Main focus
- Theories and history of social work
- Social inequalities
- Gender
- Employment and unemployment
Further information
Memberships, review & commission activities
Review and commission activities
- Since 2015: Member of the Independent Commission of Experts (UEK/CIE), appointed by the Swiss Federal Council for research on administrative care before 1981
- Since 2014: Expert and peer reviewer for the Tyrolean Science Fund (TWF), University of Innsbruck
- Since 2012: Expert and peer reviewer for the German- Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF)
- 2012 – 2015: Member of the Research Advisory Board of the Alice Salomon Archive in Berlin
- Since 2006: Member of the editorial staff of the Swiss Journal for Social Work
Memberships
- Since 2014: AcademiaNet - Expert Database of Outstanding Female Academics
- Since 2014: European Social Work Research Association
- 2010 - 2014: The European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation (ATGender)
- Since 2006: Swiss Society for Social Work (SGSA). Founding member in 2006, member the Board until 2013.
- 2004 – 2014: Athena, Advanced Thematic Network of Activities in Women's Studies in Europe
- 2001 – 2010: Network for Historical Studies of Gender and Social Work, founding member
- 2000 – 2006: VeSAD Association for the Promotion of Social Work as an Academic Discipline, member of the Board and member of the Editorial Board of the Zeitschrift für Soziale Arbeit