Michael Herzig
Michael Herzig
ZHAW
School of Social Work
Institute of Management and Social Policy
Pfingstweidstrasse 96
8037 Zürich
Work at ZHAW
Position
Lecturer, Institute of Management and Social Policy, Focus Team Social Policy and Management
Focus
- Social work and social policy: low-threshold social work, harm reduction, addiction and addiction policy, sex work, multivulnerability, stigmatization and marginalization
- Non-profit management: strategy and organizational change, error culture and learning organization, innovation and product development, business administration
- Methodological focus: service user involvement, stakeholder orientation, self-determination, participation and co-production, storytelling, design thinking
Teaching
- Addiction, addiction theories, addiction policy, open-target addiction work: Bachelor's Degree in Social Work
- Multivulnerability (poverty, addiction, mental illness, homelessness, sex work, stigma, etc.): Bachelor's Degree in Social Work
- Service User Involvement: Bachelor's Degree in Social Work
- Harm Reduction Services for Drug Users and Sex Workers: Massive Open Online Course MOOC
- Certificate Business Administration and Financial Management in Non-Profit Organizations
Experience
- Lecturer
Zurich University of Applied Sciences, School for Social Work
01 / 2015 - today - Novelist: Fiction, Narrative Non-Fiction, Screenplays, Radio Plays
Self Employed
01 / 2007 - today - Business Unit Director, Vice Director
Zurich City Administration, Social Welfare Department, Social Facilities
01 / 2004 - 06 / 2014 - Drug Policy Coordinator
Zurich City Administration, Social Welfare Department
08 / 1998 - 12 / 2003 - Secretary of the Federal Commission for Family Policy, editor
Federal Office of Social Security
01 / 1994 - 08 / 1998 - Journalist, Teacher, Musician, Vendor
Various
01 / 1984 - 12 / 1992
Education and Continuing education
Education
- Executive Master of Business Administration EMBA HSG / Business Administration
University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
01 / 2007 - 12 / 2008 - Master Of Arts: History Public Law and Political Science / Humanities
University of Bern
01 / 1986 - 12 / 1994
Continuing Education
- Design Thinking Workshop
Denkmotor
12 / 2020 - E-Didactic for Distance Learning
ZHAW School of Management and Law
12 / 2018 - Certificate of University Didactic
Zurich University of Education
12 / 2016 - Screenwriting
Migros School Zurich
12 / 2015 - iStory - Basic patterns, structures and building blocks of a story in the digital age
Zurich University of the Arts
12 / 2015 - General Management-Training
University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
12 / 2002 - Managing staff and projects
Personnel Office of the City of Zurich
12 / 2001 - Project Management
Federal Office of Personnel
12 / 1998 - Media handling certificate: training for information officers
MAZ Media Training Center Lucerne
12 / 1997 - Process management: controlling and designing processes
Federal Office of Personnel
12 / 1997 - Management of International organizations
Institut de hautes études en administration publique IDHEAP, Lausanne
12 / 1996 - Rhetoric training: presentation and speeches
Federal Office of Personnel
12 / 1996 - Combattre l'exclusion: Analyser les processus, améliorer les politiques
Université de Lausanne
12 / 1996
Network
Awards
- Book of the month
Swiss Month
11 / 2023 - Literature Award
City of Zurich
12 / 2014 - Literature Award
Government Council of the Canton of Zurich
12 / 2012 - Communicator of the month
Swiss Advertising Association
09 / 2005
Social media
Media presence
- Podcast Failure Culture, Episode 2, Fberuary 2024: Failures in Social Work
- Podcast Failure Culture, ZHAW Social Work, Episode 1, January 2024: Organizational Learning
- Interview on substance use in Zurich, Swiss Television SRF, january 2024
- Interview on the war on drugs, Kurier, January 2024
- Michael Herzig and Christian Mehr on "Tagesgespräch" on Radio SRF 1, november 2023
- Review of the book "Landstrassenkind", Der Bund / Berner Zeitung, october 2023
- Interview on crack cocaine use, Swiss Television SRF, october 2023
- Interview on cannabis policy, Neue Zürcher Zeitung NZZ, October 2022
- Panel discussion on drug policy, Neue Zürcher Zeitung NZZ, October 2022
- Interview on the impact of the Covid pandemic on sex work and sex workers, ZHAW, January 2022
