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Nora Berner

Researcher

Faculty of Health (School of Nursing Science)  |  Chair of Nursing Science


Nora Berner is a research assistant at the Chair of Didactics and Educational Research in Healthcare.


Research

Research focus

  • Education and learning among older people and adult education
  • Dementia at different stages of life
  • Health literacy and care arrangements in diverse societies
  • Qualitative educational and social research

 


Resume

Since 03/2025
Research assistant at the Chair of Didactics and Educational Research in Healthcare, Faculty of Health, Witten/Herdecke University

2023 – 2025
Research assistant in the Methods Working Group, German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Witten site

07/2023 – 12/2023
Doctoral completion scholarship, FernUniversität in Hagen

2017 – 2022
Research assistant in the field of empirical educational research, Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences, FernUniversität in Hagen

2015 – 2017 
Deputy head of social services, Pflegezentrum am Westfalentor, Dortmund

 


Further information

  • Elected spokesperson for the Geragogy Working Group (together with Assistant Professor Vera Gallistl, Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences, Krems/Austria, and Dr Markus Marquard, ZAWiW, University of Ulm), Section IV Social Gerontology, German Society for Gerontology and Geriatrics (DGGG).
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  • Member of the German Society for Educational Science (DGfE): Section 1 General Educational Science (Commission for Qualitative Education and Biography Research) and Section 9 Adult Education