Prof. Sabine Andresen

Sabine Andresen is a Professor for Social Pedagogy and Family Research at Goethe-University Frankfurt. Since 2016 she is the head of the national Independent Commission on Child Sexual Abuse. She is one of the PIs of the global study “Children’s Worlds”. And she is a PI of the DFG (German Research Funding Organisation) Graduate School “Doing Transition” together with Tübingen University, 1st funding period 2017 – 2021.

Her research interests: Empirical studies on child and family well-being; child sexual abuse in families; narratives of adult survivors of sexual abuse; prevention studies; child poverty and social services; childhood vulnerability.