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How healthcare professionals overcome distance when collaborating with smart robots
(Universität Vechta, 2025-06-09) Niehaus, Florian; Schank , Christoph; Schiavone, Francesco
Smart robotic systems continue to make their way from industrial contexts to social applications. That shift necessitates further insights into interactions between human teams/team members and smart robots. These interactions have different patterns than interactions in strictly human teams. This study examines surgical teams and their interactions with the endoscopic surgical system (ESS) ‘da Vinci’ as a concrete implementation case. Its focus is the growing distance between team members upon introduction of the ESS robot. We follow a qualitative approach, based on semi-structured expert interviews with nine physicians of diverse fields of expertise and levels of experience with the ESS robot. Our findings show that surgeries with da Vinci bring about certain improvements as well as obstacles. Those can be grouped into physical, visual and coordinative dimensions. The main obstacles seem to be increased physical and mental distance between the ‘concertmaster role’ (i.e., the surgeon) and ‘ensemble roles’ (i.e., the rest of the surgery team). Surgery teams overcome these by applying visual and informational cues. We strengthen existing literature concerning the established physical distance and add the notion of mental distance in ESS-assisted surgeries. We suggest that surgery teams overcome physical and mental distance through visual and informational cues. Furthermore, we find that certain roles within a team get enriched, trimmed, or redesigned. Developers can utilize our findings to improve ESS robots. Medical and general management staff can use our findings for the improvement of team composition and governance, as well as process optimization and coordination, especially in human-robot teams.
Using the arts in social work education for short- term European mobility: evaluating student experiences on an Erasmus+ blended intensive program
(Universität Vechta, 2025-02-16) Frampton, Magnus; Schiller, Ulene; Parker, Jonathan; Hartogh, Theo; Arlinghaus, Gertrud Antonia; Fry, Alex ; Autio, Kirsi; Ndhlovu, G. Nokukhanya
European higher education exchange has been reinvigorated by financial support for shorter student mobility phases, with the new Erasmus+ blended intensive programmes (BIPs) combining virtual and physical mobility. Such formats have obvious advantages in social work education, with compact programmes of workshops, agency visits, and cultural activities promoting personal development in richly intercultural settings. The natural focus on experiential learning during such exchanges suggests pedagogies utilizing creative methods. This paper offers qualitative research on students’ experiences during music and dance-based BIP workshops. Thematic analysis was applied to participants’ comments from a written questionnaire and group interview session. Three thematic clusters were identified: (i) positive experience, play, and learning; (ii) communication, togetherness, trust, and relationships; and (iii) skill acquisition, professional development, and personal growth. Taking these together, and highlighting the first, it is argued that such an approach facilitates possibilities for more emotion/feeling-based learning about oneself, communication processes, and collective relationship-building. More specifically, the BIP format is shown to be temporally and spatially ideal for playing, thereby facilitating students’ willingness to learn by experimenting. The results are discussed with reference to play theorists such as Huizinga, Caillois, and Winnicott, suggesting that theorizing ‘playing’ offers potential for future research on arts-based social work education.
Domain-general scientific reasoning abilities in kindergarten independently predict the mathematics ability of elementary school children
(Universität Vechta, 2025-08-20) Osterhaus, Christopher; Koerber, Susanne
Whether scientific reasoning is a domain-general or domain-specific ability remains controversial. This longitudinal study followed 53 German aged 6–9 years (31 females, 22 males) from kindergarten into elementary school to investigate how kindergarten-age scientific reasoning, intelligence, and disciplinary knowledge influence their third-grade mathematics and German language abilities (based on teacher ratings). Scientific reasoning was assessed with comprehensive inventories (the Science-Kindergarten and the Science-Primary School Reasoning Inventories). Intelligence, language abilities (receptive language and text comprehension in kindergarten and elementary school, respectively), and kindergarten mathematics were assessed with standardized instruments. Kindergarten scientific reasoning predicted third-grade mathematics abilities independent of parental education levels, and also the intelligence and kindergarten mathematics ability of the children. The language ability of children was predicted solely by kindergarten language abilities. These findings support the view that scientific reasoning is a domain-general science skill, which is different from intelligence and relevant for mathematics learning among elementary school students.
