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Head of Studies & Teaching Department, Professor, Vice President

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Department:

Department of Economics and Social Sciences

Area:

Presidential Board, Department for Studies and Teaching

Professorship or teaching area:

Social work

Research areas:

  • Memorial work and social work
  • Diversity in systemic counselling
  • Resilience in rural areas
  • Social space-orientated approaches
  • Diversity and intersectionality
  • Care needs of mentally ill people
  • Equality

Institute or organisation:

ISRV | Institute for Social Medicine, Rehabilitation Knowledge and Health Services Research

Further training

TimeTraining / studies / job
1997-1998Further training in "curative vaulting"
1997-2000Further training in "Systemic therapy and counselling"
2007Training at Hospizverein Wolfsburg e.V.: "Accompanying dying people"
2010-2012Further training in "Systemic supervision and coaching"
2015-2016Further education "Social Justice and Diversity Trainer" at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences

Expertise

  • Science Council in favour of system accreditations

Third-party funded projects

  • Residential rehabilitative care needs of mentally ill people in the Altenburger Land on behalf of the Evangelische Lukas-Stiftung Altenburg  (with M. Steffens) (05/2015 - 06/2016)
  • Preparation of a project report on the youth promotion plan: Meta-analysis of data from the Youth Promotion Plan / Eichsfeld Youth Welfare Office (February 2019)
  • District Office Eichsfeld / Quantitative survey: Youth club use and participation of young people in the Eichsfeld district (June 2019)
  • Resilience in rural areas through citizen participation using the example of the Donnersberg district, Rhineland-Palatinate (10/2017 - 09/2019)
  • Inverted classroom for action concepts in social work (ICfürHaSozA) (04/2023 - 09/2023)

Initial accreditations

  • BA Nursing Education / BA Nursing Management / HAWK Hildesheim
  • Continuing education MA Memorial work and human rights education in social professions / Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences

Re-accreditations

  • Re-accreditation of the BA degree programmes in Health and Social Services, Special Education,
  • MA programmes in Therapeutic Social Work, Transdisciplinary Early Intervention

Courses

  • What remains? What does it (still) concern us? Contemporary reflections on the Nazi era
  • Impulses for public historical work on National Socialism / Tasks of social work
  • Diversity and social justice in social work
  • Diversity and service learning
  • Diversity in systemic counselling work
  • Ethics in social work / curative education
  • Methods of social work
  • Fields of work and institutions of social work in the healthcare sector
  • Reflection on own emotions and resources
  • Practice evaluation
  • Supervision for students in their practical semester
  • Counselling approaches
  • Case management
  • Resilience in rural areas through citizen participation
  • Science-based work

2023|Service Learning and Professionalism - Opportunities and Challenges for Social Work. (With P. Harth) In: Görtler, Michael; Taube, Gabriel; Thielemann, Nurdin (eds.): Soziale Arbeit und Professionalität: Reflexionen zwischen Theorie, Lehre und Praxis. Verlag Barbara Budrich GmbH (Opladen, Berlin, Toronto).
2022|Cultural remembrance work as a task for the theory and practice of social work in the immigration society after 1989. (With K. Hahnemann) In: Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Research Dresden (ed.): Totalitarianism and Democracy. Journal for International Dictatorship and Freedom Research. Volume 18, 2/2021. online: www.vr-elibrary.de/doi/epdf/10.13109/tode.2021.18.2.227
2020|Concept of practice integration and support. (With D. Skyba) In: Debiel, Stefanie; Lamp, Fabian; Escher, Kristin; Spindler, Claudia: Fachdidaktik Soziale Arbeit - Fachwissenschaftliche und lehrpraktische Zugänge zur Vermittlung von Disziplin und Profession. (Accepted for publication)
2019|Healthy in the Donnersberg district. Resilience in rural areas through citizen participation using the example of the Donnersberg district (Rhineland-Palatinate). Research report. (With K. Hahnemann, M. Hünninghaus, V. Jendricke, M. Steffens, P. Harth, C. Bandey)
2018|Resilience in rural areas through participation. In: The new health in the village. Palatinate Clinic. E-book: www.openaccessgovernment.org/resilience-in-rural-areas-through-participation-insight-from-a-mental-health-provider/54529/
2017|Diversity versus populism - ideas for the "human family" / Suggestions for an expanded concept of inclusion in the context of social welfare. In: Journal of the Kirchröder Turm Diaconal Organisation
2016|Inclusion! What? How? Perspectives on a complex subject. (With Möller-Dreischer, S.; Seidel, A.)
2015|Gender and diversity in teaching and research. (With Müller, A. / Thüringer Kompetenznetzwerk Gleichstellung)
2014|Family and mental health - aspiration and reality. (With Steffens, M.; Jendricke, V.)
2014|Couples and their therapists: The Relational Mind Project. (With M. Borcsa; J. Hille; D. Skyba) In: Stein, B.; Wilms, B.: Paartherapie. Psychotherapy in dialogue
2014|Supervision as a possibility for meaningful reflection in the case management approach. In: Professional journal Case Management
2013|Work-life balance as care of the self. Or how the intertwining of professional and private life finds meaning. Journal: Healing Professions 05/2013
2012|Gender and diversity aspects in the presentation of learning outcomes - university didactic practice research using the example of part-time nursing management and nursing education programmes (planned for the anthology on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies (ZIF) at the HAWK Hildesheim/ Holzminden/ Göttingen)
2011|Successful cooperation - Lifelong learning at the Werner School of the DRK in co-operation with the HAWK. The Red Cross Nurse, 01/2011
2010|Circular questions for grieving people. Journal Pflege: palliativ, No. 07/10, Friedrich Verlag: Seelze
2008|Frauengestalten. Article in: Women teaching and researching at the HAWK
2006|Dissertation printing: Developmental tendencies of systemic counselling for chronic diseases in childhood and adolescence. Olms-Verlag: Hildesheim / Zurich / New York
2006|Efficiency and effectiveness at the behavioural level. Institut für Therapeutisches Reiten e.V., Heilpädagogik und Soziale Arbeit - der Einsatz des Pferdes in der Behinderten- und Jugendhilfe: www.hawk-hhg.de/sozialearbeitundgesundheit/media/HeilpaedagogikUndSozialeArbeit.pdf
2000|Documentation at the behavioural level in therapeutic vaulting. Journal Therapeutic Riding, 1/2000

