Dr. Jasmin Dierkes

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Project summary

My dissertation focuses on the training techniques and technologies of a ‘classical profession’ in order to understand the subtle changes in the standards of professional teaching and work. In my case, the advent of simulation-based training in medical education. The research material therefore includes archival material, such as scientific articles and university curricula, following the introduction of simulation-based training in Germany since the 1980s, as well as expert interviews and site visits to represent the current state.

Publications

• Dierkes, J. and Stetten, M. Von (2023): Gesundheitsapps statt Beziehungspflege? Die Folgen der Coronapandemie für den Digitalisierungsdiskurs im Bereich der professionellen Psychotherapie. In: Frommeld, D., Gerhard, H., und Weber, K. (Hrsg.), Gesellschaften in der Krise. Praktiken, Diskurse und Wissensregime in Zeiten von Corona. Wiesbaden: Springer

Talks

• Dierkes, J. (2025): “Medizindidaktik als Professionsbeschleuniger innerhalb der Medizin am Beispiel simulations-basierter Trainings (1980-heute)”, Presentation at conference of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Duisburg
• Dierkes, J. (2025): “The historiography of simulation-based trainings in German state-bound medical faculties between 1984 and 2022”, Presentation at conference of Gesellschaft für Medizinische Ausbildung, Düsseldorf
• Dierkes, J. (2025): “Old versus new. How faculty composition supports the implementation of a Skills Lab” Presentation of poster at Society for Simulation in Europe conference, Valencia
• Dierkes, J. (2025): “Simulatoren als Materialien des Lernens in der medizinischen Ausbildung. 1980-heute”, Presentation at workshop “Materialien des Forschens und Lernens” in Wuppertal
• Dierkes, J. (2024): “Simulation-based trainings in Germany – What narratives can be spun”, Presentation at Work in Progress Colloquium of Maastricht University Science, Technology and Society Studies (MUSTS), University of Maastricht
• Dierkes, J. (2024): “Simulation-based training. A new professional, material education“, Presentation in Panel “Haptic revolutions: sensory futures and phenomenologies of expertise in medical worlds” at the EASST-4S 2024 Conference, Amsterdam
• Dierkes, J. (2024): “‘Like a real person’: The development and introduction of dummies for simulation-based training in medical education since the mid-20th century”: “Lunchtime Seminars” of the Centre for History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Manchester University. [seminar talk]
• Dierkes, J. (2023): “On dummies and dates: The advent of simulation-based training in medical education”: 9th Norwegian Conference on the History of Science, Trondheim, Norway.

Short Biography / CV

• 2022–2025: Ph.D. candidate in sociology of science at Bergische Universität Wuppertal
• 2018–2021: Master Sociology at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn
• 2014–2018: Kombi-B.A. Sociology / German Studies at Kassel University