All projects from the School of Social Work
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Advice on developing marketing concept
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The impact of standardized tools on child protection assessment
In Switzerland, public child protection agencies are mandated to intervene if a child’s well-being is harmed or threatened and parents are unwilling or unable to remedy the <>situation. Child and Adult Protection Authorities (CAPA) decide upon enacting child protection orders (e.g. deputyships) based on a ...
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Research report: Updated review and developments in jihadist radicalisation in Switzerland – updated version of an exploratory study on prevention and intervention
Based on the study ‘Background to jihadist radicalisation in Switzerland’ (Eser Davolio et al. 2015 with a sample of 66 jihadist-motivated travellers), the research status and current level of data available are analysed using an increased sample of jihadist-motivated persons. In comparison to studies from ...
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BixAn.ch works!
Educational activities outside the classroom should be available to all children. The BixAn.ch platform provides parents and professionals with an overview of and better access to these programs an usage and impact analysis. Here's going to the Crowd-Funding Homepage, with more details about the project and the ...
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Efficacy of socio-educational family interventions in child protection cases
In Switzerland, recent years have witnessed an increasing frequency of intensive family support—known under the German term “sozialpädagogische Familienbegleitung”—with families who are seen as unable to take adequate care of their children and to provide them with the necessary conditions for positive emotional, ...
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Impact factors in social organisations
Together with 23 social organisations, the SNSF-project WIFASO develop tools and impact models to make visible effects and impact factors. Starting situation Social organisations and institutions are increasingly facing the challenge of legitimising their courses of action (for example, vis-à-vis their funding ...
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The State's role in labor market segmentation: a qualitative study of the complementary labor market in the Cantons of Basel-Stadt, Ticino and Vaud
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Evaluation of narratives for the prevention of radicalisation on the Internet
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Startrampe Social Entrepreneurship
ZHAW social work students are already contributing to social inclusion projects and initiatives in various ways . The "Startrampe Social Entrepreneurship" project starts right there and supports these projects and initiatives to develop sustainably. Startrampe Social Entrepreneurship is aimed at all student projects ...
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Dealing with the violent past in the diaspora
The project explores the way young people of ex-Yugoslav and Turkish-Kurdish origin in Switzerland deal with the history of their origin countries’ violent past and war/conflict-related migratory experiences of their parents and what repercussions these have for various facets of their (post-)migrant lives. It looks ...
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Day and night care structures – factors of demand
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From Prisons to Probation - Cooperation between Social Workers in Prisons and Probation Service
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Evaluation on the use of body cameras
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SNF Project: "Educating for the world?"
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Children's Well Being in All-Day Schooling
The promotion of children’s well being is required and described as a characteristic of the quality of all-day schooling in Germany and Switzerland. Up until now, this characteristic has rarely been empirically tested. The research project wants to change this and make a theoretical conceptual and empirical ...
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AusTEr – Pedagogical responsibilities and competencies in extended education
The SNSF project AusTEr – Processes of negotiating pedagogic responsibilities at all-day schools in the public education environment – examines processes of negotiating pedagogic responsibilities in multi-professional teams at all-day schools, as well as existing specific interpretations of all-day education. This ...
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Political extremism among juveniles in Switzerland: prevalence and risk factors
For Switzerland, only little is known about the prevalence of politically extreme orientations and behaviour among young people and according risk factors. This project examines the prevalence and risk factors of three extremism forms among young people: right-wing extremism, left-wing extremism and Islamic ...
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All-Day School in the Canton Zurich
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Value orientations and living environment in prisons
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Community Schools in New York
The international research project makes the experience gained from community schools in New York accessible by means of a conceptual and empirical study for promoting all-day schools in Switzerland.
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Social Positioning in the context of migration and adolescence
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Early childhood: communitybased parents health-consulting and counselling. KKB Spitex Höfe (Kt. SZ, Switzerland)
Early childhood: communitybased parents health-consulting and counselling-prevention, intervention and migration. Kleinkindberatung Spitex Höfe (Kt. SZ, Switzerland) Project Duration: April 2015 to January 2016
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Background to jihadist radicalisation in Switzerland
Within the scope of this exploratory study, a variety of approaches were chosen to analyse the phenomenon of jihadist radicalisation and the processes by which young people are drawn to it at both the individual and social or community level. A wide range of actors who are likely to come into contact with this ...
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Foster Care Placement Breakdown
The study aims to generate and transfer knowledge to stabilise foster care placements for Swiss children and young people. More specific objectives are to: identify factors associated with unexpected termination (breakdown) of long term foster -care placements understand the process leading to breakdown by a ...
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From Prison to Probation