Dr. Magdalena Skowronski
Research associate
Memberships
Bundesverband Ethnologie
Professional career | |
08/2024 – now | Research assistant in the TCALL project - University of Bremen |
08/2022 – 07/2024 | Research assistant in the Gesi-BK project - University of Osnabrück |
03/2020 - 09/2022 | Lecturer for ‘Health Sciences’ and ‘Gender & Diversity’ at Bremen University of Applied Sciences |
03/2019 - 02/2020 | Sozialer Friedensdienst Bremen e.V. (SFD) |
09/2013 - 04/2019 | National Research Centre in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NAFKAM) and General Practice Research Unit (AFE) - University of Tromsø/Norway - PhD and research |
05/2013 - 09/2013 | Nifab.no (now: NAFKAM.no) - Tromsø/ Norway - scientific editorial office for alternative medicine |
02/2011 - 12/2011 | Göttingen Integration / Ethnomedical Centre Hannover - Site Coordinator Project ‘With Migrants for Migrants’ |
04-2009 - 03/2011 | Institute for Ethnology and Ethnological Collection/ University of Göttingen - Stud. Assistant |
08/2010 - 01/2011 | Göttingen Department / AWO Hann. Münden / Trainee and coordinator of the ‘Ageing in Germany’ project |
Academic career | |
09/2013 - 04/2019 | National Research Centre in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NAFKAM) - University and General Practice Research Unit (AFE) Tromsø/ Norway, PhD in Health Science/Medical Anthropology - Research and Teaching |
10/2015 - 08/2016 | University of Durham/ Great Britain, Visiting Researcher Medical Anthropology |
07/2007 - 12/2007 | University Nacional del San Antonio Abad del Cusco/ Peru, study of ethnology |
10/2004 - 11/2011 | University of Göttingen, Master's degree in Anthropology (major subject), Religious Studies/ Social Policy (minor subjects) |
Research, Research interests
Medical anthropology, anthropology of the senses, sense-to-symptom processes, therapeutic landscapes, anthropology of emotions, cancer survivorship, terminal cancer
Methods: Ethnographic field research, biographical and guided interviews, participant observation
Past and current research projects:
Summer term 2020 - Module: Gender and Diversity, Social Work degree programme, Bremen University of Applied Sciences
SoSe 2021 - Module: Gender and Diversity, Social Work degree programme, Bremen University of Applied Sciences
Winter semester 2021/22 - Module: Health Sciences, Social Work degree programme, Bremen University of Applied Sciences
Summer semester 2022 - Module: Gender and Diversity, Social Work degree programme, Bremen University of Applied Sciences