Interdisciplinary Research Group 'Social protection as a human right.
The global construction and diffusion of the right to a civic minimum' (FLOOR),
research stream B 'Social cash transfers'
(German Research Foundation [DFG], 2010-2013)
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Website: http://www.floorgroup.de
The road to global social citizenship? Human rights approaches to global social policy
Cooperation group at the Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF)/Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld (April-July 2011) (with U. and B. Davy; grant by the ZiF decided 9/2010)
Editor of the translation of "Geschichte der Sozialpolitik in Deutschland seit 1945", Band 1, "Grundlagen der Sozialpolitik" (hg. vom Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Sozialordnung und Bundesarchiv, Nomos: Baden-Baden, 2001), into English (title: 'German Social Policy. History - Ideas - Comparative Perspectives', Springer publishers)
funded by the Volkswagenstiftung (applicant with W. Abelshauser, R. Hauser) and by the German Federal Department of Work and Social Security (2008-2011)
Vom produzierenden zum regulierenden Wohlfahrtsstaat. Eine international vergleichende und interdisziplinäre Studie des Wandels der Alterssicherung in Europa (REGINA) / Towards a Regulatory Welfare State? State Regulation of Private and Occupational Pensions in Europe (REGINA)
(German Research Foundation [DFG], with U. Davy)
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Nachhaltige soziale Sicherung - Soziale Grundsicherungs- und Sozialhilfesysteme in entwickelten, Übergangs- und Entwicklungsländern / Sustainable social security systems. Social cash transfers in developed, developing and transitional countries
(research project and consultancy; Deutsche Gesellschaft für technische Zusammenarbeit [German Technical Cooperation], GTZ, 2004/2005)
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Globalization of the Welfare State? - The Emergence of Transnational Social Policy and 'New Welfare States'
(10/2003-2/2004, Leader of a research group with Dr. Miriam Abu Sharkh, Stanford, and Prof. Dr. Xiong Yuegen, University of Beijing; Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst)
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Social Security Reform in Rural China - Old-Age Pensions and Health
(2001/2002, Asian Development Bank) (team leader and principal investigator)
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Strategien des Umbaus im lokalen Sozialstaat, Chancen und Risiken der kommunalen Sozialhilfereformen (Hilfe zum Lebensunterhalt) unter besonderer Berücksichtigung neuer Informationssysteme / The new politics of the local welfare state in Germany - New Public Management and the use of knowledge
(1998-2001; Trade Union Foundation [Hans-Böckler-Stiftung])
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Reforming Social Assistance in Britain
(1998-99, Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of Industrial Society)
Schuldnerkarrieren / Debt careers
(1997-1999, University of Bremen, Co-leadership Dr. Monika Ludwig, Dipl.Soz.-Päd. Uwe Schwarze, with own resources)
Sozialhilfekarrieren / Social assistance careers
(1989-2001; research officer and principal investigator with S. Leibfried et al., Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 186 'Statuspassagen und Risikolagen im Lebensverlauf of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [DFG], University of Bremen)
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Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (BGHS)
(2006-2011) (Excellence Initiative by the German Federal and State Governments)
DFG Research Training Group 844 'World Society - Making and Representing the Global'
(2003-2012)
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