Univ.-Ass. Wolfgang Hagleitner, PhD

Vita

Work in commissions and committees of the LFUI

• Member of the Faculty Council since 11/2022

• Since 06/2023 Member of the board of the network Jugendforschung.at

Research

"Socio-economic Status and Living Situation of Care Leavers in Austria"

Cooperation project of the Universities of Innsbruck & Klagenfurt, with Prof Dr Stephan Sting & Dr Thomas Maran, until 2021.

Care leavers are disadvantaged in many countries and in many ways in terms of their participation in society. Compared to the population as a whole, they are less educated, more often unemployed, precariously employed and less well paid. They are more likely to experience poverty and poor health, and their life satisfaction is lower. Previous research has focused primarily on the care leaving phase and related challenges in the transition to independent living. This research is going to analyse the life situation of care leavers between the ages of 20-29 in Austria.

"Model region education Zillertal"

Cooperation project between the Department of Teacher Education and School Research and the Department of Educational Science at the University of Innsbruck, until 2022.

The aim of the project is to analyse regional structures of school development in the field of formal education. The second phase of the project focuses on the educational pathways of pupils from the Zillertal region, in particular the transition from lower secondary level to middle and upper secondary level schools.

"LifE - Life courses from late childhood to advanced adulthood"

The LifE study is an interdisciplinary co-operation project between the Universities of Potsdam, Zurich and Innsbruck with the aim of explaining the life courses and differential development paths from adolescence to adulthood of over 1,300 people. Project management: F. Berger, W. Lauterbach, H. Fend & U. Grob

"SoFaB-Tyrol - framework conditions and effectiveness of social pedagogical family support in Tyrol"

This research project examines the resources, working methods and framework conditions of SPFH in Tyrol. To this end, managers and specialists at independent and official SPFH organisations in Tyrol are surveyed using a quantitative questionnaire. Project management: W. Hagleitner

"SoFa-Tirol - Investigating the effectiveness and efficiency of socio-educational family support in Tyrol."

The research project uses problem-centred interviews within the help constellation, specifically from the perspectives of child and youth welfare services, professionals and families, to investigate the framework conditions, professional requirements, working methods and quality criteria of social pedagogical family support in Tyrol. Project management: G. Thaler

"Predictors for the mental health of Austrian care leavers aged between 20-29 years"

The project analyses the effects of structural, social and educational resources in the course of biographies in residential educational support on the mental health of care leavers in young adulthood. Co-operation project with the Universities of Innsbruck, Klagenfurt and Hildesheim. Project team: F. Berger, M. Groinig, W. Hagleitner, T. Maran, S. Roßnagl, S. Sting.

Publications

Monographs/editorials

• Groinig, M.; Hagleitner, W.; Maran, S. & Sting, S. (2019). Education as a perspective for care leavers. Publication series of the ÖFEB Section Social Pedagogy. Barbara Budrich publishing house.

Articles & book contributions (selection)

• Hagleitner, W.; Sting, S. & Maran, T. (2022). Socio-economic status and living situation of care leavers in Austria. Children and Youth Services Review, 142, 106620. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2022.106620
• Hagleitner, W. (2022). Without today, there is no yesterday tomorrow: Changes in the topography of residential educational support and its clientele. Sozialpädagogische Impulse, 1/2022, pp. 36-39.
• Roßnagl, S.; Hagleitner, W.; Schreiner, C.; Berger, A.; Kraler, C. & Jesacher-Rößler, L. (2021). Gender-specific differences in educational and career choices in times of a pandemic - selected findings from a longitudinal study of students at the transition from lower to upper secondary level (in press).
• Jesacher-Rößler, L.; Schreiner, C.; Berger, F.; Kraler, C.; Roßnagl, S. & Hagleitner, W. (2021). "Can we manage this?" Influences of the pandemic on students' feelings of insecurity at the transition between lower and upper secondary school. DDS (in print).
• Berger, F.; Schreiner, C.; Hagleitner, W.; Jesacher-Rößler, L.; Roßnagl, S. & Kraler, C. (2021). Predicting coping with self-regulated distance learning in times of COVID-19: Evidence from a longitudinal study. Frontiers in Psychology. Available at https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.701255
• Hagleitner, W.; Trummer, A. & Altenweisl, C. (2021). Entry and exit age and length of stay in inpatient child and youth welfare centres. Longitudinal comparative analyses at Pro Juventute and SOS Children's Villages. In: Austrian Yearbook for Social Work, VOL 3, pp. 292-312.
• Groinig, M.; Hagleitner, W.; Maran, T. & Sting, S. (2019). Education in context. Educational Opportunities and Educational Biographies of "Care Leavers". In: Austrian Yearbook for Social Work, VOL 1, pp. 127-155.
• Chisholm, L.; Fennes, H. & Hagleitner, W. (2015): Competence development of adolescents and young adults in the learning continuum. In: Key competences of adults. In-depth analyses of the PIAAC surveys 2011/12, Statistics Austria. S. 188-204.
• Hagleitner, W. (2017). Education and equal opportunities in residential child and youth welfare measures in Austria, using the example of the educational situation of children and young people at SOS Children's Villages Austria. In: Schild, B. (ed.). Placed out of home in the educational landscape. Support for children and young people who live outside their family of origin. Papst Science Publishers. S. 53-88.
• Hagleitner, W. (2023). Equal opportunities in residential educational support in Austria. Dissertation.
• Roßnagl, S.; Hagleitner, W.; Schreiner, C.; Berger, F.; Kraler, C. & Jesacher-Rößler, L. (2023). Gender-specific differences in the educational and career choices of students at the transition from lower to upper secondary level in times of a pandemic - selected findings from a longitudinal paper-pencil study. In S. G. Huber, C. Helm & N. Schneider (Eds.). COVID-19 and education. Studies and perspectives. Waxmann, Münster, New York.

