Dr. Sina Motzek-Öz, who holds a doctorate in social work, teaches and researches at the University of Kassel on the topic of family, gender and health in the context of migration and flight as well as diversity-conscious approaches to social work. In the summer semester of 2020, she accepted an offer from the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society (HWG LU) to take up the Klara Marie Faßbinder Visiting Professorship funded by the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Her inaugural lecture entitled "Empowerment and Diversity: Theoretical and methodological search movements around two central concepts for gender-conscious social work", which was originally scheduled for April this year but was postponed due to coronavirus, was now held on Friday, 17.07.2020, in the auditorium of the HWG LU.
Here you can find the recording of the lecture "Empowerment and Diversity"
Dr. Sina Motzek-Öz, lecturer for special tasks at the Institute of Social Work at the University of Kassel, taught and researched this semester as part of the Klara Maria Faßbinder Guest Professorship for Women and Gender Studies of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate under the working topic "Gender, Diversity and Empowerment" at the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society (HWG LU). In addition to various keynote speeches, including on inclusive and anti-discriminatory university teaching, Motzek-Öz, who holds a doctorate in social work from the Department of Social and Health Care, held two (virtual) courses there: Motzek-Öz gave an "Introduction to the theory and practice of intercultural and socio-educational counseling" in the Bachelor's degree program in Social Work and the seminar "Research in the context of multilingualism and interculturality" in the corresponding Master's degree program. Her inaugural lecture, originally scheduled for April, had to be postponed due to coronavirus. However, the lectures have now been rescheduled: After a welcome by University President Prof. Dr. Peter Mudra and Prof. Dr. Peter Rahn, Vice Dean and Head of the Bachelor's degree program in Social Work, as well as thematic introductions by Equal Opportunities Officer Prof. Dr. Elke Raum and Prof. Dr. Karen Wagels, Dean of the Department of Social and Health Care, Dr. Sina Motzek-Öz spoke on Friday, 17.07.2020, in the university auditorium on the topic of "Empowerment and diversity: Theoretical and methodological search movements around two central concepts for gender-conscious social work". The event was also recorded and will soon be available on the university's homepage.
Dr. Sina Motzek-Öz studied social work in Cologne and Bielefeld and worked in anti-discrimination work and in integration assistance for people with mental disabilities. In 2016, she completed her doctorate at the University of Kassel on the topic of "Handlungs(ohn)Macht im Kontext - Eine biographische Analyse des Handelns von Migrantinnen in transnational Unterstützungskontexten". After Motzek-Öz initially dealt with migration and interculturality empirically and theoretically in her publications, in her more recent work she has increasingly turned to the topics of refugee migration and professionalization. Accordingly, her research and education focus on family, gender and health in the context of migration and flight, as well as diversity-conscious approaches to social work.
"With her clear positioning in women's and migration research, Dr. Sina Motzek-Öz has been able to set an important impulse in the Rhineland-Palatinate university landscape with her research work," emphasized Equal Opportunities Officer Prof. Dr. Elke Raum. At the same time, during her guest professorship, she showed students "a kaleidoscope of perspectives" and encouraged them and lecturers to critically reflect on their own professional role, added Dean Prof. Dr. Karen Wagels: "These impulses have been set and will certainly have a lasting effect.
Klara Marie Faßbinder Visiting Professorship
The state of Rhineland-Palatinate has been funding this international and interdisciplinary visiting professorship for women's and gender studies since the winter semester 2001/2002 with the aim of giving impetus to and strengthening the research area of women's and gender studies in Rhineland-Palatinate. Dr. Sina Motzek-Öz is the second time that the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society has benefited from the establishment of the guest professorship: Back in the 2016/2017 winter semester, Dr. Tove Soiland from Switzerland was able to fill the visiting professorship in Ludwigshafen with a top-class candidate.
The visiting professorship is named after Klara Marie Faßbinder, a scientist, university lecturer and peace and women's movement activist born in Trier in 1890.
Find out more about the visiting professorship of Dr. Sina Motzek-Öz in the interview.
Professional contact:
Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society
Department of Social and Health Care
Prof. Dr. Peter Rahn
Tel. 0621/5203-545
E-mail: peter.rahn@ 8< SPAM protection, please remove >8 hwg-lu.de
University of Kassel
Institute for Social Work
Dr. Sina Motzek-Öz
Lecturer for special tasks
Tel. 0561 804-7725
E-mail: motzek-oez@uni-kassel.de
