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Department of Social Sciences

Dr. Sonja Kirschall

Social Research Centre Dortmund (sfs)

Evinger Platz 17, Room No. 60

Email: sonja.kirschalltu-dortmundde

Phone: +49 231 755 90216

Fax: +49 231 755 90205

 

Research Associate
Research area Labour policy and health

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

  • since 2023: Research Associate, research area labour policy and health | Social Research Centre Dortmund
  • 2023: Completion of the doctorate (summa cum laude) in Media Studies | Faculty 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

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