Ronny Klawunn, M. Sc.

research associate

Research focus on patient orientation and health education

Phone: +49 (0)511 532 8426
Fax: +49 (0)511 532 5376
Mail: Klawunn.Ronny@mh-hannover.de

Job profile

Qualitative methods, especially ethnography and individual interviews
Qualitative content analysis and grounded theory
Interfaces between health and social theory
Digitalization of Nursing
Evaluation and implementation research
Non-intended consequences of action in health interventions
Health literacy

Professional career

Since 6/2019
Research assistant (Hannover Medical School, Institute of Epidemiology, Social Medicine and Health Public Research)

12/2017-03/2019
Student assistant (Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin/Medizinische Hochschule Brandenburg),
Research project: AdvanceGender

05/2017 -03/2018
Student Assistant (Robert Koch Institute, Berlin)
Research Project: HPV Prevalence Study 2017/2018

07/2014 -09/2016
Student Assistant (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale))
Assistant to the Head of Department

Academic education

10/2016 -02/2019
Master of Science in Public Health (Berlin School of Public Health, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin),
Title of thesis: Theorizing the 'unforeseen'. Understanding unanticipated and unintended consequences in public health studies

09/2012 -12/2016
Bachelor of Arts in Ethnology and Political Science (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg),
Title of thesis: Representation and entanglement of bodies, origin and belonging in genetic tests of the Swiss company iGenea

Projects

Ongoing

Nursing Practice Center Hannover in the Future of Nursing 2.0 Cluster (PPZ-Hannover-CZdP2)
Further information: www.cluster-zukunft-der-pflege.de and www.ppz-hannover.de

Completed

Nursing Practice Center Hanover in the Future of Nursing Cluster (PPZ-Hannover-CZdP)
Work package: Proving the effectiveness of innovative solutions
Further information: www.cluster-zukunft-der-pflege.de and www.ppz-hannover.de

Doctoral program Chronic Diseases and Health Literacy
Methodological supervision of doctoral students and coordination tasks
Further information: www.mhh.de/institut-fuer-epidemiologie/promotionsprogramm-cheg

Mobile Care Backup (MoCaB) - Reliable support for family caregivers
Acceptance analysis and evaluation
Further information: MoCaB - Together through innovation (interaktive-technologien.de)

Publications

Editorship

Krick T, Zerth J, Rothgang H, Klawunn R, Walzer S, & Kley T (eds.) (2023). Nursing innovations in practice: experiences and recommendations from the "Future of Nursing Cluster". Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-39302-1

Schmeer R, van Eickels H, Weiß M, Sieker S, Beume D, Klawunn R, & Krückeberg J (eds.). 2022. abstract volume of the 4th Cluster Conference "Future of Nursing". Researching together? For technical solutions in nursing care. Hannover/digital, 16.-17.09.2021.

Book chapter

Klawunn R, Katzmarzyk D, Dierks M-L (2025). Nursing, technology, resonance - Development of a resonance- and transformation-sensitive analysis scheme based on ethnographic case studies. In: Heckes KT, Lorke M, Siegler M, Wrona KJ (2025). Socio-technical transformations in social and health care: collaborative, diverse, barrier-free and socio-spatial, Beltz Juventa, 69469 Weinheim, ISBN: 9783779978558

Forster C, Zerth J, Klawunn R, Witek S, Krick T, Heimann-Steinert A (2023). The evaluation of nursing benefits in the "Future of Nursing Cluster". In: Nursing innovations in practice: experiences and recommendations from the "Future of Nursing Cluster", ed. Krick T, Zerth J, Rothgang H, Klawunn R, Walzer S, & Kley T. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. PP. 251-272. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-39302-1_14

Klawunn R, Katzmarzyk D, Schmeer R & Dierks ML (2023). More resonance in Nursing thanks to technology? Analysis of ethnographic case studies from the Hannover Nursing Practice Center. In: Boll S, Hein A, Cobus V, Hinrichs P, Matsuzaki H, Schmeer R, et al, eds. Future of Nursing - Proceedings of the 6th Cluster Conference 2023: Shaping the future with care innovations - human, professional, digital. Oldenburg: University of Oldenburg Press. 2023. S. 124-8.

