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Meridith LaVelle joined the Carey Chair in October 2025 and researches how technological developments can threaten human rights.

The Centre for Doctoral Studies in Social and Behavioural Sciences (CDSS) is launching its fourth doctoral programme: ‘Social Data Science’. It was developed in collaboration with the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Faculty of Business Informatics and Mathematics. The application phase for the ...

From 1 January 2026, Prof. Dr. Marc Debus will take over as editor-in-chief of the Politische Vierteljahresschrift (PVS) for an initial period of three years – the first time in the history of the journal that this position has been based at the University of Mannheim.

Maja Schlag from the Mynds initiative explains how the network promotes female empowerment at the University of Mannheim through workshops and collaborations.