Prof. Dr. habil. Sabine Flick

Rufaufnahme an die Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg

Rufaufnahme an die Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg

Fulda University of Applied Sciences


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Since 2021 Professor for Gender and Sexuality in Social Work at the Department of Social Work, Fulda University of Applied Sciences.

2020-2021 Elisabeth-List Fellow, Institute of Sociology, KF University Graz, Austria

2020 Fellow at the Center for Humanities and Social Change, HU Berlin

2020 Habilitation at the Department of Social Sciences, Goethe University. Title of habilitation: "On the Biographisation of Social Suffering - Psychotherapeutic Practice in the Working Society".

2019 Replacement for the professorship "Sociology with a focus on family and youth sociology", Institute of Sociology at the Department of Social Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.

2018 Visiting Scholar, Berkeley Center for Social Medicine. Institute for the Studies of Societal Issues, University of California, Berkeley, USA

2015-2017 Research Assistant, Institute of Sociology, Department of Social Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Focus on family and youth sociology.

Since 2016 Freelance coach and supervisor (certified by the German Society for Supervision and Coaching) Supervisor for various institutions in the field of psychosocial work

2015 Visiting Scholar at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

2014 Substitution of the professorship "Sociology and Psychoanalytic Social Psychology" Institute for Sociology at the Department of Social Sciences of the Goethe University Frankfurt (in cooperation with the Sigmund Freud Institute, Frankfurt)

2012 Doctorate at the Department of Social Sciences, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt a. M. Title of dissertation: "Working through life. Self-care as a perspective of labour research" (awarded the WISAG prize for the best dissertation in the field of social cohesion in 2012).

2011-2012 Lecturer at the Rhine Main University of Applied Sciences (module on gender and gender experiences)

2011-2012 Research promoter at the department of "Social Work and Health" at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences (formerly Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences)

2010-2011 Organisation of the nationwide conference "More men in social work!? Controversies, Competitions and Conflicts" on 24.06.2011 at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences (formerly Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences)

2009-2010 Research assistant at the Gender and Women's Research Centre of the Hessian Universities (gffz)

2008-2014 Lecturer at the University of Kassel

2005-2008 PhD scholarship of the German Research Foundation in the DFG Research Training Group "Gender Relations and Public Spheres. Dimensions of Experience" Frankfurt/Kassel

1998-2005 Studies of Sociology MA (NF: Political Science, Psychoanalysis) at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Degree: Magistra Artium 1,0 "with distinction", Title of thesis: "Globalisation Criticism and Gender Relations".

Teaching Areas

  • Gender theories
  • sexuality
  • sexual and reproductive health
  • qualitative research methods
  • professions of psychosocial work

Areas of Research

  • Health and gender
  • Intimate relationships, especially friendship
  • Methodology and theories of science
  • Participatory research methods
  • Sexual and reproductive health
  • Sex therapy and sexual counselling
  • Self-care
  • Knowledge systems of counselling and psychotherapy

Research Projects

Memberships

  • German Society for Social Work (DGSA)
  • Sections of the German Sociological Association (DGS): Sociology of the Family; Sociology of the Profession; Sociology of Social Problems, Sociology of Knowledge
  • Institute for Social Research Frankfurt am Main
  • medico international e.V.
  • Network Sexuality in Social Work

Publications

Current publications

  • Structural competence as a new dimension of medical psychotherapy? in: Ärztliche Psychotherapie, Jahrgang 17, Heft 2, 2022.
  • Cultures of birthing in transition. Österreich Z Sociol 47, 1-8 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11614-022-00476-1 (with Franziska Marek and Friederike M. Hesse).
  • Birth cultures in transition. Focus issue of the Austrian Journal of Sociology. Volume 47, issue 1, March 2022 (with Franziska Marek and Friederike M. Hesse).
  • On the Critique of Participatory Research - Research Practice in the Mirror of Critical Theory, Beltz/Juventa (with Alexander Herold)
  • Reflexivity as a Mantra? Prerequisites and Limits of Participatory Research (with K. Hoppe). In: Flick/Herold 2021: On the Critique of Participatory Research - Research Practice in the Mirror of Critical Theory, Beltz/Juventa, 2021, 18-40).
  • Epistemic Paternalism and Transformative Reflexivity? On the Immanent Critique of Participatory Research (with A. Herold). In: Flick/Herold 2021: On the Critique of Participatory Research - Research Practice in the Mirror of Critical Theory, Beltz/Juventa, 2021, 287-313).
  • Theorising Medical Psychotherapy: Therapeutic practice between professionalisation and deprofessionalisation. 2020. European Journal of Social Theory, (online first), https://doi.org/10.1177/1368431020960556
  • On the Biographisation of Social Suffering - or the Biographical View of Psychotherapy. In: Westend. New Journal of Social Research, issue 2, 2020.
  • The biographical gaze: Psychotherapeutic practice in psychosomatic hospitals in Germany. 2019 In: Social Science & Medicine 230, 83-90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.03.037

Complete list of all publications

Further Functions

  • Supervisor and ombudswoman of the Research Training Group "Doing Transitions. Forms of shaping transitions in the life course" Goethe University Frankfurt/ Eberhard Karls University Tübingen
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the "Psychotherapie Forum", journal of the Austrian Federal Association for Psychotherapy (ÖBVP)
  • Member of the Equal Opportunities Commission of the HS Fulda
  • Member of the selection committee of the Dr. Norbert Schmidt Dissertation Prize
  • Co-speaker of the working group "Gender, Kinship, Sexuality" at the Institute for Social Research

 

Reviewer activity

  • Distinction - Journal of Social Theory
  • European Journal of Social Theory
  • Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen (FWO)
  • GENDER. Journal for Gender, Culture and Society
  • Journal of Psychology
  • Austrian Journal of Sociology
  • Palgrave MacMillan
  • Sociology of Health & Illness
  • Social Meaning - Journal for Hermeneutic Social Research
  • DFG German Research Foundation

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