Linh Nguyen

P. Linh Nguyen joined the team of the Professorship for Social Data Science and Methodology as a research associate in August 2024. Under the guidance of Florian Keusch, she successfully applied for a start-up funding grant from the University of Mannheim to organise and implement a pilot study in Zambia on “Improving International Disability Measurement Through Survey Translation Research – Effects of On-the-fly vs. Scripted Translation on Data Quality”. The results will be used as the foundation for a grant proposal to the German Research Foundation (DFG). This project is in collaboration with international experts from, among others, the GESIS, the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, and the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED).
Linh holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in political science from the University of Mannheim. Also, she is in the process of obtaining a doctoral degree in Survey Methodology from the University of Essex and a master’s degree in demography after having participated in the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD). Her Ph.D. dissertation is titled “Assessing and Improving Survey Data Quality in Sub-Saharan Africa” and relies on data collected in Zambia during her time at the Chair for Econometrics at the University of Mannheim between 2016 and 2024.