Prof. Dr. Wiebke FalkPro Dean, Department of Social Work
Social work in the field of rehabilitation and health
Fulda University of Applied Sciences
Building
24,
Room
009
Leipziger Straße 123
36037 Fulda
Consultation hours: Tue, 12:30-13:30 (please register by e-mail) and by appointment
CV
Since 2021
Professor at Fulda University of Applied Sciences: Professorship for Social Work in the Field of Rehabilitation and Health, Focus on People with Mental Illness
2018-2021
Professor for Applied Social Work Science, focus on participation research, University of Applied Sciences Ravensburg-Weingarten
2010-2018
Research assistant at the Ev. University of Applied Sciences, teaching in the Inclusive Education and Social Work degree programmes
2015
Doctorate at the University of Siegen, Dr. phil., Educational Sciences, dissertation entitled: "Deinstitutionalising through organisational change. Self-determination and participation of disabled people as a challenge for change processes in organisations".
Since 2015
Teaching positions at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Ravensburg-Weingarten University of Applied Sciences, Fulda University of Applied Sciences
2010-2012
Accompanying research in the decentralisation and regionalisation process of residential offers for people with disabilities
2007-2012
Further training as a systemic counsellor (Systemic Society, Berlin)
2007-2010
Educational assistant in the integration and vocational rehabilitation service at the Bildungswerk der Hess. Wirtschaft e.V.
Studies: Inclusive Education/Integrative Curative Education, Evangelische Hochschule Darmstadt (BA and MA), graduated 2007 and 2008
Teaching Areas
- Inclusion, participation and self-determination of people with disabilities
- Organisations and institutions, organisational change in disability services
- Qualitative social research
- Social space orientation
Areas of Research
- Self-determination and participation of disabled people (housing, work, leisure)
- Social space orientation and disability
- Organisational change, deinstitutionalisation
Research Projects
2023-2024
HVST - Selbstbestimmung und Teilhabe von Menschen mit kognitiver Beeinträchtigung und herausforderndem Verhalten. Qualitativ-explorative Studie zur wohnbezogenen Unterstützung von Menschen mit kognitiver Beeinträchtigung und herausforderndem Verhalten in Hessen: Personenkreis, Betreuungssettings, Konzepte, Methoden.
2023-2024
sAwA - Studentische Aneignung wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens. Zusammen mit Prof. Dr. Sabine Flick (PH Freiburg). Mit diesem Projektvorhaben soll erforscht werden, wie sich Studierende des Studiengangs BASA P im Verlauf ihres Studiums wissenschaftliches Arbeiten aneignen. Das Ziel des Projektes ist, Erkenntnisse über Gelingensbedingungen sowie Hürden der Aneignung wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens zu gewinnen. Gefördert im Rahmen der Förderung des Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) an der Hochschule Fulda 2022/23.
Publications
Falk, Wiebke (in publication): Deinstitutionalising through organisational change - "... it is of course somehow out of the ghetto, into society or something ...". In: Domenig, D./Schäfer, U. (eds.): "Are Institutions Outdated?" in the series: "Participation and Diversity". Seismo Publishers.
Falk, Wiebke (2022): Challenging behaviour: Chance for Deinstitutionalisation?! In: Lena Bertelmann, Matthias Kempf, Martin F. Reichstein, Albrecht Rohrmann and Lars Wissenbach (eds.): Planning and Development of Social Services for People with Disabilities. Siegen: University of Siegen Centre for Planning and Evaluation of Social Services; universi - Universitätsverlag Siegen (ZPE-Schriftenreihe, 57), pp. 31-48.
2019
Rejoinder to Sven Bärmig's contribution (i. d. Band) or "The search for the object of debate". In: Behindertenpädagogik (BHP), 58th ed, 4/2019.
2018
Institutional change as a central challenge in the field of so-called disability assistance: action-guiding insights from institutional/organisational sociology for changes in practice. In: Behindertenpädagogik (BHP), 57th Jg. 3/2018, pp. 254-274.
2017
Rezension vom 02.08.2017 zu: Jürgen Budde, Susanne Offen, Anja Tervooren (Hrsg.): Das Geschlecht der Inklusion. Verlag Barbara Budrich (Opladen, Berlin, Toronto) 2016. In: socialnet Rezensionen, ISSN 2190-9245, https://www.socialnet.de/rezensionen/21868.php
2017
The Challenge of Deinstitutionalisation: Key Elements of Successful Change in Organisations of Disability Care. In: Berufs- und Fachverband Heilpädagogik e.V. (BHP)(ed.): "Herausforderung Vielfalt. Curative education in the social upheaval." Tagungsbericht zur 50. Bundesfachtagung des BHP, Berlin.
2016
Deinstitutionalising through organisational change. Self-determination and participation of disabled people as a challenge for change processes in organisations"(Dissertation), Klinkhardt Verlag, Bad Heilbrunn. Available online at: https://www.pedocs.de/volltexte/2016/12108/pdf/Falk_2016_Deinstitutionalisieren_durch_organisationalen_Wandel.pdf
2016
Falk, Wiebke et Al.: 'Mal was Anderes?!'-Schritte aus der Exklusion für Beschäftigte von Werkstätten für behinderte Menschen. Reflection on a practical project. In: Behindertenpädagogik (BHP), 55th Jg. 1/2016, pp. 51-75.
2013
Regionalisation and decentralisation of a disability aid facility as a contribution to deinstitutionalisation. In: Behindertenpädagogik (BHP), 52nd Jg. 2/2013, pp. 160-175.
2010
Stoffers, Wiebke: Rezension: Monika Seifert: Kundenstudie -Bedarfs an Dienstleistungen zur Unterstützung des Wohnens von Menschen mit Behinderung. Final report. Berlin: Rhombos-Verlag 2010. In: Behindertenpädagogik (BHP),49. Jg. 4/2010, S.417-420.
2009
Stoffers, Wiebke: Leisure: individual pleasure or social issue? Contexts of justification for inclusion in the area of leisure. In: Behindertenpädagogik (BHP),48. Jg. 1/2009, S.54-76.
2009
Fuchs, Magdalena/Maier, Sarah/Stoffers, Wiebke: Zum Nutzen praktischer Auslandserfahrungen für die International Vergleichende Heilpädagogik. In: Bürli, A./Strasser,U./Stein, A.-D.: "Integration/Inclusion from an International Perspective", Bad Heilbrunn.