Prof. Dr. Deborah Lutz

Employment

09/2023 Professor of Inclusive Education at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences Freiburg, Germany

11/2019 – 08/2023 Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the School of Special Education, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany

08/2018 – 10/2019 Research Associate at the Centre for Advanced Studies of the Cooperate State University Baden-Württemberg in Heilbronn, Germany

01/2017 – 07/2018 Social Worker, Wohnverbund Lebenshilfe Heidelberg e.V., Germany

05/2015 – 11/2015 Research Officer in the Intellectual Disability and Behaviour Support Program (Chair: Prof. Leanne Dowse) at the School of Social Sciences at UNSW Sydney

01/2014 – 07/2014 Social Worker, Wohnverbund Lebenshilfe Heidelberg e.V., Germany

09/2013 – 01/2014 Visiting Research Assistant at the National Institute for Intellectual Disability, School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College, University of Dublin

04/2012 – 08/2013 Research Officer at the Social Policy Research Centre der University of New South Wales Sydney

10/2011 – 04/2012 Case Manager with Uniting Care Disability in Sydney, Australia

06/2010 – 10/2011 Team Leader with Creativity Inc. (formerly Eastern Respite and Recreation) in Sydney, Australia

01/2010 – 06/2010 Disability Support Worker with Just Better Care in Sydney, Australia

10/2009 – 12/2009 Social Worker, Wohnverbund Lebenshilfe Heidelberg e.V., Germany

Research interests

• Intellectual disability and communication support needs
• Personal assistance
• Support/care relationships
• Inclusive and participatory research methods
• Disability policies and reforms
• Qualitative research methods
• Ethics in ethnographic field research

Awards and prizes

2015, Dean’s Award for Research Society Impact, awarded by UNSW Australia, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences for the Specialist Supported Living Services – Post Implementation Review Project.

2014, Awarded an Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) and a Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences top-up scholarship  to fund PhD research

Reviews, Editing, Consulting

Since 09/23 Editorial Board Member of the academic journal Research and Practice in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

09/2022 – Research Consulting for Johannesstift Diakonie/ Behindertenhilfe/ Proclusio in Berlin – Research advice on the development of a book for people with cognitive disabilities and migration experience as part of the research project DiaLOG-IN

11/19 – 08/23 Editorial Board Member of the academic journal QfI-Qualifizierung für Inklusion (https://www.qfi-oz.de/index.php/inklusion)

Since 2017 Referee for the Australian Journal of Social Issues, Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research and Frontiers in Sociology

Publications (PDF)