Werner Vogd

Research specialisations:

• Organisations
• Medical sociology
• systems theory
• Sociology of knowledge
• Sociology of religion
• Qualitative Methods
• Design Theory
• Implicit Knowledge

Current information and list of publications at: http: //www.werner-vogd.de

Since 9/2008
Chair of Sociology at Witten/Herdecke University

Since 10/2007
Deputy Chair of Sociology at Witten/Herdecke University

2007
"Lecturer for special tasks" specialising in "Sociology of culture/knowledge and political sociology" at the Institute of Sociology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich

2004 - 2005
Research assistant in the DFG project "Doctors' actions and decisions in hospitals under changing organisational and economic conditions"

2004
Postdoctoral university lecturing qualification with the topic: Medical decision-making processes in hospitals in the field of tension between system and purpose rationality. Venia legendi for the subject of sociology

1999 - 2004
Academic staff member at the Institute for Medical Sociology in the Centre for Human and Health Sciences at Berlin University Medicine

1997 - 2001
Teaching appointment at the Department of Industrial Design (ID 4), University of the Arts, Berlin

1996 - 2001
Supervision, conceptualisation and collaboration in interdisciplinary feasibility studies within the framework of the Medien-Kooperative-Ulm

1996 - 1998
Research assistant at the University of Ulm, Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Medicine (project funding from the hospital)'

1995
Doctoral studies (final grade: summa cum laude) with the thesis: "Radical Constructivism and Theravada Buddhism: A Systematic Comparison in Epistemology and Ethics"

1985 - 1989
Continuation of studies at the Free University of Berlin. Diploma thesis on self-organisation phenomena in chemical systems using the example of the "ABA reaction" at the Institute of Biophysics

1983 - 1985
Studied biology at the University of Constance

1983
Higher education entrance qualification at Gymnasium am Giersberg, Siegen

22 December 1963
Born in Frankfurt am Main

Sociology of the hospital, systems theory, organisational sociology, health systems research