Prof. Dr. Markus Eckl

• Social planning
• Social management
• Empirical social research
• Theories (in) social work

• Digitalisation and Social Work
• Social work science
• Social planning
• Economisation of Social Work
• Quantitative Text Analysis
• Social network analysis

• Digitale Analyse von Aktionsräumen von Adressat*innen und Professionellen der Sozialen Arbeit (hochschulinterne Forschungs- und Entwicklungsförderung HS Fulda) (2023-2024
• Generative Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) in der Lehre Sozialer Arbeit: Der Einsatz eines Chatbots zur niederschwelligen Erschließung historischer Quellen (QSL-Projektmittel) (2024)
• Felder und Akteur*innen kultureller Bildung in ländlichen Räumen (FAkuBi) (BMBF) (2023-2024)

• German Society for Social Work (DGSA)
• German Society for Systemic Social Work (DGSSA)
• Association for Social Planning (VSOP)
• Institute for Theories and Empiricism of the Social - Workshop for Social Pedagogical Thinking (ITES)

Reviewer activities

• Federal Ministry of Education and Research, funding area: Small Subjects - Great Potentials, funding measure: Humanities and Social Sciences
• Journal Social Work & Society
• Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research
• Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

Monographs

• Eckl, M. (2022). The disciplinary communication of social work: an empirical analysis of scientific communication based on its publications. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-38282-7

Peer-reviewed journal articles

• Donig, S., Eckl, M., Gassner, S., & Rehbein, M. (2023). Web archive analytics: Blind spots and silences in distant readings of the archived web. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqad014
• Ertel, F., Donig, S., Eckl, M., Gassner, S., Göler, D., & Rehbein, M. (2023). Using web archives for an explorative study of the web presence of German parties during the European election 2019. Quality & Quantity. doi. org/10.1007/s11135-023-01654-3
• Ghanem, C., Kirchheim, K., & Eckl, M. (2022). Social Work Research Map - a low-threshold access to international social work publications. Social Passages. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12592-022-00430-8
• Ghanem, C., Eckl, M., & Lehmann, R. (2022). Big Data and research ethics in social work. EthicsJournal, 10(1).
• Eckl, M., Ghanem, C., & Spensberger, F. (2021). Mapping Discourses in Social Work Research-A Topic Modeling Approach. International Journal of Global Social Work. 4, 1.https://doi.org/10.15344/ijgsw/2021/118
• Wieczorek, O., Eckl, M., Bausch, M., Radisch, E., Barmeyer, C., & Rehbein, M. (2021). Better, Faster, Stronger: The Evolution of Co-authorship in International Management Research Between 1990 and 2016. SAGE Open, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440211061561
• Eckl, M., Prigge, J., Schildknecht, L., & Ghanem, C. (2020). Ten years of Social Passages: An empirical analysis of its themes. Social Passages, 12, 57--80.
• Ghanem, C., Kollar, I., Pankofer, S., Eckl, M., & Fischer, F. (2019). Does Probation Officers' Reasoning Change in the Light of Scientific Evidence? Analyzing the Quality of Evidence Utilisation in Social Work. Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work, 16(4), 423-441. https://doi.org/10.1080/26408066.2019.1618774
• Eckl, M., Ghanem, C., & Spensberger, F. (2019). The evolution of social work from separate groups to a scientific community: A social network analysis. New Practice. Journal of social work, social pedagogy and social policy, 5(19), 467-484.
• Eckl, M., Ghanem, C., & Löwenstein, H. (2018). The Evolution of Social Work from Disconnected Groups to a Scientific Community. A Social Network Analysis. The British Journal of Social Work, 49(2), 428-447. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcy050
• Eckl, M. (2017a). The co-authorship network in social work. A network analysis. Journal of Social Pedagogy, 2, 170-186.
• Eckl, M. (2017b). From research teams to scientific community. A social network analysis of scientific co-authorships in the discipline of social work between 1980 and 2014. Social Passages, 8(2), 325-344. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12592-016-0237-y.
• Eckl, M. (2016). Social work and economics. An alternative perspective in the current debate. Social Work, 4, 122-129.
• Eckl, M. (2015). Economisation of social work. A systems theoretical and empirical analysis of social work. Journal of the DGSSA, 5(8).

Collected volumes

• Ghanem, C., Eckl, M., Lehmann, R., & Widerhold, J.-P. (2021). Somehow I feel left alone as a family member. An automated analysis of an online forum for relatives of prisoners. In M. Wunder (Ed.), Digitalisation and Social Work. Transformations and challenges (pp. 240-254). Klinkhardt.
• Eckl, M., & Ghanem, C. (2020). Big Data, quantitative text analysis and research in social work. In N. Kutscher, T. Ley, U. Seelmeyer, F. Siller, A. Tillmann, & I. Zorn (Eds.), Handbook of social work and digitalization (pp. 625-638). Beltz Juventa.

