Joint Project Care Transformations

In the joint project "Care Transformations. Research Network for Interdisciplinary Care Work Research", researchers from sociology, economics, business administration, social work and law are working together to research the upheavals of paid and unpaid care work and their institutional, cultural, economic and technological contexts. The research network consists of members of the University of Hamburg (UHH), the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW) and the Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg (HSU) and is funded by the Hamburg State Research Fund for three years.

Heads: Wolfgang Menz and Almut Peukert

Within: Cluster III: (De-)Solidarity / Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Petra Böhnke

PhD student: Miriam Laschinski

Student Assistant: Janina Both

Funded by: LFF Duration: 2021-2024

In the focus area "(De-)Solidarizations", it is analyzed how principles and standards of care and welfare provision are changing and which transformations can be observed in the relationship between the actors and values that are essential for this. Subprojects: Intergenerational Solidarity and Care in Transition: Effects of Precarious Living Situations (Prof. Dr. Petra Böhnke; The Implementation of Fiscal Policy Objectives by Social Law in the Field of Tension with Fundamental and Human Rights Requirements (Prof. Dr. Knut Hinrichs); Familiating and Defamiliating Measures of Welfare States: Design and Effects in International Comparison (Prof. Dr. Henning Lohmann) More information on this joint project can be found here.