Teaching
University of Siegen / B.A. and M.A. Sociology and B.A. Social Work
| ST 2015 |
Social Inequality |
| WT 2014 | Welfare States in international Comparison Healthcare and Health Inequalities The German Healthcare System The German Healthcare System |
| ST 2014 |
Demographic change Healthcare and Health Inequalities The German Healthcare System Post-graduate research seminar Lecture series „sociological theories“ with lectures on rational choice and insitutional theory |
| WT 2013 |
Sabbatical |
| ST 2013 | Demographic change Healthcare and Health Inequalities The German Healthcare System Post-graduate research seminar Lecture series „sociological theories“ with lectures on rational choice and insitutional theory |
| WT 2012 |
Demographic change |
| ST 2012 |
Demographic change Healthcare and Health Inequalities The German Healthcare System Post-graduate research seminar Lecture series „sociological theories“ with lectures on rational choice and insitutional theory |
| WT 2011 |
Demographic change Healthcare and Health Inequalities The German Healthcare System The German Healthcare System Post-graduate research seminar Lecture series „social work“ with lectures on education and health inequalities |
| ST 2011 |
Healthcare and Health Inequalities The German Healthcare System The German Healthcare System Post-graduate research seminar |
| WT 2010 | The German Healthcare System The German Healthcare System Mortality and Morbidity Current Social Policy Reforms Post-graduate research seminar |
| ST 2010 |
Healthcare and Health Inequalities Healthcare and Health Inequalities Welfare States in International Comparison Post-graduate research seminar |
| WT 2009 |
The German Healthcare System Healthcare Systems in Comparison, an Introduction Healthcare Systems in Comparison: Ideas, Interests and Instutions Healthcare Systems, Access to Healthcare, and Health Inequality |
Master Online Advanced Oncology (University of Ulm)
| Since 2013 |
International Health Policy |
COST Action PhD Training School (University of Leeds)
| WT 2010 |
Framework for Comparing and Researching Health Policy Regimes, Enhancing the Role of Medicine in the Management of European Health Systems, Lyon, November 22, 2010 |
Medical University Graz, Postgraduate Public Health Programme
| ST 2010 |
International Health Policies |
University of Otago, Dunedin School of Medicine
| ST 2011 |
The German Healthcare System |
| ST 2010 |
The German Healthcare System |
Science Po / Paris, Master of Public Affairs
| ST 2008 |
The Comparative Analysis of Health Care Systems |
| ST 2007 |
Comparing Health Care Systems Organisation, Efficiency and Reforms |
University of Mannheim
| ST 2008 |
Health Care Systems in Comparison Comparative Welfare State Analysis (Graduate School of Economic and Social Science) MZES-Graduate colloquium |
| WT 2007 |
Attitudes towards Welfare State Institutions MZES-Graduate colloquium |
| ST 2007 | The Third Sector: Welfare Associatons in International Comparison MZES-Graduate colloquium |
| WT 2006 |
Health Care Systems in Comparison MZES-Graduate colloquium |
| ST 2006 |
Comparative Analysis of Welfare State Institution |
University of Bremen
| WT 2004 |
Institutional Theory and Welfare State Comparison |
| ST 2004 |
Voting Systems and Voring Behaviour in International Comparison |
University of Heidelberg
| WT 2002 |
Sociology of the Political System Assistent to J. Kohl’s lecture on Social Structure |
| ST 2002 |
The Economic and Social Order of Germany |
| WT 2001 |
Health Care Systems in Comparison Assistent to J. Kohl’s lecture on Social Structure |
| ST 2001 |
Sociology of the Political System |
| WT 2000 | The Economic and Social Order of Germany |
Exams
University of Siegen
| since 2009 | Supervision of B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. theses in sociology, medical sociology, and in social work |
| Course exams in sociology (B.A. and M.A. in sociology and in social work) |
University of Mannheim
| since 2007 |
Supervision of diploma theses in sociology |
| since 2005 |
Course exams in sociology (B.A. Soz., M.A. Soz., Dipl. SoWi) |
| Final and intermediate exams in sociology (B.A. Soz., M.A. Soz., Dipl. SoWi) |
University of Bremen
| 2003-2005 |
Course exams in sociology (B.A. Soz., M.A. Soz., Dipl. Soz.) |
| Intermediate exams in sociology (B.A. Soz., M.A. Soz., Dipl. Soz.) |
University of Heidelberg
| 1998-2003 |
Course exams, basic studies in sociology (M.A. und Dipl.) |
| Assistance of intermediate exams in sociology (M.A.) |
Presentations (selection)
2015