Theory of mind and coming-out milestones: a study of sexual and gender minority adolescents in Germany
(Universität Vechta, 2025-09-01) Osterhaus, Christopher; Ioverno, Salvatore
The coming-out process is a significant aspect of identity formation for sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth, often shaped by complex interpersonal and societal factors. This study investigates the role of theory of mind (ToM) – the ability to understand others’ mental states – in predicting key coming-out milestones among SGM adolescents. A sample of 148 teenagers (ages 13–19) in Germany, who were mostly assigned female at birth (AFAB), completed an online survey assessing ToM, self-esteem, internalized sexual stigma, concealment, bullying experiences, and the timing of self-identification and disclosure. Higher ToM abilities were associated with earlier public disclosure and a shorter gap between self-identification and the first coming out, although not with earlier self-identification. ToM was unrelated to active concealment behaviors but correlated negatively with internalized sexual stigma. Participants who had not yet come out reported longer concealment durations when anticipating negative reactions from peers. These findings suggest that ToM may support SGM youth in navigating disclosure decisions, particularly among AFAB adolescents. Self-identification, in turn, may rely more on introspective processes. The study highlights the importance of social-cognitive skills in identity-related transitions and underscores the need for future research to explore these mechanisms across more diverse gender groups and cultural contexts.
Aktuelle Befunde zu Gewalt in Partnerschaften und ihrer Vorbeugung in ländlichen Regionen
(Universität Vechta, 2026) Janßen, Wiebke; Völschow, Yvette
Bei einem nach wie vor großen Dunkelfeld steigen die Fallzahlen im Bereich Partnerschaftsgewalt seit Jahren stetig an. Entgegen einem oft propagierten Bild ländlicher Idylle, findet Gewalt im sozialen Nahbereich in allen Regionen statt. In ländlichen Räumen ergeben sich für die Bekämpfung und Prävention von Partnergewalt allerdings ganz eigene Hürden und auch Potentiale. Mit diesen wurde sich bereits vor zehn Jahren in einer Studie (Völschow, 2014; Völschow & Janßen, 2020, 2016, 2015) beschäftigt. Dabei stellte sich vor allem der hohe Bekanntheitsgrad der Bevölkerung untereinander mit seinen ganz eigenen Auswirkungen auf Partnerschaftsgewalt heraus. In dem vorliegenden Beitrag stellen die Autorinnen eine aktuelle Follow-up-Befragung zu dem damaligen Forschungsprojekt vor und zeigen die zentralen Ergebnisse aus Interviews mit Mitarbeiterinnen aus Beratungsstellen bei Partnerschaftsgewalt auf. Das Augenmerk liegt dabei auf der aktuellen Situation der hohen Partnerschaftsgewaltzahlen und potentieller Auswirkungen auf diese durch die gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen der letzten Jahre, wie die Pandemie, Kriegs- und Fluchtgeschehnisse.
Inklusionsorientierte BNE in Grundschule
(Universität Vechta, 2026) Rončević, Katarina
Der vorliegende Artikel beleuchtet das Potenzial einer inklusionsorientierten Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung (BNE) im Grundschulbereich. Es werden die Schnittstellen zwischen BNE und inklusiver Bildung aufgezeigt und die Notwendigkeit unterstrichen, inklusive Prinzipien systematisch in die BNE zu integrieren. Hieran anknüpfend werden methodischdidaktischer Ansätze für eine inklusionsorientierte BNE um Prinzipien einer inklusiven Didaktik ergänzt, wobei die Bedeutung einer differenzierten und adaptiven Unterrichtsgestaltung betont wird. Daraus ableitend werden Anknüpfungspunkte an den Sachunterricht dargelegt.
Klimageschichten erzählen
(Universität Vechta, 2025) Dürbeck, Gabriele, Prof.in Dr.in; Farys, Katharina, Dr.in; Probst, Simon, Dr.
Der Klimawandel und seine Folgen sind auch in Niedersachsen längst angekommen. Dass die durchschnittlichen Temperaturen in Niedersachsen im Vergleich zum vorindustriellen Zeitalter bereits um 1,7°C (Stand September 2025) angestiegen sind, mag relativ abstrakt klingen. Aber das veränderte Klima wirkt sich schon jetzt ganz alltäglich und konkret negativ auf Mensch und Natur aus: Landwirt*innen sind mit extremen Dürreperioden und regelmäßigen Überschwemmungen ihrer Felder konfrontiert, Insektenpopulationen nehmen ab, Schädlinge vermehren sich, die Blütezeiten verlaufen nicht mehr regelmäßig, Wälder und Gärten leiden, das Weltnaturerbe Wattenmeer ist bedroht. Je nach Lage und Landschaft, nach Wohnort und Beruf, wirkt sich der Klimawandel sogar innerhalb Niedersachsens sehr unterschiedlich aus. Die Folgen sind nicht nur ökonomischer Natur, sondern betreffen Menschen persönlich, schreiben sich in Lebensgeschichten ein und verändern die Beziehungen von Menschen zu ihrer Heimat. Damit Gesellschaften, auch auf regionaler und lokaler Ebene, Resilienz im Umgang mit der Klimakrise entwickeln, braucht es im Zusammenspiel mit technologischen und ökonomischen Lösungen auch neue Erzählungen, die Sinnhorizonte anbieten. Der Frage, wie es in Niedersachsen um solche Erzählungen steht, ist das Projekt nachgegangen. Dafür wurden zum einen Klimageschichten in lokalen und regionalen Zeitungen, Zeitschriften und Fernsehreportagen ausgewertet. Zum anderen haben uns Bürger*innen aus Niedersachsen ihre persönlichen Klimageschichten erzählt. Das Projekt schlägt dadurch eine Brücke zwischen diesen beiden Formen des Erzählens und zeigt auf, wie sehr globale Veränderungen, regionale Beobachtungen und Erfahrungen vor Ort miteinander verbunden sind.
