Prof. Dr. Heike Herrmann

• Urban and spatial sociology
• Methods of empirical social research
• Methods of social space research
• Social management
• Social space-oriented child and youth welfare
• School social work
• Theories of social inequality
• Sociological and socio-political basics

Teaching in the study programmes:

• Master's study programme in social work (MA) - Social space development and organisation (maps)
• Bachelor's degree programme (B.A.) Social Work (BASA-P)
• Part-time Bachelor's study programme (B.A.) Social Work (BASA-O)
• Bachelor's degree programme (B.A.) Inclusive early childhood education (BiB) - Part-time blended learning study programme

• Sociological Urban and Spatial Research
• Social inequality / socio-spatial polarisation
• Distribution of educational opportunities
• Quality development/ evaluation research
• Conflict and integration

• Appropriation and negotiation processes in public space - an explorative study on changed perceptions and designs of space due to the stay of refugees.
• Cooperation between for-profit and social enterprises for the benefit of social participation?
• Gentrification in Frankfurt's Ostend? A preparatory study in Frankfurt/M.
• Educational spaces - an explorative study on the distribution of educational opportunities and educational success in the city (using the examples of Kassel and Hamburg)
• Evaluation of the model project "Parent Coaching
• "Insecurities in European Cities" (international research project; supported by the European Union in the 5th Framework Programme)

• Spokesperson of the Urban and Regional Sociology Section within the German Sociological Association(DGS)
• Founder and head of the thematic focus Integrating Urban Development (ISE) at the Research Institute for Social Development (FGW)
• Founder and member of the research centre "Centre of Research for Society and Sustainability CeSSt" at the HS Fulda
• Initiator and member of the Network for Urban Research in Hesse (NeStH)
• Member of "Albatros e.V.", a non-profit organisation for child, youth and family welfare as well as social space-oriented social work

Herrmann, Heike (2019): Social work in social space. Urban sociological accesses. Basic knowledge of social work series. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag.

Integration of immigrants - challenges for urban development Specialisation: consequences for public spaces. Expert discussion of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB) and the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) on 14 May 2018 in Berlin.

Herrmann, Heike & Üblacker, Jan (2018): Social cohesion in the city: What can integrating urban development achieve? Documentation of the workshop of the Hesse Conference on Urban Research on 20 April 2018 in Darmstadt.

Herrmann, Heike & Üblacker, Jan (2017): Fifth Dialogue Forum Integrating Urban Development: An Exchange with Municipalities Documentation of the FGW Topic Area Integrating Urban Development. Düsseldorf.

Herrmann, Heike (2017): Aneignungs- und Aushandlungsprozesse im öffentlichen Raum - Ergebnisse aus der Vorbereitung eines Projekts zu sich verändernden Raumwahrnehmungen im Zuge der Zuwanderung von Flüchtlingen. In: Lessenich, Stephan (ed.): Geschlossene Gesellschaften. Proceedings of the 38th Congress of the German Sociological Association in Bamberg 2016. ISSN 2367-4504.

Sessar, Klaus & Herrmann, Heike & Keller, Wolfgang & Weinrich, Martin & Breckner, Ingrid (2004): Crime-Related Fear Within the Context of New Anxieties and Community-Based Crime Prevention: Final Report. InSec, HPSE-CT-2001-00052.

Publications

Andrea Hilger
Academic assistant
M. A. Social space development and organisation
B. A. Social work

Dr. Jan Üblacker
Academic employee