Lectures

Borbe, Cordula (2018): Results of social space inspections in rural areas. Lecture as part of the citizens' forum on the project "Resilience in rural areas through citizen participation using the example of the Donnersberg district". Rockenhausen (29 May 2018)

Borbe, Cordula (2018): Interviews with citizens of the Donnersberg district. Lecture as part of the citizens' forum on the project "Resilience in rural areas through citizen participation using the example of the Donnersberg district". Rockenhausen (13 June 2018)

Borbe, Cordula (2018): Exchange market "Tausch Dich gesund". Lecture as part of the citizens' forum on the project "Resilience in rural areas through citizen participation using the example of the Donnersberg district". Rockenhausen (24 October 2018)

Borbe, Cordula (2018): Recommendations for action on the topic of municipal resilience. Presentation as part of the citizens' forum on the project "Resilience in rural areas through citizen participation using the example of the Donnersberg district". Rockenhausen (8.11.2018), presentation on 3-4 September 2019 as part of a final public presentation (see press release from the resilience initiative and the Rockenhausen weekly newspaper at http://www.resilienz-pfalz.de/news/detail/mit-vernetzung-kann-veraenderung-gelingen-gesund-im-donnersbergkreis-praesentiert-abschlussbericht/)

Borbe, Cordula; Steffens, Markus (2018): Resilience in rural areas through citizen participation using the example of the Donnersberg district. Presentation at the closed meeting of the Pfalzklinikum resilience initiative. Rockenhausen (31 October 2018)


Borbe, Cordula (2019): Understanding intersectionality - finding options for action. Introduction to the concept of intersectionality. 4th Symposium of the Institute for Social Medicine, Rehabilitation Sciences and Health Services Research (ISRV) "Understanding intersectionality - finding options for action", 25 May 2019, Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences

Borbe, Cordula (2019): What keeps us healthy - Presentation of the results of municipal resilience research. Symposium "Healthy Villages - Healthy People" Göcklingen, in cooperation with the initiative "Die Pfalz macht sich / Dich stark - Wege zur Resilienz" (16 November 2019)

Organisation of conferences

  • Faculty Day Social Work
  • German Society for Social Work (DGSA)
  • Federal Association of Psychosocial Centres for Refugees and Torture Victims (BafF e.V.)

TimeActivity
10/2014 – 09/2016Member of the Executive Board of the ISRV
10/2016 – 03/2020Vice Dean's Office for the Department of Health and Social Services
Since 10/2016Member of the Faculty Council
Since 20/2016Programme representative for the Health and Social Care degree programme
Since 04/2020Vice President for Studies and Teaching at Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences (Department for Studies & Teaching)

International co-operation

  • College of St Scholastica / Duluth, Minnesota
  • Michelle Robertson, Assistant Social work professor

Prof Dr Cordula Borbe

Prof Dr Cordula Borbe