Ines Himmelsbach, Professor at KH Freiburg

Prof. Dr. phil. Ines Himmelsbach

Provost for Research, Head of IAF, Head of the Program Applied Gerontology

Kontakt

Social Gerontology

Office Hours

Appointments per ILIAS 

Professional career

  • Provost for Research, KH Freiburg (2020)
  • Director of IAF - Institute für Applied Research (Institut für Angewandte Forschung), KH Freiburg
  • Department Head of Applied Gerontology, KH Freiburg (2019)
  • Acting Director of the IAF - Institute für Applied Research, Development and Con-tinuing Education (Institut für Angewandte Forschung, Entwicklung und Weiter-bildung
  • Since 3/2014 Professor for Social Gerontology at the KH Freiburg
  • Research Assistant in the field of interdisciplinary aging sciences (Director: Prof. Dr. Frank Oswald), Faculty of Educational Sciences at the Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main (2009-2014)
  • PHD in Faculty of Educational Sciences at the Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main (2008)
  • Research Assistant in the forum for ageing sciences und policies for the elderly at the Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main (2006-2009)
  • Research assistant at German Centre of Gerontology, Heidelberg (2003-2005)
  • Studies in the Faculty of Educational Sciences and Romance Philology, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main (2003)
  • Studies in the Faculty of Educational Sciences and Romance Philology, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main(2001-2003); 
  • Research Assistant at the German Centre of Gerontology, Heidelberg (2000 – 2003)
  • Studies in the Faculty of Educational Sciences and Romance Philology, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg (1998-2001)

Work and research focus

  • Gerontological foundations
  • Education in old age
  • Living in old age
  • Health in old age
  • Aging with loss of skills, especially visual impairment in old age 
  • qualitative methods of social research, especially biographical-reconstructive methods

Cooperations 

Teaching and research projects