Bernhard Weicht
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology, University of Innsbruck
Universitätsstrasse 15, A-6020 Innsbruck
Room W 2.14
Phone: +43 512 507 73402
Email: bernhard.weicht@uibk.ac.at
Curriculum Vitae
Bernhard Weicht is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He has studied (Social) Economics in Vienna/Austria and Social Policy in Nottingham/UK. He holds a PhD from the University of Nottingham where he researched the social and moral construction of care for elderly people. He continued his work on care and ageing as a Marie Curie Fellow at Utrecht University, Netherlands with a project on the intersections of care and migration regimes. Prior to joining the University of Innsbruck he worked as a lecturer at Leiden University College. He received his Habilitation at the University of Innsbruck in 2018 with work entitled “A Caring Sociology for Ageing Societies“. Bernhard has published on the construction of care, ideas of dependency, migrant care workers, the intersection of migration and care regimes, end of life, the construction of ageing and older people. He is the author of The Meaning of Care (2015) and co-editor of The Commonalities of Global Crisis (2016), both published by Palgrave Macmillan. He was chair of the European Sociological Association Research Network “Ageing in Europe” and is currently co-speaker of ESPANet Austria. He is currently coordinating the Austrian case of the EU Horizon Project "LeTs-Care: Learning from long-term care practices for the european care strategy".
Publications and Invited Presentations
Peer reviewed articles
- Weicht, Bernhard; Forchtner, Bernhard (2023): Negotiating euthanasia: Civil society contesting ‘the completed life’. Current Sociology 71/3, 432 - 449.
- Tolhurst, Edward; Weicht, Bernhard; Runacres, Jessica (2023): Sustaining relational subjectivity: The experience of women with dementia. Sociology of Health & Illness 45/3, S. 503 - 521.
- Tolhurst, Edward; Weicht, Bernhard (2023): Navigating the Impacts of Dementia: The Experience of Male Spousal Carers. Healthcare 11/18, No. 2492
- Weicht, Bernhard; Tolhurst, Edward (2023): The Spousal Unit and Dementia: Investigating the Relational Basis of the Couplehood Concept. Healthcare 11/15, No. 2191.
- Tolhurst, E and Weicht, B (2018), Unyielding selflessness: Relational negotiations, dementia and care. Journal of Aging Studies, 47, 32-38.
- Radicioni, S and Weicht, B (2018), A place to transform: creating caring spaces by challenging normativity and identity. Gender, Place & Culture, Vol. 25, (3), 368-383.
- Tolhurst, Edward & Weicht, Bernhard (2017), Preserving personhood: The strategies of men negotiating the experience of dementia, Journal of Aging Studies, Vol. 40, pp. 29-35.
- Tolhurst, Edward; Weicht, Bernhard & Kingston, Paul (2016), Narrative collisions, sociocultural pressures and dementia: the relational basis of personhood, Sociology of Health & Illness, doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.12523.
- Da Roit, B, Hoogenboom, M and Weicht, B (2015), “The gender informal care gap. A fuzzy set analysis of cross-country variations”, European Societies, 17, (2), pp. 199-218.
- Da Roit, B and Weicht, B (2013), Migrant Care Work and Care, Migration and Employment Regimes: A Fuzzy-Set Analysis, Journal of European Social Policy, Vol. 23, (5), pp. 469-486.
- Weicht, B (2013), The making of ‘the elderly’: Constructing the subject of care, Journal of Aging Studies, Vol. 27, (2), pp. 188-197.
- Weicht, B (2011), Embracing Dependency: Rethinking (In)dependence in the Discourse of Care, Sociological Review, Vol. 58, s2, pp. 205-224.
- Weicht, B (2010), Embodying the ideal carer: The Austrian discourse on migrant carers, International Journal for Ageing and Later Life, Vol. 5, (2), pp. 17-52.
- Peyrefitte, M, Sanders, E and Weicht, B (2010), ENQUIRE– a (self)reflexive journey, European Political Science, Vol. 9, (1), pp. 131-140.
- Weicht, B (2009), The morality of caring: The discursive construction of informal care, ENQUIRE, (2).
Monograph
- Weicht, B (2015), The Meaning of Care: The social construction of care for elderly people, Palgrave Macmillan.
Edited books
- Weicht, B. and Österle, A. (eds.) (2016), Im Ausland zu hause pflegen: Die Beschäftigung von MigrantInnen in der 24 Stunden Betreuung, LIT Verlag.
