Diversity research working group

Even though diversity research in Germany has primarily developed from gender and migration research, the working group also claims to address socio-political and socio-legal issues from a broad intersectional perspective, focusing in particular on gender and age(ing) as characteristics of social inequalities. In the working group, an interdisciplinary discussion on social practices for dealing with diversity will be strengthened. Sociologists, educationalists, social work scientists, political scientists, psychologists and lawyers bring together discourses on (anti-)discrimination, solidarity, professionalism, democratization, social sustainability and transformation. In a transdisciplinary manner, the perspectives of practice, especially social work, are included in the basic and application-oriented practical research. The working group is open to all qualification levels and organizes at least one lecture each semester in the series "Diversity Research".

The joint research project "Successful diversity in a socio-spatial context. On the transformation of professional and civil society social work through immigration (ProZiS)", funded by the BMBF, which will be implemented at the University of Kassel and Fulda University of Applied Sciences between 2018 and 2020.