Climatic subjects
(Universität Vechta, 2025-12-09) Zähringer, Martin; Probst, Simon; Grotkopp, Matthias
Who, or what, is the contemporary climatic subject? Addressing the climate crisis in thought, imagination, and in action requires a connection between scholars, artists, journalists, and activists. The contributors to this volume put such a cooperation into practice and present not only academic articles, but also interviews, short stories, poems, and political essays. Readers will encounter the ›climatic subject‹ as an entity and as a historical force. But they will also hear the ›climatic subject‹ posed as a question, a displacement of subjectivation under the condition of the climate crisis. Finally, they will find the ›climatic subject‹ as a connector for new subjectivities yet to be embodied in cultural practice.
From decentralization to recentralization – policy reversal and institutional change during the AKP government in Turkey
(Universität Vechta, 2025-03-04) Baudner, Jörg
The article analyses Turkey as a unique case in which comprehensive decentralization gave way to a recentralization agenda allowing us to study in detail the link between policy reversals and different institutional forms of recentralization. The article will analyse how institutional layering, the dominance of informal rules and institutional displacement were used to enact recentralization without changing formal decision-making powers assigned to subnational authorities. In institutional layering, the Housing Development Administration became a core actor in a different economic growth strategy which deprived local governments of core competencies. The dominance of informal rules subordinated the newly established regional development agencies and the mayors of metropolitan municipalities to a hierarchical relationship with the central state. Finally, institutional displacement had loomed as a threat in the Kurdish question and was enacted after 2015 with the replacement of elected local governments by appointed governors to serve a repressive coalition with nationalist forces.
Sinti* und Roma* in der bundesdeutschen Hochschullandschaft
(Universität Vechta, 2025-01-07) Ganev, Radoslav; Rößler, Sven Dr.; Bubke, Karolin Dr.
Antiziganismus ist ein Phänomen, das sich auf verschiedenen Ebenen zeigt. Dies können Äußerungen und Handlungen, aber auch institutionelle Praktiken der Marginalisierung sein. Ziel unseres Forschungsansatzes war es herauszufinden, inwiefern akademische Institutionen in der Bundesrepublik auf Antiziganismen angemessen reagieren, Strukturen schaffen, die studierende Sinti* und Roma* unterstützen – oder eben selbst ausgrenzend wirken. Hierzu wurde zunächst die Lage von Studierenden der Minderheitengruppen qualitativ erhoben und im spezifischen Handlungsfeld eingeordnet. Die Ergebnisse dienen einer Sensibilisierung und werden in konkrete Handlungsempfehlungen überführt. Auf dieser Grundlage sollen zur Unterstützung der Arbeit von Antidiskriminierungsstellen an Hochschulen und Universitäten sowohl Beispiele des »(un-)doing« in der akademischen Repräsentation des Gegenstandsbereiches wie einer »good practice« auf organisationaler Ebene identifiziert werden.
Kultiviertes Fleisch: Impulse für Wissenschaft, Politik und die heimische Landwirtschaft
(Universität Vechta, 2025) Lin-Hi, Nick Prof. Dr.; Dettmer, Marlene; Bökemeyer, Celine
Kultiviertes Fleisch gilt als potenziell wegweisende Technologie, um ökologische Belastungen, Tierleid und Ressourcenverbrauch der konventionellen Fleischproduktion zu reduzieren und zugleich neue Wege für Ernährungssicherheit, Gesundheit und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung zu eröffnen. Zugleich stehen der Technologie noch bedeutende technische Hürden, gesellschaftliche Vorbehalte und ökonomische Risiken gegenüber, die ihre zukünftige Rolle im Ernährungssystem maßgeblich beeinflussen. Das vorliegende Impulspapier beleuchtet diese Chancen und Herausforderungen und formuliert Impulse für Wissenschaft, Politik und Landwirtschaft mit Blick auf eine faktenbasierte, transparente und zukunftsorientierte Gestaltung dieser Technologie.
