Prof. Dr. Kay Biesel
Prof. Dr. Kay Biesel
Undergraduate and postgraduate education and work experience
Education and training
- 10/2007 - 01/2011: Doctorate in Sociology with successful viva on 07.01.2011 (summa cum laude), Free University Berlin
- Thesis title: “Social organisations and their mistakes. Discourse, concepts, research” (first assessor: Prof. Dr. Reinhart Wolff, second assessor: Prof. Dr. Bruno Hildenbrand)
- 10/2008 - 03/2009: Studied sociology in the master's programme “Sociology - European Societies”, modules on sociological theories of societal change, and integration and methods of comparative social research.
- 10/2002 - 07/2006: Studies leading to Dipl. Social Educator/Social Worker (FH), Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin
- 10/2005 - 03/2007: Training as specialist for dialogue coaching and conflict management (Kronberger Kreis für Dialogische Qualitätsentwicklung e.V.)
- 09/2007 - 11/2008: Training as Case Manager (DGCC)
Career milestones
- Since 11/2011: Professor for child and youth welfare with a focus on child protection, Institute for Studies in Children and Youth Services, FHNW School of Social Work
- 09/2009 - 07/2011: Research associate in the project “Learning from mistakes - quality management in child protection”, Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin
- 10/2007 - 07/2011: Lecturer for the modules “Theory-Practice-Processing Child and Youth Welfare” and “Methods in the Pedagogical Field: Social Space Orientation / Network Work” of the bachelor’s degree course Social Work and Education in Childhood, Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin
- 05/2008 - 04/2009: Doctoral scholar of the Heinrich Böll Foundation
- 01/2007 - 04/2008: Director/deputy director of a recognised independent provider of child and youth welfare services in the Federal Province of Brandenburg, Jugendwerkstatt Hönow e.V.
- 09/2006 - 12/2006: Socio-pedagogical support of a youth group (UJZ Karlshorst) to develop an independent youth centre in the neighbourhood of Karlshorst in Berlin, Potpourri Karlshorster Kiezladen e.V.
Main focus
Research and development / services
- Quality development in child protection
- Research on mistakes in child protection
- Procedures, methods and instruments to assess and clarify the best interests of the child
- Analysis of problematic and successful child protection cases
- Dialogic-systemic case work in child protection
- Technical supervision in child and youth welfare services
- Methods of qualitative social research
Teaching
- BA 251: Child and youth welfare I, elective compulsory course child protection
Continuing education
- CAS Dialogical-Systemic Child Protection Work
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