Krick T, Zerth J, Klawunn R (2023). Nursing innovations in practice: experiences and recommendations from the "Future of Nursing Cluster", introduction and orientation. In: Nursing innovations in practice: experiences and recommendations from the "Future of Nursing Cluster", ed. Krick T, Zerth J, Rothgang H, Klawunn R, Walzer S, & Kley T. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. P. 1-16. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-39302-1_1

Krückeberg J, Beume D, Klawunn R, & Hechtel N (2023). Introduction processes of technical innovations in everyday nursing care - participation and interdisciplinarity in the Hannover Nursing Practice Center. In: Nursing innovations in practice: experiences and recommendations from the "Future of Nursing Cluster", ed. Krick T, Zerth J, Rothgang H, Klawunn R, Walzer S, & Kley T. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. PP. 167-193. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-39302-1_10

Schmeer R, Rebentisch-Krummhaar B, Beume D, Klawunn R, & van Eickels H (2023). They'll grow into it! Or do they? - Testing a blended learning module to support the use of new technical products in everyday nursing care. In: Nursing innovations in practice: experiences and recommendations from the "Future of Nursing Cluster", ed. Krick T, Zerth J, Rothgang H, Klawunn R, Walzer S, & Kley T. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. PP. 229-250. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-39302-1_13

Klawunn R, Walzer S, Zerth J, Heimann-Steinert A, Schepputat A, Forster C, Müller S, Dierks M-L, & Krick (2021). Selection and introduction of nursing technologies in Facilities or Institutions of nursing practice. In: Digitization in Nursing. Selection and use of innovative care technologies in geriatric practice. Bettig U, Frommelt M, Maucher H, Schmidt R, & Thiele G (Eds.). Heidelberg: medhochzwei Verlag: pp. 37-70.

Journal articles

Lander J, Wallraf S, Pieper D, Klawunn R, Altawil H, Dierks M-L & John C (2025). Recruiting participants for focus groups in health research: a meta-research study. BMC Med Res Methodol 25, 9 (2025). doi.org/10.1186/s12874-025-02464-x

Klawunn R, Albrecht U-V, Katzmarzyk D and Dierks M-L (2024). Beyond technology acceptance - a focused ethnography on the implementation, acceptance and use of new nursing technology in a German hospital. Front. Digit. Health 6:1330988. doi: 10.3389/fdgth.2024.1330988

Lander J, Seidel G, Klawunn R, Melin S, Dierks M-L (2024). Chronic diseases and health literacy at the interface between individuals, professions and organizations. Prev Gesundheitsf 19, 449-451 (2024). doi.org/10.1007/s11553-024-01173-5

Naef AN, Felsenheimer A, Klawunn R, Fischbock N, Tezcan-Güntekin H, Amelung VE (2024). Digital interventions to promote health literacy: a comparison of the perspectives of adolescents with type 1 diabetes and physicians. Prev Gesundheitsf doi.org/10.1007/s11553-024-01122-2

Klawunn R, Albrecht U-V and Dierks M-L (2023). Expectations of new technologies in nursing care among hospital patients in Germany - an interview study. Front. Psychol. 14:1227852. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1227852

Posselt J, Klawunn R, Dierks M-L (2023). Prescribing digital health applications (DiGA) to people with depressive disorders: Results of a qualitative study. Z Allg Med 99(2):1-6, DOI: 10.1007/s44266-023-00034-2

Weiß M, Schmeer R, Dierks ML & Klawunn R (2023). Of sound cushions, therapy balls and alarm mats. In: Die Schwester Der Pfleger (issue 1/2023): S. 18-21. 2023.

Altawil H, Klawunn R, Dierks M-L, Lander J (2022). Parental COVID-19-related health information practices, sources, evaluations and needs: A qualitative interview study. Health Expectations. 2022;1-11. DOI: 10.1111/hex.13688

Weiß M, Klawunn R & Schmeer R. 2022. ward of the future. Health Professions 74 (7-8): 53-55. doi: 10.1007/s00058-022-2302-6

Klawunn R, Dierks M-L, Krückeberg J & Hechtel N. 2021. Participation of nurses in technology selection and implementation. Public Health Forum 29 (3): 260-264. doi: 10.1515/pubhef-2021-0065.

