PD Dr. Solveig Lena Hansen
Research interests
Solveig Lena Hansen conducts research from an ethical and sociocultural perspective on the following topics: Public Health Communication, Higher Body Weight (Obesity), Organ Transplantation, Medical/Health Humanities. Detailed information is availabal at www.solveiglenahansen.de
Professional and research experience
since 2023
Head of the working group: Public Health Ethics an Health Humanities, IPP Bremen
since 10/2020
University Lecturer for Ethics, University of Bremen (permanent position)
2010-2020
Research Associate, Institute for Ethics and History of Medicine, University Medical Center Göttingen
2010-2013
Research assistant, DFG Research Training Group: Dynamics of Space and Gender, Universities of Kassel and Göttingen
2007-2010
Student assistant, Insitute for Ethics and History of Medicine, University Medical Center Göttingen
Academic education and qualification pathway
2023
Habilitation, Venia Legendi: Medical Ethics/Medical Humanities; Medical Faculty, University of Göttingen
2016
Doctorate, Bioethics; Faculty of Philosophy, University of Göttingen
2010
Magister Artium, University of Göttingen
2005-2010
Study of Comparative Literature, Scandinavian Studies and Gender Studies, University of Göttingen
Awards
2022
Bremen University Prize for Excellent Teaching (State Teaching Prize)
2017
Young Talent Award, Academy for Ethics in Medicine
2013
Prize of the Board of Trustees, University of Göttingen
Memberships and offices
- Academy for Ethics in Medicine
- German Society for Public Health
- Gender Stuidies Association
- Standing Committee for Organ Transplantation (StäKo) at the German Medical Association
- Ethics Committee, University of Bremen (deputy)
- KRAM Council of Academic Staff, University of Bremen
Key Publications:
Wellmann A, Müller R, Hansen SL (in publication): One app fits all? Ethical reflection on digital health applications in obesity care. Ethics in Medicine (accepted for publication).
Flohr, K; Nikoyan, K; Sweers, L; Hansen; SL (2024): participation as a path to student-centered innovation in public health teaching: structures, approaches and goals of a Bremen Innovation Lab. In: Gandt, S; Schmohl, T; Zinger B; Zitzmann, C (eds.) Co-creative learning and teaching: Higher education in the age of disruption. Bielefeld: wbv, 119-134.
Senck, E; Hansen, SL (2023): Solidarity in the Sløborn series: Methodological and didactic considerations on audiovisual media in public health ethics. In: Frewer, A; Schmidt, KW (eds.): Medical and nursing ethics in the Media. Würzburg: Könighausen & Neumann, 43-66.
Hansen, SL; Preuß, B; Frisina Doetter, L (2024): A needs-based perspective on long-term care, obesity, and old age. Ethics in medicine 36, 391-420.
Hansen, SL; Thielsch, A; Wöhlke, S (2022): Stories of weight: Health ethics and didactic considerations on the use of film in university teaching using the example of obesity. In: Leniger, M; Lesch, W (eds.): Questions of life and death. Medicine and ethics in film. Marburg: Schüren, 59-78.
Hansen, SL (2022): Otherness, Cloning, and Morality in John Wyndham´s The Midwitch Cuckoos (1957). Journal of Medical Humaities 43, 547-560.
Hansen, SL; Pfaller, L; Schicktanz, S (2021): Critical Analysis of Communication Strategies in Public Health Promotion: An Empirical-Ethical Study on Organ Donation in Germany. Bioethics 35 (2), 161-172
Hansen, SL; Schicktanz, S (HG.) (2021): Ethical Challenges of Organ Transplantation. Current Debates and International Perspectives. Bielefeld: transcript.
Hilbrich, I; Hansen, SL (2021): Explorations about the Family’s Role in the German Transplantation System: Epistemic Opacity and Discursive Exclusion. Social Epistemology 36 (1), 43–62.
