Prof. Dr. Diana Auth

• Social policy
• Social inequality
• Labour
• Gender Studies
• Political science basics
• Social Gerontology

• Comparative welfare state research
• Gender research
• Labour research
• Policy research: working time, labour market, social and family policy
• Demographic change and gender relations
• Care research and social gerontology

• German Political Science Association (DVPW) e.V.
• AK Politics and Gender in the DVPW
• AK Welfare State Research in the DVPW (currently: co-spokesperson)
• Section for Social Policy in the German Sociological Association (DGS)
• The European Network for Social Policy Analysis (ESPAnet)
• Section Social Gerontology and Work with the Elderly in the German Society for Gerontology and Geriatrics (DGGG)

Monographs

Caring relatives: an intersectional analysis. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot 2020 (together with Daniela Brüker, Kerstin Discher, Petra Kaiser, Simone Leiber and Sigrid Leitner).

Care work in times of economisation. Changing care regimes in Great Britain, Sweden and Germany. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot 2017.
Link:http://www.3sat.de/mediathek/?mode=play&obj=76059

Change at a snail's pace. Working time policy and gender equality in the German welfare state, Opladen: Leske + Budrich 2002

Editions

Social policy in the Merkel era. Focus issue of the journal Sozialer Fortschritt, Vol. 72, H. 7+8/2023 (ed. together with Florian Blank, Michaela Schulze and Jana Windwehr)

New paradigms in social policy (research)? Focus issue of the journal Sozialer Fortschritt, Vol. 67, H. 8+9/2018 (ed. together with Florian Blank and Michaela Schulze)

Care in the (social investment) welfare state. Focus issue of Femina Politica, issue 2/2017 (ed. together with Clarissa Rudolph)

Gender and Family in European Economic Policy: Developments in the New Millennium, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2017 (ed. together with Jutta Hergenhan and Barbara Holland-Cunz)

Selective Emancipation. Analyses of equal opportunities and family policy, Opladen & Farmington Hills: Verlag Barbara Budrich 2010 (ed. together with Eva Buchholz and Stefanie Janczyk)

Limits of population policy. Strategies and Discourses of Demographic Control, Opladen & Farmington Hills: Verlag Barbara Budrich 2007 (ed. together with Barbara Holland-Cunz)

Articles in journals and anthologies (since 2018)

Setbacks and glimmers of hope: the distribution of care work between mothers and fathers in crisis mode. In: Breitbach, Verena (ed.), The changing world. Society - Health - Nursing, Wiesbaden: SpringerVS 2024, ed.

Contestations in Coping with Elderly Care: An Intersectional Analysis Addressing Family Caregivers in Germany. In: European Journal of Politics and Gender. Vol. 6, H. 2/2023, pp. 222-239 (together with Simone Leiber and Sigrid Leitner)

Care policy in the Merkel era: Family and care policy between continuity and change. In: Sozialer Fortschritt (special issue on social policy in the Merkel era), vol. 72, no. 5/2023, pp. 615-633 (together with Jana Windwehr)

Transformations of the Care Sector: An Analysis of Childcare and Elderly Care as Parts of Fundamental Economic Infrastructure. In: Atzmüller, Roland/Décieux, Fabienne/Ferschli, Benjamin (eds.), Ambivalences in the Transformation of Social Policy and the Welfare State. Soziale Arbeit, Care, Rechtspopulismus und Migration, Weinheim, Basel: Beltz Juventa 2023, pp. 90-108.

Care & Corona: Elderly care work in times of the virus. In: Brandenburg, Herrmann/Breitbach, Verena (eds.), Corona und die Pflege, Wiesbaden: SpringerVS 2022, pp. 127-146.

Gender Equality in the Field of Care: Policy Goals and Outcomes During the Merkel Era. In: German Politics, Vol. 31, H.1/2022, pp. 177-196 (together with Almut Peukert).

Collective representation of the interests of geriatric nurses from a gender perspective. In: Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol. 67, H. 1/2021, pp. 61-76.

Policy field "Nursing". In: Seibring, Anne (ed.), Nursing. Ed. by the Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 2020, pp. 65-79.

Needs and coping behaviour of family carers: What role does gender play in interaction with other categories of difference? In: Sozialer Fortschritt, vol. 69, p. 3/2020, pp. 163-182 (together with Simone Leiber and Sigrid Leitner).

Precarisation of nursing (work) = poverty of carers? In: Dackweiler, Regina-Maria/ Rau, Alexandra/Schäfer, Reinhild (eds.), Women & Poverty. Feminist Perspectives, Opladen, Berlin, Toronto: Verlag Barbara Budrich 2020.

The change in working conditions in nursing in the context of economisation processes. In: Rudolph, Clarissa/Schmidt, Katja (eds.), Interessenpolitik und Care - Voraussetzungen, Hürden und Perspektiven kollektiven Handelns, Münster 2019, pp. 54-71.

