Prof. (i. R.) Dr. Katharina Gröning

Professor, , Bielefeld University

Vita

Retired since 2022. Pro-Vice-Chancellor since 2004; 2001-2004 dean of the teaching faculty at the University of Bielefeld; 1999 appointed to the chair at the University of Bielefeld, teaching faculty; 1993 chair of social studies department at the Erfurt University of Applied Sciences (professor for social education focusing on gerontology and elderly care); 1990-1992 Friedrich Ebert Foundation PhD scholarship. PhD on "Advice-giving in local authority equal opportunities offices: between considerateness and feminism" University of Heidelberg (m.c.l.): 1987-1990 local authority women's officer in Maintal-Hessen; 1982-1986 MA in educational science; 1980-1982 student at Westfalenkolleg Bielefeld; 1978-1980 nursery nurse at the Therapeutic Chidren's Home St. Johannisstift Paderborn; 1975-1978 nursery nurse training; born 1957.

Focus of Work

Counselling with particular attention to societal gender relations, psychoanalysis of social institutions, intergenerational relationships, domestic care.

Keywords

counselling, psychoanalysis, generation, care, counselling, gender relations, society, inter-generational relations, domestic care

Casegroup

Social Sciences