Svenja Bluhm, M. A.

• Relational approaches in social work
• Child protection
• (Sexualised) violence and processes of coming to terms with it in educational and church institutions
• Qualitative social research

After completing my Bachelor's degree in Educational Science and Sociology in Osnabrück, I found my professional path into research via the Master's programme in Educational Science at the Freie Universität Berlin. In 2021, I started working as an academic assistant at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam in a third-party funded project on sexualised violence in institutions of the Protestant church (with a focus on Protestant daycare centres). Since November 2023, I have been working in the P³Dual project and, in addition to the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, I work at my practice partner FamilienANlauf e. V. in Berlin-Lichtenberg in outpatient educational support. As part of P³Dual, I am doing my doctorate on the topic of "Relational child protection – The role of children in relational help settings in the context of child and youth welfare".

• Since November 2023: Scientific collaboration in the "P³Dual" project with a doctorate on the topic of "Relational child protection - The role of children in relational help settings in the context of child and youth welfare" (project period 11/2023 – 10/2026, ongoing).

Project description: In the professional debate on child protection, it is repeatedly criticised that the children themselves are not sufficiently at the centre of interventions. My dissertation project deals with the question of what role children play in relational support services offered by socio-educational organisations in the field of child and youth welfare. To this end, ethnographic research will be conducted into the support services with elements of multifamily therapy offered by FamilienANlauf e. V. as an example. These are services that use relational approaches to ensure and strengthen the protection and support of the children in the participating families - and thus relational child protection. The aim of the research project is to develop an empirically based theory on the role of children in relational support programmes and thus to create an empirical basis for a theory-practice transfer.

My supervisor: Prof Dr Friederike Lorenz-Sinai https://www.fh-potsdam.de/hochschule-netzwerk/personen/friederike-lorenz-sinai

My practice partner: FamilienANlauf e. V. https://familienanlauf.de/

• October 2021 – October 2023: Scientific collaboration in sub-project B "Organisation and person: systemic conditions and practice of dealing with (sexualised) violence" of the research network "ForuM - Dealing with sexualised violence and other forms of abuse in the Protestant Church and Diaconia in Germany" under the direction of Prof. Dr. Friederike Lorenz-Sinai (FH Potsdam) and Prof. Dr. Fabian Kessl (Bergische Universität Wuppertal). Projektzeitraum 03/2021 – 03/2024.
• October 2022 – January 2023: Scientific collaboration in the research project "Reappraisal of the violent constellation of the 1950s in the Protestant school hostel Martinstift in Moers" at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam in cooperation with the Bergische Universität Wuppertal, funded by the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, Moers church district, Moers church community and Diakonisches Werk Rheinland-Westfalen-Lippe. Projektzeitraum: 04/2022 – 01/2023.

Bluhm, Svenja; Hoppe, Sophia; Forth, Johanna; Kappel, Bernd; Kessl, Fabian; Lorenz-Sinai, Friederike (2024): Teilprojekt B: Perspektive „Organisation und Person: Systemische Bedingungen und die Praxis der Aufarbeitung von (sexualisierter) Gewalt. In: Forschungsverbund ForuM (Hrsg.): Forschung zur Aufarbeitung von sexualisierter Gewalt und anderen Missbrauchsformen in der Evangelischen Kirche