Hansen, SL; Bammel, H; Lübeck, N; Seibel, R; Schankweiler, P (2020): Communication preferences in the context of obesity: a qualitative study with participants of a weight reduction program. Prevention and health promotion 15, 319-325
Hansen, SL (2019): Communication as empowerment for autonomous decisionmaking: an ethical analysis of websites in transplantation medicine. Bioethica Forum 12 (3/4), 96-104
Schaper, M; Hansen, SL; Schicktanz, S (2018): Persuading for the good cause ? Techniques of public health communication and their ethical implications. Ethics in medicine 31, 23-44
Hansen, SL; Eisner, MI; Pfaller, L; Schicktanz, S (2018): `Are you in or are you out ?!` Moral Appeals to the Public in Organ Donation Poster Campaigns - a Multimodal and Ethical Analysis. Health Communication 33 (8), 1020-1034
Pfaller, L; Hansen, SL; Adloff, F; Schicktanz, S (2018): `Saying No to Organ Donation`: an Empirical Typology of Reluctance and Rejection. Sociology of Health and Illness 40 (8), 1327-1346.
Hansen, SL; Holetzek, T; Heyder, C; Wiesemann, C (2018): Stakeholder participation in clinical resarch: an ethical analysis. Ethics in medicine 30, 289-305.
Hansen, SL (2018): Family Resemblances: Human Reproductive Cloning as an Example for Reconsidering the Mutual Relationships between Bioethics and Science Fiction. Bioethical Inquiry 15 (2), 231-242.
Hansen, SL (2017): Dystopia and method: on the fictional negotiation of moral convictions in bioethics. Ethics in medicine 29 (4), 306-322.
Hansen, SL (2016): Alterity as a cultural challenge of cloning. A reconstruction of bioethical and literary negotiations. Münster: Mentis.
Hansen, SL; Wöhlke, S (2016): Contrasting Medical Technology with Deprivation and Social Vulnerability. Lessons for the Ethical Debate on Cloning and Organ Transplantation through the Film Never Let Me Go (2010). Nanoethics 10(3), 245-256.
A complete list of publications can be found here
Invited lectures
Preuß, B.; Hansen, S. L.; Frisina Doetter, L. (2024): Exploring the ethical terrain across long-term care, obesity, and old age Dalian University (China)/University of Bremen (Germany), online
4th Chinese-German Symposium on Elderly Care online, 09/2024
Hansen SL: Necessity and limits of the concept of justice in public health
State association for Health and Academy for Social Medicine, Hanover
Annual Conference, 06/2024
Hansen SL: Obesity as a challenge in the healthcare system: Emoirical research perspectives and their ethical relevance
Helios Hanseklinikum, Stralsund
Psychiatry training and continuing education program, 11/2022
Hansen SL: Development of a public health ethics curriculum in the Bremen health sciences
Online symposium on the reform of university teaching, Bremen
Teaching and learning in the 21st century, 11/2022
Hansen SL: Amend the Disruption. Analyzing Transplant Communication through Maylis de Kerangal‘s Mend the Living
Univerity of Granada (Spain)
Bioethics International Workshop, 03/2022
Hansen SL: Educate, convince, influence: Potentials and limits of public health campaigns from an ethical perspective
University of Augsburg
Ethik @ Lunch (Colloquium), 06/2021
Presentations according to Call for Abstracts
Hansen SL, Preuß B, Frisina-Doetter L. A needs-based perspective on long-term care, obesity, and old age
36th ESPMH Conference, Frankfurt/Offenbach
Medicine, healthcare, and the market, 09/2024
Hansen SL: Teaching research ethics skills for students of health sciences
Annual Conference of the Academy for Ethics and History of Medicine, Halle/Saale
Ethical competencies in the healthcare sector, 09/2023
Renelt L; Senck E; Hansen SL: Public health ethics and film: Our experiences with teaching-learning scenarios
Colloquium on Young Medical Ethics (online)
Medical und Health Humanities, 07/2023
Hansen SL; Wöhlke S: How films make the unspeakable public: An empirical-ethical reflection on organ donation through the film repairing the Living
Annual Conference of the Academy of Ethics and History of Medicine, Frankfurt
"Sound off... Camera rolling!" Medical and care ethics in the media, 09/2022
Hansen SL; Weßel M: Ethical aspects of the relationship between obesity and age - a research sketch
Colloquium on Young Medical Ethics (online)
Diversity in medicine (ethics), 01/2022
Hansen, SL; Weßel, M; Janowitz, D: Adipositas und Alter: Obesity and ageing: A diversity-sensitive perspective on ethical challenges in healthcare
Annual Conference of the Academy for Ethics in Medicine, Erlangen-Nürnberg
The future of humanity in healthcare, 09/2021
Hansen, SL; Weßel, M: Applying an Intersectional Perspective to Obesity Prevention: A Critical Matrix.
Annual Conference of the German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention, 09/2021