Preface Migration Politics on the Run
According to the High Commissioner for Refugees of the United Nations, by early 2023 there were more than 100 million people worldwide, about 40 percent of them children, who had been forced to
Arjun Joshi new German Chancellor Fellow (Humboldt Foundation) at SSW
Arjun Joshi holds a Master’s in Public Policy (MPP) from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and is a UK Government funded Chevening Scholar. He lives in Berlin and conducts
Social media are useless for civic and political participation: experiences with a pr
The political participation of young people in general and rural youth in particular is not optimal. Consequently, they are underrepresented in politics, which in turn affects the extent to which their interests are
Dr. Nargiza Nizamedinkhodjayeva new fellow at SSW
Dr. Nargiza Nizamedinkhodjayeva is a seasoned researcher with over a decade of experience in international development projects and programs. Her professional journey includes postdoctoral work with international research organizations, most notably the Global
Yasmine Benyoussef new intern
Yasmine is a Gender and Diversity student from Tunisia, currently studying at the University of Applied Sciences Rhine-Waal in Kleve. Before finding her true passion, she finished a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science
Anthropologist Genevieve Soucek new intern at SSW
Genevieve is a predoctoral graduate student at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, studying Cultural and Medical Anthropology. She obtained a B.S. in Medical Anthropology from the Ohio State University, where her senior
Resisting democratic decline: deliberation and some lessons from Germany and beyond
Democracies around the world seem to lose appeal for growing numbers of citizens. Partly explaining this trend, citizens seem less and less able to steer, on the basis of substantial rational considerations, the
The Social Science Works Podcast launched
The number and diversity of podcasts available is growing by the day. More and more people are listening to these as well. In this development, Social Science Works cannot be left behind, of
SSW took part in the Deliberative Democracy Days at the European Parliament in Brusse
Social Science Works was invited to present some of our experiences with deliberation at the conference “Deliberative Democracy Days: Moving deliberative democracy and participatory tools forward”. We talked in particular about our projects
Erasmus+ Project “Building Conclusive Societies” concluded in Belgrade
In the last days of March 2023, after two years of intensive cooperation, Agora Aveiro (Portugal) PIN – Psychosocial Innovation Network (Serbia), Mentor Split (Croatia) and Social Science Works (Germany, sort of) came