Evelyn Hutter, MA
Contact Details
Department of Nursing Science
Alser Straße 23, 1080 Vienna, Austria
Top 22 / Room 2.03
T: +43-1-4277-49810
E-Mail: evelyn.hutter@univie.ac.at
Research Interest
- Palliative Care
- Biographical Research
- Lifelong Learning
- Qualitative, participatory research methods
Profile
Evelyn Hutter currently works as a research assistant and project coordinator in the project “Caring Cultures at the end-of-life” (SoKuL) at the Department of Nursing Science. She has a Master's degree in Educational Science with a focus on “Education, Counselling and Human Development” and is trained as a home helper. In addition to her academic endeavors, she works as a personal assistant for a partially blind person.
In her research, Evelyn Hutter focuses on the biographical experiences of care professionals with dying, death and grief (Palliative Care) as well as biography-oriented, qualitative and participatory research methods.
As part of the participatory research project “SoKuL”, she is writing her cumulative dissertation about the pre-, extra-, and early experiences of students in nursing professions with the end of life.
Publications (Selection)
- Hutter, E., Pichler, B., Dressel, G., Reitinger, E., Heimerl, K. (2025). Biographical storytelling about the end of life. Storytelling cafés in nursing training programs. BIOS Zeitschrift für Biographieforschung, Oral History und Lebensverlaufsanalysen, submitted
- Hutter E. (2024). Geriatric nurses do (not) talk about dying and death?! About the inclusion of so-called hard-to-reach in the field of palliative care. In E. Reitinger, G. Dressel, K. Heimerl, I. Wenger (Hrsg.): Schwer erreichbar? Soziale Teilhabe für besonders verletzliche Menschen. (S. 89-107). hospizverlag
- Pichler, B., Dressel G., Hutter E., Reitinger E., Heimerl K. (2024). “I am more confident to talk about death now“. Student’s response to the citizen science project SoKuL. ARPHA Proceedings
- Pichler, B., Dressel G., Hutter E., Reitinger, E., Heimerl, K. (2023). The Storytelling Café as a Citizen Science Method: generating knowledge, communication and education. Proceedings of Science, 23(422), 16. https://pos.sissa.it/442/016/pdf
- Hutter E., Lutz M. (2024). Tone sets the music – Young people and elderly people tell each another stories about the end of life. Fachzeitschrift Palliative Geriatrie 2/2024 – Schwerpunktheft „Biographisches Erzählen“.