Dr Niklas Petersen
Dr Niklas Petersen
Main focus of work
Sociology of Health and Illness
Digitalization in (Health) Care
Qualitative Social Research
Curriculum vitae
Professional Positions
Sind 2026: Postdoctoral Researcher, Institut for Social Science,
2026: Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Health and Society, Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research, University of Bremen
2024 – 2026: Research Fellow, Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, University Medical Center Göttingen
2023 – 2024: Graduate Visiting Research Student, Faculty of Health Science, University of Ottawa
2021 – 2023: Associate Research Fellow, Faculté des sciences infirmières, Université de Montréal
2019 – 2021: Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Jena
2018 – 2019: Research Assistant (M.A.), Department of Sociology, University of Jena
2015 – 2017: Research Assistant (B.A.), Department of Sociology, University of Jena
Education
2026: Ph.D. (Social Science), University of Gottingen
2017: M.A. Sociology, University of Jena
2017:Visiting Student, Trent Center for Aging and Society & Dala Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
2013: B.A. Sociology, University of Gottingen
Publications
Peer-reviewed Articles
Niklas Petersen, Mattia Andreoletti, Alessandro Blasimme, Annette Leibing, & Silke
Schicktanz (2026). Disentangling Responsibility: Perspectives on Dementia Prevention from
Stakeholders in Canada, Germany, and Switzerland, Sociology of Health and Illness, 48(1) e70126. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.70126
Niklas Petersen (2025). Between Compassion and Control: Nursing Ethos, Professional Responsibilities, Limited Resources, and the Use of Psychotropic Drugs in Dementia Care. Social Science & Medicine – Mental Health, 9, 100568. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2025.100568
Niklas Petersen (2024). Fate or fault? Nurses’ perspectives on dementia prevention in German care facilities, Social Science & Medicine - Qualitative Research in Health, 6. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2024.100468.
Annette Leibing, Cynthia Lazzaroni & Niklas Petersen (2023): Emerging Technologies for Preventing the 'New' Dementia: Ambiguous Optimism in the Canadian Context. Medical Anthropology. 42:10, 607-622. DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2023.2244649
Mattia Andreoletti, Cynthia Lazzaroni, Niklas Petersen, Shingo Segawa, Annette Leibing, Silke Schicktanz & Alessandro Blasimme (2023): Optimizing the Aging Brain: The BEAD Study on the Ethics of Dementia Prevention. Journal of Frailty & Aging, 12:2, 111-116. DOI: 10.14283/jfa.2023.6
Niklas Petersen & Silke Schicktanz (2021): The Experts’ Advice. Prevention and Responsibility in German Media and Scientific Discourses on Dementia. Qualitative Health Research, 31:10, 2005–2018. DOI: 10.1177/10497323211014844
Stefanie Börner, Niklas Petersen, Hartmut Rosa & André Stiegler (2020): Paradoxes of Late-Modern Autonomy Imperatives. Reconciling Individual Claims and Institutional Demands in Everyday Practice. British Journal of Sociology, 71, 236–252. DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.12731
Niklas Petersen (2015): Erschöpfte Selbstunternehmer/innen. Zum Verhältnis von Subjektivität und Erschöpfung im Postfordismus [Exhausted Self-Entrepreneurs. On the Relation of Subjectivity and Fatigue in Post-Fordism]. der Sozius, 3, 23–37.
Book chapters
Niklas Petersen (2021): Neuro-Kultur des Alterns. Altern und Demenz(-Prävention) in der Aktivgesellschaft [Neuro-Culture of Aging – Dementia Prevention in the Active Society], in: Franz Kolland et al. (ed.): Kulturgerontologie – Kulturalistische Perspektiven auf das Alter(n) im deutschsprachigen Raum, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 151–170. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-31547-4_8
Niklas Petersen (2018): Paradoxien der Selbstbestimmung. Überlegungen zur Analyse zeitgenössischer Subjektivität [Contradictions of Self-Determination. On the Ambivalence of Contemporary Concepts of Autonomy], in: Ulf Bohmann et al. (ed.): Praktiken der Selbstbestimmung. Zwischen subjektivem Anspruch und institutionellem Funktionserfordernis, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 25–56. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-14987-1_2
Monography
Niklas Petersen (2020): Ambivalenzen der Eigenverantwortung. Prekäre Selbstbestimmung im flexiblen Kapitalismus [Ambivalences of Self-Responsibility]. Baden-Baden: Tectum. DOI: 10.5771/9783828875579