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Prof. Dr. Regina Brunnett

Teaching areas

Health sciences, et al.

  • Health and work in nursing
  • Cross-cultural health care
  • Health inequalities

Sociology

  • Qualitative methods of empirical social research

Research areas

  • Discourses and Health
  • Participatory Health Research
  • Health in the context of social conditions
  • Racism and Health

Functions

  • Member of the departmental council (since 2014)
  • Member of the University Senate (since 2018)
  • Faculty representative on the university's Equal Opportunity Committee (since 2018)
  • Department representative on the university's diversity committee (since 2018)
  • Representative for the development of a master's degree program (since 2015)
  • Confidential lecturer of the Hans Böckler Foundation (since 2016)

Networks

  • German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention e.V.
  • German Society for Medical Sociology
  • Partnet, Network for Participatory Health Research
  • Network for Gender and Sexual Diversity in Health Care and Research
  • Hans Böckler Foundation

Publications (selection)

  • Brunnett, Regina: Health and Social Exclusion (forthcoming).
  • Brunnett, Regina (2017): How concepts of stress and burnout can change the relationship to work, in Anhorn, Roland; Schimpf, Elke; Stehr, Johannes; Rathgeb, Kerstin; Spindler, Susanne; Keim, Rolf (eds.):  Politik der Verhältnisse - Politik des Verhaltens - Widersprüche der Gestaltung Sozialer Arbeit, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 333-343.
  • Brunnett, Regina (2016): Rassismus und Gesundheit, in: Jahrbuch für Kritische Medizin und Gesundheitswissenschaften, vol. 51, Hamburg: Argument, pp. 54-69.
  • Brunnett, Regina (2016): Health as Capital. On the productivity of symbolic health in flexible capitalism, in Anhorn, Roland; Balzereit, Marcus (eds.): Handbuch Therapeutisierung und Soziale Arbeit, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 207-223.
  • Brunnett, Regina (2013): Burnout and social adaptation. Stress, work and self in flexible capitalism, in: Dellwing, Michael; Harbusch, Martin (eds.): Krankheitskonstruktionen und Krankheitstreiberei - Die Renaissance der soziologischen Psychiatriekritik, Frankfurt/Main: Springer, pp. 161-175.
  • Brunnett, Regina, Hasseler, Martina; Strupeit, Steve; Deneke, Christiane (2009): Mobility as a multidimensional concept. Basis for 'health promoting mobility', in: Hasseler, Martina et al. (eds.): Gerontological Care Research, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, pp. 72-84.
  • Deneke, Christiane; Brunnett, Regina (2010): Diversity as a Challenge. Needs, starting points and perspectives for a difference-oriented health promotion among older people, in: Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (ed.): Gesundheit im Alter fördern - Eine Zukunftsaufgabe der Kommunen, Berlin, pp. 36-39.
  • Brunnett, Regina (2009): The Hegemony of Symbolic Health. A study on the added value of health in postfordism, Bielefeld: transcript.
  • Brunnett, Regina (2007): Foucault's contribution to the analysis of the new culture of health, in Anhorn, Roland; Bettinger, Frank; Stehr, Johannes (eds.), Foucault's Power Analytics and Social Work. A critical introduction and stocktaking, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, pp. 169-184.

As co-editor and editor of the publication series Jahrbuch für Kritische Medizin und Gesundheitswissenschaften, Hamburg: Argument Verlag.

  • Sexual and Reproductive Health (in planning).
  • The Commune as a Site of Health Production (forthcoming).
  • Critique. Anniversary volume celebrating the 40th anniversary of the editorship (2016).
  • Primary Health Care (2015)

Career

since WiSe 2014

Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences, Department of Social and Health Sciences, Professor of Health Sciences

2013-2014

University of Applied Sciences Fulda, Faculty of Health and Nursing, among others, substitute professorship 'Health Sociology' in WiSe 2013/14

2010-2012

HFH Hamburger Fern-Hochschule, Department of Health and Nursing, substitute professorship

2009

Doctoral thesis Dr. Phil. 'Symbolic health and work. A hegemony-theoretical study on the added value of health in postfordism' (summa cum laude)

2007-2010

University of Applied Sciences Hamburg and University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, research assistant in various health- and care-related research projects

2000

Women's Promotion Award of the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences at the University of Hamburg for an outstanding degree 1998

1989-1998

Studies of Sociology, History and Educational Sciences at the University of Hamburg

1984-1989

Training and professional activity as a nurse