Klawunn R, Hechtel N, & Schmeer R. 2021. Caresses for the soul. Robot technology for dementia patients. The nurse The nurse (issue 4/2021): S. 38-40.

Klawunn R, Meyer A, Schmeer R, Sebastião M, Behrends M, Kupka T, Wolff D, & Dierks M-L. 2021. support for family caregivers through a mobile assistive app. A qualitative analysis of the perspective of users of the MoCaB app. Journal of Evidence, Training and Quality in Healthcare. Volume 165, October 2021, Pages 83-91. doi: 10.1016/j.zefq.2021.06.006

Jaehn P, Rehling J, Klawunn R, Merz S, & Holmberg C, on behalf of the ADVANCE GENDER study group. 2020. practice of reporting social characteristics when describing representativeness of epidemiological cohort studies - a rationale for an intersectional perspective. SSM - Population Health, Vol. 11, August 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2020.100617

Published abstracts

Dukuray M, Katzmarzyk D, Sgraja S, Klawunn R and Amelung VE (2025). Cost, benefit and outcome dimensions of economic evaluations of digital nursing technologies in outpatient and long-term inpatient care: A scoping review. In: Lahmann, Nils, Sandra Strube-Lahmann, Steffen Dißmann, Nicole Freitag, Alina Unkart, Susan Vorwerg-Gall, and Pflegepraxiszentrum Berlin (eds.). Conference proceedings of the seventh Cluster Conference 2025, p. 78, Berlin. March 11-12, 2025.

Katzmarzyk D, Holle D, Dukuray M, Klawunn R, Schmeer-Oetjen R, Amelung VE (2025). From theory to practice: methods for implementing digital technologies in outpatient care: a scoping review. German Congress for Health Services Research (DKVF), Hamburg. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.17054764

Katzmarzyk D, Klawunn R and Dierks M-L (2025). Between perception and possibilities - participation of nurses in technology implementation. In: Lahmann, Nils, Sandra Strube-Lahmann, Steffen Dißmann, Nicole Freitag, Alina Unkart, Susan Vorwerg-Gall, and Pflegepraxiszentrum Berlin (eds.). Conference proceedings of the seventh Cluster Conference 2025, p. 86, Berlin. March 11-12, 2025.

Katzmarzyk D, Klawunn R, Dukuray M and Amelung VE (2025). Success or failure? Implementation outcomes in the implementation of digital care technologies in the ambulatory care setting: a study protocol. In: Lahmann, Nils, Sandra Strube-Lahmann, Steffen Dißmann, Nicole Freitag, Alina Unkart, Susan Vorwerg-Gall, and Pflegepraxiszentrum Berlin (eds.). Conference proceedings of the seventh Cluster Conference 2025, p. 93, Berlin. March 11-12, 2025.

Klawunn R, Katzmarzyk D, Schmeer-Oetjen R and Dierks M-L (2025). For how the days change - Qualitative analysis of change processes in the course of implementing nursing technology. In: Lahmann, Nils, Sandra Strube-Lahmann, Steffen Dißmann, Nicole Freitag, Alina Unkart, Susan Vorwerg-Gall, and Pflegepraxiszentrum Berlin (eds.). Conference proceedings of the seventh Cluster Conference 2025, p. 85, Berlin. March 11-12, 2025.

Walzer S, Marx H, Katzmarzyk D and Klawunn R (2025). Qualitative nursing research in the context of digitization: A methodological overview and critical analysis. In: Lahmann, Nils, Sandra Strube-Lahmann, Steffen Dißmann, Nicole Freitag, Alina Unkart, Susan Vorwerg-Gall, and Pflegepraxiszentrum Berlin (eds.). Conference proceedings of the seventh Cluster Conference 2025, p. 73, Berlin. March 11-12, 2025.

