Officer & Post. Doc.

Areas of work & methods within

research, consulting, teaching etc.:

Health Promotion. Preventive Medicine.

Public Health. Descriptive epidemiology.

Sociology of medicine & health.

Men's Health. Gender & Health.

Nutrition. Physical Exercise. Suicide.

Eating disorders. Gambling Addiction.

Urban Health. Inequalitiy in Health.

Theory of Science. Communication.

Philosophy.  Sociology. Ethics.

Qualitative Research Methods.

Analysis. In-depth Interiviewing.

Ethnography. Focus Group.

Project Manager. Consulting.

Planning & organising

Teaching since 1993 and supervison since 1998.  Over 10 years of university teaching. Mostly at bachelor/master levels & least at ph.d. levels.  Supervision on all levels including dissertations and Master Thesis. Primarily teaching at Schools of Medicine, Public Health, Schools of Nursing, Sports Science, Nutrition, Biomechanics and Health Promotion. 

Areas / title of courses:

Philosophy / Filosofi

Sociology / Sociologi

Almen Sundhedsvidenskab / General Health Sciences

Ethics / Etik

Videnskabsteori Theory of Science

Scientific Method / Metode

Humanvidenskabelig metode / Methods of Humanities Arts

Samfundsvidenskabelig metode / Methods of Social Sciences

Interviewmetode og observationsmetode / Interview & Observation

Theory of communication / Kommunikation

Languagetheory / Metaforteori

Philosophy of society / Socialfilosofi

Organisation af sundhedsvæsenet /

Levevilkår og klasse / Life conditions & Class

Models of the Welfare state/ Velfærdstats modeller

Velfærdsstatens historie, problemer og oprindelse / The Walfare State

Sundhedsvæsenets historie / History of the walfare system

Klasse, socialgrupper og social stratifikation / Class, groups and segments

Sundhedsvidenskab – oversigtekursus i et felt mellem kvantitative og kvalitative metoder

Medicinsk sociologi

Sundhed og sygdom i relation til levevilkår

Forebyggelse - grundbegreber og historie

Sundhedspædagogik

Sundhedspsykologi – individuelle forandringsprocesser 

Sundhedsfremme - traditioner og metoder.

Arbejdsmiljø - Fysisk/psykisk, stress og APV

Epidemiologi - deskriptiv, med særligt fokus på danske helbredsforhold

Epidemiologi basale begreber, design, relativ risiko, odds ratio mm

Sundhedsadfærd

Den lægelige profession - et sociologisk/institutionelt blik

Sygeplejeprofessionen - et sociologisk/institutionelt blik

Genetikkens videnskabsteori

Mænds psykologi

Seksualitetens historie og filosofi

Mænds seksualitet

PUBLICATIONS (Selected)

Simonsen S Sjørup. Philosophy of Health - Clinical Theory of Science

with special attention to the Problems of Method within Health

Sciences. Monography. 180 pages: Published by KLIM, Denmark.(In

Danish). 2000. Revised edition in 2002 and electronic edition in 2004.

Men, Illness and Health.190 pages 2006. (In Danish).

The ronkedor phenomenon - constructions of masculinity, illness and

health. PhD dissertation. 2004. 634 pages.(In Danish).

Simonsen S Sjørup.: Science, Technology, Politics and Ethics - A

Critical Investigation of the Intellectual Division of Labour,

Department of Philosophy, University of Southern Denmark,1998.(In

Danish)

Simonsen S Sjørup & Lindø A. The Dialectics and Varieties of Agency -

the Ecology of Subject, Person and Agent. I: Lindø A & Bundsgaard J,

red. Dialectical Ecolinguistics. Three Essays for the Symposium 30

Years of Language and Ecology in Graz December 2000. Odense:

University of Southern Denmark, 2000: 37-53.

Simonsen S Sjørup. Klinisk videnskabsteori - Grundkategorier i en

disciplin mellem sundhed og sandhed. Kapitel 12 i: Filosofi. Etik.

Videnskabsteori. M. Bjerrum, K. L. Lund, T. E. Andreasen, H. Lund, T.

R. Eriksen, P. Kemp, U. J. Jensen og S. S. Simonsen. Akademisk Forlag

2001.

Simonsen S Sjørup. Den kvalitative sundhedsvidenskabs basis i det

positivt målelige. Kapitel 13 i: Filosofi. Etik. Videnskabsteori. M.

Bjerrum, K. L. Lund, T. E. Andreasen, H. Lund, T. R. Eriksen, P. Kemp,

U. J. Jensen og S. S. Simonsen. Akademisk Forlag 2001.

Simonsen S Sjørup. Tre positivistiske traditioner inden for

sundhedsvidenskaben. Kapitel 14 i: Filosofi. Etik. Videnskabsteori. M.

Bjerrum, K. L. Lund, T. E. Andreasen, H. Lund, T. R. Eriksen, P. Kemp,

U. J. Jensen og S. S. Simonsen. Akademisk Forlag 2001.

Simonsen S Sjørup. Den kvalitative sundhedsvidenskab - mellem

konformisme og radikalitet. Kapitel 15 i: Filosofi. Etik.

Videnskabsteori. M. Bjerrum, K. L. Lund, T. E. Andreasen, H. Lund, T.

R. Eriksen, P. Kemp, U. J. Jensen og S. S. Simonsen. Akademisk Forlag

2001.

Simonsen S Sjørup. Mod en økologisk videnskabsteori. Kapitel 16 i:

Filosofi. Etik. Videnskabsteori. M. Bjerrum, K. L. Lund, T. E.

Andreasen, H. Lund, T. R. Eriksen, P. Kemp, U. J. Jensen og S. S.

Simonsen. Akademisk Forlag 2001.

2010 Visiting Scholar at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles), School of Public Health, Department of Community Health Sciences, USA. January, Februar, March.  Vinter semester.

2007-2009 Assistent professor in Sociology of Health and Health Promotion. Metropolitan University College Copenhagen.

2007-2009 Eksternal Lecturer, Roskilde University, Psychology and educational studies.

2006-2007 Assistent professor, Sociology of medicine, University College Øresund, The National University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Bygning 72, Blegdamsvej 9, 2100 Copenhagen EAST, Denmark.

2004-2005 Research Fellow, Center for Suicide Research, Denmark.

2003-2004 Research Assistent at Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southern Denmark.

2003 Visiting Scholar at University of Western Sydney, Australia. January, Februar, March.  Spring semester

2000-2003 Research Fellow, Ph.D-stipendiat, Faculty of Health Sciences,University of Southern Denmark.

1999-2000 Research Assistent at Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark.

1998-1999 Eksternal Lecturer at Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark.

1997-1999 Teaching Assistent at Center for Medical Theory of Science, at the Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen.

1996-1998 Teaching Assistent at USD at the School of Medicine, University of Southern Denmark.

1993 Assistent at the Department of Philosophy, University of Southern Denmark