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On 15 May 2024, PhD candidates Luise Koch and Nikolay Lunchekov presented one of their PhD papers at the TUM Graduate Students Day. In attendance of other PhDs and PosDocs from the TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology, Luise Koch presented her research looking at how online misogyny in the… [read more]

Together with colleagues from the Chair of Digital Governance, the Chair of Law and Security of the Digital Transformation, and the TUM Think Tank, Luise Koch, as a representative of the Misogyny 2.0. research project, participated in the annual, german-wide Community Event against Online Hate on… [read more]

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In her presentation Janina Steinert is going to present insights of her research project "Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Child Marriage, Sexual and Reproductive Health, and Domestic Violence in India and Zambia", which was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). You can find more… [read more]

Luise Koch presents her research on the prevalence and impact of online misogyny against female candidates in the 2022 Brazilian Elections at the Fifth Early Career Workshop of DGGÖ Working Group on Health Economics and Development Cooperation held on April 12, in Erlangen. The study sheds light on… [read more]

Luise Koch received an invitation to give an expert talk about the topic “Microaggressions online: a threat to diversity and representation” at the annual Diversity Day of the Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt. The Diversity Day is aimed at raising awareness about discriminatory practices that might… [read more]

Prof. Janina Steinert and PhD Student Shruti Shukla recently published a paper entitled “Navigating distress: Exploring factors affecting adolescent girls' wellbeing during and after a violence-focused survey in Maharashtra, India” in the journal Child Abuse & Neglect. The paper examines how… [read more]

Henrike Sternberg receives dissertation stipend by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation). In her dissertation, she examines the relation between individuals' social preferences and their cooperative behaviors in different contexts. In the next two years,… [read more]

Shruti Shukla, a second-year PhD student at the Professorship, recently published a protocol for her forthcoming second Ph.D. paper entitled “‘Mechanisms behind gender transformative approaches targeting adolescent pregnancy in low- and middle-income countries’” in the journal Systematic Reviews. … [read more]

Henrike presents insights on the topic "Inequality aversion and preferences for international redistribution: The case of the COVID-19 vaccine distribution" at the 16th Annual Conference of The German Health Economics Association e.V. (dggö) in Halle (Saale) on March 5 2024. [read more]