Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences
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A new head for age research
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Professor Dr. Moritz Hess, he takes over the management of the competence center.
Photo: Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences
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Krefeld Professor Dr. Moritz Heß takes over the management of the 1993 from Professor Dr. Engelbert Kerkhoff established competence center. He has big plans – and is bringing the Netherlands on board.
Professor Dr. Moritz Hess. The 37-year-old has been teaching gerontology at the Department of Social Sciences at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences since September 2020. Now he takes over the management of the 1993 from Professor Dr. Engelbert Kerkhoff initially established a competence center as a research focus.
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Heß studied sociology in Mannheim and Berlin, gerontology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and did his doctorate in Mannheim on the subject of “Desired and expected retirement ages for older workers”. In research projects he dealt with the opportunities and challenges of aging societies. His research focuses on older workers, age discrimination, the compatibility of care and work, social inequality and the comparison of European societies and welfare states.
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In addition to the subjects of “Students and Care” and “Voluntary Pension Transitions in a European Comparison”, Heß would also like to deal with the subject of “Age and digitization”. These topics should be more closely integrated into teaching. In addition, research projects in the sense of Citizen Science and Participatory Research should include the perspectives of older people more in research. The “Faust” guest student program at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences is ideal for this purpose.
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Hess can fall back on an existing international network and would like to expand it further and use it more for teaching. “I imagine initiating team teaching and joint teaching research projects with teachers and scientists from the Netherlands,” says Hess. There is still a lot to be researched around the topic of age (es).
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