Hannah Obert

Hannah Obert is a Researcher at the Institute for Social Work and Social Policy within the Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Employed since April 2019 under Prof. Dr. Carsten G. Ullrich, she conducts qualitative social research and teaches courses in research methods and feminist theory.

Education:

• Master of Social Work (2016-2019), University of Duisburg-Essen
• Bachelor of Social Work (German-Polish) (2013-2016), BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg

Her research centers on qualitative methodologies applied to gender sociology, urban studies, and social work target groups. She investigates structural dependencies in women's homelessness, sexualized violence victimization, and social space orientation in youth welfare systems. Her work critically examines how gender norms and urban environments shape social service delivery, emphasizing lived experiences through empirical fieldwork.

Publications from 2019-2024 reveal a cohesive trajectory: early work analyzed small-scale planning innovations in North Rhine-Westphalian youth welfare (2019-2022), evolving into gender-focused studies on homeless women's victimization (2022) and contemporary couple relationship dynamics (2024). Cross-cutting themes include spatial justice, feminist epistemology, and the tension between institutional frameworks and individual agency in social work contexts.

She actively supervises bachelor's and master's theses in social work, with upcoming 2025 courses including Qualitative Research Methods and Feminist Theory Formation. Her conference presentations at the Federal Congress of Social Work (2018, 2022) demonstrate engagement with national policy discourses on housing insecurity and social space orientation.