Cultured meat: impetus for science, policy, and domestic agriculture
(Universität Vechta, 2025) Lin-Hi, Nick Prof. Dr.; Dettmer, Marlene; Bökemeyer, Celine
Cultured meat is considered a potentially pioneering technology to reduce the environmental impacts, animal suffering, and resource use associated with conventional meat production, while simultaneously opening new pathways for food security, health, and economic development. At the same time, the technology faces significant technical challenges, societal reservations, and economic risks that will strongly influence its future role in the food system. This impulse paper examines these opportunities and challenges and provides recommendations for science, policy, and agriculture with a view to a fact-based, transparent, and forward-looking development of this technology.
Literaturlinguistische Annäherungen: Textsorten der öffentlichen Kommunikation aus literaturlinguistischer Perspektive
(Universität Vechta, 2025-09-12) Bär, Jochen A.; Centorbi, Nadia; Lozzi, Giuliano; Steen, Pamela
Die Tagung "Literaturlinguistik – philologische Brückenschläge", die 2013 an der Universität Vechta stattfand, stellte einen ersten, wegweisenden Versuch dar, »die über 50 Jahre etablierte Trennung zwischen Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik punktuell zu überwinden und neuere Entwicklungen in beiden Wissenschaften wechselseitig füreinander produktiv zu machen«.
Doing Gender Knowledge
(Universität Vechta, 2025) Rickwärtz, Ninja Christine
Die Frage nach dem Wie der sozialen Konstruktion von Geschlecht bewegt die Geschlechterforschung seit mehr als 60 Jahren. Bis heute fokussierte die einschlägige Forschung die relationalen Bedingtheiten von Geschlecht ohne eine systematische Unterscheidung der sozialen Konstruktion von Geschlecht und der sozialen Hervorbringung von Gender-Wissen. Der folgende Artikel zeigt, dass sich eine sozialwissenschaftliche Doing- Perspektive als weiterführend erweist, indem sie einen theoretischen Rahmen liefert, um Hervorbringungsprozesse von Gender-Wissen als soziale Vollzugswirklichkeiten fassen zu können. In deren Kontext werden differente genderbezogene Wissensbestände hergestellt, ausgehandelt und immer wieder modifiziert. Wie Wissen über Geschlechterverhältnisse gesellschaftlich hervorgebracht wird, entwickelt der Beitrag analog zu der in der reflexiven Übergangsforschung bewährten Forschungsperspektive „Doing Transitions“ und modifiziert diese zu einem Konzept des Doing Gender Knowledge.
Literaturlinguistik – ein Modellentwurf (I)
(Universität Vechta, 2025-09-04) Bär, Jochen A.
Der Beitrag entwirft modellhaft eine linguistische Teildisziplin ›Literaturlinguistik‹ im Übergangsbereich zur Literaturwissenschaft. Neben historischen Aspekten und möglichen Forschungsanliegen werden insbesondere einige Prinzipien der Modellbildung erläutert.
Cultural well-being and social work: conceptual understandings and their application to music-based interventions for older people
(Universität Vechta, 2025-04-12) Frampton, Magnus; Hartogh, Theo; Schöndube, Oliver; Turunen, Hanna
The term ‘cultural well-being’ seems to be gaining in prominence in health and social care discourses. This paper surveys the existing use of the term in the literature base. Four concrete usage clusters are identified, largely distinct from each other. These are outlined, contrasted for commonalities and differences, and traced back to the discourses from which they originated. The applications for social work are discussed and illustrated with the particular cultural example of sound/music for older service users. This paper concludes by noting that social work can utilise the cultural well-being concept to broaden its traditional bio-psycho-social-spiritual perspectives.
