Dr. Sonja Kirschall

Research Associate
Research area Labour policy and health

Focus of work:
Mediatized processes of affiliation
Human-centered design
Phenomenology of the lived body
(Mediatized) tactility and discourse history of the senses
Neurodivergent perception

CV

since 2023: Research Associate, research area labour policy and health | Social Research Center Dortmund
2023: Completion of the doctorate (summa cum laude) in Media Studies | Department of Philology | Ruhr-University Bochum; PhD thesis Audiovision between hand and skin. Towards a hapto−tactile film theory (“Audiovision zwischen Hand und Haut. Zu einer hapto−taktilen Filmtheorie”): https://www.transcript-open.de/isbn/7128
2021−2022: Researcher | Research Institute for Work, Prevention, and Politics Dortmund
2019−2020: Research Associate, Chair for Transformations of Audiovisual Media with a Focus on Gender and Queer Theory | Institute for Media Studies | Ruhr-University Bochum
2014−2019: Research Associate, Chair for Film and Television Studies with a Focus on the Construction of Gender | Institute for Media Studies | Ruhr-University Bochum
2013: Master of Arts in Media Studies | Ruhr-University Bochum
2012: Research Assistant, Mercator Research Group 2 Spaces of Anthropological Knowledge – Production and Transfer | Ruhr-University Bochum
2009−2014: Research Assistant, Chair for Film and Television Studies with a Focus on the Construction of Gender | Institute for Media Studies | Ruhr-University Bochum
2009: Bachelor of Arts in English and Media Studies| Ruhr-University Bochum

Publications

Projects

2023-2026: "DepriBuddy – Design-Thinking-basierte Modellierung medialisierter Nähe und App-Entwicklung für ein Selbsthilfenetzwerk“ within the announcement "Proximity over Distance - Enabling Interpersonal Connectedness with Interactive Technologies" (NäDi) of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Contact

Social Research Center Dortmund
(Sozialforschungsstelle, sfs)
Evinger Platz 17, room 60
Email: sonja.kirschall@tu-dortmund.de
Tel.: +49 231 755 90216
Fax: +49 231 755 90205
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