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Name

Dr. Dennis Krämer, M.A.

Research Areas

  • Sociology of Sport 
  • Sociology of Health
  • Sociology of the Body
  • Gender Diversity
  • Sociology of Classification
  • Technology in Crises
  • German-Japanese Collaboration on Crises, Technology and Resilience
  • Qualitative and Mixed-Methods (discourse analysis, ethnography, AI-assisted data analysis, interview-based research, scoping and systematic reviews, grounded theory)

Academic Education

Since 2020

Habilitation Project

2019

PhD (Dr. phil.), University of Hamburg, Faculty of Psychology and Human Movement Science, Unit “Culture, Media and Society / Sociology”  with the study “Intersex in Sports

2010

M.A. in Sociology, Cultural Anthropology, Educational Science in Münster and Augsburg

Awards

2023

Teaching Award, Social Sciences, University of Göttingen

2022

Teaching Award, Social Sciences, University of Göttingen

2021

Fellow, Global Young Faculty, Mercator Research

2020

PhD Thesis Award, German Sociological Association, Sociology of the Body and Sports

2020

German Olympic Sports Confederation Research Award (3rd Place)

Previous Review Activies

  • International Journal of the History of Sport
  • Sport and Society (Sport und Gesellschaft)
  • German Society of Sport Science
  • German Journal of Exercise and Sport Research
  • Big Data & Society
  • Digital Culture & Society
  • Digital Government: Research and Practice
  • International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
  • Quality of Life Research Journal
  • BMC Medical Ethics
  • Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • Journal of Medical Ethics
  • Journal of Asian Public Policy
  • German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung)

Academic Involvement (since 2000)

Since 06/2024

PI of project: “Resilient Healthcare in Times of Multiple Crises: Connecting Germany and Japan” (RE-CARE) – German Research Foundation (DFG)

Since 01/2024

Postdoctoral Researcher & Research Coordinator, University of Münster

02/2026

Visiting Researcher, Nord University (Bodø), Norway

03/2025-04/2025

Visiting Researcher, University of Tokyo, Japan

04/2022-09/2023

Professor, Sociology of Sport and Health (W2 interim), Georg-August-University of Göttingen

03/2023-04/2023

Visiting Researcher, Teikyo University Tokyo, Japan

11/2021-12/2022

PI of project: „Digital Technologies of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Transnational Dialogue between Germany and Japan“ (TECHCO) – German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR)

04/2020-03/2022

Postdoctoral Researcher, Ruhr-University Bochum

10/2020-12/2021

PI of project: „The Ethics of Livetracking-Applications in Connection with SARS-CoV-2“ (ELISA) – German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR)

Memberships

  • Founder: DFG International Cooperation “Resilient Healthcare in Times of Multiple Crises” (RE-CARE)
  • Advisory Board: Interdisciplinary Committee Medical Treatment of Children with Sex Differences (§1631e BGB)
  • Advisory Board: Landessportbund of Lower Saxony (Project “Vielfalt in Bewegung”)
  • Member: German Sociological Association
  • Member: German Society of Sport Science
  • Member: Academy for Ethics in Medicine