Anne Brüninghaus, Dipl.-Päd.

Anne Brüninghaus, Dipl.-Päd.
University of Hamburg
FSP BIOGUM FG Medicine and Neuroscience
Lottestr. 55
D - 22529 Hamburg
Telephone: +49 (40) 74 10-5 63 10
Fax: +49 (40) 74 10-5 63 15
E-Mail: anne.brueninghaus[at]uni-hamburg.de

Publications

Professional Experience

Research Associate at the Research Centre for Biotechnology, Society and the Environment (BIOGUM), University of Hamburg in the research project “THCL – Towards a Holistic Conception of Life: Epistemic Presumptions and Socio-cultural Implications of Systems Biology” funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) – Funding initiative ELSA-Gen - since 9/ 2010
Doctoral Candidate since April 2007 Dissertation Topic: Self-image and Decision-Making in Predictive Diagnostics. An Approach based on Philosophy of Education using the Example of Hereditary Diseases. Supervisors:  Prof. Dr. Hans-Christoph Koller (Educational Science, University of Hamburg) and  Prof. Dr. Regine Kollek (FSP BIOGUM, University of Hamburg) Funding: The Villigst Protestant Academic Foundation Member of the Graduate School Biomedicine (Villigst Foundation)
Research Visit at The W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada November - December 2009
Studies in Educational Science, Biology, Sociology and Psychology at the University of Hamburg; Diploma in Pedagogics. Thesis Topic: Notions of Nature and Philosophy of Education. A Comparison of various Understandings of Nature from the Perspective of Wilhelm von Humboldts Philosophy of Education. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. P. Nevers (Educational Science, University of Hamburg) and Prof. Dr. R. Kokemohr (Educational Science, University of Hamburg)

Research Fields

Expert, Public and Political Discourse on Biotechnological Innovations
Individual Decision-Making within the Context of Predictive Diagnostics
Philosophy of Education and Post-Modernity
Qualitative Biographical Research
Understanding of Nature and Social Change
Uncertainty and Contingency