Lectures

• "School transition, career and training choices as a particular challenge", lecture at the 5th KOST Tirol symposium on the topic "Aussichts-los? Goal-less? Plan-less? Mental stress among young people during the Covid-19 pandemic. Innsbruck, 9 June 2022.
• "The situation of Austrian care leavers between the ages of 20 and 29." Lecture as part of the faculty evaluation of the Educ. Faculty, University of Innsbruck, on 20 May 2022.
• "Die Lebenssituation der Care Leaver im Alter zwischen 20 und 29 Jahren in Österreich", lecture at the symposium 9th Workshop Talks, Research and Practice in Educational Support, 16/09/2021 (online).
• "Systemsprenger - Symptom carriers of child and youth welfare?", Keynote at the social pedagogical symposium of the St. Pölten UAS "Systemsprenger*innen - Ein Hilfeschrei?", on 19 November 2020 (online).
• "Attention effect! Was macht Kinder- und Jugendhilfe mit ihren Adressat*innen?", lecture at the ogsa conference "Soziale Arbeit in einer Zeit der Krisen und Transformationen". Eisenstadt, 14 March 2023.
• "The history of residential care. Why is home education the way it is?". Lecture at the #cls-networkspace of the University of Hildesheim, 15/03/2023 (online).
• "Education as a perspective for care leavers. Focus: Mental health". Lecture at the CLS colloquium of the University of Hildesheim, 18 April 2023 (online). Groinig, M. & Hagleitner, W.

Presentations (selection)

• "Influencing factors on the realisation of educational aspirations at the transition from SEK I to SEK II in the COVID-19 pandemic". Presentation at the ÖFEB conference, 23.09.2022 in Graz. Hagleitner, W., Roßnagl, S., Berger, F., Jesacher-Rößler, J., Kraler, C. & Schreiner, C.
• "Influencing factors on the perception of fit after the transition to upper secondary level using the example of the model region Bildung Zillertal." Presentation at the 31st EMSE conference, "Shaping transitions - understanding educational pathways - transitions in risk situations", on 24 June 2022 (online). Hagleitner, W., Roßnagl, S., Berger, F., Jesacher-Rößler, L., Schreiner, C. & Kraler, C.
• "School transition as a special challenge in times of a pandemic? Changes in the perception of distance learning from the perspective of students at the end of 8th grade and after transferring to a new school in 9th grade". Presentation at the WELSmain on 29/09/2021 (online). Roßnagl, S.; Hagleitner, W.
• "Changes in relevant aspects for career and education choices in times of the pandemic using the example of a longitudinal study of adolescents in lower secondary school". Presentation at the Joint Sociology Congress on 23/08/2021 (online). Roßnagl, S.; Hagleitner, W.
• "Changing career and education choices of young people in times of the pandemic? Selected findings from an Austrian longitudinal study". Presentation at the colloquium "Bildung unter Pandemiebedingungen" der DGS - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Sektion Bildung und Erziehung am 20.05.2021 (online). Roßnagl, S.; Hagleitner, W.; Jesacher-Rößler, L.
• "Changes in relevant aspects in the educational and vocational orientation phase under the conditions of the pandemic using the example of a longitudinal study with young people at secondary level". Presentation at the DigiGEPF, 23/04/2021 (online). Roßnagl, S.; Hagleitner, W.; Berger, F.
• "Factors influencing the person-school fit in the 9th grade". Presentation at the youth research conference "Jugend in Zeiten von Krisen", on 24 June 2023 in Innsbruck. Hagleitner, W., Roßnagl, S., Berger, F., Schreiner, C., Jesacher-Rößler, L. & Kraler, C.
• "Residential educational support in Austria - Equal opportunities in a permanent crisis?" Presentation at the youth research conference "Jugend in Zeiten von Krisen", on 24 June 2023 in Innsbruck. Hagleitner, W.
• "Child and youth welfare flying blind?" Presentation at the youth research conference "Jugend in Zeiten von Krisen", on 23 June 2023 in Innsbruck. Hagleitner, W.

Conferences

• "SYSTEM cases - Sondergänger - GrenzSPRENGER listen, understand, accompany". Conference in Salzburg, St. Virgil, on 28 November 2019.
• "Biographical experiences of care leavers through the ages - survey of care leavers from Pro Juventute care centres in Styria". Symposium in Graz, Steiermarkhof, on 11 October 2019.
• "Sex education at Pro Juventute". Symposium in Salzburg, Wyndham Grand, on 26/06/2019.
• "[Not] child's play? Sex education in child and youth welfare". Conference in Salzburg, Brunauer Centre, 29/11/2018.
• "Without today there is no yesterday tomorrow. 70 years of Pro Juventute". Conference in Salzburg, St. Virgil, on 22/06/2017.
• "The importance of relationship experiences - survey of care leavers from Pro Juventute care centres in Salzburg. Presentation of an exploratory study". Symposium in Salzburg, St. Virgil, on 07.12.2017.
• "Cooperation with the family of origin". Conference in Salzburg, Brunauer Centre, on 14.12.20016.

Memberships

• ÖFEB - Austrian Society for Research and Development in Education
• Research Centre Education - Generation - Life Course
• Network Youth Research.at