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Prof. Dr. Christine Meyer is a Professor in the Department of Social Work at the University of Vechta, a position she has held since 2012. Her academic journey includes roles as a Substitute Professor at Friedrich Schiller University Jena (2008–2011) and extensive research at Leuphana University Lüneburg, where she completed her habilitation (2007) and PhD (2001). She maintains active memberships in key professional networks including the German Society for Educational Science, Esskult.net, and Essenspaed.de.
Her research centers on two interconnected pillars: aging and social work, where she investigates demographic impacts on elderly care, life-course interventions, and cultural access for seniors; and food in social work, where she addresses hunger, nutritional justice, sustainability, and food's role in community building. Her projects include scientific oversight of digital museum programs for care-home residents and multi-year studies on rural elder poverty.
Meyer's publications demonstrate a strong focus on integrating food justice into social work theory and practice, with recent articles analyzing prison meal systems, hidden hunger in affluent societies, and curriculum gaps. She also explores aging through lenses of empowerment and intergenerational solidarity.
She has led impactful projects such as the development of debt-relief frameworks for impoverished seniors (Diakonisches Werk, 2017–2020) and co-designing intergenerational programming for community centers. As a prolific author, she has published foundational textbooks on hunger, aging, and food in social work.