- Report on the study on sex work during the Covid pandemic, Tages-Anzeiger, January 2022
- Interview on drug prohibition, Swiss Radio SRF, June 2019
- Interview on cannabis policy, Basler Zeitung, July 2019
- Interview on cocaine use, Neue Zürcher Zeitung NZZ, March 2017
- Interview on cocaine use, Swiss Television SRF, October 2017
- Interview on writing, Denkzeiten, May 2014
- Interview on the Zurich prostitution site, Swiss Television SRF, August 2013
- Interview on the Zurich prostitution site, The Guardian, August 2013
- Interview on the Zurich prostitution site, Time Magazine, August 2013
- Interview on the Zurich prostitution site, CNN, August 2013
- Interview on the Zurich prostitution site, Aargauer Zeitung, August 2013
- Interview on street prostitution and human trafficking, Swiss Television SRF, June 2012
- Interview on the novel "Töte deinen Nächsten" and the Swiss hatred of Germans, Swiss Television SRF, March 2012
- Interview on drug policy, Swiss Television SRF, February 2000
Projects
- Fair living and working conditions for sex workers in Zurich / Project leader / laufend
- Service User Involvement in Social Work Education / Co-project leader / abgeschlossen
- Alternatives to involuntary placement of adults with comorbid mental illness in the city of Basel / Project leader / abgeschlossen
- Sex Work and Corona / Project leader / abgeschlossen
- Data collection of pandemic-related, cost-free meal, food, and voucher charges in the city of Zurich / Team member / abgeschlossen
- Advice on developing marketing concept / Team member / abgeschlossen
Publications
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Herzig, Michael,
2019.
Realitätsflash : Drogenpolitik als Lernfeld für Polizei und Sozialarbeit.
Soziale Arbeit.
68(5/6), pp. 216-222.
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Herzig, Michael,
2024.
Lügen sind wahr, ganz besonders in der Sozialen Arbeit.
Sozial : Magazin der ZHAW Soziale Arbeit.
(21), pp. 22-23.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-31474
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Herzig, Michael; Stolz, Katja,
2024.
Living conditions, life world and life coping skills.
Zurich:
ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-2480
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Herzig, Michael,
2024.
Übernehmt Verantwortung! : Macht und Bürokratie in der Sozialen Arbeit.
Sozial : Magazin der ZHAW Soziale Arbeit.
(20), pp. 11-15.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-29925
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Herzig, Michael,
2023.
Landstrassenkind : die Geschichte von Christian und Mariella Mehr.
Zürich:
Limmat Verlag.
ISBN 978-3-03926-064-5.
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Herzig, Michael; Meier, Gisela,
2023.
Wie wär's mit einer Art Tinder für Soziale Dienste?.
Sozial : Magazin der ZHAW Soziale Arbeit.
(19), pp. 20-21.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-28660
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Meier, Gisela; Herzig, Michael,
2023.
Service User Involvement in der Ausbildung der Sozialen Arbeit : ein Lehr- und Forschungsprojekt.
Zürich:
ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-2464
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Bänziger, Peter-Paul; Herzig, Michael; Koller, Christian; Savary, Jean-Félix; Zobel, Frank,
2022.
Die Schweiz auf Drogen : Szenen, Politik und Suchthilfe, 1965-2022.
Zürich:
Chronos.
ISBN 978-3-0340-1683-4.
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Herzig, Michael,
2022.
NZZ Geschichte.
(42), pp. 50-58.
Available from: https://www.nzz.ch/geschichte/ein-land-in-panik-ld.1702520
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Meier, Gisela; Herzig, Michael,
2022.
Service User Involvement in der Ausbildung in Zürich : ein Pilotprojekt.
SUI Newsletter.
(5), pp. 6-7.
Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362928433_SUI_Newsletter_Aug-2022
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Miotti, Laura; Herzig, Michael,
2022.
Sozial : Magazin der ZHAW Soziale Arbeit.
(16), pp. 26-27.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-24444
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Herzig, Michael,
2022.
Flashback ohne Suchtpotential : Erinnerungen an das drogenpolitische Aufräumen
.
