PD Dr. Melanie Werren

Work at ZHAW

Position

Lecturer for Interprofessional Teaching and Practice

Focus

• Ethics in healthcare
• Dignity and Dementia
• Gerontological ethics
• Ethical intuitions and feelings in applied ethics
• Social Ethics

Teaching

• Lecturer for Interprofessional Teaching and Practice
• Private Lecturer for systematic theology with a focus on ethics

Experience

• Private lecturer for systematic theology with focus on ethics
  University of Bern
  02 / 2023 - today
• Lecturer for interprofessional teaching and practice
  ZHAW
  09 / 2022 - today
• Head of Study Program Certificate of Advanced Studies "Altersheimseelsorge in Heimen und Gemeinden"
  University of Bern
  01 / 2022 - 12 / 2022
• Research Assistant, Institute of Systematic Theology with focus on ethics
  University of Bern
  09 / 2013 - 08 / 2022
• Vicar
  Evangelisch-reformierte Kirchgemeinde Langenthal
  08 / 2012 - 07 / 2013
• Qualified nurse HF and vocational trainer
  Geriatrische Universitätsklinik des Zieglerspitals Bern
  03 / 2006 - 10 / 2010
• Qualified nurse HF and vocational trainer
  Betagtenzentrum Laupen
  11 / 2004 - 02 / 2006

Education and Continuing education

Education

• Habilitation and venia docendi / Systematic theology with a focus on ethics
  University of Bern
  09 / 2018 - 01 / 2023
• PhD / theol.
  University of Bern
  09 / 2013 - 02 / 2019
• Verbi Divini Ministra
  KOPTA
  08 / 2012 - 07 / 2013
• Master of Theology
  University of Bern
  09 / 2010 - 08 / 2012
• Bachelor of Theology
  University of Bern
  09 / 2007 - 08 / 2010
• Education in Healthcare and Nursing HF
  Lindernhofschule Bern
  09 / 2001 - 08 / 2004

Continuing Education

• Certificate of Advanced Studies in Higher Education
  Centre for University Continuing Education Bern
  11 / 2017
• Course for vocational trainers
  Berufs-, Fach- und Fortbildungsschule Bern
  10 / 2005

Network

Membership of networks

• Working Group Religious Gerontology ARG, University of Zurich
• Working Group "Aging and Ethics" of the Academy for Ethics in Medicine (AEM)

Publications

• Werren, Melanie,

  2022.

  Wie können Artikulationen von ethischen Intuitionen gewichtet werden?.

  Hermeneutische Blätter.

  28(1), pp. 86-100.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.51686/HBl.2022.1.8

• Werren, Melanie,

  2023.

  Ethische Intuitionen artikulieren : Grundlegung und Konkretionen.

  Frankfurt am Main:

  Campus.

  ISBN 978-3-593-45656-0.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.12907/978-3-593-45656-0

• Werren, Melanie; Händler-Schuster, Daniela,

  2023.

  Bei Selbstvernachlässigung agieren

  .

  In:

  Händler-Schuster, Daniela; Budroni, Helmut, eds.,

  Gemeinde- und Familiengesundheitspflege. Lehrbuch für die ambulante Pflege.

  Bern:

  Hogrefe.

  pp. 293-299.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1024/86098-000

• Werren, Melanie,

  2022.

  In Würde abhängig und angewiesen sein.

  Fachzeitschrift für Palliative Geriatrie.

  2022(4), pp. 12-14.

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