Cost Barriers, Access to Medical Care, and Public Support in Healthcare Systems (keynote), Effective and Popular? The Complementarities and Contradictions of Egalitarian Social Policy, WZB Berlin, March 18-19
Recent Reforms in the German Social Health Insurance System (keynote), 20th Anniversary of Taiwan’s NHI, Taipei, March 16-17
Financial Sustainability, 20th Anniversary of Taiwan’s NHI, Taipei, March 16-17
2014
Comparative Health Policy and Healthy Ageing (keynote), Uppsala Health Summit, June 3-4
The Social and Institutional Context of Decision-Making in the Case of Sickness, XVIII World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama, July 13-19
Health policy influences on healthcare provision and access to medical care (key-note), Kongress DGMS, Greifswald, September 17-20
Krise der Gesundheit – Krise des Gesundheitssystems (with P. Kriwy), DGS-Sektion Gesundheits- und Medizinsoziologie, Trier, October 6-10
Comparative Health Systems and Outcomes (keynote), 25th MZES Anniversary Conference, Mannheim, November 14-15
2013
Health policy, healthcare, and healthcare utilization in Germany, ICPP Conference Grenoble, June 26-29
Healthcare– Seeking by Older People in Germany – The social and institutional context of decision– making in the case of sickness/HEALSEE (with M. Mischke, N. Reibling). Bias in Health Data, Autumn Conference of the Section Sociology of Med-icine and Health of the German Sociological Association, Florence, October 3-4
2012
Changing Healthcare System Types, 19th International Conference of Europeanists “A Europe of Diversities”, Panel “European Health Care Systems “, Boston, Massachusetts, 22.-24. März
Welfare State Support from Below: developing a concept for linking individual attitudes and organized interests in Europe (mit B. Ebbinghaus, J. Klitzke, E. Naumann), 19th International Conference of Europeanists “A Europe of Diversities”, Panel “Public opinion on social policy in Europe “ Boston, Massachusetts, 22.-24. März
2011
Conceptual Frameworks for Comparing Healthcare Politics and Policy (with Ted Marmor), Amsterdam workshop “Healthcare systems: change and outcomes. Ideas, institutions, actors, and reform”, Center for Global Health & Inequality, Amsterdam, November 11-12
Conceptual Frameworks for Comparing Healthcare Politics and Policy (with Ted Marmor), The European Health Policy Group Meeting, LSE/London, September 22-23
Changing Types of Healthcare Systems. RC 19/ISA annual conference: Production, Reproduction, and Protection in the Welfare State, Seoul, August 25-27
2010
The Role of Experts in the German Healthcare System, Conference on the Politics of Ideas and the Politics of Representation: The Case of Health Policy, Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University, November 11-12
Welfare States and Public Opinion in 15 European Countries, ESPAnet Conference 2010, Budapest, September 2-4
Framework for Comparing and Researching Health Policy Regimes, COST ACTION TRAINING SCHOOL, Enhancing the Role of Medicine in the Management of Euro-pean Health Systems, Lyon, November 22
Ideas and Institutions in Healthcare (with N. Reibling), EQUALSOC/TRALEG-Workshop: Institutional Change in Social Policy, MZES, November 25-27
2009
Healthcare Systems and Healthcare Utilization. Research Seminar on Comparative Social Research, Cologne Graduate School SOCLIFE, November 18
Demographischer Wandel und Gesundheitssysteme im internationalen Vergleich. Sommerschule 2009, Marsilius Kolleg Heidelberg, Gesund altern - individuelle und gesellschaftliche Herausforderungen, Heidelberg, September 2
Ideas and Institutions in the Field of Health Care. RC 19/ISA annual conference: So-cial Policies: Local Experiments, Travelling Ideas, Montreal, August 20-22
Regulating Access to Health Care Providers & Inequalities of Utilization in European Countries. AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, Chicago, June 28-30
Confidence to Receive Medical Care in Seven Countries. Harkness Program of Health Policy & Practice, Final Conference, New York, June 11-12
Ideas and Institutions in the Field of Health Care. Center for European Studies, Har-vard University, April 1
Challenges and Reform Options in Health Care Systems: What Can America Learn from European Countries? University of Wisconsin, Madison, January 28
2008
Who has Access to Health Care in Europe? Invited by The Health of Nations Study Group, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, November 21
A Typology of Healthcare Systems. Science Po, Paris, March 13
Regulating Patients’ Access and the Utilization of Healthcare Services in European countries (with N. Reibling), The European Health Policy Group Sixteenth Meeting, Access, Choice and Equity, ESRI/Dublin, April 17-18
