Current Research Projects
Since 2008
Research Training Group 1474: "Transnational Social Support"
funded by: German Research Foundation (DFG)
Since 2010
International Research Cluster "Transnational Social Support"
Since 2011
Transnational Social Review - A Social Work Journal (TSR)
funded by: German Research Foundation (DFG)
2011-2014
Client Research in Children and Youth Services
funded by: German Research Foundation (DFG) (in collaboration with Dr. Gunther Graßhoff)
2010-2013
Transnationalism and Poverty
Research Project at the Centre of Excellency „Social Dependencies and Social Networks“ at the Universities Mainz and Trier, Germany, funded by: Research Ministry Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
2009-2012
Transnational Family Care
Doctoral research group within the programme of the University of Mainz„PRO Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften 2015“, funded by: University of Mainz, Germany
2006-2009
Poverty and Migration
Research Project at the Centre of Excellency „Social Dependencies and Social Networks“ at the Universities Mainz and Trier, Germany, funded by: Research Ministry Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany