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Dr. Holger Backhaus-Maul

Short Biography

Dr. Holger Backhaus-Maul, Dipl. Soz., Mag. rer. publ., has studied sociology, public administration and social sciences at the University of Bielefeld,  the German University for Administrative Sciences (Speyer) and the Humboldt University  (Berlin); he was research assistent at the Center for Social Policy Research/Department „Theory and Constitution of the Welfare State“ at the University of Bremen (1989-1994); since 1995 he is a researcher and lecturer for Social Security and Welfare Politics, Public Administration and Organizational Theory at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg/Department of Educational Sciences.

He is a board member of the foundation „Aktive Bürgerschaft“ - the Corporate Citizenship Initiative of Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken in Germany (Berlin; http://www.aktive-buergerschaft.de   ). He was an academic member of the advisory board for the second and third "Survey on Volunteerism" in Germany (http://www.bmfsfj.de/    . ) and the first "German Goverment Report on Volunteerism"   (http://www.bmfsfj.de/BMFSFJ/engagementpolitik,did=152728.html    . )

He is a Member of the German Association for Political Science/Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft (DVPW; https://www.dvpw.de/wir/profil/ziele.html    ) and the German Society for Sociology/Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS; http://www.soziologie.de/de/die-dgs/ueber-die-dgs.html    ).

His academic work about Service Learning with international students was honored by Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft  (2011; http://www.stifterverband.info/wissenschaft_und_hochschule/hochschulperle/2011-02/index.html)    and the State of Sachsen-Anhalt (2013; http://magazin.uni-halle.de/15519/international-engagiert-studiert-gewinnt-integrationspreis/ ).

He spent several years as for academic researches in the US and India.

Forschungs- und Arbeitsschwerpunkte

• Sozialpolitik und Sozialrecht
• Organisationssoziologie (Nonprofit-Organisationen, Unternehmen und öffentliche Verwaltung)
• Staat und Verbände
• Engagement und Gesellschaft

Themen der Lehrveranstaltungen

• Soziale Sicherung, Sozialverwaltung und Non-Profit-Organisationen in Deutschland
• Social Security, Public Administration and Non-Profit-Organisations: International Perspectives
• Erziehungswissenschaftlich relevante Gegenstandsbereiche der Organisationstheorie
• Organisationstheorie und -forschung

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