for Independent Social Research, St. Petersburg

2004 Compilation of a synopsis of training programmes in palliative care and palliative medicine for the Robert Bosch Foundation, research report

1995-1996 Study on the gender constructions and self-image of the political democratic opposition as a political elite, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation

1994-1995 Qualitative study on the construction of gender relations in post-Soviet Russia during the transition, funded by the Hessian Ministry of Research and the Arts

1989-1993 Investigation of adolescent girls' interest in computers using qualitative social research methods, doctoral scholarship from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation

1987-1989 Active participation in a project on adolescent boys and their computer use, carried out at the Institute for Social Research at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt a. M.