Katzmarzyk D, Klawunn R, Dierks ML (2024). Shaping nursing care with technologies - experiences of nursing professionals. Abstract from the Health - together. Cooperation conference of the German Society for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS), German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention (DGSMP), German Society for Epidemiology (DGEpi), German Society for Medical Sociology (DGMS) and the German Society for Public Health (DGPH). Dresden, 08-13.09.2024. Düsseldorf: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House; 2024. docAbstr. 148. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3205/24gmds332

Klawunn R, Katzmarzyk D, Dierks ML (2024). Digital Public Health - Implications from the implementation of digital care technologies: Results of an ethnographic study. Abstract from the Health - Together. Cooperation conference of the German Society for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS), German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention (DGSMP), German Society for Epidemiology (DGEpi), German Society for Medical Sociology (DGMS) and the German Society for Public Health (DGPH). Dresden, 08-13.09.2024. Düsseldorf: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House; 2024. docAbstr. 148. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3205/24gmds331

Katzmarzyk D, Klawunn R, Roes M (2023). Interventions and barriers/facilitators in the implementation for symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder among hospital-based physicians and nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Healthcare 2023; 85(08/09): 833 - 834. doi:10.1055/s-0043-1770690

Klawunn R, Armbruster C, Holm K, Lippert P, Keimer M & Westphal K (2023). Results and methodological challenges of evaluating digital care technologies. A workshop of the Evaluation Cluster Working Group. In: Boll S, Hein A, Cobus V, Hinrichs P, Matsuzaki H, Schmeer R, et al, eds. Future of Nursing - Proceedings of the 6th Cluster Conference 2023: Shaping the future with care innovations - human, professional, digital. Oldenburg: University of Oldenburg Press. 2023. S. 179-80.

Klawunn R, Krückeberg J, Hechtel N, van Eickels H, Dierks M-L (2023). Transformations through new care technology? Changes in the course of technology implementation for hospital nursing in an ethnographic pre/post comparison. Healthcare 2023; 85(08/09): 810 - 810. doi:10.1055/s-0043-1770601

Krückeberg J, Beume DP, Klawunn R, Müller J, Griga L, Winkelhake L, Eich L, Kempe N & Albayrak E (2023). First Contact, First Learnings - Nursing Staff Approaching Robotics in Health Care. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2023 May 18;302:470-471. doi: 10.3233/SHTI230175. PMID: 37203719. https://ebooks.iospress.nl/doi/10.3233/SHTI230175

Krückeberg J, Ottmann I, Beume DP, Klawunn R & Hechtel N (2023). Usability Assessment as a Participatory Method for Implementing Technical Innovations in Nursing Care. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2023 May 18;302:684-685. doi: 10.3233/SHTI230238. PMID: 37203469. https://ebooks.iospress.nl/doi/10.3233/SHTI230238

Klawunn R, Dierks M-L (2022). Expectations of patients for the implementation of new nursing technology. Abstract from the EUPHA conference 2022. European Journal of Public Health, Volume 32 Supplement 3, 2022

Klawunn R, Ottmann I, Schmeer R & Dierks M-L. 2022. analysis of interdependent effects in the testing of new digital nursing technology in everyday ward life based on the resonance concept. Healthcare 2022; 84: 787. DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1753766

Klawunn R, & Beume D. 2022. More relief or more work? Results of an ethnographic study on the use of an interactive pillow and a communication app in the nursing practice center Hanover. In Abstract volume of the 5th Cluster Conference "Future of Nursing" Technology moves Nursing, Freiburg/digital. 21.-22.09.2022.

Krückeberg J, Ottmann I, Klawunn R, & Hechtel N. 2022. Evaluation of the usability of nursing technology innovations as support for a successful introduction into nursing practice. In Abstract volume of the 5th Cluster Conference "Future of Nursing" Technology moves Nursing, Freiburg/digital. 21.-22.09.2022.

Klawunn R, & Dierks M-L. 2021. ethnographic field research as a promising approach to evaluate technical innovations in inpatient Nursing - an approach from the Nursing Practice Center Hannover. In Abstract volume of the 4th Cluster Conference "Future of Nursing" Gemeinsam forschen? For technical solutions in nursing care, Hanover/Digital. 16.-17.09.2021.

Beume D, Krückeberg J, Hechtel N, Schmeer R, Weiß M, & Klawunn R. 2021. Technology selection for nursing practice. Development and testing of a structured decision aid based on integrative research. In Can Digital Nursing? 3rd Cluster Conference "Future of Nursing", Conference Proceedings Part 1. Zerth J, Forster C, Müller S, Bauer C, Brandl P, Loose T et al. (eds.). Vienna: Facultas Verlag, pp. 23-26.