- Karner, C and Weicht, B (eds.) (2016), The Commonalities of Global Crises: Markets, Communities and Nostalgia, Palgrave Macmillan.
Book chapters
- Weicht, Bernhard (2023): Globalization as an extension of the triple movement: care workers’ struggles for emancipation. In: Karner, Christian; Hofäcker, Dirk (Eds.): Research Handbook on the Sociology of Globalization. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (= Research Handbooks in Sociology).
- Weicht, Bernhard (2021): Individual Trajectories and Intersecting Regimes: Methodological Reflections on Researching Migrant Care Work. In: Horn, Vincent; Schweppe, Cornelia; Böcker, Anita; Bruquetas-Callejo, María: The Global Old Age Care Industry. Tapping into migrants for tackling the old age care crisis. Houndmills [u.a.]: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Müller Kmet, B and Weicht, B (2019), Relevanz von zentralen Lebensbereichen: Konstanz oder Wandel, in Bacher, J et al. (Hrsg.), Sozialstruktur und Wertewandel in Österreich: Trends 1986-2016, Springer VS, pp. 25-50.
- Weicht, B (2018), Old and dependent: The construction of a subject position for politics and care, in: Wodak, R and Forchtner, B (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Language and Politics, Routledge, pp. 500-513.
- Weicht, B (2016), Die einzige Möglichkeit: Die 24-Stunden-Betreuung aus diskursiver Perspektive, in Weicht, B. and Österle, A. (eds.), Im Ausland zu hause pflegen: Die Beschäftigung von MigrantInnen in der 24 Stunden Betreuung, LIT Verlag, pp. 115-140.
- Österle, A and Weicht, B (2016), Im Ausland zu hause pflegen: Ein Überblick, in Weicht, B. and Österle, A. (eds.), Im Ausland zu hause pflegen: Die Beschäftigung von MigrantInnen in der 24 Stunden Betreuung, LIT Verlag, pp. 11-30.
- Weicht, B (2016), State, Market, or back to the Family? Nostalgic Struggles for Proper Elder Care, in Karner, C and Weicht, B (eds.) (2016), The Commonalities of Global Crises: Markets, Communities and Nostalgia, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 115-142.
- Karner, C and Weicht, B (2016), Markets, "Communities" and Nostalgia, in Karner, C and Weicht, B (eds.), The Commonalities of Global Crises: Markets, Communities and Nostalgia, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-34.
- Karner, C and Weicht, B (2016), Epilogue, in Karner, C and Weicht, B (eds.), The Commonalities of Global Crises: Markets, Communities and Nostalgia, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 345-354.
- Weicht, B (2015), Employment without employers? The public discourse on care during the regularisation reform in Austria, in Triandafyllidou, A. and Marchetti, S. (eds.), Employers, Agencies and Immigration: Paying for Care, Ashgate, pp. 113-132.
- Weicht, B (2014), Neue Herausforderungen – traditionelle Lösungen: Die 24-Stunden-Betreuung im politischen Diskurs, in Appelt, E, Fleischer, E and Preglau, M (eds.), Elder Care: Intersektionelle Analysen der informellen Betreuung und Pflege alter Menschen in Österreich, Studienverlag Innsbruck, pp. 93-109.
Other publications
- Luppi M, Oomkens, R, Knijn, T and Weicht, B (2015), Citizenship in the Context of Migrant Care Work: Regimes, Rights and Recognition. FP7 Program BEUCITIZEN Grant Agreement nr. 320294/ SSH 2012.1-1/SOPINS: Utrecht.
- Tronto, J and Weicht, B (2014), ‘As long as care is attached to gender, there is no justice’, An Interview with Joan C. Tronto, Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, Vol. 17, (3), pp. 259-272.
- Aartsen, M, Béland, D, Edmondson, R, Ginn, J, Komp, K, Nilsson, M, Perek-Bialas, J, Sorensen, P, and Weicht, B (2012), Ageing in the light of crises: Economic crisis, demographic change, and the search for meaning, Welfare Studies Working Paper Nr. 12. Umea, Department of Sociology, Umea University.
- Weicht B (2011), Book Review: Johnson, J, Rolph, S and Smith, R: Residential Care Transformed: Revisiting ‘The Last Refuge’, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, International Journal of Ageing & Later Life, Vol. 6, (1), pp. v-viii.