Papers

• Eckl, M. (2023, April 14). Geoinformation Systems (GIS) in Social Work. Potentials and Challenges for Social Work Research. 12th European Conference for Social Work Research, Milan.
• Eckl, M. (2022). Quantitative text analysis in online counselling. Potentials and challenges of observation from a new perspective. 15th Expert Forum Online Counselling, Online.
• Eckl, M. (2022a). "You don't read a million books ..."Quantitative text analysis and its usefulness for social work. Online Future Workshop "Think and Do: Machine Text Understanding. Deutscher Caritasverband e.V., Online.
• Eckl, M. (2022b). Disciplinary communication in social work. An analysis of scientific communication based on its publications. Annual Conference of the DGSA, Online.
• Eckl, M., & Ghanem, C. (2022). Quantitative text analysis in social work research-potentials and research ethical challenges. Annual Conference of the DGSA, Online.
• Ghanem, C., Eckl, M., & Kirchheim, K. (2022). "Social Work Research Map (SWORM"-Fostering access to international knowledge in social work science. Annual Conference of the DGSA, Online.
• Eckl, M. (2021). Use of geographic information systems at the district of Upper Palatinate. AG Sozialplanung des Bayerischen Bezirketags, Online.
• Eckl, M., Ghanem, C., Lehmann, R., & Albrecht, J. (2021). Social work in the ivory tower? Quantitative text analysis of online forum contributions and professional articles in the field of criminal justice. Digitalisierung und Soziale Arbeit - Transformationen, Beharrungen und Herausforderungen, Hagen (online).
• Donig, S., Eckl, M., & Rehbein, M. (2021a). Deutungskämpfe im Netz-Webarchive als Quelle für eine Zeitgeschichte politischer Diskurse: Erschließungsstrategien, epistemologische Herausforderungen. Deutungskämpfe - 53rd German Historians' Conference, Online.
• Donig, S., Eckl, M., & Rehbein, M. (2021b). The Web Archive in the Age of Abundance?- A source critique. Digital Archive and Canon. 10.13140/RG.2.2.25757.03043
• Donig, S., Eckl, M., Rehbein, M., Gassner, S., & Reiter, F. (2021). Blind Spots & Silent Pages-Distant Readings of the Archived Web. 4th RESAW Conference, Online. 10.13140/RG.2.2.31269.42720.
• Schoger, A., Beinert, T., Schmidt, K., Dinig, S., & Eckl, M. (2021). WWW - Web archiving-Why? Why? Why? Workshop: nestor virtuell, Online. 10.13140/RG.2.2.13878.42562
• Eckl, M. (2020). The discipline of social work. An analysis of scientific communication based on its publications. Online conference of the Commission for Science Research 2020/21, Online.
• Eckl, M. (2019a). Doing Social Change-If so, what how much and when? The diffusion of topics in research on fields of action of social change. Symposium of the BayWISS-Verbundkolleg Sozialer Wandel: Doing Social Change-Research on Fields of Action of Social Change, Munich.
• Eckl, M. (2019b). Web Archive Methods of Digital Humanities in Application for the Construction and Use of Web Archives. Arbeitskreis Dokumentation und Archivierung von Webpräsenzen des AWV e.V.. Hans Seidel Foundation, Munich.
• Eckl, M., Ghanem, C., & Löwenstein, H. (2019). Transformations of the academic working world. Increasing inequality in social work academia (Panel). Annual Conference of the German Society for Social Work (DGSA), Stuttgart.
• Eckl, M. (2018a). The discipline of social work and its thematic development between 1980 and 2016: A co-citation analysis. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaften; Kommission Sozialpädagogik, Empirie AG, Bielefeld.
• Eckl, M. (2018b). The development of social work from unconnected groups to a scientific community. Workshop of the Working Group Networks and Social Work of the German Society for Network Research (DGNet), Darmstadt.
• Eckl, M. (2018c). Topic diffusion in the discipline of social work. Results of a dynamic co-citation network. Workshop of the Working Group Networks and Social Work of the German Society for Network Research (DGNet), Darmstadt.
• Eckl, M., & Granitzer, M. (2018). Digital humanities and the internet. Digital Campus Bayern (DCB), Führt.
• Eckl, M., & Rehbein, M. (2018). Digital Humanities methods in application to the construction and use of web archives. Conference on the preservation of digital cultural heritage. German National Library, Frankfurt am Main.
• Eckl, M. (2017). The 'Millennium Effect'-Social Work and its Evolution from Disconnected Schools to a Scientific Community. EASSW-UNAFORIS Conference, Paris.
• Eckl, M. (2016a). For to all those who have, more will be given! The Mathew effect in the coauthored network of the discipline of social work. Colloquium: Habitus-Field Theory, its Methodology and Application for the Explanation of Inequalities, Bamberg.
• Eckl, M. (2016b). From research teams to scientific community: a social network analysis of scientific co-authorships in the discipline of social work between 1980 and 2014. The state of network research. Schader Foundation, Darmstadt.
• Eckl, M. (2015). The co-authorship network in social work. A sociology of science, computer-based analysis of social networks. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaften; Kommission Sozialpädagogik Empirie AG, Bielefeld.