Prof. Dr. phil. Ines Himmelsbach

Vice Rector for Research, Head of IAF, Head of the Program Applied Gerontology, Professor

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Appointment:     Social Gerontology

Function:              Vice-Rector for Research
                                  Director of IAF - Institute für Applied Research
                                  Department Head of Applied Gerontology
                                  Professor

Office Hours:   Appointments per ILIAS 

Professional career

  • Vice-Rector 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)
  • “Magistra Artium” (German academic title) in the Faculty of Educational Sciences and Romance Philology, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main (2003)
  • “Magister” (German academic title) in the Faculty of Educational Sciences and Ro-mance Philology, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main(2001-2003); 
  • Research Assistant at the German Centre of Gerontology, Heidelberg (2000 – 2003)
  • “Magister” (German academic title) in the Faculty of Educational Sciences and Ro-mance 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

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