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Prof. Dr. Frank Schulz-Nieswandt

Professorship for Social Policy and Methods of qualitative Social Research at the Institute for Sociology and Social Psychology (ISS) and also of the Seminar for Coporative Research at the University of Cologne.

Vita

Frank Schulz-Nieswandt, born 1958, holds the Professorship for Social Policy and Methods of qualitative Social Research at the Institute for Sociology and Social Psychology (ISS) and is executive director of the Seminar for Corporative Research at the University of Cologne. 

From 1996 to 1998 Schulz-Nieswandt has been working at the German Centre of Gerontology in Berlin, lastly as scientifc director. In this time he has been member of the commission on the Second and Third Government Report on Older People, afterwards a long-term member and spokesman of the scientific advisory council of the German Centre of Gerontology.

1998 Schulz-Nieswandt recieved the call to Cologne and Kassel. He has been dean of the Faculty of Management, Economy and Social Science at the University of Cologne and current first vice dean.

Frank Schulz-Nieswandt has been working at the universities Bochum, Regensburg, Konstanz, Kassel, Göttingen and Bielefeld. He is honorary professor for Social Economy of Healthcare at the PTH Vallendar.

Schulz-Nieswandt is among others honorary chairman of the Corporation for Social Progress in Bonn and also member (and also chairman for six years) of the scientific advisory council of the Federal Association for Public Services (bvöd). Furthermore he is publisher of the "Journal for Public and nonprofit Services" and member of the "Cologne Network of Services of General Interest".

His focus areas of research and teaching due to interdisciplinary gerontology are situated at an interface between issues of integrated medicine, local community networking of care structures and housing in old age, of european law and social services as well as services of public general interest , of anthropology and cultury history of the social policy of mutual help and also of the third sector and forms of active citizenship together with groups concerning self-related self-help.

Publikationen seit 2020