Rate My Professor Martina Ritter

Ritter's research focuses on social work and democracy, qualitative empirical social research methods including participatory approaches, intersections of age, migration, and gender in social work and social space analysis, volunteerism, and critical social work. She has led several funded research projects, such as DIWAN (2018-2022), which developed dialogue processes and exhibitions for coexistence in immigration society under the federal-state Innovative University program; BUSLAR (2014-2017), examining citizen help associations and social cooperatives for rural elderly support, funded by BMBF; and regional participation indicators for people with disabilities (2013-2016) with the European Social Fund. Other initiatives include gender-specific space appropriation by migrant women (2010) and concepts for youth social work in St. Petersburg since 2008. A member of the European Association of Social Work Research, Collaborative Action Research Network, European Society for Rural Sociology, and German Sociological Association sections on women's and gender studies and European research, she contributes to editorial and committee roles. Key publications encompass 'Alltag im Umbruch: Zur Dynamik von Öffentlichkeit und Privatheit im neuen Russland' (2008) and works on participatory action research, gender relations in post-Soviet Russia, and volunteering in citizen help associations.