Hella von Unger
Hella von Unger (born August 12, 1971 in Hanover ) is a German social scientist .
Life
Until 1998 von Unger studied social sciences at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University in Hanover . Barbara Duden and Gudrun-Axeli Knapp supervised their diploma thesis . She completed a semester abroad at the University of California, Berkeley . A qualitative study on the stigmatization of lesbian and bisexual New York mothers with HIV / AIDS doctorate from Unger 2005 Dr. phil. She then worked as a scientist at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg , the Free University of Berlin and at the Berlin Science Center for Social Research (WZB).
In 2013 she was offered a professorship at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), where she has been a W2 professor for sociology since then. Her focus is on qualitative methods of empirical social research. In addition, von Unger is chairman of the ethics committee of the social science faculty of the LMU and was a board member of the methods of qualitative social research section of the German Society for Sociology from 2016 to 2018 .
Research interests
Von Unger is primarily interested in qualitative and participatory methods of empirical social research and questions of research ethics . She conducts research on migration and ethnicity , health and illness, especially HIV / AIDS.
Fonts (selection)
- Hella von Unger / Hansjörg Dilger / Michael Schönhuth: Ethics assessment in social and cultural research? A contribution to the debate from a sociological and ethnological point of view. In: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung 2016, 17 (3), Art. 20 (in German and English) online .
- Kathrin Leuze / Hella von Unger: Scientific work in sociology studies. UTB Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh , Paderborn 2015, ISBN 9783825243142 .
- Hella von Unger: Participatory Research. Introduction to research practice. Springer VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-658-01290-8 .
- Hella von Unger / Petra Narimani / Rosaline M'Bayo (eds.): Research ethics in qualitative research: reflexivity, perspectives, positions. Springer VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-658-04289-9 .
- Hella von Unger: Participatory Health Research. Who participates in what? In: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung 2012, 13 (1), Art. 7, online .
Projects (selection)
- 2018–2021: Civil society organizations and the challenge of migration and diversity: Agents of Change (ZOMiDi), funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
- 2016–2017: Young refugees, education, labor market , teaching research project in collaboration with Petra Schütt, LMU Munich, funding from the City of Munich (Department for Labor and Economics)
- 2012–2015: Changing categories: migrants in epidemiological, preventive and legal discourses on HIV and tuberculosis. A country comparison (D / UK) , funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
- 2008–2011: Participative development of primary HIV prevention for migrants (PaKoMi) , in cooperation with Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe eV , WZB and Public Health Research Group, funded by the Federal Ministry of Health (BMG)
- 2001–2004: Multiple stigmatization of lesbian and bisexual women with HIV / AIDS in New York: A Qualitative Study , in collaboration with the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, Columbia University New York and New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI), funding by the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, Columbia University New York
- 1997–1999: The game of hide and seek with the virus: An empirical study on problem situations and solution strategies in everyday life of HIV-positive women , University of Hanover, online .
Scholarships (selection)
- 2017: Honorary Visiting Fellowship , Australian Research Center in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS), La Trobe University , Melbourne , Australia
- 2015: Connect , program for the Japanese-German Frontiers of Science Symposium, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- 2011: ProFiL , professionalization for women in research and teaching, Technical University of Berlin
- 2009–2011: Fast Track , career program for young women scientists, Robert Bosch Stiftung
Web links
- Profile on the website of the University of Munich
- Literature by and about Hella von Unger in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Profile on the WZB website. Retrieved September 5, 2018 .
- ↑ Website of the joint project. Retrieved September 5, 2018 .
- ^ Report on the completed project. Retrieved September 5, 2018 .
- ↑ Project profile on the Aidshilfe website with video report. Retrieved September 5, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Unger, Hella from |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German social scientist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover , Germany |