Claude HAAS

Claude Haas is a senior lecturer in social sciences and social work since the creation of the University of Luxembourg in 2003. he has been the study director of the bachelor in social an educational sciences since 2005. Prior to that, he worked 10 years at the Institut d’études éducatives et sociales, where he was in charge of different projects concerning the training and employment of people with disabilities or the implementation of new technologies in educational environments.

His main research focus resides in the further development of the “Theory of Scales” within the Matrix-Research Project (see under “Current research”). More specifically, and with regard to social work, he is working on a concept of social work as relational, scaling-sensible bricolage work. In this context, he is currently preparing a PhD at the Free University of Brussels (Belgium) on the transformations of the organisational field of professional (re)integration in Luxembourg.

Claude Haas is member of the executive board as well as scientific committee of the AIFRIS (Association internationale pour la formation, recherche et intervention sociale), the executive board of REFUTS (Réseau européen de formation universitaire en travail social) and a representative of the University of Luxembourg in the EASSW (European association of schools of social work). He is also member of the executive board and the editorial board of the ARC journal, published by the ANCES (Association nationale des communautés éducatives et sociales).