Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Meyer
Profession and professionalisation of social work
Fulda University of Applied Sciences
Building
21,
Room
106
Leipziger Straße 123
36037 Fulda
Consultation hours: by arrangement
CV
- since 09/2020 Professor for Profession and Professionalisation of Social Work (W2) at the Department of Social Work, Fulda University of Applied Sciences
- 10/2017 - 08/2020 Professor of Social Work (W2) at the IU International University of Applied Sciences
- 10/2010 - 03/2019 Lectureships at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences and the Catholic University of Applied Sciences Mainz as well as the Goethe University and the University of Kassel
- 02/2016 - 09/2017 Research assistant at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences Mainz
- 07/2016 Call for a professorship for social work and social pedagogy (W2) at the University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld (rejected)
- 09/2000 - 02/2016 Various professional activities in the practice of social work (including community work, emergency housing assistance, extracurricular youth education and training of social education specialists)
- 06/2016 Doctorate at Goethe University with Prof. Dr. Dieter Nittel (Institute for Social Pedagogy & Adult Education) and Prof. Dr. Birgit Blättel-Mink (Institute for Sociology)
- 01/2011 - 02/2015 Staff member in the Social Pedagogy Department at the Institute for Social Pedagogy & Adult Education (Department of Education, Goethe University)
- 04/2011 - 01/2013 Scholarship holder of the FAZIT Foundation
- 01/2004 - 03/2011 Various professional activities in radio and press and public relations (e.g. Hessischer Rundfunk and City of Frankfurt am Main)
- 06/2010 Graduated with a degree in education
- 2006 - 2010 Studies in Education, Sociology, Psychology and Didactics (Goethe University)
- 2003 - 2006 Studied history, sociology, political science and biology for the teaching profession at grammar schools (Goethe University)
Areas of Research
- Professional research (professionalisation and professionalism of social work)
- Comparative professional group and organisational research
- Social work, National Socialism and the profession-related effects until today
Research Projects
Ongoing (teaching) research projects
- Professional Crisis after Corona: Post-Pandemic Steering Needs in Social Work (CriCo) (Together with Dr. Elke Alsago, ver.di)
- Quality Development in Child Day Care Centres (QualiE)
- Qualification for and in Social Work: Empirical Findings on Structures of Professionalisation (Together with Prof. Dr. Rita Braches-Chyrek, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg)
- Individual and collective professionalisation processes between the Weimar Republic, National Socialism and the "young" FRG: Continuities and their profession-related effects up to the present day (Together with Prof. Dr. Michaela Köttig, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences)
- Social Work Case Archive (FASoz) (Together with Prof. Dr. Michaela Köttig, Prof. Dr. Larissa von Schwanenflügel, Prof. Dr. Cornelia Füssenhäuser and Prof. Dr. Davina Höblich Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences and Rhine-Main University of Applied Sciences)
Completed (teaching) research projects
- Simulation as Theory-Practice-Transfer: Professionalism Development in Social Work Studies (SimPSon) (Together with Prof. Dr. Immanuel Ulrich, IU International University)
- KITA-Personalcheck Baden-Württemberg (Together with Nancy Hehl, ver.di)
- KITA-Personalcheck: Working Conditions, Professional Satisfaction and Realisation of Pedagogical Standards in the Perception of Elementary Education Workers (Together with Dr. Elke Alsago, ver.di)
- PROFESSionalism under extreme COndItIons?! Consequences of the corona panDemic for social workers and their recipients (PROFESS-COvID)
- Social Work Power Society: Conditions and Perceptions of Professionalism during the Corona Pandemic (SozArbTRANSFER) (Together with Dr. Elke Alsago, ver.di)
- Corona and the Consequences for Social Work (Together with Prof. Dr. Christina Buschle, IUBH International University of Applied Sciences)
- Homelessness in Frankfurt am Main: Empirical Search for Traces by Students in the Franziskustreff (Together with Brother Michael Wies, OFMCap)
- Study day "Right-wing Extremism and Social Work" (Together with Prof. Dr. Michaela Köttig, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences)
- Community work in the Gutleutviertel. A method in practice
- "vhs Offenbach - My Place for Education. Intercultural learning in adulthood" (scientific monitoring of quantitative and qualitative data collection for participant research)
- Improving the quality of care in institutions of inpatient geriatric care through organisational learning (OLE) (Together with Prof. Dr. Renate Stemmer, Catholic University of Applied Sciences Mainz and Prof. Dr. Christa Büker, University of Applied Sciences Munich)
Memberships
- Initiativkreis Soziale Arbeit (Federal Social Work Congress)
- German Society for Social Work (DGSA)
- Görres Society
- Centre of Research for Society and Sustainability (CeSSt), University of Applied Sciences Fulda
- Social Law and Social Policy Research Network of the University of Kassel and the University of Applied Sciences Fulda
Media
Further Functions
- Development and management of the academic continuing education programme "Emergency Housing Assistance" at the Centre for Academic Continuing Education (ZWW) at Fulda University of Applied Sciences. (Together with Prof. Dr. Susanne Dern, Fulda University of Applied Sciences).
- Co-editor of the book series "Professionalisation and Professionalism in Social Work" (Together with Dr. Elke Alsago, Prof. Dr. Christina Buschle, Prof. Dr. Verena Klomann and Prof. Dr. Andreas Polutta)
- Member of the scientific advisory board of the Historical Archive of the Social Work Profession (HADPSA)
- Scientific reviewer for various accreditation agencies (including the Accreditation Agency in the Field of Health and Social Work, AHPGS), professional journals (including "Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie. "Social Passages. Journal für Empirie und Theorie Sozialer Arbeit" and "Soziale Arbeit") and research communities (including the Swiss National Science Foundation).
- Expert for the German Bundestag, the German Association for Public and Private Welfare (DV) and the Working Group on Child and Youth Welfare (AGJ), among others.