Prof. Dr. Simone Kreher

+49 661 9640-6300
+49 661 9640-6490
simone.kreher(at)gw.hs-fulda.de

Sociology of health

Fulda University of Applied Sciences
Building 53, Room 132
Leipziger Straße 123
36037 Fulda

Consultation hours: By appointment by e-mail

CV

  • Since 09/2005 Professor of Sociology of Health, Department of Nursing and Health, University of Applied Sciences Fulda
  • 2002 - 2005 Professor of Sociology of Health with special emphasis on qualitative methods of empirical social research, Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences
  • 1999 - 2002 Substitute Professor of Sociology, Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences
  • 1998 - 1999 Substitute Professor of Micro-Sociology, Institute of Social Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin
  • 1992 - 1998 Research Assistant, Department: Micro Sociology, Institute of Social Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin
  • 1987 - 1992 Research Assistant, Institute of Sociology, Department of Theory and History of Sociology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • 1984 - 1987 Research student and doctorate (1988), University of Leipzig, Department of Sociology
  • 1979 - 1987 Sociology studies, University of Leipzig, Sociology Department

Teaching Areas

  • Sociology of Health
  • Qualitative methods of empirical social research

Areas of Research

  • Sociology of health and medicine
  • Biographical research
  • Poverty research
  • Research project on the lives of families receiving basic social security benefitswww.faleha.de

Memberships

  • Member of the Section Sociology of Professions of the DGS
  • Member of the Section Sociology of Knowledge of the DGS

Publications

  • Kreher, S., & Vierzigmann, G. (1998). "Between the generations" - family dynamics and family discourses in biographical narratives. Berlin Journal of Sociology, 8(1). 23-37.
  • Kreher, S. (2002). Adapting and asserting oneself: How children cope with being in an alien home. In SOS-Kinderdorf e.V. (Ed.), Happy in a foreign place? Family-like care in discussion (pp. 137-162). Münster: Votum Verlag GmbH.
  • Kreher, S. (2002). Continuity and change over the generations Trials and tribulations of an East German family. The History of the Family, 7, 183-205.
  • Kreher, S. (2005). Contradictory messages: How much sociology of health do nursing educators, nursing professionals, nurses need? In K. Schneider, E. Brinker-Meyendriesch & A. Schneider (Eds.), Nursing education (pp. 319-332). Heidelberg: Springer.
  • Popp, M., Elkeles, T., & Kreher, S. (2005). Health and lifestyle in the rural regions of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Brandenburg - Methodological report on the development and implementation as well as the results of the pretest 2004/2005. Schriftenreihe G der Hochschule Neubrandenburg(1), 50.
  • Wollny, A., Kreher, S., Sielk, M., Wilm, S., & Brockmann, S. (2008). GPs in the "relationship trap"? Results of a qualitative study on physicians' concepts of disease and treatment strategies in venous leg ulcers (72 paragraphs). Forum Qualitative Social Research, 9(1).
  • Kreher, S., Brockmann, S., Sielk, M., Wilm, S., & Wollny, A. (2009). Family physicians' concepts of disease. Analysis of medical conceptions of headache, acute cough, ulcus cruris and schizophrenia. Bern: Verlag Hans Huber.
  • Kreher, S., Marr, E., & Keller, C. (2010). Driving a Porsche Cayenne with a trailer, being allowed to have one's own cat or staying over at a friend's house? How children express their ideas of a "good life" today. Forum Gemeindepsychologie, 21.
  • Kreher, S. (Ed.). (2011). Of the "people's misery" and the "people's need". Poverty in Northeast Germany. Vienna: Böhlau-Verlag.

Further Functions

  • Member of the Senate of the HS Fulda

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