Holger Ziegler is currently professor of social work at Faculty of Education, Bielefeld University.
Career
His main research fields are deviancy and social problems, research on social capital, impact research, inequality, and well-being. „Räumlichkeit und soziales Kapital in der Sozialen Arbeit – zur Governance des sozialen Raums“ (German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), 2003–2006) „Education as Welfare – Enhancing opportunities for socially vulnerable youth in Europe“ (EduWel, Marie-Curie ITN, since 2009) „Making Capabilities Work“ (WorkAble, collaborative research project within the 7th Framework Program of the European Commission, since 2009) A.
Membership
He was a member of the Training Group Youth Welfare and Social Services in Transition of the German Foundation (2000–2003), Fellow at the Department of Criminology at Keele University (United Kingdom) (2003) and Assistant Professor of Special Education at Westfälische Wilhelms University Münster. He has been a member of the academic advisory board of the German Soccer League since 2010. Of the North Rhine-Westphalia research school Education and Capability (since 2008) and member of the Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA) and since 2010 speaker of the HDCA Thematic Group on Education.
