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Academic career

• 2020-2025
  Professorship for Social Work Science with a focus on individual case help, social management and ethics in social work, Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Görlitz.
• 2016-2020
  Research assistant in the BMBF research project "Protection of children and adolescents from sexual traumatisation", Merseburg University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Social Work. Media. Culture.
• 2015-2019
  Doctorate, cooperative procedure, University of Kassel and Merseburg University of Applied Sciences, topic: Sexual education in child and youth welfare.
• 2014-2016
  Lecturer for special tasks in the BA programme Social Work, Merseburg University of Applied Sciences, Department of Social Work. Media. Culture.
• 2010-2013
  Master's programme in Applied Sexual Science (M.A.), Merseburg University of Applied Sciences, Department of Social Work. Media. Culture. (part-time programme, part-time).
• 2002-2007
  Diploma programme in Social Work/Social Pedagogy, Merseburg University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Social Work. Media. Culture.

• Publications (selection)

• Publication overview at ORCiD-iD: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-6377-4526
   
• Overview of encyclopaedia articles by Torsten Linke on socialnet: https://www.socialnet.de/lexikon/lexikon.html?autor=70023
   
• Linke, Torsten (2024): Sexual education in child and youth services. In: jugendhilfe, issue 3/2024. p. 231-239.
• Linke, Torsten (2024): Reflections on social developments and their effects on social work. In: CORAX, issue 4/2023, pp. 26-28.
• Linke, Torsten (2023): Social work and sexuality - transformation processes in sex education and sexology. In: Schulze, Mandy; Hille, Julia & Albrecht, Peter-Georg (eds.): Genese Ost: Transformations of social work in Germany. Opladen: Budrich. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.7013072.12
• Linke, Torsten & Eckardt, Andrea (2023): Editorial - Child protection in child and youth welfare centres. In: Discourse - Childhood and Youth Research. Issue 3/2023. p. 293-297. https://doi.org/10.3224/diskurs.v18i3.01
• Barth, Nicola, Baumgarten, Julia, Preusker, Sarah & Linke, Torsten, Enke, Paul. (2023): Care Leaver* - Needs and requirements in the transition to adult life. Focus: Experiences with participation in youth welfare. In: Discourse - Childhood and Youth Research, Issue 3/2023, pp. 415-420. https://doi.org/10.3224/diskurs.v18i3.10
• Linke, Torsten (2023): Sexual education as an offer of support in coping with developmental tasks in socio-educational contexts. In: Perspectives on empirical child and youth research. Issue 17, Volume 9, Issue 1/2023. p. 5-37. https://fel-verlag.de/artikel/ausgabe-17-jahr-2023-jahrgang-9-heft-1-2/
• Linke, Torsten (2023): Sexuality in the life course - children and adolescents. In: Höblich, Davina & Mantey, Dominik (eds.): Handbuch Sexualität und Soziale Arbeit. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa. S. 18-27.
• Schubert, Lina & Linke, Torsten (2023): Perspectives on queer-inclusive action in youth welfare. In: CORAX, issue 3/2023, pp. 40-42.
• Linke, Torsten (2022): Educational partnership in outpatient youth welfare. An examination using the example of outreach educational support. In: jugendhilfe, issue 2/2022. p. 97-105.
• Linke, Torsten (2021): Sexual education with parents in the context of socio-educational family support. In: Böhm, Maika; Kopitzke, Elisa; Herrath, Frank & Sielert, Uwe (eds.): Praxishandbuch Sexuelle Bildung im Erwachsenenalter. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa. S. 281-291.
• Linke, Torsten (2021): Sexualised violence in families - An overview of frequency and risk factors. In: Fobian, Clemens & Ulfers, Rainer (eds.): Boys and men as victims of sexualised violence. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. S. 133-144. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-30379-2_7
• Linke, Torsten (2021): Family and Child Sexuality: Family Influences on the Sexual Socialisation of Children. In: Bienia, Oliver & Kägi, Sylvia (eds.): Textbook child sexuality in day-care centres. Pedagogical, psychological, sociological and legal approaches. Weinheim and Basel: Beltz Juventa. S. 23-36.
• Linke, Torsten (2020): Sexual education in child and youth services. The importance of young people's concepts of trust for talking about sexuality in educational contexts. Psychosozial-Verlag Gießen. https://doi.org/10.30820/9783837976816
• Krolzik-Matthei, Katja; Linke, Torsten & Urban, Maria (eds.) (2020): Protecting children and adolescents from sexual traumatisation. Current results and findings from social work theory and practice. Gießen: Psychosozial-Verlag. https://doi.org/10.30820/9783837976946
• Linke, Torsten (2020): Professional actions of socio-educational professionals in the context of sexualised violence. In: Krolzik-Matthei, Katja; Linke, Torsten & Urban, Maria (eds.): Protecting children and adolescents from sexual traumatisation. Current results and findings from the theory and practice of social work. Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag. S. 87-98. https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.5523
• Linke, Torsten (2020): The Intersectionality Approach as a Reflection Offer for Social Work. An examination using the example of dealing with language and terminology. In: Krolzik-Matthei, Katja; Linke, Torsten & Urban, Maria (eds.): Protecting children and adolescents from sexual traumatisation. Current results and findings from the theory and practice of social work. Gießen: Psychosozial-Verlag. S. 143-152. https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.5522
