Christina Meyn

Research Associate
Research area Labour policy and health

Focus of work:

Sociology of work and health
Psychosocial risks in the workplace
Psychosocial risk assessment
Social occupational health and safety
Co-determination in the work place
Evaluation
Discourse research

CV

Since 2020: Research Associate, Social Research Center (sfs), TU Dortmund University
2017–2020: Doctoral fellow of the Hans Böckler Foundation and member of the doctoral programme "Work and its subjects. Medial discursivations of work since 1960", University Duisburg-Essen
2015–2017: Research Associate, Institute for Workplace Health Promotion (BGF), AOK Rheinland/Hamburg
2011 –2015: Research Associate, Dortmunder Forschungsbüro für Arbeit, Prävention und Politik (DoFAPP), Dortmund
2008–2011: Research Associate, Social Research Center (sfs), TU Dortmund University
2008: Diploma in sociology, University Duisburg-Essen

Publications

Projects

2025-2027: ADAPT2CARE - Climate-resilient enterprises and healthy staff
Ongoing dissertation project: "Work, Criticism, Stigma. On the change of (un)speakability in the discourses on burnout and depression"
2024 - 2025 SUNMENTORS „Support for University Student Mental Health – Training for Teaching Staff“
2023-2025 (Erasmus+): Support for University Student Mental Health – Training for Teaching Staff
2019-2024 (BMAS rehapro): GUIDE - Promoting Health for Permanent Employment
2014-2015 (Hans-Böckler-Stiftung): Works council action between prevention and innovation - an empirical review of the current application practice of §§ 90/91 BetrVG in restructuring processes
2013-2015 (BMAS/INQA): Psychosocial stress in change management processes - problem solutions of interdisciplinary network structures for operational practice
2011-2013 (BKK/BMAS/INQA): Evaluation of the project “Mental health in the world of work”
2009-2015 (University of Toronto/Canada): Re-imagining Long-Term Residential Care - an international study of promising practices
2009-2011 (BMAS/INQA): Preventive work organisation using §§ 90,91 BetrVG
2008-2009 (BGN): Working conditions of trainees in the catering industry

Contributions

Gesundheitsförderung von Menschen in Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit während der Pandemie – Erfahrungen aus einem Modellprojekt. Denkwerkstätte Graz 2022 – Arbeit und Arbeitsmarkt in und nach der Pandemie [Think tank Graz 2022 - Work and labor market in and after the pandemic]; FH Joanneum Graz (06.05.2022).

The place of psychosocial hazards in ILO OSH standards and activities. Overview and possible gaps. Lecture as part of an HBS study trip for scholarship holders at the International Labour Organization. Geneva, Switzerland (14.03.2019).

Between stigmatization and normalization – about the changing discourse on work, depression and burnout. Lecture at Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) in the context of the interdisciplinary PhD Conference "Working on Work" (15.02.2019).

Zwischen Normalität und Stigma? Zur diskursiven Verhandlung von ,Depression' nach dem Burnout-Phänomen. Conference German Association of Sociology (DGS)/ Session of the section of sociology of health and medicine. University Göttingen (25.09.2018).

Burnout, Erschöpfung und Depression – Psychosomatik in der subjektivierten Arbeit? A critical look at the social and literary discourse in Germany and France (together with Janina Henkes); German-French cooperation conference "Parlons travail", University Aix-Marseille (02.12.2017).

Psychische Belastungen in der Arbeitswelt – Diskurs und konzeptionelle Schlussfolgerungen. Sociology of law conference in the context of the presentation of the Festschrift for Prof. Dr. Wolfhard Kohte, University Halle-Wittenberg (upon invitation) (22.10.2016).

Betriebliches Gesundheitsmanagement geschlechtersensibel gestalten? Zur Umsetzung der Geschlechterperspektive im Betrieblichen Gesundheitsmanagement. Network conference "Arbeit in Gender und Gesundheit. Standortbestimmung und Perspektiven" [Work in gender and health. Positioning and perspectives] (29.09.2015).

Psychosoziale Belastungen in Change Management-Prozessen: Problemlösungen interdisziplinärer Verbundstrukturen für die betriebliche Praxis. Fachverband Psychologie für Arbeitssicherheit und Gesundheit e.V. [Professional Association of Psychology for Occupational Safety and Health e.V.] (PASIG) Dresden (16.06.2014).

Psychosoziale Belastungen – eine Geißel der modernen Arbeitswelt? Conference of the Iron and Transport Union, Frankfurt (upon invitation) (25.10.2013).

Quality Management and Quality Assessment in German Residential Care Facilities; conference “Do Regulations Make it Harder to Care?”; Toronto/Canada, (28.5.2013) (together with Dr. Monika Goldmann).

Working Conditions in Residential Care in Germany – (Un) healthy work organization and Workplace Health Promotion; York University, Toronto/Canada (23.05.2012).

Contact

Social Research Center Dortmund
(Sozialforschungsstelle, sfs)
Evinger Platz 17, room 58
Email: christina.meyn@tu-dortmund.de
Tel.: +49 231 755 90230
Fax: +49 231 755 90205