Current Projects
Socially Motivated Reasoning in Social Policy Evaluation: Studying the Causal Effects of Social Policies on Citizens’ Political Attitudes and Behavior
Research Team: Sarah Berens (Head of project); Markus Tepe (Head of project); Eva Wegner (Head of project)
Project Z: Central Tasks of the Collaborative Research Center
Research Team: Sonderforschungsbereich "Globale Entwicklungsdynamiken von Sozialpolitik" (SFB 1342), Universität Bremen
Welfare States and Protest
Research Team: Sebastian Haunss (Head of project)
Contentious Politics in the Digital Age (CoPoDi)
Research Team: Hilke Brockmann (Head of project); Stephanie Geise (Head of project); Sebastian Haunss (Head of project); Sophia Hunger (Head of project); Thomas Kern (Head of project); Jan Lorenz (Head of project); Martin Nonhoff (Head of project); Patrick Sachweh (Head of project)
EPIC: Expertise and Politicization in COVID discourse
Research Team: Sebastian Haunss (Head of project); Sebastian Padó (Head of project); Johannes Kühling; Nina Vikhrova
Protest as a Democracy Test
Research Team: Sebastian Haunss (Head of project); Sophia Hunger (Head of project); Heiko Pleines (Head of project); Nina Krienke; Philipp Srama
Conflicts between social milieus about social cohesion
Research Team: Olaf Groh-Samberg (Head of project); Thomas Kern (Head of project); Patrick Sachweh (Head of project); Tim Schröder; Anne Speer
Comparing Protests and Social Cohesion in eastern and western Europe
Research Team: Priska Daphi (Head of project); Sebastian Haunss (Head of project); Pál Susanszky
The Role of Perceptions of Injustice and Powerlessness in Driving Populism
Research Team: Ekaterina Widmer-Lytkina
Generative AI in the world of work (GENKIA)
Research Team: Yongping Bao (Head of project); Florian Butollo (Head of project); Mareike Sirman-Winkler (Head of project); Markus Tepe (Head of project)











