The Ilse Arlt Institute conducts professional and applied research, methods and theory development in the field of social work.
Key Focus
Participation and democracy
Core topics: participation, human rights, reference budgets, peer counselling, client advisory boards, refugees and communities, social work and LGBT*iQ.
This research project is conducted at the Ilse Arlt Institute for Social Inclusion Research and it is part of the cross-institutional research network FIRST (Forschungsnetzwerk Interdisziplinäre Regi...
The decision to name the institute after Ilse Arlt is intended to symbolise the connection to the long-standing Austrian tradition of research-led social work. Ilse Arlt embodied an understanding of social work that focuses on social structures in order to help marginalised groups and sees social work as a duty to society, while also recognising that particular methods need to be applied in individual cases.