Multivariate statistical detection of interactions between the use of ecosystem services and willingness to protect the Kaya Kambe (Kenya) based on survey data
(Universität Vechta, 2025-10-27) Wichmann, Marlon; Schröder, Winfried; Reith, Alexandra; Rieckmann, Marco; Shauri, Halimu Suleiman
Background: Kenyan coastal forests comprise about 145 fragmented islands of different size and protection status. Cultural ecosystem services provided by Kaya forests for the Mijikenda community in Kenya have helped to preserve relevant parts of this tropical landscape, which today, however, are exposed to strong land use pressures due to a growing population living in poverty. With regard to conservation measures for the Kaya, there is an urgent need to analyse the human–environment relationship of the local population. The aim of the study was to identify the factors and their interactions on the willingness of the local population to protect Kaya Kambe, which was defined as a dependent variable in two statistical models. Methods. The data needed were collected in the year 2022 by means of a questionnaire. The two statistical models were carried out using Chi Square Automatic Interaction Detection. In the first model, those descriptive variables were used that were also used in the hypothesis test based on individual contingency tables not presented here. This hypothesis-verifying approach was supplemented by a hypothesis-explorative second model. It also used descriptive variables that were not considered in the hypothesis testing. Results: The first model confirms the following interacting constraints on willingness to protect: importance of Kaya trees, personal benefit from protecting Kayas, importance of Kaya animals and usefulness of Kayas as a source of minerals. The second model discovers the following additional influences: access to Kaya, independent tree planting in own plot and in Kaya, monthly income, knowledge of national laws governing the use of Kayas, cultural value of Kayas, and Kayas as a source of energy. Conclusions The following recommendations were derived from the results and their discussion: creation of alternatives for the extraction of construction timber and firewood, participation of the local population in sustainable forest management, creation of alternative sources of income, enabling reforestation on private land and in the Kaya, as well as education and awareness-raising measures.
Mapping of measured concentrations of persistent organic pollutants and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in mosses and correlation of their surface estimations with maps on modelled atmospheric deposition in Central Europe
(Universität Vechta, 2025-10-29) Schröder, Winfried; Nickel, Stefan; Dreyer, Annekatrin
Background: The 2020 moss survey in Germany was designed as a pilot study and aimed to 1. validate the analysis of various organic contaminants developed in the previous moss survey; 2. develop the microplastic analysis methodology; 3. analyse the spatial distribution of persistent organic pollutants as well as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in moss samples collected in Germany in 2020; and 4. compare the spatial deposition patterns with the results of current atmospheric deposition models. This article describes the latter objective Methods: The collection of mosses at 21 sites within Germany and the chemical analysis of organic pollutants was carried out according to ICP Vegetation (Heavy metals, nitrogen and POPs in European mosses. Monitoring manual survey 2020. Bangor (United Kingdom) and Dubna (Russian Federation), 2020). Geostatistical methods were used to analyse the spatial structure of the discrete measurement data and to produce maps based on this. The mapped concentrations in the mosses were compared with the modelled total annual deposition. Results: The spatial distribution of the substances often shows a concentration gradient with higher values in densely populated and industrialised areas in western Germany and lower concentrations in eastern areas. A triangle with comparatively higher values in central Germany is recognisable. No correlations were found between the concentration of benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P) in the mosses and the modelled B[a]P deposition. However, the direct comparison at the moss sampling sites shows better agreement between the measured and modelled data in the northwestern half of Germany than in the other regions. Medium correlations were found between the concentrations of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and furans (PCDD/F) in the mosses and the modelled PCDD/F deposition, and strong and very strong correlations were found with the geostatistical surface estimates. The most obvious similarities in the spatial patterns of the measured PCDD/F and modelled data were found in southern Bavaria, in a strip from North Rhine-Westphalia via northern Hesse to Thuringia and in the triangle between Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, northern Brandenburg and eastern Lower Saxony. Conclusions: The study made it possible to describe the spatial distribution of persistent organic substances and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in Germany and, at least in the case of PCDD/F, produced a good agreement between the modelled deposition and the measured concentrations in mosses. The moss data should be analysed in greater depth and statistically validated.
Medizinischer Kinderschutz zwischen Elternrecht, Selbstbestimmungsrecht und Schutzverantwortung. Teil 2 – praktische Handlungsoptionen
(Universität Vechta, 2024-09-23) Kliemann, Andrea; Winter, Sibylle M.; Fegert, Jörg M.; Berthold, Oliver
Im zweiten Teil des Beitrages werden die rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen aus dem 1. Teil auf Fallbeispiele angewandt und diskutiert.
Medizinischer Kinderschutz zwischen Elternrecht, Selbstbestimmungsrecht und Schutzverantwortung. Teil 1 – rechtliche Grundlagen
(Universität Vechta, 2024-09-23) Kliemann, Andrea; Winter, Sibylle M.; Fegert, Jörg M.; Berthold, Oliver
Besteht der Verdacht auf Vernachlässigung oder emotionale, körperliche oder sexualisierte Gewalt gegen ein Kind, entstehen in der Versorgung häufig Unsicherheiten. Die rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen sind den beteiligten Ärzt*innen meist nicht vollständig bekannt. Dabei ist ihre Beachtung wichtig, um auch alle Interessen der betroffenen Kinder zu berücksichtigen. Der Beitrag stellt die geltenden rechtlichen Grundlagen dar und bietet mögliche Handlungsoptionen.

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