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Project Overview

Project Code: SOT 02

Project name:

Social and Political Behavior in Health Crises

TUM Department:

SOT - Governance

TUM Chair / Institute:

Global Health & International Relations

Research area:

political sciences, global health, behavioural economics

Student background:

Computer ScienceFurther disciplinesManagement / EconomicsPolitical Science / Governance

Further disciplines:

None

Planned project location:

Hochschule für Politik
Richard-Wagner Str. 1
80333 München
(Next to Königsplatz, very close to central station, very close to main campus)

Project Supervisor - Contact Details


Title:

Prof. Dr.

Given name:

Janina Isabel

Family name:

Steinert

E-mail:

janina.steinert@tum.de

Phone:

015784562543

Additional Project Supervisor - Contact Details


Title:

Professor and Chair

Given name:

Tim

Family name:

Büthe

E-mail:

buthe@hfp.tum.de

Phone:

089/ 907793 - 100

Additional Project Supervisor - Contact Details


Title:

Given name:

Henrike

Family name:

Sternberg

E-mail:

henrike.sternberg@tum.de

Phone:

Project Description


Project description:

PERISCOPE, with 31 partners across 16 European countries, is the largest EU-funded social science project on COVID-19 and its consequences. Our multi- and interdisciplinary team at the Munich School of Politics and Public Policy at TUM examines individual-level behavioral responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. With funding from PERISCOPE and with some of the project partners, we have conducted a variety of representative surveys in several European countries between 2020 and 2023. The TUM PREP students will work with the TUM PERSICOPE research team on conducting background research and managing and analyzing the data from these surveys (writing up the results for possible publication) to examine research questions such as:
(1) How do economic preferences such as altruism, risk aversion and patience impact vaccine willingness/hesitancy?
(2) How does citizens’ satisfaction with government policies to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic impact their voting behavior?
(3) How does engagement with political discussions on social media impact trust in government during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Working hours per week planned:

30

Prerequisites


Required study level minimum (at time of TUM PREP project start):

2 years of bachelor studies completed

Subject related:

Basic statistical software skills (incl.data management, visualising and running regressions) in Stata or R

Broad interest in understanding health and medicine from a social science and political science/public policy perspective

Ability to work in an interdisciplinary team as well as work at time quite independent (with only minimal supervision); previous research experience a plus

Other:

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