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İlhan Tomanbay,  Prof.

İlhan Tomanbay, Prof. Dr. He was born in Iskenderun (Hatay) (21 April 1948). He graduated from the Social Services Academy of the Ministry of Health and Social Assistance (17 07 1971). He worked as an education specialist in the Genel-İş Union affiliated to Türk-İş (later to DİSK), where he started working on 15 02 1972 (April 1972-August 1979). He studied unionism in F. Germany, where he went as a scholarship of the union; He did practical professional studies (1974-1975) and wrote articles on Turkish workers abroad and their families. He worked as a group social worker in the youth field in 1975-1976 in an orphanage in F. Germany, where she stayed until her military service. In the same year, on his return from Germany, he left the union and started to work as a research assistant at the Social Services Academy, which is under the umbrella of the Ministry of Health and Social Assistance since 1979. With the 1982 regulation, the status of the Social Services Academy was changed to the Vocational School of Social Services affiliated to the Rectorate. In the same year, he got his master's degree from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Social Policy (October 1979-July 1981). In 1985, he worked as a guest lecturer at the Berlin School of Social Work and Social Education (Alice Salomon Fachhochschule für Sozialarbeit/Sozialpädagogik); He gave various lectures and courses (Fall 1985 - Fall 1988). Meanwhile, she won a doctoral scholarship from the Friedrich Ebert (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung) and Hans Böckler foundations (Hans-Böckler-Stiftung). He completed his doctorate at the Faculty of Educational Sciences of Berlin, Department of Social Education and Social Work (Technische Universität, Berlin, Fachbereich für Erziehungswissenschaften, Abteilung Sozialpädagogik/Sozialarbeit) as a fellow of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (1987-June 1990). He returned to Turkey in 1991 and started working again as a lecturer at Hacettepe University School of Social Services in the fall semester. He received the title of associate professor in 1993 and associate professorship in 1995 and later the title of professor in1995 and professorship in 1999 in the department of social work at the same college. He established the Akdeniz University Social Services Education, Research and Application Center (AKSUM) at Akdeniz University (Antalya), where he went on a temporary mission in 1997; He served as its director for two years (1998-2000). He returned to Ankara because the establishment of the Social Work and Social Services Department at Akdeniz University, which was at the final stage, could not be established. He was appointed as the assistant director of Hacettepe University Ankara Vocational School between 2000-2002. Later, he served as the principal at the same School until 2009. In order to end the confusion of service and education, technical programs were separated from Ankara Vocational School and contributed to the structuring of Polatlı Technical Sciences Vocational School. The name of Ankara Vocational School was changed to Social Sciences Vocational School. In this process, she also served as the director of Polatlı Vocational High School for a certain period of time. He supported the University Senate to change the status of Hacettepe University School of Social Services, where he worked uninterruptedly, and connect it to Hacettepe University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences as a Social Work Department (2005-2006). He retired on April 21, 2015. In August 2017, he started to work as a professor of social work and supported the establishment of Istinye University Faculty of Health Sciences Department of Social Work. Between 2018-2021, he worked as the director of the Vocational School at the same university. He continues his duty as the Head of Social Work Department. In addition to 18 books, two of which are in German, he has seven books that he edited, authored chapters in six books, four of which are in German, a translation book and more than 300 published articles (See İlhan Tomanbay Official WEB Page (www.ilhantomanbay.com)). Six of his books are electronic and four are both print and electronic.

Research Areas: Social Work Models, Social Policy, Gerontology, Immigration and Asylum , Künstliche Intelligence; Soziale Gesundheit , Soziale Gesundheit

Ders Verdiği Bölümler: Social Work Models, Social Policy, Gerontology, Immigration and Asylum , Künstliche Intelligence; Soziale Gesundheit , Soziale Gesundheit