Prof. Dr. Hella von Unger

Additional positions

Chair of the Research Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Social Sciences

Primary research areas

• Qualitative and participatory methodologies
• Research ethics
• Migration and health

Selected publications

• von Unger, Hella (2025): Whose interpretations matter? Participatory research approaches. In: Kusenbach, Margarethe; Pfadenhauer, Michaela (Eds.) Handbook of Interpretive Research Methods in the Social Sciences. Cheltenham & Northampton: Elgar Publishing, pp. 344–359. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803926391.00030

• Afeworki Abay, Robel; von Unger, Hella (2024): Cultural Humility in Participatory Research: Debunking the Myth of ‘Hard-to-Reach’ Groups. In: Afeworki Abay, Robel; Soldatic, Karen (Eds.) Intersectional Colonialities: Embodied Colonial Violence and Practices of Resistance at the Axis of Disability, Race, Indigeneity, Class and Gender. London: Routledge, pp. 269–284.

• Clarke, Adele; von Unger, Hella (2023): „Talking methods in the hot tub“ – A conversation on biography, feminism, collaboration and methodologies that travel. In: Gauditz, Leslie; Klages, Anna-Lisa; Kruse, Stefanie; Marr, Eva; Mazur, Ana; Schwertel, Tamara; Tietje, Olaf (Eds.) Die Situationsanalyse als Forschungsprogramm. Wiesbaden: Springer, pp. 19-37. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-38714-3_2

• von Unger, Hella (2021): Ethical reflexivity as research practice. Historical Social Research 46 (2), S. 186–204. https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.46.2021.2.186-204