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Anna Katharina Vokinger received her Bachelor’s degree in Social Anthropology at the University of Bern and holds a Master of Arts in Social Anthropology from the University of Bern. For her Master’s thesis, she analysed humanitarian actions in a Buddhist orphanage in Hanoi, Vietnam. During her master’s, she completed a course on Palliative Care by the Swiss Red Cross and has been volunteering since 2020 in companionship for the Red Cross Baselland. After her master’s, she interned and later worked as a project manager with the Swiss umbrella organization for fair trade organizations. In January 2022 she began part-time as a research assistant at the Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine at the University of Lucerne and in October 2022 started her Ph.D. in the Project: “Bereavement care for parents of childhood cancer patients” at the University of Lucerne. Her research focuses on the needs and desires of bereaved parents in the paediatric palliative care setting of oncology.

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