Helen Dambach

Doctoral Research Assistant

Room: S06 S04 A47
Telephone: +49 201 183 2837
E-Mail: helen.dambach@uni-due.de

Research interests

  • Poverty and social exclusion
  • Theories of social work
  • Qualitative research methods

CV

Academic Career

  • : Research Assistant in the Working Group "Theory and Methods of Social Work" (Prof Dr Holger Schoneville), University of Duisburg-Essen
  • : MA in Education and Educational Science, University of Hamburg
    Master's dissertation: “Armut, Prekarität, Voice. Political Speech under the Hashtag #Iamaffected by Poverty”
  • : Study abroad at the University of Akureyri (Iceland), BA programme in "Modern Studies"
  • : BA in Educational Science and Educational Management & Business Administration, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg

Prizes and Awards

  • April – September 2024: Exposé scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation for planning a doctoral project
  • March 2024: Barbara Budrich Poster Prize of the German Educational Research Association
  • October 2021 – March 2024: Scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation
  • December 2015 – July 2018: Scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation

Practical Experience

  • August 2019 – June 2021: Teach First Germany Fellow at Max-Schmeling-Stadtteilschule (Jenfeld), Hamburg
  • 2015 – 2022: Internships and voluntary work in the fields of child and youth work and community development

Publications

Dambach, Helen & Schoneville, Holger (2024): Prekäres politisches Sprechen. Zur (Un-)Möglichkeit der politischen Teilhabe von Armutsbetroffenen.
29th Congress of the German Educational Research Association: Crises and Transformations. Poster presentation, 12 March 2024, Halle (Saale).

Lectures

  • February 2024: Prekäres politisches Sprechen. Zur (Un-)Möglichkeit der politischen Teilhabe von Armutsbetroffenen.
    Conference: Poverty Research in Social Work, Hamburg, 10 February 2024
  • July 2023: #IchBinArmutsbetroffen. Exploratory report on research into how people affected by poverty articulate their experiences on Twitter.
    Colloquium of the Social Pedagogy Division, University of Hamburg, 5 July 2023
  • June 2023: #IchBinArmutsbetroffen. Public Discourses of Lived Poverty.
    Conference of the Social Pedagogy Section of the German Educational Research Association (Empirie Working Group), Oerlinghausen, 10 June 2023

Teaching & Examinations

Chair  of the Working group

Prof. Dr. Holger Schoneville

Team assistant

Melanie Hagen

Address

Universität Duisburg-Essen
Fakultät für Bildungswissenschaften
Institut für Soziale Arbeit & Sozialpolitik
Universitätsstr. 2
45141 Essen

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