Kaj Flurina Affolter

Work at ZHAW

Position

Research Assistant / Doctoral Candidate

Focus

Child Protection during COVID-19

Education and Continuing education

Education

• Master of Arts UZH / Educational Science (Social Pedagogy and Socialization)
  University of Zurich
  09 / 2020 - 01 / 2023
• Bachelor of Arts / Educational Science (major), Sociology (minor)
  University of Zurich
  09 / 2017 - 07 / 2020

Projects

• netzwerkkind – a project to recruit foster parents from the foster child’s relatives or social environment / Team member / ongoing

Publications

• Affolter, Kaj Flurina; Tausendfreund, Tim; Eicher, Nicole Florence,

  2025.

  Child protection during COVID-19 : a systematic meta-synthesis of empirical studies exploring perspectives of young people and caregivers.

  Child Abuse & Neglect.

  167(107558).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2025.107558

• Affolter, Kaj Flurina; Tausendfreund, Tim; Eicher, Nicole Florence; Lätsch, David,

  2024.

  Child protection during Covid-19 : a systematic literature search and meta-synthesis of empirical studies – exploring perspectives of young people and caregivers[poster].

  In:

  ISPCAN Congress, Uppsala, Sweden, 18-21 August 2024.

• Eicher, Nicole Florence; Affolter, Kaj Flurina; Stoll, Dragan; Lätsch, David; Tausendfreund, Tim,

  2025.

  Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on child protection services through the lens of administrative data : a systematic review.

  In:

  ISPCAN Congress, Vilnius, Lithuania, 5-9 October 2025.

• Affolter, Kaj Flurina; Tausendfreund, Tim; Eicher, Nicole Florence,

  2025.

  Transitions in and out of crisis : young people's and caregivers’ perspectives on child protection during and after COVID-19.

  In:

  18th International Conference of the European Scientific Association on Residential & Family Care for Children and Adolescents (EuSARF), Zagreb, Croatia, 8-12 September 2025.

• Eicher, Nicole Florence; Affolter, Kaj Flurina; Stoll, Dragan; Lätsch, David; Tausendfreund, Tim,

  2025.

  A multi-sectoral review of child protection : trends and transitions in administrative data from pre- to post-pandemic.

  In:

  18th International Conference of the European Scientific Association on Residential & Family Care for Children and Adolescents (EuSARF), Zagreb, Croatia, 8-12 September 2025.

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