Soziale Arbeit

The exploratory qualitative study reconstructs the perspectives of single mothers on social pedagogical family support. It discusses their perceptions of everyday life realities, relationships with professionals, and changes experienced over the...

This article documents the multiperspective digitisation of Siddy Wronsky’s unpublished novel Sand and Stars. Using OCR, TEI-XML encoding, annotation, alignment, and digital visualisation, three language versions (German, Hebrew, English) were...

Siddy Wronsky’s novel *Sand and Stars*, which had remained undiscovered for over 80 years, was published digitally in 2024 and as a book in 2025. This article explains how this came about.

The text examines how social work and community building are inextricably linked in the British Mandate of Palestine under the influence of the Zionist movement. Based on the Zionist idea of a national homeland, Wronsky describes how pioneer groups,...

Siddy Wronsky is widely recognised in German historiography as a leading organiser, editor, and educator in the modernisation of welfare work. Far less attention has been paid to what happened afterwards: her forced migration in 1933 and the...

Against the backdrop of low approval rates, we examine the experiences of social work researchers with grant applications to the German Research Foundation. The survey results show that researchers face various disadvantages, with poor...

Research Data Management (RDM) refers to the systematic planning, collection, documentation, protection, storage, and publication of research data. Given the growing volume and complexity of this data, not only is effective RDM of central...

AI fundamentally changes fundraising: processes become efficient, targeting precise. Yet, predictive and generative AI bring risks like trust loss and information overload. Tech optimization isn’t enough. To stay competitive, organizations must...

Social service professionals can ease the financial burdens of benefit recipients by mediating access to welfare resources from both the state and civil society. However, the practices of professionals are characterized by marked differences. Within...

The article explores the ambivalent role of visibility in social work, particularly in the context of right-wing, racist, and anti-Semitic violence. Visibility is understood as a political practice that can facilitate recognition and participation....

This article examines the use of generative artificial intelligence in report writing in social work, exploring the tension between efficiency and knowledge generation. It shows how large language models (LLMs) can support writing processes while...