Prof. Dr. Gisela Hauss

    Main focus

    • Theories and history of social work
    • Social inequalities
    • Gender
    • Employment and unemployment

    Further information

    Review and commission activities

    • Since 2015: Member of the Independent Commission of Experts (UEK/CIE), appointed by the Swiss Federal Council for research on administrative care before 1981
    • Since 2014: Expert and peer reviewer for the Tyrolean Science Fund (TWF), University of Innsbruck
    • Since 2012: Expert and peer reviewer for the German- Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF)
    • 2012 – 2015: Member of the Research Advisory Board of the Alice Salomon Archive in Berlin
    • Since 2006: Member of the editorial staff of the Swiss Journal for Social Work

    Memberships

    • Since 2014: AcademiaNet - Expert Database of Outstanding Female Academics
    • Since 2014: European Social Work Research Association
    • 2010 - 2014: The European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation (ATGender)
    • Since 2006: Swiss Society for Social Work (SGSA). Founding member in 2006, member the Board until 2013.
    • 2004 – 2014: Athena, Advanced Thematic Network of Activities in Women's Studies in Europe
    • 2001 – 2010: Network for Historical Studies of Gender and Social Work, founding member
    • 2000 – 2006: VeSAD Association for the Promotion of Social Work as an Academic Discipline, member of the Board and member of the Editorial Board of the Zeitschrift für Soziale Arbeit

    Publications and projects