Department of Welfare and Social Work

Main fields of activity

• Fundamental studies to gain a professional bachelor's degree and a social worker's qualification
• Master’s studies to gain a professional master's degree
• Third-level doctoral studies, subdiscipline of social policy and social work organisation (study programme Sociology)
• Postgraduate professional development studies

Lines of Research

• Issues regarding the development of social work as a profession, academic discipline and a scientific discipline
• Social protection and social inclusion: social work with different target groups of social work
• Social policy, welfare and development of social services
• Social work in the health care environment