Hechtel N, Krückeberg J, Sebastiao M and Klawunn R. 2021. Analyzing the Selection of Appropriate Technical Solutions for Nurses in a Clinical Setting. Stud Health Technol Inform 2021 May 27;281:645-648. doi: 10.3233/SHTI210250

Hechtel N, Klawunn R, Mazhari R, Schmeer R, & Krückeberg J. 2020. How can nursing technology be selected in a needs-based and user-oriented manner? In: 64th Annual Conference of the German Society for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology e. V. (GMDS) 2020 & CEN-IBS 2020. Online Event, September 06, 2020 - September 11, 2020

Krückeberg J, Klawunn R, Fuge I, Mazhari R, Schmeer R, Hechtel N. 2020. How to Decide Upon Nursing Technologies - A Participation-Based Approach. In Stud Health Technol Inform. 2020 Jun 16; 270: 1305-1306. doi: 10.3233/SHTI200414

Teaching (Responsible)

Hannover Medical School

Study programmes Master of Science in Population Health and Public Health, module Qualitative Methods of Empirical Social Research, summer semester (continued)

Qualitative research workshop, several dates per semester, open to all students and doctoral candidates at Hannover Medical School

Berlin School of Public Health / Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Master of Science in Public Health study programmes, module Social Science Foundations of Health and Disease, winter semester 2021 / 2022

Lectures

Klawunn R (2023). Poster display and presentation at the 3rd International Conference of the German Society of Nursing Science (online conference). Title: Using resonance theory as an approach to analyze implementation processes of nursing technology (May 12, 2023)

Klawunn R (2023). Presentation at the conference Feldforschung in der Medizin: Mehrwert und Herausforderung ethnografischer Zugänge zu Gesundheit. Title: Field access, irritations, chaos - remarks on ethnographic research into processes of technologization in nursing practice (24.03.2023)

Klawunn R (2022). Material setup and discussion at the Magdeburg Methods Workshop 2022 on observation results in the AP4 evaluation (07.05.2022)

Klawunn R (2022). Poster display and presentation at the joint annual conference DGSMP/DGMS 2022, title: Analysis of interdependent effects in the testing of new nursing technology in everyday ward life based on the resonance concept (08.09.2022)

Klawunn R (2022). Presentation of the edited volume "Nursing Innovations" at the 5th Cluster Conference Future of Nursing (21.09.2022)

Klawunn R (2022). Presentation at the 5th Cluster Conference Future of Nursing, title "More relief or more work? Results of an ethnographic study on the use of an interactive pillow and a communication app in the nursing practice center Hanover" (21.09.2022)

Klawunn R (2022). Implementation of AG3 workshop at the 5th Cluster Conference Future of Nursing, title: "Evaluation of digital nursing technologies: Methods, outcomes and evaluation perspectives - exchange of experiences based on examples in the Future of Nursing Cluster" (22.09.2022)

Klawunn R (2022). Lecture at the 2nd network day CARE REGIO - vernetzt, title: "Innovative care technology in use, impulses and experiences from the Hannover Care Practice Center" (19.10.2022)

Klawunn R (2022). Poster display at the 15th European Public Health Conference 2022, title: "Expectations of Patients for the implementation of new nursing technology" (10.11.2022)

Klawunn R (2021). 'On days like today the thing is worth its weight in gold' - Results of an observational study on technical innovations. German Nursing Day 2021, Berlin (14.10.2021)

Klawunn R (2021). Ethnographic field research as a promising approach to evaluate technical innovations in inpatient Nursing - an approach from the Nursing Practice Center Hannover. 4th Cluster Conference "Future of Nursing", Hanover (17.09.2021)

Honorary activities

Student member of the Dr. Public Health doctoral committee

Review activities

Journals

Journal for Evidence, Training and Quality in Healthcare

Digital Health

Specialist conferences

4th Cluster Conference "The Future of Nursing" - Researching together? For technical solutions in nursing care

MIE2020 - Digital Personalized Health and Medicine