Katja Knauthe

• Honorary lecturer in the master's programs in Social Gerontology and Management of Social Change
   
• From 09/2018 to 12/2021 Visiting scholar at the University of Sheffield in the project “Sustainable Care—connecting people and systems.” Work package 2 entitled “Combining work and care: workplace support and its contribution to sustainable care arrangements” active. Development of a tool (questionnaire and interview guide) for surveying companies. The survey is currently taking place and data will be compared during the course of the project. The main focus is on finding synergies and innovative management models that make it possible to combine care and work. Presentation of
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Member of the Institute Council since December 2019

Cooperative doctoral program with Dortmund Technical University and Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences on the topic: “The compatibility of caregiving and work in SMEs from a corporate perspective.”
Planned completion in 2023.

• Expertise zur Vereinbarkeit von Pflege und Beruf in kleinen und mittelständischen Unternehmen im Auftrag des Bundesfamilienministeriums (BMFSFJ) und dem Beirat für die Vereinbarkeit von Pflege und Beruf

Since June 2020, municipal equal opportunities officer for the city of Görlitz.

Since September 30, 2020, member of the executive committee of the German Red Cross (DRK) district association Görlitz Stadt und Land e.V..
Katja Knauthe advises on gender equality policy and gerontological development tasks. More information is available on the DRK website here.

In June 2022, Katja Knauthe was also appointed convention officer of the DRK Kreisverband Görlitz Stadt und Land e.V. by the members of the executive committee.
More information is available on the DRK website here.

Knauthe, K. & Hoff, A. (2022) Carer leave policies in Germany. In: Fast, J., Heyes, J. & Hamblin, K. A. (Hrsg.) Sustainable Care: Connecting Systems and People. Bristol: Bristol University Press (in Vorbereitung).
 

Knauthe, K.; Hoff, A.; Magnaye, A.; Eales, J. & Fast, J. (2022). Snapshot: Carer Leave Policies in Germany. Institut on Aging, Policies an Practices (RAPP). University of Alberta.

Knauthe, K.; Brandt, M. & Hoff, A. (2021). Familien und Familienwerte in der deutschen Gesellschaft und Kultur. In: I. Albert; M. Emirhafizovic & C.-N. Shpigelman (Hrsg.), Families and Family Values in Society and Culture. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
 

Knauthe, K. & Hohlfeld, T. (2021). Utopien bedingter Solidarität. Denkräume für eine zukunftstaugliche informelle Pflege. In: Blätter der Wohlfahrtspflege (BdW), Jg. 168, S. 206-208, Nomos: Baden-Baden. doi.org/10.5771/0340-8574-2021-6
 

Knauthe, K. & Deindl. D (2019). Altersarmut von Frauen durch häusliche Pflege. Gutachten im Auftrag des Sozialverband Deutschland e.V.