Prof. Dr. habil. Monika Alisch
+49 661 9640-232
Social planning, social space and community work
Fulda University of Applied Sciences
Building
21,
Room
107
Leipziger Straße 123
36037 Fulda
Consultation hours: Dates by arrangement
CV
- Since 2004 Professor for social space-related social work / community work and social planning at the Department of Social Work at Fulda University of Applied Sciences.
- 2007 to 2019 Vice Dean at the Department of Social Work.
- Head of the part-time Master's programme in social work with a specialisation in social space development and organisation (in cooperation with the HS RheinMain, Department of Social Work);
- Spokesperson of the academic centre "Society and Sustainability" - Centre of Research for Society and Sustainability (CeSST) at Fulda University of Applied Sciences;
- Since 2017, member of the management of the inter-university doctoral research centre Social Work, Hesse;
- Chair of the doctoral committee;
- Doctoral Officer of the Social Work Department, HS Fulda of the Faculty Council for Social Work (FBTS);
- 2012 to 2016 Member of the Committee for the Seventh Report on the Elderly of the Federal Government.
- 2001 Habilitation at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Faculty of Philosophy III, Institute for Social Sciences on the topic: Social Urban Development. On the socio-scientific context of a policy field in the making.
- Lecturer at the TU Hamburg-Harburg, Department of Urban Planning; the University of Applied Sciences, Department of Architecture as well as the Catholic University of Applied Sciences for Social Work Berlin 1. academic work 2. academic paper
- Board member of the TRION Institute for Education, Research and Development e.V. in Hamburg (projects include: "From Welfare to Work", for the London School of Economics (LSE); case study Germany; development of the European part-time model course "CUPITS" (Curriculum for Professionals in the Third System).
- Academic advisor to the Senator for Urban Development Hamburg, conception of the Senate Programme for Poverty Reduction. Organisation of the evaluation accompanying the process. Conception and realisation of a training series, cooperative development of EU development projects.
- Adviser to the interdisciplinary project group of the Urban Development Authority of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg for the development of a long-term urban development concept.
- Lecturer at the University of Hamburg, Institute for Sociology. Doctoral degree in philosophy at the University of Hamburg, Department of Philosophy, Political Science and Sociology on the topic: "Women and Gentrification - On the connection between women's employment, the pluralisation of household structures and the upgrading of inner-city residential areas (magna cum laude).
- Academic assistant at the Comparative Urban Research Unit of the University of Hamburg, Institute of Sociology, among others in the DFG project "Gentrification in Hamburg" (Prof. Dr. Jens S. Dangschat).
- University studies in sociology (specialisation in urban and regional sociology), environmental psychology and anthropological geography at the University of Hamburg.
Teaching Areas
- Social space-related social work and social planning
- Methods of qualitative and applied research
- Governance and steering processes
- Theoretical basics of social space development processes
- Ageing and society
Areas of Research
- Social space research
- Ageing and social inequalities
- Participation
- Migration
Research Projects
Current research projects:
- DIWAN - Dialogue Processes and Travelling Exhibition for a Successful Coexistence in Immigration Societies
- ProZiS: On the transformation of professional and civil society social work through immigration - Successful diversity in a social space context
Completed research projects:
- Academic monitoring of the project implementation "Active together - Children and Seniors TREFF" of the municipality Nüsttal/Rhön
- Social work in Europe as active refugee work-Development and implementation of intergenerational and intercultural forms of dialogue in the community, R+D HS Fulda, 2016-2017
- BUSLAR - Bürgerhilfevereine und Sozialgenossenschaften als Partner der Daseinsvorsorge - Modellentwicklung zur ergänzenden Hilfeleistung für ältere Menschen im ländlichen Raum (BUSLAR - Citizens' Aid Associations and Social Cooperatives as Partners in the Provision of Public Services - Model Development for Supplementary Assistance for Older People in Rural Areas)
- Further development of early help in Hesse. Long-term monitoring and integration of the social environment
- GENTWo - Homelessness in the context of urban transformation processes using the example of Berlin Neu Kölln, research and development funding of the HS Fulda, 2013-2014
- Formative project evaluation and academic support of "Aktion Diakonische Gemeinde: Armut bekämpfen und gesellschaftliche Teilhabe unterstützen" (Diaconal Community Action: Fighting Poverty and Supporting Social Participation)
- Academic monitoring of the practice of community care for the elderly (KSB) in the district of Hersfeld-Rotenburg.
- Amiqus: Older Migrants in the Neighbourhood - Supporting and Initiating Networks of Self-Organisation and Self-Help (BMBF, SILQUA FH)
- C H A N C E - Community Health Management to Enhance Behaviour
- Integration in Small Towns - Interest Orientations of Immigrants, 2009-2011
- Perspective 50 plus: Opportunities for older unemployed people with multiple barriers in rural areas
- Living in old age on the Heuberg / Eschwege: Participatory applied research on the needs and interest orientations of older people in the urban district of Heuberg
Memberships
- 7th Commission on the Report on the Elderly of the Federal Government
- EASWR (European Association of Social Work Research)
- The Collaborative Action Research Network (CARN)
- ROSEnet Reducing Old-Age Social Exclusion: Collaborations in Research & Policy (COST ACTION CA 15122)
- ESRS European Society for Rural Sociology
- Informal Network Small Town Research
- PartNet, Network of Participatory Health Research
- DGS Sections Urban and Regional Sociology, Ageing and Society
- DGGG German Society for Gerontology and Geriatrics, Section IV Social Gerontology and Work with the Elderly
- German Society for Social Work (DGSA)