Prof. Dr. Florian Baier

    Undergraduate and postgraduate education and work experience

    • Since 2008: Professorship at the Institute for Studies in Children and Youth Services at the School of Social Work FHNW
    • Doctoral Degree in Philosophy, Diploma in Social Pedagogy

    Main focus

    • Social work in schools (school social work and all-day schools)
    • Inclusion and multi-professionality in the school context
    • Theories, concepts and practices in child and youth welfare
    • Qualitative social research
    • Children's rights

    Further information

    • President of the Swiss Society for Social Work SGSA/SSTS
    • Editorial Board member - International Journal of School Social Work
    • Founding member of the European Social Work Research Association ESWRA
    • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Zeitpolitik DGfZP
    • Research Network «Quality of Life and Visual Impairment» (SZBlind, Switzerland)
    • ICEVI: International Council for Education and Re/habilitation of People with Visual Impairment

    Publications and projects