All projects from the School of Social Work
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Family resources in crisis?
Abstract This study sheds light on how parents and adolescents in child and youth care experienced the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in the canton of Zurich. Subsequently, we researched what role different child and youth care services and child protection interventions had in these times for ...
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Towards agile social and health care services in Swiss inpatient facilities
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Crisis Management of the Covid 19 Epidemic in coercive contexts
The Covic19 pandemic is currently being handled by prevention measures, which are primarily characterised by contact arrangements in public spaces and exit restrictions. The question arises how prevention measures are organised in coercive contexts, namely the judicial system. In order to investigate this ...
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Juvenile delinquency and cybermobbing in Switzerland
After years of declining juvenile delinquency registered by the police in Switzerland, it seems that there has recently been an increase again. Evidence of this can also be found in surveys on self-reported delinquency. However, such dark field studies are contradictory with regard to the development of juvenile ...
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Young people and the Corona period
Since March 2020, many societies found themselves in a state of emergency due to the Corona pandemic. Various measures were implemented, which were aimed in particular at reducing social contact and which changed people's everyday lives to an unprecedented extent. One group that can be classified as particularly ...
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Affective Activism. The feeling of belonging in transgender communities
This project titled "Affective Activism. The feeling of belonging in transgender communities" examines the recent extensive transnational political activism of transgender people - those expressing variance from gender-conforming norms. Transgender persons are increasingly visible, with unprecedented media coverage ...
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Sustainability? Who cares?
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Digital transformation and everyday life in families during the corona pandemic: Impact on well-being of ZHAW employees and their children
The coronavirus has accelerated the digital transformation at the ZHAW: Main buildings have been closed, in return home offices have opened from dawn till dusk. We are interested in how ZHAW employees and their children live and experience these changes. We are particularly interested in the children's perspective: ...
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Caseload Converter
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Improved Integration for Refugees in Switzerland (IMIRIS)
In 2017 86,3% of refugees living in Switzerland were supported by social welfare. This situation is problematic for the refugees themselves and represents a matter of general public concern. In order to increase their chances on the labor market, refugees often are required to attend training courses. Yet, given the ...
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NIZA – New ideas for city centres in the agglomeration
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(Y)our City
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Evaluation of the "Chance KSR" program: A mixed-methods intervention study
This study investigates the efficacy of the "Chance KSR" program. Chance KSR is a school-based intervention aimed at increasing the opportunities of students from socio-economically disprivileged families to complete grammar-school and gain access to university education. The study combines a quasi-experimental ...
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EuSARF 2021: International Conference of the European Scientific Association on Residential and Family Care for Children and Adolescents
Acknowledging and understanding the child's perspective have become core issues for the professional development of social work. The challenges and opportunities that arise from this fundamental task are the main theme of this renowned international online conference, highlighted by its programmatic title "The ...
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Integration in the neighbourhood through sustainability projects (IQN)
The project focuses on the promotion of integration in neighbourhoods/settlements through participative initiatives on the topic of sustainability. The question arises whether and, if so, how social integration can be supported by sustainability-oriented community projects in neighbourhoods. In addition, it will be ...
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Digital Health for parents facing language and cultural access barriers to the Swiss health system
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Evaluation of projects for juveniles in Switzerland
The Evaluation of the funded Projects of NGO's for juveniles without qualification focuses the Output/Outcome of the interventions. For this reason the funded Projects in the French, German and Italian speaking part of Switzerland will be evaluated
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Frames of Impact in Social Purpose Organisations
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Having Little in a Land of Plenty: Economic Vulnerability in Old Age in Switzerland (EVOAS)
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L’adoption nationale en Suisse
L’adoption nationale en Suisse Constantes, changements et impact des placements extrafamiliaux définitifs au XXe et au XXIe siècle Description Contexte:La réforme du droit de l’adoption en vigueur depuis janvier 2018 vise une amélioration qualitative des motifs d’adoption. Cette nouvelle législation entend notamment ...
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Promoted, requested - and blocked? Integration Policy, Social Inequality and Biographies of Young People from Immigrant Families
The project follows on from almost twenty years of research in the field of migration and integration and is based on a recently completed qualitative longitudinal study financed by the SNSF. Over a period of ten years (2006-2016), the study examined the transition to adulthood of young people from immigrant working ...
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Value orientations of imprisoned youths
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Creating Futures
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Well-Being of Children in Switzerland – Children’s Worlds
Giving children a voice, listening to their concerns and letting them participate in political, professional and social issues is not only asserted in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, but also offers an important orientation for decisions related to childhood, youth and family. Introduction The ...
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«How we see this» – The perspective of children in residential care
Evidences from current research and practice indicate clearly: even today, young people are only marginally involved in the decision-making processes that affect them. However, the legal and professional claim to participation is undisputed and thus nearly always an explicit part of formal mission statements and ...