Angelika Henschel

Angelika Henschel (* 1957 in Lübeck ) is a German university professor . She teaches gender research, youth welfare and inclusion at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg .

Career

Henschel completed his studies with the first state examination for special schools (special focus: learning and social-emotional development) at the University of Hamburg (1988) in the educational sciences department . Even at an early age, she was committed to women in precarious situations. In 1977 she was a founding member of the registered association Women Help Women Lübeck , which set up and designed the autonomous women's shelter in Lübeck . Until 1991 she worked there as a pedagogical assistant and until 2015 Angelika Henschel was chairman of the association. She was also a founding member of the Lübeck Notruf e. V. for girls and women affected by sexual violence such as the Lübeck model project for girls and women with and without disabilities, mixed pickles e. V. , initiated and conceptually advanced in their advisory board activities. She dedicated her first professional activities in particular to women affected by domestic violence and their children.

From 1991 to 1996 Henschel worked as a director of studies in adult education and as a youth education advisor for out-of-school political youth education at the Evangelical Academy in Bad Segeberg , where she also initiated and carried out seminars in education for the disabled and integration.

After completing her doctorate in 1992 in the educational sciences department at the University of Hamburg, she accepted a substitute professorship at the North East Lower Saxony University of Applied Sciences, department of social affairs, in Lüneburg from 1996 to 1999 ; Her teaching and research focus there were social pedagogy with special consideration of youth education, social work with girls and women as well as social group work.

From 1999 Henschel was appointed professor there for life with the denomination of teaching and research focus in social education / social work, women and gender research in social work as well as disabled and integration education.

Since 2005 she has been working at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg with the denomination of social education, in particular gender research, youth welfare, inclusion, and since 2009 as a university professor.

Main topics of research and teaching

Henschel's focus is on gender research in social pedagogy, in particular domestic violence, inclusion and youth welfare, as well as opening up the university to professionally qualified people with special attention to gender diversity.

The leitmotif of her research work is to make a contribution to the establishment of gender equality and to improve the living conditions of women affected by violence and those affected by disabilities. It is particularly important to her to further professionalize the work of those involved in social work through scientific knowledge and further training offers and to enable and improve the opening of the university to those with professional qualifications.

The Leuphana University honored its teaching activities in 2007 with the award of the Leuphana University Lüneburg Prize for innovative teaching. Her research work was also recognized in 2019 with the award of the Leuphana Special Prize for Gender and Diversity Research from the Leuphana University of Lüneburg.  

Angelika Henschel is an educational scientist and social researcher with international lectureships and lectures as well as visiting professorships in Australia and an adjunct professorship at the University of New England (UNE) in Australia, which she held from 2010 to 2013. In addition, she works on advisory boards within the framework of development projects for independent charities and has been an appointed member of the steering group in the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMAS) for the ESF guidelines "rückenwind" and "rückenwind +" - "For employees in the social economy ”.

Voluntary work (focus)

In addition to setting up the autonomous women's shelter in Lübeck and the mixed pickles project for girls and women with and without disabilities , she was a board member of the global women's foundation filia in Hamburg from 2007 to 2017 .

In 2002 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for her voluntary work .

Publications

• Women’s refuge children and their way into life - the women’s refuge as a development-supporting socialization instance . Barbara Budrich Verlag, Opladen / Berlin / Toronto 2019, ISBN 978-3-8474-2265-5 .
• as publisher, together with others: Opening up career paths: Gender- and diversity-reflective access for professionally qualified people in social work to academic (further) education . Waxmann Verlag, Munich / New York 2017, ISBN 978-3-8309-3597-1 .
• together with W. Stange, R. Krüger, C. Schmitt (eds.): Upbringing and educational partnerships - practical book on working with parents . VS / Springer Verlag, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-531-18558-3 .
• together with W. Stange, R. Krüger, C. Schmitt (eds.): Education and training partnerships. Basics and structures of parent work. VS / Springer Verlag, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-531-16611-7 .
• as publisher, together with others: youth welfare and school - manual for a successful cooperation . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-16373-4 . Dealing with domestic violence. Learning from Downunder - Concepts and measures using the example of New South Wales, Australia. A research trip report (= Scientific Series, Volume 148). Kleine Verlag, Bielefeld 2003, ISBN 3-89370-374-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Angelika Henschel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography  at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg