Nete Schwennesen
  • Universitetsvej 1

    DK-4000 Roskilde

    Denmark

Personal profile

Research

My research centers on critical aspects of health and care and focus particularly on how digital technologies reconfigure care arrangements and the intersection between technological imaginations, epistemologies, practical care work and everyday lives.

I have done ethnographic fieldwork in care arrangements such as nursing homes, dementia wards, diabetes care clinics, physical rehabilitation centers and prenatal testing clinics and have published my research in international journals such as Sociology of Health and Illness, Digital Health and Anthropology & Ageing.

My research is primarily based on ethnographic fieldwork and draws theoretically on medical sociology/anthropology and science and technology studies. I have a theoretical interest in posthuman perspectives on health, and how materiality and more-than-human actors are involved in care.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
  • SDG 15 - Life on Land
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Education/Academic qualification

PhD, Medical Science and Technology Studies, University of Copenhagen

Award Date: 24 Jan 2011

Cand.scient.soc., Sociologisk Institut

Award Date: 1 Sept 2004

MA (contemporary sociology), Lancaster University

Award Date: 1 Sept 2001

External positions

Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen

Aug 2018Feb 2022

Post.doc, University of Copenhagen

20152018

Forsker, Steno Center for Sundhedsfremme

20102015

Keywords

  • Health, Medicine
  • Technology
  • Welfare state, Welfare society

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