- Weicht B (2010), Book Review: Edmondson, R and von Kondratowitz, H-J (eds.): Valuing Older People: A humanist approach to ageing, Bristol: Policy Press, 2009, International Journal of Ageing & Later Life, Vol. 5, (1), pp. v-viii.
- CMO Flevoland (2011), Blik op Flevoland, research report for the Province Flevoland, The Netherlands.
- CMO Flevoland (2011), Ketenzorg Alcoholproblemen: ketenzorg als integrale, sluitende aanpak binnen Flevoland, research report for the Province Flevoland, The Netherlands.
- CMO Flevoland (2010), Nazorg Jeugdzorg, research report for the Province Flevoland, The Netherlands.
Invited presentations
- Luppi M, Oomkens, R, Knijn, T and Weicht, B (2015), Citizenship in the Context of Migrant Care Work: Regimes, Rights and Recognition. FP7 Program BEUCITIZEN Grant Agreement nr. 320294/ SSH 2012.1-1/SOPINS: Utrecht.
- Tronto, J and Weicht, B (2014), ‘As long as care is attached to gender, there is no justice’, An Interview with Joan C. Tronto, Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, Vol. 17, (3), pp. 259-272.
- Aartsen, M, Béland, D, Edmondson, R, Ginn, J, Komp, K, Nilsson, M, Perek-Bialas, J, Sorensen, P, and Weicht, B (2012), Ageing in the light of crises: Economic crisis, demographic change, and the search for meaning, Welfare Studies Working Paper Nr. 12. Umea, Department of Sociology, Umea University.
- Weicht B (2011), Book Review: Johnson, J, Rolph, S and Smith, R: Residential Care Transformed: Revisiting ‘The Last Refuge’, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, International Journal of Ageing & Later Life, Vol. 6, (1), pp. v-viii.
- Weicht B (2010), Book Review: Edmondson, R and von Kondratowitz, H-J (eds.): Valuing Older People: A humanist approach to ageing, Bristol: Policy Press, 2009, International Journal of Ageing & Later Life, Vol. 5, (1), pp. v-viii.
- CMO Flevoland (2011), Blik op Flevoland, research report for the Province Flevoland, The Netherlands.
- CMO Flevoland (2011), Ketenzorg Alcoholproblemen: ketenzorg als integrale, sluitende aanpak binnen Flevoland, research report for the Province Flevoland, The Netherlands.
- CMO Flevoland (2010), Nazorg Jeugdzorg, research report for the Province Flevoland, The Netherlands.
Press and general public
- Interview for Austrian Newspaper Die Presse, 2018.
- Portrait and interview for Zukunft Forschung (University of Innsbruck), 2017.
- Keynote at public event: 24h Betreuung (AK Tirol, BFI), Innsbruck, 2017.
- Interview for Slovenian national television (programme “Studio City”), 2016.
- Several interviews for Austrian newspaper Tiroler Tageszeitung, 2015-2016.
- Presentation at public event: "The Multi-Generational Workplace" (BFI Tirol, AMS Tirol), Innsbruck, 2016.
- Interview on Austrian national radio (Ö1), 2008.
Fellowships & Grants
| Year | Fellowships/Grants |
|---|---|
| 2017 | Regional Research Grant (Regionalmanagement regio3 Pillerseetal-Leukental-Leogang, AK Tirol): Studie zur Entwicklung der 24h Betreuung |
| 2016 | Regional Research Grant (KUUSK, AK Tyrol, Austria), Child Care in the region KUUSK |
| 2011-2013 | Marie Curie Fellowship, awarded by the European Commission (7th framework programme), research project: ‘Caring Labour in a Migrating World’ |
| 2010 | Theodor Körner Preis, awarded by the Theodor Körner Fonds – zur Förderung von Wissenschaft und Kunst, research project: ‘'They prefer to stay at home': The portrayal of elderly people in the Austrian discourse on care' |
| 2008 | Travel Prize, Graduate School, joint price from University of Nottingham and the School of Sociology & Social Policy |
| 2007-2010 | Two extensive grants from Centre for Integrative Learning at the University of Nottingham for ENQUIRE |
| 2006-2009 | Full PhD Scholarship, School of Sociology & Social Policy, University of Nottingham |
| 2005-2006 | Scholarship from the ‘Siegfried Ludwig – Stiftung’ (Siegfried Ludwig – Foundation), Federal State of Niederösterreich, Austria |
| 2002-2003 | Scholarship for excellent performance, WU Wien, Austria |