Nivedita Prasad (born 1967) is a German sociologist and human rights activist. She is professor of methods and gender-specific social work at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin, and a specialist in the human rights of migrant women.
Prasad studied sociology at the Free University of Berlin, and gained her PhD at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. Since 1993 she has taught at several universities in Germany, the Netherlands and Austria. [1]
In 2012 Prasad received the first Anne Klein Women's Award, [2] for her work on the human rights of migrant women. In 2013 she was appointed Professor at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin, where she is active in social work with refugees and directs a masters' program in social work as a human rights profession. She has studied the migrant hostel opened in 2013 in Berlin-Hellersdorf, where there have been racist attacks and far-right protests. [1]
In 2020 she was appointed to the advisory board of the Berlin-based NGO Center for Intersectional Justice. [1]
Gerhard Scherhorn was a German Professor and economist.
Dieter Roth is Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Heidelberg.
Alice Salomon was a German social reformer and pioneer of social work as an academic discipline. Her role was so important to German social work that the Deutsche Bundespost issued a commemorative postage stamp about her in 1989. A university, a park and a square in Berlin are all named after her.
Holger Ziegler is currently professor of social work at Faculty of Education at Bielefeld University. He was a member of the Research Training Group Youth Welfare and Social Services in Transition of the German Research Foundation (2000–2003), Fellow at the Department of Criminology at Keele University (UK) (2003) and Assistant Professor of Special Education at Westfälische Wilhelms University Münster. He has been a member of the academic advisory board of the German Soccer League since 2010; of the North Rhine-Westphalia research school Education and Capability and member of the Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA) and since 2010 speaker of the HDCA Thematic Group on Education.
Sabine Andresen is a professor of Educational Studies at Faculty of Education Science, Bielefeld University and vice rector for international affairs and corporate communication in Bielefeld, Germany. Her field of study is childhood and youth.
Veronique Zanetti is a German professor of Political Philosophy at Faculty of History, Philosophy, and Theology, Bielefeld University.
Björn Kraus is a German philosopher, who unfolds epistemological theories for social work. He therefore picks up on the doubt about the possibilities of human perception, a topic that has been emphasized over and over in occidental philosophy. He thus stands in tradition of a skepticism as for example defined by Immanuel Kant and Ernst von Glasersfeld.
Anja Mihr is a German political scientist and human rights researcher. Her working areas are in Transitional Justice, Cyber Justice, Climate Justice, Governance and Human Rights Regimes. She is an internationally known academic has taught in various universities in Germany, the United States, Italy, China and the Netherlands. Her main work focuses on human rights, governance and transitional justice, looking at the interlinkage between institutions, organizations and the way human rights realization can be leveraged.
Heinz-Herbert Noll is a German sociologist.
Katarina Barley is a German politician and lawyer who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. She served as Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection and as Federal Minister of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth in the fourth Cabinet of Angela Merkel. Prior to that, she had served as acting Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs from 28 September 2017, both until 14 March 2018.
Dagmar Schultz is a German sociologist, filmmaker, publisher and professor.
Karin Flaake is a German sociologist and professor (retired) at the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg. Her publications on the adolescence of young women and men are part of the literature of socio-psychologically oriented gender research. Another focus of her work is on the chances of changing gender relations in families.
Margrit Brückner is a feminist German sociologist and a retired professor of the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences. Her publications on girls and women at work, and, especially, her work on violence against women, have become core academic texts. Another of her more notable specialities involves her contributions to the international debate on (social) care.
Jeanette Schwerin was a German women's rights activist and a social work pioneer.
Heike Fleßner was a German educationalist and professor, whose work focused on social education and social work. She was a Professor of Social Pedagogy at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg from 1996 until her retirement in 2009. Her scientific work focuses on analytics and conceptual developments in the field of gender- and diversity-conscious social education. For many years, Fleßner was involved in social policy and the institutional anchoring of public toddler care and early childhood education.
Ingrid Miethe is a German professor of education at the University of Giessen. Her areas of focus include biographical research, the history of education, and connections between education and social inequality. Her book is Biografiearbeit: Lehr- und Handbuch für Studium und Praxis (2011) and she coauthored Globalisation of an Educational Idea: Workers’ Faculties in Eastern Germany, Vietnam, Cuba and Mozambique (2018). She instigated the founding of an ethics committee within the German Educational Research Association (DGfE) and has been the chair of this committee since.
Alice Bensheimer was a German women's rights activist and longstanding secretary to the Federation of German Women's Associations .
Julie Bassermann was a German women's rights activist.
Bernd Baron von Maydell (1934–2018) was a German lawyer and secondary school teacher, who specialised in social law.
Hanna Grabley was a German labor economist and university lecturer.