Niklas Petersen, M.A.

Professional Positions

• Since 07/2024: Research Fellow, Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, University Medical Center Göttingen
• 07/2023 – 06/2024: Graduate Visting Research Student, Faculty of Health Science, University of Ottawa
• 02/2023 – 05/2022: Research Fellow, Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, University Medical Center Göttingen (Research Project: "Ethical and Social Issues of Co-Intelligent Monitoring and Assistive Technologies in Dementia Care")
• 08/2022 – 01/2023:Graduate Reserch Trainee, Department of Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal
• 08/2021 – 07/2022: Associate Research Fellow, Faculté des sciences infirmières, Université de Montréal (Research Project: "Situating Ethical Aspects of Dementia Prevention")
• 01/2021 – 06/2022:Research Fellow, Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, University Medical Center Göttingen (Research Project: "Our Healthcare System of Tomorrow: Digitalization – Artificial Intelligence – Diversity")
• 10/2019 – 09/2021: Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Jena
• 09/2018 – 03/2019: Research Assistant (M.A.), Department of Sociology, University of Jena
• 06/2015 – 02/2017: Research Assistant (B.A.), Department of Sociology, University of Jena

Education

• Since 10/2019: PhD (Social Science), University of Gottingen
  PhD Project: "Practices of (De-)Activation. Sociological Perspectives on Care and Treatment of Dementia in German Nursing Homes" (funded by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation from 2019 – 2024)
• 10/2013 – 09/2017: Sociology (M.A.), University of Jena
• 02/2017 – 06/2017:Visting Student, Trent Center for Aging and Society & Dala Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
• 10/2009 – 08/2013: Sociology (B.A), University of Göttingen

Peer-reviewed Articles

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

Reviews

Niklas Petersen & Julia Perry (2021): Annette Leibing and Silke Schicktanz: Preventing dementia? Critical perspectives on a new paradigm of preparing for old age. Monash Bioethics Review, 39, 180–183. DOI: 10.1007/s40592-021-00135-3

Niklas Petersen (2020): Konfliktfall Demenzvorhersage: Chancen und Risiken der Demenzvorhersage – Wie gestalten wir die zukünftige Praxis? [Conflict dementia prediction: Opportunities and risks of dementia prediction - How do we shape future practice?]. Ethik in der Medizin, 32:1, 103–106.  DOI: 10.1007/s00481-019-00553-2

Presentations

»Ambiguous Optimism on Preventive Technologies for Dementia«, L’École d’été en gérontologie sociale du CREGÉS, Concordia University, Montreal, May 23, 2023 (with Annette Leibing & Cynthia Lazzaroni)

»Data and dementia: The situatedness of numbers and statistics for dementia prevention«, Workshop: Dementia in Data?, Graz University, April 28, 2023 (with Annette Leibing)

»Preventive technologies for dementia: Ambiguous optimism in the Canadian context«, Mid-term symposium NEURON JTC2020, Madrid, January 18./19, 2023 (with Annette Leibing and Cynthia Lazzaroni)

»The Specific Case of Dementia and Situated Technologies of Prevention«, Conference: »Preventia – Optimizing Bios Through Technologies«, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Delmenhorst, Oktober 19., 2022 (with Silke Schicktanz and Shingo Segawa)

»'Preserving Cognitive Functions!' Prevention and Care in German Public and Professional Discourses on Dementia«, CREGÉS Conference, Montreal, April  18., 2022

»Between Dignity, Responsibility and Cost Effectiveness – Rationales of Dementia Care in Germany«, Panel: »Multiple Dementias and Regimes of Care«, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting 2021, Baltimore/online, USA, November 18, 2021

»Pflege von Menschen mit Demenz in der Pandemie: Ambivalenzen der Sorge«[»Dementia Care during the Pandemic«], Ad-Hoc-Gruppe: Pflege-Krise trifft Corona-Krise, Gemeinsamer Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS) und der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (ÖGS), Vienna, 23. August 2021

»Altern und Demenz(-Prävention) in der Aktivgesellschaft«[»Aging and Dementia in the Active Society«], Spring Conference of the DGS Section for Medical Sociology, online, Juni 11, 2021

»Zur Gouvernementalität der Demenz zwischen Aktivierung und Medikalisierung«[»The Governmentality of Dementia between Activation and Medicalization«], Research Colloquium Political Sociology, University of Jena, Germany, January 2020

»Demenzprävention in der Aktivgesellschaft« [»Dementia Prevention in the Active Society«], Workshop: »Demenz-Prävention und Pflege im wohlfahrtsstaatlichen Wandel«, University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany, December  2019 [»Dementia Prevention in the Active Society«]

»Zur Bedeutung von Aktivierungsdiskursen im Feld der Demenzprävention« [»Discourses of Activity within the Field of Dementia Prevention«], Conference: »Gesund – erfolgreich – gut? Zur Diskussion gerontologischer und politischer Leitbilder des Alterns«, Kaiserburg Nürnberg, Germany, October 2019 (Poster Presentation)

»Prevention and Treatment of (Mild) Cognitive Impairment in Geriatric Care«, TrentAging 2019, Second Joint NANAS/ENAS Conference, Trent University, Canada, May 2019

»Practices of (De-)Activation. On the Ambivalence of Psychotropic Medication in Geriatric Care«, Marie Jahoda Winter School, Universität Wien, Austria, November 2018

»Selbstbestimmung im flexiblen Kapitalismus« [»Self-Determination in flexible Capitalism«], Conference »Aporien der Subjektivierung«, University of Hamburg, Germany, March 2017

»Widersprüche der Selbstverwirklichung« [»Contradictions of Self-Realisation«], Jena Social Theory Colloquium, University of Jena, Germany, February 2016

Organisation of Conferences

»Pflege-Krise trifft Corona-Krise« [»Care Crisis Meets Covid Crisis«], Joint DGS/ÖGS Conference, Vienna, August 23, 2021 (with Franz Kolland and Vera Gallistl)

»Demenz-Prävention und Pflege im wohlfahrtsstaatlichen Wandel«, Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, December 6, 2019 (with  Silke Schicktanz)