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Nete Schwennesen





Research area
I work as a researcher in the patient education team. I have a background in sociology and my work focuses broadly on the various social dimensions of health.
The subject of my research is centred on three areas:

  1. Risk communication and perceptions of risk in everyday life
  2. The involvement of family members and peer support in programmes of patient education
  3. new models of evaluation

I work primarily with qualitative methods such as interviews, focus groups and observations. 

Education 
2011

Ph.D in Medical Sociology, Center for Medical Science and Technology Studies,  Institute of Public Health, Copenhagen University

2004

Cand. Scient. Soc., Institute of Economy, Politics and Administration, University of Aalborg.

2000 - 01 MA (Contemporary sociology), Department of Sociology, University of Lancaster, UK (passed with distinction).
1999 - 2002

Supplementary courses in sociology, Copenhagen University

1995 - 98

BA Social science, Institute of Economy, Politics and Administration, University of Aalborg.


Positions 
2010

Ekstern konsulent ved Steno Health Promotion Center.

2010

Underviser i kvalitativ metode ved Institut for Folkesundhedsvidenskab, Københavns Universitet.

2005 – 10

Ph.D. stipendiat, Institut for Folkesundhedsvidenskab afd. for Sundheds-tjenesteforskning.

2004 Introduktionsstipendiat, Afd. for Sundhedstjenesteforskning, Institut for Folkesundheds-videnskab, Københavns Universitet.

2001 - 03

Videnskabelig medarbejder ved Videnskabsbutikken, det Samfundsvidenskabelige og Juridiske Fakultet, Københavns Universitet.

2001 - 02

Videnskabelig medarbejder, reviewer og billedredaktør ved Koordinationen for Kønsforskning.

2000

Projektassistent ved Alsted Research A/S.


Publikationer 
1. Schwennesen, Nete & Koch, Lene (Under review). Representing and Intervening: Doing Good Care in First Trimester Prenatal Risk Assessment (FTPRA). Sociology of Health and Illness. Invited full submission based on accepted abstract for a special issue on medical screening.
2. Schwennesen, Nete (forthcomming) At the margins of life. Making fetal life matter in trajectories of first trimester prenatal risk assessment (FTPRA) in Bio-objects in the 21th century, Ashgate 2011.
3. Schwennesen, Nete (2011) Ph.d. thesis. Title: Practicing Informed Choice: Inquiries into the redistribution of life, risk and relations of responsibility in prenatal decision-making and knowledge production, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen.
4. Schwennesen, Nete, Svendsen, Mette N. & Koch, Lene (2010). Beyond informed choice: Prenatal risk assessment, decision-making and trust. Clinical Ethics,  5, 207 – 216.
5. Schwennesen, Nete & Koch, Lene (2009). Calculating and visualizing life: Matters of fact in the context of prenatal risk assessment, in Contested Categories. I S. Bauer & A Wahlberg (red.), Life Sciences in Society. Ashgate. s. 69-87.
6. Schwennesen, Nete, Koch, Lene & Svendsen, Mette Nordahl (2009). Practicing Informed Choice: Decision Making and Prenatal Risk Assessment - The Danish Experience. I C. Rehmann-Sutter & Hansjakob Müller (red), Disclosure Dilemmas: Ethics of Genetic Prognosis after the 'Right to Know/Not to Know' Debate. Ashgate, s. 191-204.
7. Schwennesen, Nete, Svendsen, Mette Nordahl & Koch, Lene (2009). Freie, informierte Wahl? I: Bioskop. Zeitschrift zur Beobechtung der Biowissenschaften, vol. 12, nr. 45, marts 2009.
8. Schwennesen, Nete, Svendsen, Mette N. & Koch, Lene (2008). Beyond informed choice: Prenatal risk assessment, decision-making and trust. I: Etikk i Praksis, vol. 2, nr. 1, Trondheim. s. 11-31.
9. Schwennesen, Nete (2005). Forplantning, valg og viden: Om præ-implantationsdiagnostikkens (PGD) sociale og moralske betydninger. I: Tidsskriftet GRUS, nr. 7576, Academica, Århus. s. 84-97.
10. Schwennesen, Nete (2004). Making babies, making choices. Exploring the moral and social meanings of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD). (Videnskabsbutikkens rapportserie; 125).
11. Schwennesen, Nete (2002). Nye reproduktionsteknologier. Offer eller medaktør? I: Kvinder, Køn og Forskning, vol. 3, s. 47-56.
12. Schwennesen, Nete (2001) MA dissertation Leah Wilds PGD Diary - Between Technology and Reproductive Choice in the context of New Reproductive Technologies. (passed with distinction) (Unpublished MA thesis).

Awards 
Receiver of the EACH (European Association of Communication in Health) Julius & Regine Steffens Junior Investigators Grant 2011
 

 



Nete Schwennesen
Steno Center for Sundhedsfremme
Steno Diabetes Center
Niels Steensens Vej 8
DK-2820 Gentofte

Phone +45 4443 5268