Prof. Dr. med. Mirjam Faissner, M.A.
Research Focus
- Feminist Theory and Bioethics
- Epistemic and structural injustice in healthcare
- Diversity and discrimination in healthcare (sexuality and gender diversity, ableism, racism, intersectionality)
- Ethics in psychiatry, clinical ethics, ethics in reproduction medicine
- Research ethics, participatory research methods
Current Projects
- Bioethics and structural injustice (scientific network), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), Co-PI, 2024-2027
- SELF-MEDICATING SEX: social, ethical, and historical aspects of DIY hormone therapy in trans and non-binary communities, funded as part of the Collaborative Research Centre 1665 “Sexdiversity – Determinants, Meanings and Implications of Gender Diversity in Sociocultural, Medical and Biological Contexts” at University of Lübeck, PI, 2025-2026
Past Projects
- INSIST – Intersectionality as a tool for preventing structural discrimination, an interdisciplinary and international residential week, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (PI, 2022–2023)
- INTERSECT – Heteronormativity, racism, classism, ableism and severe mental illness. An intersectional analysis of unequal treatment and discrimination in mental health care, funded by the Research Funding Program of the Faculty of Medicine at Ruhr University Bochum (PI, 2022–2023)
- BMBF Research Group SALUS (PI: PD Dr. Jakov Gather, MA), collaborator and lead responsibility for the design and implementation of research field VIII "Discrimination and epistemic injustice in mental health care” (2021–2023)
