Former PhD Projects

TitleSupervisorDoctorDate

Attitudes and motives concerning end-of-life decisions: competency and autonomy of children and adolescents in paediatric oncology: Michael Rost completed his PhD in 2018. Employing quantitative and qualitative methods, his doctoral work has investigated the process of shared decision-making regarding palliative care in pediatric oncology. He is now a postdoctoral researcher at the IBMB.

Prof. Bernice S. Elger and Dr. Eva De ClercqMichael Rost

01.05.2012

31.08.2017 

Ethics of Surveillance Data UseProf. Bernice S. Elger and PD Dr. Tenzin WangmoEvelyn Anane-Sarpong

01.02.2014

28.02.2017

Competency and Autonomy of Children and Adolescents in Pediatric Oncology decision making processes. Comparative research study between Switzerland and RomaniaProf. Bernice S. Elger and PD Dr. Tenzin WangmoDomniţa Oana Bădărău

01.02.2012

31.12.2015

Agequake in prisons: Reality, policies and practical solutions concerning custody and health care for ageing prisoners in SwitzerlandProf. Bernice S. Elger,  PD Dr. Tenzin Wangmo and Dr. Violet F. HandtkeWiebke Bretschneider

01.10.2011

31.07.2015

Banking together: sharing biological samples among Swiss researchersProf. Bernice S. Elger and Dr. Heidi C. HowardFlora Colledge

01.05.2011

30.04.2014

Agequake in prisons: Reality, policies and practical solutions concerning custody and health care for ageing prisoners in SwitzerlandProf. Bernice S. Elger and PD Dr. Tenzin WangmoViolet Fleur Handtke

01.10.2011

31.07.2015

Assistive Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Dementia and Age-Related Cognitive Decline

Prof. Bernice S. Elger and Prof. Fabrice Jotterand

Marcello Ienca

01.01.2015

31.12.2018

How to decide who decides - Membership rules and organisational frameworks in university ethics committees and their influence on ethical decision makingProf. Bernice S. Elger and Dr. Corinna JungIna Otte

01.08.2015

31.12.2015

Challenging our intuitions about the moral status of non-human animals with experimental philosophyProf. Bernice S. Elger and Dr. David M. ShawKirsten Persson

01.08.2013

30.07.2017

Education and its effect on the autonomy of women’s reproductive rightsProf. Bernice S. Elger and PD Dr. Tenzin WangmoChitu Omodu W. Princewill

01.02.2014

30.06.2017

Attitudes and motives concerning end-of-life decisions: competency and autonomy of children and adolescents in paediatric oncologyProf. Bernice S. Elger and PD Dr. Tenzin WangmoKatharina Ruhe

01.05.2012

31.08.2017

Open DisclosureProf. Bernice S. Elger and Stuart R. Mc Lennan

01.06.2011

31.05.2014

Ethical issues of cutting edge biotechnology: Embedded interdisciplinary risk benefit evaluation of first-in-human trials in synthetic biology and nanomedicineProf. Bernice S. Elger and Dr. David M. ShawPriya Satalkar

01.08.2012

29.02.2016

BAG-Tabakfonds: Weniger Rauch im GefängnisProf. Bernice S. ElgerCatherine Ritter

01.01.2009

31.12.2012