Academic career

• 2014 to 2016: Further training as a systemic consultant (isf Essen)
• 07 to 10/2012: Scholarship holder of the Swiss National Science Foundation (Topic: Quasi-entrepreneurial solutions at the Interface of work, welfare and medicare)
• 2010 to 2012: M.A. program Cultural Studies Major Sociology (University of Lucerne, Switzerland)
• 2006 to 2010: B.A. studies in Philosophy and Cultural Reflection (University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany)

Professional career

• Since 11/2019: Research associate in the BMAS-funded project "Einstiegsprämie" (Clinical Department for Rehabilitation Medicine, MHH)
• 10/2017 to 10/2019: Research associate, Coordination Office for Applied Rehabilitation Research (Clinical Department for Rehabilitation Medicine, MHH)
• 10/2013 to 1/2017: Research associate in the DFG-funded research project "Decision-making in hospital management" (Witten/Herdecke University, Chair of Sociology)
• March to Sept. 2013: Research associate (Witten/Herdecke University, Chair of Sociology)
• April 2011 to Dec. 2012: Research associate on the research project "It takes two to tango revisited - Integration and participation of people living with SCI" (Swiss Paraplegic Research, Nottwil)
• Oct. 2009 to May 2010: Freelancer (Center for Interdisciplinary Memory Research, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Essen)

List of publications, teaching and lectures

Peer-reviewed publications

• Schiller J, Kellner T, Briest J, Höpner K, Woyciechowski A, Ostermann A, Korallus C, Sturm C, Weiberlenn T, Jiang L, Egen C, Beissner F, Stiesch M, Karst M, Gutenbrunner C, Fink MG. The best from East and West? Acupuncture and medical training therapy as monotherapies or in combination for adult patients with episodic and chronic tension-type headache: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials 2019; 20, 623
• Ulrike Höhmann, Werner Vogd, Anne Ostermann (2018): Role strategies of nursing executives in dealing with experiences of tension and discrepancies in everyday working life - starting points for supportive competence development, Nursing & Society 2018; 4: 356- 369
• Leiulfsrud, A. S., Ruoranen, K., Ostermann, A., & Reinhardt, J. D. (2016). The meaning of employment from the perspective of persons with spinal cord injuries in six European countries. Work,55, 133-144
• Leiulfsrud, A., Reinhardt, J. D., Ostermann, A., Ruoranen, K., & Post, M. W. M. (2014). The value of employment for people living with spinal cord injury in Norway. Disability & Society, 29, 1197-1191

Book publications

• Molzberger, K./Feißt, M./Vogd, W./Ostermann, A./Slotta, J. 2017: Decision-making in hospital management: between social demands, economic calculations and professional rationalities. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.

Book chapter

• Ostermann, A./Molzberger, K. (2017): "On the reconstruction of interdisciplinary management practices in hospitals". In: Amling, S./Vogd, W. (eds.): Documentary organizational research - perspectives of praxeological sociology of knowledge. Opladen: Barbara Budrich.
• Wolf, J./Ostermann, A. (2016): "From the Organization of Nursing to the Nursing of Organization" In: Bode, I./Vogd, W. (eds.): Mutations of the hospital. Sociological diagnoses from an organizational and social theory perspective. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Other scientific publications (non-peer reviews)

• Wolf, J./Ostermann, A. (2015): "Nursing as a mediating third party in hospital management? Empirical findings on the role of nursing directors" In: Stephan Lessenich (ed.) 2015: Routines of crisis - crisis of routines. Proceedings of the 37th Congress of the German Sociological Association in Trier 2014.

Teaching

University of Witten/Herdecke, Faculty of Cultural Reflection (until 2017):

• Seminars on sociological theories (conflict theories, labor society).
• Method seminars (introduction to qualitative research methods and teaching research)

Third-party funds acquired

• 2019: Entry bonus. Evaluation of the pilot project "Einstiegsprämie (ESP). Promoting motivation to take up employment subject to compulsory insurance through premium payments" (BMAS); €526,040
• 2019: JobProtection. Sustainably securing employment for special groups of people following benefits for participation in working life (BMAS); €299,508