Department of Social Sciences, University of Applied Sciences RheinMain, Wiesbaden, Germany

Department of Social Sciences

The RheinMain University of Applied Sciences (Germany) is based in the Faculty of Social Work. The academic staff involved in the faculty runs children’s rights-based research projects namely in the field of child protection: child and family violence; violence against LGBTIQ children and youth; refugees; child participation.
Futhermore the faculty is specialized in training Social Workers and other professionals in the field of children´s rights.

Courses taught:

• Children’s rights based prevention programme against violence against children and women in the context of domestic violence
• Ethics in research with and for children
• Summer School in Human Rights and Children´s Rights (2016)