• Linke, Torsten (2020): Sexual education and parental work: Reflections on the example of parental work in a day care centre. In: Bostelmann, Antje & Textor, Martin R. (eds.): Das Kita-Handbuch. Online. https://www.kindergartenpaedagogik.de/fachartikel/bildungsbereiche-erziehungsfelder/geschlechtsbezogene-erziehung-sexualerziehung/sexuelle-bildung-und-elternarbeit-reflexionen-am-beispiel-der-elternarbeit-in-einer-kindertagesstaette
• Linke, Torsten (2020): The importance of the family for the sexual socialisation of children. In: State Centre for Youth Protection Lower Saxony (ed.): Kindliche Sexualität. Between parental will and pedagogy. Hanover. PP. 8-12. https://jugendschutz-materialien.de/wp-content/uploads/woocommerce_uploads/2020/01/JSN_Bro_KindlicheSexualita%CC%88t_screen.pdf
• Krolzik-Matthei, Katja & Linke, Torsten (2020): Challenges posed by sexuality and sexualised violence in outpatient educational support. In: Krolzik-Matthei, Katja; Linke, Torsten & Urban, Maria (eds.): Protecting children and adolescents from sexual traumatisation. Current results and findings from the theory and practice of social work. Gießen: Psychosozial-Verlag. S. 57-70.
• Magdon, Greta; Urban, Maria & Linke, Torsten (2020): Guidelines for protection against sexualised violence. An approach to institutional framework conditions for socio-educational family support. In: Krolzik-Matthei, Katja; Linke, Torsten & Urban, Maria (eds.): Protection of children and adolescents from sexual traumatisation. Current results and findings from the theory and practice of social work. Gießen: Psychosozial-Verlag. S. 111-122.
• Krolzik-Matthei, Katja; Linke, Torsten; Voß, Heinz Jürgen et al. von Urban, Maria and Magdon, Greta (2019): Interviews on sexuality and gender with social work professionals. In: Wazlawik, Martin; Voß, Heinz Jürgen; Retkowski, Alexandra; Henningsen, Anja & Dekker, Arne (eds.): Sexual violence in pedagogical contexts. Current research and reflections. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. S. 247-259.
• Linke, Torsten (2018): Sexualised violence in the family. In: Retkowski, Alexandra; Treibel, Angelika & Tuider, Elisabeth (eds.): Handbuch Sexualisierte Gewalt und pädagogische Kontexte. Theory, research, practice. Weinheim and Basel: Beltz Juventa. S. 398-406.
• Linke, Torsten (2018): Working with families in the context of sexualised violence in child and youth services. In: Retkowski, Alexandra; Treibel, Angelika & Tuider, Elisabeth (eds.): Handbuch Sexualisierte Gewalt und pädagogische Kontexte. Theory, research, practice. Weinheim and Basel: Beltz Juventa. S. 571-578.
• Linke, Torsten & Voß, Heinz-Jürgen (2018): Sexual Health and Migration: Theoretical Foundations for a Reflective Understanding. Child abuse and neglect. Interdisciplinary Journal for Prevention and Intervention. Volume 21, Issue 2, 2018. pp. 122-135. https://doi.org/10.13109/kind.2018.21.2.122
• Linke, Torsten & Krolzik-Matthei, Katja (2018): "There the perpetrators are in contact with the people who sexually abused them" - Challenges in socio-educational family support when dealing with sexualised violence in the family. Child abuse and neglect. Interdisciplinary journal for prevention and intervention. Volume 21, Issue 2, 2018. p. 178-187. https://doi.org/10.13109/kind.2018.21.2.178
• Linke, Torsten; Hashemi, Farid & Voß, Heinz-Jürgen (2018): Sexualised violence and sexual traumatisation in the context of flight. In: Retkowski, Alexandra; Treibel, Angelika & Tuider, Elisabeth (eds.): Handbuch Sexualisierte Gewalt und pädagogische Kontexte. Theory, research, practice. Weinheim and Basel: Beltz Juventa. S. 369-377.
• Linke, Torsten & Krolzik-Matthei, Katja (2018): Family risk factors of sexualised violence for children and adolescents. In: Klees, Esther & Kettritz, Torsten: Sexualised violence by siblings. Practical handbook for educational and psychological/psychiatric work with children/adolescents who have been sexually assaulted. Lengerich: Pabst-Verlag. S. 61-74.
• Linke, Torsten & Voß, Heinz-Jürgen (2017): Boundary violations and sexualised violence in the context of flight. Exploration and recommendations for action. In: Sielert, Uwe; Marburger, Helga; Griese, Christiane (eds.): Sexuality and gender in the country of immigration. Berlin: de Gruyter. S. 143-158.
• Hashemi, Farid; Linke, Torsten & Voß, Heinz-Jürgen (2017): Migration, flight and men's sexual health. In: Men's Health Foundation (ed.): Men's Health Report 2016. Gießen: Psychosozial-Verlag. S. 211-220.
• Linke, Torsten (2017): Attitudes, competences, concepts. Sexual education as a cross-sectional task in social work. In: Leaves of Welfare: Sexuality. 2/2017. PP. 43-46. https://doi.org/10.5771/0340-8574-2017-2-43
• Linke, Torsten; Katzer, Michaela & Krolzik-Matthei, Katja (2017): Boundaries and the intersection of sexuality in social work. Social developments between normative assumptions and emancipatory movements. In: Leaves of Welfare: Sexuality. 2/2017. PP. 47-50. https://doi.org/10.5771/0340-8574-2017-2-47
• Linke, Torsten; Hashemi, Farid & Voß, Heinz-Jürgen (2016): Sexualised violence, traumatisation and flight. In: Sexuologie - Zeitschrift für Sexualmedizin, Sexualtherapie und Sexualwissenschaft, Vol. 23, Issue 1/2 (2016). S. 87-90.
• Linke, Torsten (2015): Sexuality and family. Possibilities of sexual education in the context of educational support. Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag. https://www.psychosozial-verlag.de/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/6943