The policy field of "nursing". In: From politics and contemporary history. Supplement to the weekly newspaper "Das Parlament", 69 (33-34) 2019, pp. 4-11.
Link: https://www.bpb.de/apuz/294916/politikfeld-pflege

Nursing in times of economisation. In: Blätter für Wohlfahrtspflege, 166 (3) 2019, pp. 91-94.
Link: https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/0340-8574-2019-3-91.pdf?download_full_pdf=1

Caring relatives as addressees of a preventive care policy. An intersectional analysis, FGW publication Vorbeugende Sozialpolitik, Düsseldorf
In: http://www.fgw-nrw.de/fileadmin/images/pdf/FGW-Studie-VSP-15-PflegeIntersek-Leitner_et_al.-2018_11_08-komplett-web.pdf
(together with Kerstin Discher, Petra Kaiser, Simone Leiber, Sigrid Leitner, Anika Varnholt)

Editorial: New paradigms in social policy (research)? In: Sozialer Fortschritt, Vol. 67, H. 8+9/2018, pp. 621-625 (together with Florian Blank and Michaela Schulze).

Age(ing): Doing Ageing and Doing Gender. In: Kortendiek, Beate/Riegraf, Birgit/Sabisch, Katja (eds.), Handbook of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, Wiesbaden: SpringerVS 2018 (together with Sigrid Leitner).

(since 2018)

Nursing is a service of general interest - lessons from the pandemic. Presentation as part of the event series "Nursing is systemically relevant - consequences of the pandemic" of the Protestant Centre for Work, Education and Workplace Pastoral Care/Evangelical Church District Duisburg, 22.06.2022.

The interrelation of class, ethnicity, gender, and employment in coping with care. An intersectional analysis addressing family caregivers in Germany. Presentation in the panel "Reconceptualising care in uncertain times: Policies, institutions and strategies" at the digital congress "Wir haben die Wahl! Politics in times of uncertainty and autocratisation", organised by the DVPW from 14-16.09.2021 (together with Sigrid Leitner and Simone Leiber).

Caring relatives: an intersectional analysis. Results from the project "PflegeIntersek". Lecture in the panel "Care-Praxis zwischen Öffentlichkeit und Privatheit" at the conference "Caring Societies" in Vechta on 16 September 2021 (together with Sigrid Leitner and Simone Leiber).

Intersectional perspective on caring relatives. Presentation at the symposium: Compatibility of family, nursing and profession, organised by Zukunftsforum Familie/AWO, on 06.05.2021.

Private and professional nursing at the limit - reform proposals for nursing care insurance and the recognition of care work. Presentation at the expert forum "Funding or structural reform? - Current debates on justice in long-term care" at the digital congress "Poverty and Health" from 16-18 March 2021.

Caring relatives: An intersectional analysis. Presentation at the digital annual conference of the Network for Women's and Gender Studies on the topic "Intersectionality between politics and paradigm - State of the Art of a 30-year transdisciplinary debate" on 6 November 2020 (together with Simone Leiber and Sigrid Leitner.

Care, Corona and Co.: Elderly care in times of the virus. Keynote presentation at the geriatric-gerontological online conference, organised by the German Society for Gerontology and Geriatrics (DGGG) & the German Society for Geriatrics (DGG) on 03-04 September 2020.

Care work from a gender equality policy perspective. A stocktaking. Presentation at the event "Kinder, Pflege, Haushalt - Frau* wird's schon richten?!", organised by DGB Hessen-Thüringen on 27.02.2020 in Frankfurt/M.

Caring relatives as addressees of a preventive care policy. An intersectional analysis. Presentation at the symposium "Pflegede Angehörige als Zielgruppe für Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung" at the joint symposium of Section III: Social and Behavioural Gerontology and Section IV: Social Gerontology and Work with the Elderly of the German Society for Gerontology and Geriatrics (DGGG) on 19-20 September 2019 in Berlin.

Gender Equality in the Field of Care. Presentation in the panel "Gender Equality Policy in Germany During the Merkel Era" at the 6th European Conference on Politics and Gender (ECPG), in Amsterdam from 4-6 July 2019 (with Almut Peukert).

Reconciliation as a political project: Impulses from research. Keynote speech at the oral interview "On the agenda: Reconciling nursing and professional life" organised by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Berlin on 23 January 2019.

Sons caring for relatives: Between care responsibilities and self-orientation. Presentation as part of the lecture series "MAN(N) PFLEGT - Hat Pflege ein Geschlecht?" in winter semester 2018/2019 at Kempten University of Applied Sciences in Kempten on 13 November 2018

Feminist perspectives on care work. Presentation in the session "Alter(n) und Pflege aus feministischer Sicht" at the conference "Was ist das Kritische an der 'Kritischen Gerontologie'?" in Dortmund from 23-24 February 2018