All projects from the School of Social Work
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Machine translation for crisis communication
This project investigates how machine translation services can help employees from administrations, NGOs and education to communicate with refugees. Providing public services to newly arrived refugees is a linguistic challenge: interprets are expensive and not available for all languages. Although machine ...
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Evolving (Im)Mobility Regimes
In this political-social-legal study, we seek to analyze the link between ‘crises,’ the legal changes that often accompany them, and forms and processes of precarization. We will analyze this interrelation by focusing on the situation and the entitlements of migrant workers. The study is based on a multilevel design ...
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Service User Involvement in Social Work Education
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The role of schools in detecting and responding to child maltreatment
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Enhancing sustainability at workplace: live more sustainably and healthily thanks to regular Beekeeper nudging
Internal digital communication channels have become an essential part of work life. The project aimsat promoting sustainability in employee's workplace behaviour at Dept. L. In order to achieve this,different interactions such as brief information, tips and surveys are emitted via Beekeeper,employees are thus ...
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Institutional prevention of sexual violence in socio-educational institutions
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Alternatives to involuntary placement of adults with comorbid mental illness in the city of Basel
In December 2019, the cantonal working group "Accommodation for severely addicted mentally ill people" formulated the need for a low-threshold and viable alternative to involuntary hospitalization (FU) for people with addiction and other mental illnesses in a clinic. The lack of such a service in the canton of ...
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Promotion and Protection of Children's Rights: Analysis of the Current Situation and Need for Action
The motion Noser 19.3633 instructs the Federal Council to close gaps in the current landscape of services with regard to the promotion and protection of children's rights. This study, which was commissioned by the Federal Social Insurance Office, is intended to clarify the extent to which the tasks of an ombudsman ...
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Conversion Therapy in Switzerland State of Research – National and International Policies – Policy Measures
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Interactive Data Visualization Made Easy
Interactive dashboards are a great tool to display research data, both for experts and the general public. Yet, many researchers lack the required skills to create them. We offer a solution by developing a simple framework enabling researchers to create and deploy such dashboards with their data. We will use the ...
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Smart Hospital – Integrated Framework, Tools & Solutions (SHIFT)
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The effectiveness of interventions to prevent child maltreatment
Aim and research questions The expertise aims to assess the effectiveness of interventions to prevent the occurrence and chronification of child maltreatment based on empirical evidence. The expertise’s guiding question is: How effective are interventions in preventing the occurrence and chronification of child ...
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Social work in Virtual Reality
Virtual reality technologies allow users to immerse themselves in computer-generated worlds. For social work, this offers new possibilities for practice, teaching, and research. With our study we want to explore the potential of Virtual Reality (VR) for a specific scenario concerning the topic of couple conflicts in ...
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Adoption in forced situations
The history of national and international adoptions in Switzerland has hardly been studied. Adoption is a drastic process for the persons concerned. The child is removed from its family of origin and finds its place anew in the adoptive family. Historically, care and coercion have often gone hand in hand in this ...
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The situation of children with an imprisoned parent in Switzerland
Imprisonment is a great burden not only for the offender, but also for his or her family members. Previous studies on the effects of incarceration on relatives show that relatives are sometimes exposed to considerable economic, social and emotional problems. For children in particular, the loss of a parent can have ...
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The economic situation of widows, widowers and orphans in Switzerland
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Predictive chance modelling: Exploration of a new approach to professional decision-making in child protection
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MEKIDA – media Use of children and adolescents and their effects
Starting point and goal The Corona pandemic boosted digitization, but also revealed its limitations and backwardness. This was especially true of home schooling, which particularly disadvantaged those children and adolescents who were already disadvantaged. Likewise, the Corona pandemic led to an increase in the ...
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Sex Work and Corona
Due to the Corona pandemic, political measures to contain it have been adopted in the canton of Zurich (Switzerland) (period March 2020-current), which have a great influence on the living situation, the living environment and the coping with life of sex workers (e.g. occupational ban). Sex workers are socially and ...
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Machine learning and algorithms in social work
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Needs assessment of shelter places for girls and young women affected by violence
Up to now statistics on girls and young women affected by violence have been lacking in Switzerland. Furthermore, there has been no inventory of emergency and protective shelters and the future need for shelters for this group. This and the implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and ...
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School misallocation of Refugee children?
Statistical data show that in Switzerland, including the canton of Zurich, children with a migrant background are disproportionately likely to learn in special education, separative or integrated settings. Using qualitative interviews, the educational history of 6 individual cases of children and adolescents who ...
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Childhood vulnerability and children’s understandings of well-being
All people are vulnerable, but vulnerability is unequally distributed - some people are more vulnerable than others. What this means for children and youth and how they understand well-being is the goal of the qualitative SNF research project. Background Social work often deals with children and youth who are ...
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Data collection of pandemic-related, cost-free meal, food, and voucher charges in the city of Zurich
Baseline The Covid 19 pandemic and its accompanying measures directly affect various sectors of the population. Numerous public and private institutions are providing assistance, including the distribution of food vouchers and reduced-price or free food and meals. During the 2020 lockdown, in addition to the ...
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Zurich Adoption Study