2007
Declining Trust in European Health Care Systems, Workshop: Strategic Courses of Action in Health Insurance Systems, invited by the Association of Applied Insurance Research, Leipzig, December 7
Mapping European Health Care Systems, ESPAnet Conference 2007 “Social Policy in Europe: Changing Paradigms in an enlarging Europe?”, September 20-22
Patterns of Trust in Health Care Institutions (with J. Kohl), RC 19 annual conference: Social Policy in a globalizing world: developing a north-south dialogue, Florence, September 6-8
Attitudes towards Welfare State Institutions: Health Care Systems and Minimum In-come Schemes in Comparison (with M. Pfeifer and M. Mischke), Fourteenth Interna-tional Research Seminar on Issues in Social Security (FISS), Sigtuna, Sweden, June 15-17
Translating Monetary Inputs into Health care Services - The Influence of Different Modes of Public Policy in a Comparative Perspective. Conference organised by Theodore R. Marmor, Yale University, April 26-29
Nimmt die Akzeptanz europäischer Gesundheitssysteme ab? MZES-Workshop: Me-tamorphosen des Wohlfahrtsstaates, MZES, March 1-2
2006
Health Care Systems in Europe – Challenges and Reform Options. Guest Speaker, invited by the Association of German Dental Manufacturers (VDDI), Cologne, De-cember 12
Nimmt das Vertrauen in Gesundheitssysteme ab? 33. Kongress der Deut-schen Gesellschaft für Soziologie. Ad-Hoc-Gruppe: New Governance, Institu-tionenwandel und Vertrauen im Gesundheitssystem, Kassel, October 9-13
Bedingungen für einen Institutionenwandel – Das Beispiel des Gesundheitssystems. 33. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie. Ad-Hoc-Gruppe: Zur Natur der Behinderung. Klassifikationen der Gesundheit, Behinderung und Funktionsfä-higkeit, Kassel, October 9-13
Changing Health Care Systems in a Changing World (Chair, with J. Kohl), XVI World Congress of Sociology/RC 19. Durban, South Africa, July 23-29
Attitudes towards Welfare State Institutions, XVI World Congress of Sociology/RC 19, Durban, South Africa, July 23-29
2005
Social Inequality and Health. Japanese-German Frontiers of Science Symposia. Al-exander von Humboldt-Stiftung; Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science. Shonan Village Center/Tokio, November 2-11
Trust in Just Health Care Systems? GSSS Conference on Social Justice, Bremen, March 10-12
What to Learn from the Experiences of other Countries’ Health Care Systems, Fraunhofer Institute Karlsruhe, March 3
2004
Regulation, financing and service provision in OECD health care systems (with J. Kohl). Annual Conference of Research Committee 19 of the International Sociological Association “Welfare state restructuring: processes and social outcoes”. Paris, Fance, September 2-4
Convergence or Divergence in OECD Health Care Systems. Eleventh International Research Seminar on “Issues in Social Security” – “International cooperation in social security: How to cope with globalisation”. The Foundation for International Studies of Social Security (FISS). Sigtuna, Sweden, June 19-21
Ansätze des Gesundheitssystemvergleichs. Fakultät für Gesundheitswissen-schaften der Universität Bielefeld. Bielefeld, July 8
2003
Satisfaction with Health Care Systems (with J. Kohl). Fifth Conference of the Inter-national Society for Quality-of-Life Studies “Challenges for Quality of Life in Con-temporary Societies”, Frankfurt a. M., July 20-24
2000
Co-operation and competition in preventive health care for children. Conference on The Family and the Welfare State in the New Century. National Centre for Social Research, Athens, May 25-26
1999
Family Change and the Welfare of Children in Comparative Perspective. ECSR Graduate School, MZES, Mannheim, September 30 - October 6
Health Services for Children in Denmark, Germany, Austria and Great Britain. ECSR Workshop, MZES, Mannheim, October 7-8
Family Models in Germany. TMR-Workshop: Family Policy and Family Income, Warsaw, June 24-28
Reconciliation of Family and Work in Germany. Conference Welfare and Solidarity in Post-industrial Europe, York, May 7-10
1998
Health Services for Families. An Institutional Analysis. TMR Work¬shop: The Institutionalisation of Family Policy, Barcelona, February 20-22
Health Services for Families in Denmark, Germany, Austria and Great Britain. Institutskolloquiums am MZES, Mannheim, January 12
1997
Health Services for Families in Denmark, Germany, Austria and Great Britain. 10th European School on Historical and Comparative Sociologi¬cal Re¬search on Social Policy, Barcelona, December 12-14