Dr. Helen Schönborn, PhD
Helen holds a PhD in Sociology of Emotions.
General
Helen holds a PhD in Sociology of Emotions. She has a background in psychology and is an expert in emotion. Having studied and worked abroad, she is comfortable working in international teams and projects. Helen is experienced in interviewing patients, conducting patient questionnaires and delivering high quality insights. She joined admedicum in June 2023
Experience
- More than 11 years of experience of working on international projects and in multicultural teams
- Experienced in planning and conducting qualitative and quantitative studies e.g., patient surveys, focus group discussions, individual interviews
- Familiar with mental health research and practice
- Experienced in delivering relevant insights in academic and business sector.
Education
Helen obtained her honors bachelor’s in psychology at the American University of Paris in 2014. After a one-year research internship at the Università San Raffaele in Milano, she completed her master’s degree in social psychology at the University of Amsterdam in 2017. Before perusing a PhD at the Universidad Oberta de Catalunya, she worked in Hebron at a women’s right organization. Her PhD research explores the narration of loss and grief by forced migrants living in Germany.
Dissertation
Contested rights to grieve in narratives of forced migrants living in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Master’s thesis
The economic crisis and future imaginaries: How the economic crisis has affected people’s future imaginaries – Case study of Germany and Spain
Bachelor’s thesis
Politics involved in the development and recognition of psychological trauma
Publications
Caputi, Marcella, and Helen Schoenborn. “Theory of mind and internalizing symptoms during middle childhood and early adolescence: The mediating role of coping strategies.” Cogent Psychology 5.1 (2018): 1487270.
Schönborn, Helen Sophia, and Bertjan Doosje. “The economic crisis and future imaginaries: How the economic crisis has affected people’s future imaginaries.” Digithum 21 (2018): 21-32.