Martina Roes

The professorship's research focuses on two main areas: Methods in care and health care research, in particular process evaluation; also the development and testing of implementation and dissemination models. The professorship also reflects on basic methodological assumptions in social research of and with people with dementia.

Special attention is also paid to the establishment of implementation and dissemination science as an independent discipline or as a component of nursing science.

Both focal points of the professorship are closely linked to the research of two working groups at the German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases - DZNE in Witten: "Implementation Science" and "Person-Centered-Dementia-Care". She is also the spokesperson for the DZNE/Witten.

• B-Dem - The B-DEM project (counselling concepts and structures for people with dementia and their social environment with a special focus on counselling in accordance with Section 7a SGB XI) focuses on the topic of counselling in accordance with Section 7a SGB XI for the care of people with dementia, which people with dementia and their relatives in Germany can make use of.
• BENi - The project aims to develop and sustainably implement practical recommendations for maintaining and promoting the mobility of residents in care facilities.
• COVIDX3 - The aim of this international cooperation is to address disaster preparedness and disaster resilience in healthcare systems. The key philosophy of this project is that this learning will lead to appropriate, equitable and sustainable care for families with dementia during the pandemic and beyond.
• DemFriendlyHospital - The aim of the project is to map the different ideas in a structured way and to develop criteria that characterise a dementia-friendly hospital.
• DISTINCT - Researchers from the health care system and industry around the world are looking for solutions to effectively (and cost-efficiently) support people with dementia and their social environment with the help of technology. The DISTINCT project is funding a total of 15 doctoral students.
• FTD-Bayern - In cooperation with the Hans-Weinberger-Akademie der AWO e. V. (Munich), the aim is to identify gaps in the care of people with FTD in Bavaria as well as obstacles that stand in the way of needs-based care.
• INCLUDE & PLAN:D - The aim of the PLAN:D project is to research how built spaces (e.g. architecture, urban spaces and living spaces for people with dementia) can be designed and planned to be dementia-friendly. The INCLUDE project aims to investigate how people with dementia orientate themselves spatially in cities and, in particular, which spatial factors strengthen their self-confidence in finding their way independently.
• PELI-D - The PELI-D is an instrument developed in the USA, translated into German and culturally adapted, which is used to record the preferences of older people and people in need of care.
• PerDem - The Per-Dem project fundamentally asks how personhood is understood in person-centred care and research in the context of dementia.
• TRANSFER-DEM - The project aims to identify factors that promote and inhibit the successful and sustainable implementation of dementia care concepts as well as actors who can significantly influence and help shape the implementation processes of these concepts.

2013
Case Management Trainer (Certificate DGCC)

1997 - 2002
Ph.D. Nursing Science University of Bremen

1996
Facilitator Trainer (Certificate), CBO, Utrecht, NL

1995
Facilitator (Certificate), CBO, Utrecht, NL

1990/91 - 1996/97
Sociology (major), Philosophy, Psychology (minor), Free University of Berlin

1986/87 - 1988
State Exams Nursing Education Senator for Health and Social Care, Berlin

1979 - 1982
State Exams in Nursing, Marienhospital, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler

Professional Positions

2013/02
Professorship of Nursing Science and Health Care Research, University of Witten/Herdecke, Faculty of Health, Department of Nursing Science

2013/01
Speaker of the German Center of Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) / Witten

2013/01
Senior Research Group Leader (interim) "Methodology"

2012/10
Senior Research Group Leader "Implementation and Dissemination Research"

2010 - 2011:
Commonwealth Fund Harkness/B. Braun Foundation Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; USA

2003 - 2013
Professor for Nursing Science, University of Applied Sciences Bremen
- 2006 - 2008 Vice-Rector for Education at the University of Applied Sciences Bremen
- 2004 - 2006 Dean of Study Affairs at the Dep. Social Sciences and Media Studies, University of Applied Sciences Bremen

2004 - present
Head of the Institute for Quality and Case Management (IQC)

2003
Professor for Nursing Management, University of Applied Sciences of the German Red Cross, Goettingen

2000 - 2002
Senior Researcher, Institute of Applied Nursing Science, University of Bremen

1997 - 2001
PhD Fellowship (Robert Bosch Foundation) at the Institute for Applied Nursing Science, University of Bremen

1995 - 1997
Facilitator, Department of Quality Management, University Hospital Benjamin Franklin, Berlin

1993 - 1995
Facilitator: development of unit based standards, University Hospital Benjamin Franklin, Berlin

1986 - 1997
Nurse and Clinical Instructor at a 22 bed intensive care unit (surgery), University Hospital Benjamin, Berlin

1983 - 1986
Nurse, Intensive Care and Anesthesia Department, St. Josef Stift, Bremen

1982 - 1983 
Nurse, Emergency Room, University Hospital, Freiburg

Ph. D. Nursing Science - Witten/Herdecke University (uni-wh.de)