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Name

Dr. Dennis Krämer, M.A.

Research Areas

  • Sociology of Sport, the Body, and Health
  • Empirical Ethics Research on Health Technologies
  • Gender Diversity in Sport, Medicine, and Society
  • Sociology of Classification and Knowledge Orders
  • Technology, Crises, and Resilience
  • German-Japanese Research Cooperation
  • Qualitative and Mixed-Methods Research (empirical-ethical approaches, discourse analysis, ethnography, interview research, participatory research designs, AI-assisted qualitative data analysis, Grounded Theory, scoping reviews, and systematic reviews)

Academic Education

Since 2020

Habilitation Project

2019

PhD (Dr. phil.), University of Hamburg, Faculty of Psychology and Human Movement Science, Institute of Human Movement Science, Unit “Culture, Media and Society / Sociology of Sport”  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)

Review Activies

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

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, 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 Ethics-Committee Medical Treatment of Children with Sex Differences (BGB §1631e)
  • Advisory Board: Landessportbund of Lower Saxony (Project “Vielfalt in Bewegung”)
  • Member: Committee for Gender Equality in Sport of the German Society of Sport Science
  • Member: German Sociological Association
  • Member: German Society of Sport Science
  • Member: Academy for Ethics in Medicine