Professor for Theory and Practice of Social Work

Center for Social Work and Social Policy
Berliner Platz 6-8
Westside Towers - Room A.13.19
45127 Essen

Fabian Kessl is on sabbatical from April to September 2012.

FON          +49 201 183 3554
MAIL         fabian.kessl@uni-due.de

Secretary:
Gerda Mursa-Kaltenmaier
Room A.13.13
FON          +49 201 183 3616
FAX          +49 201 183 4187
MAIL        gerda.mursa-kaltenmaier@uni-due.de

Curriculum Vitae


till 1998: Studies in Educational Science and Political Sciences, Heidelberg University.

1998-2000: Member of the Working Group "kleiner Bildungsgipfel", Department for Educational Science, Heidelberg University.

1998/99: Research Assistant, Evaluation Studies "Studien- und Berufssituation von Magisterstudierenden", Department for Educational Science, Heidelberg University.

1998-2000: Lecturer, Vocational School for Logopedics, University Hospital Heidelberg.

1999-2002: Graduate Programme (German Research Association) "Youth Welfare in Transition", Bielefeld University and Technical University Dortmund.

2001-2008: Lecturer, Faculty for Educational Science, Center for Social Service Studies (AG 8), Bielefeld University.

2001-2003: Lecturer, Postgraduate Master-Studies "Gemeinwesenökonomie" (Community Economy), University of Applied Science, Rauhes Haus, Hamburg.

2001-2007: Member of the Bielefeld Reading Circle „Foucault am Küchentisch“ (Foucault at the Kitchen Table).

01-03/2007 Visiting Scholar at the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA).

since 10/2008: Professor for Theory and Practice of Social Work, Center for Social Work and Social Policy, Duisburg-Essen University.

since 05/2010: Director of the Center for Social Work and Social Policy, Faculty of Educational Science, Duisburg-Essen University.

04 – 07/2012 Visting Scholar at the Royal Holloway, University of London (Scholarship of the Heinrich-Hertz-Foundation North Rhine-Westphalia)

Editorial Group of "Widersprüche"; Advisory Board of "Neue Praxis"; CEO of the  Online-Only Journal "Social Work & Society" (www.socwork.net).