| Time: | January 15, 2020, 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. |
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| Venue: | University of Stuttgart Campus Stadtmitte auditorium M 2.02 Breitscheidstr. 2a 70174 Stuttgart |
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The welfare state is primarily known for its benefits and provisions; but it also has a spatial side, because many of its benefits or services are bound to a specific place – from kindergartens to residential care homes. This lecture will illuminate these dimensions of the welfare state, using homeless people as an example.
Univ. Prof. Dr. Simon Güntner was appointed as Professor of Sociology of Space at the TU Vienna in 2018. He studied Social Sciences and Urban Planning in Constance, and Cardiff. He worked as a research associate at the Institute of Sociology, in the field of urban and regional sociology at the TU Berlin from 2000 to 2005. From 2006 to 2009 he worked as Policy Officer and Senior Policy Officer for Social Affairs at the European urban network EUROCITIES in Brussels, where he coordinated the communication between large cities and EU institutions in the fields of housing policy and supporting the homeless, migration and asylum policy, poverty alleviation and social policy, education and employment policy. From 2009 to 2018, he worked as Professor of Social Science and Social Policy at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. Simon Güntner has developed and implemented methods of action research and transnational learning.