Professor
(W2 salary scale HBes G, Hessian Federal Civil
Service
in the following subject area:
Social work with a focus on „Generativity and family in a
changing society“
Job advertisement number P40/2024

Your tasks:

We are looking for a team player with professional communicative and didactic skills and a
willingness to cooperate across disciplines, who can represent the subject area of ‘Generativity and
family in a changing society’, understood as a critical reflection on care for future generations, in
research and teaching it in the broad range of programs offered at the Department of Social Work
and Health in a practice-oriented manner.

In accordance with the subject area, which represents a cross-sectional topic in social work, you
will teach according to your profile in the Bachelor's and Master's degree programs as well as in the
specializations ‘Education and Upbringing’ or ‘Exclusion and Integration’ of our department.

The focus of the professorship includes:

• Profound knowledge of current discourses, especially with regard to the interdisciplinary

dimensions of generativity in the context of social work at the macro, meso and micro level.

• Relationships between individual and collective generativity as well as care ethics and ethical-

moral aspects of generative power relations, also with regard to gender relations.

• Social dimensions of generativity in a historical context, i.e. research into the connections

Your Profile:

We are looking for a highly qualified professional with outstanding academic and practical
knowledge in the advertised field. A relevant degree in social work, educational science, pedagogy,
psychology, sociology or a comparable discipline and a qualified doctorate are required.

Furthermore, we require knowledge of and experience with application-oriented methods of action
as well as theory-practice transfer.

Research experience in the field of generativity, proven by relevant publications (also peer-
reviewed), is desirable. Ideally, you will also have meaningful further education and training in the
specialized field of the job advertisement.

We request the following application documents in addition to the points listed below:
Precise timeline and evidence of five years of professional activity (three years outside the university
sector), list of third-party funding, evidence (certificates or diplomas) of further training and a
teaching and research concept that meets the requirements of the professorship.

The ability to teach in German and English is a prerequisite.

We offer:

• Structured onboarding by the department and our university didactics week
• Self-determined work with a lot of scope for content and time as well as our offers as part of

the “family-friendly university audit”

• Internationally oriented environment to carry out teaching and research projects (e.g. U!REKA

European University)

• Support in preparing your national and international research proposals from our “Research,

Innovation and Transfer – FIT” department

• Lively campus in the heart of Europe with an extensive sports and events program

(Campus Sport, Campus Kultur)

• Free Hesse state ticket and good transport connections (public transport, underground car