In:
Uchtenhagen, Ambros, ed.,
30 Jahre Schweizer Drogenpolitik 1991-2021.
Zürich:
Rüffer & Rub.
pp. 184-191.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-26215
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Brüesch, Nina; Herzig, Michael; Khater, Nadine; Müller, Manuela; Steiner, Carmen; Tschumi, Lisa; Trümpy, Anja,
2021.
Auswirkungen der Massnahmen gegen die Covid-19-Pandemie auf Sexarbeit und Sexarbeitende in Zürich.
Zürich:
ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3129
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Götzö, Monika; Herzig, Michael; Mey, Eva; Adili, Kushtrim; Brüesch, Nina; Hausherr, Mirjam,
2021.
Zürich:
ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-22446
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Leite de Araújo, Erilene; Herzig, Michael,
2021.
Ausgrenzung unter Ausgegrenzten.
Sozial : Magazin der ZHAW Soziale Arbeit.
(15), pp. 22-24.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-23711
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Herzig, Michael,
2021.
Innovationsversprechen und Repressionsrealität in der Schweizer Drogenpolitik.
rausch : Wiener Zeitschrift für Suchttherapie.
9(3/4), pp. 196-203.
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Herzig, Michael; Wolf, Miriam,
2019.
Inside Switzerland’s radical drug policy innovation.
Stanford Social Innovation Review.
Available from: https://ssir.org/articles/entry/inside_switzerlands_radical_drug_policy_innovation#
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Herzig, Michael; Zobel, Frank; Cattacin, Sandro,
2019.
Cannabispolitik : die Fragen, die niemand stellt.
Zürich:
Seismo.
ISBN 978-3-30777-195-2.
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Frost-Ebinger, Silvia; Herzig, Michael,
2019.
Verantwortung verteilen : Selbstorganisationspotential in hierarchischen Strukturen.
SozialAktuell.
2019(6), pp. 20-21.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3206
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Herzig, Michael,
2018.
Praxis Ergotherapie.
2018(5), pp. 270-275.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1440
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Herzig, Michael; Sundermann, Larissa M.,
2018.
In:
Gmür, Markus; Andeßner, René; Greiling, Dorothea; Theuvsen, Ludwig, eds.,
Wohin entwickelt sich der dritte Sektor? : konzeptionelle und empirische Beiträge aus der Forschung : Tagungsband zum 13. Internationalen NPO-Forschungscolloquium an der Universität Fribourg/Freiburg, 19. und 20. April 2018.
13. Internationales NPO-Forschungscolloquium, Fribourg, 19.-20. April 2018.
Freiburg:
Universität Freiburg.
pp. 215-222.
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Herzig, Michael; Sundermann, Larissa M.,
2018.
Fehlerkultur im Qualitätsmanagement von NPO [paper].
In:
13. Internationales NPO-Forschungscolloquium, Fribourg, 19.-20. April 2018.
pp. 1-4.
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Herzig, Michael; Frost-Ebinger, Silvia,
2018.
Führungsdilemmata in sozialen Organisationen.
Zürich:
ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3483
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Kocher, Ursula; Herzig, Michael,
2017.
SozialAktuell.
2017(11), pp. 10-13.
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Herzig, Michael; Gisler, Fiona,
2017.
Hinterfragt: Strategieüberprüfung sozialer Institutionen : rosige Zukunft in grüner Landschaft?.
Sozial : Magazin der ZHAW Soziale Arbeit.
7, pp. 12-13.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-13685
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Herzig, Michael,
2017.
SozialAktuell.
2017(10), pp. 21-23.
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Herzig, Michael,
2016.
Der hartnäckige Glaube an Verbote.
Die Wochenzeitung.
2016(17).
Available from: https://www.woz.ch/-6b49
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Herzig, Michael,
2015.
Woran die Schweizer Drogenpolitik scheitert.
Die Wochenzeitung.
2015(17).
Available from: https://www.woz.ch/-5c65
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Herzig, Michael,
2015.
Das Vier-Säulen-Modell in der Drogenpolitik
.
In:
Riedi, Anna Maria; Zwilling, Michael; Meier Kressig, Marcel; Benz Bartoletta, Petra; Aebi Zindel, Doris, eds.,
Handbuch Sozialwesen Schweiz.
Bern:
Haupt.
pp. 340-344.