Credit: Katrin Glückler
Daria Szafran
University of Mannheim
School of Social Sciences
A 5, 6
Building B – Room B 223
68159 Mannheim
School of Social Sciences
A 5, 6
Building B – Room B 223
68159 Mannheim
| Course name | Credits | Details | Term |
|---|---|---|---|
| Empirisches Forschungssemester II | 10 | Course details | fall term |
Research Interests
- Dimensions of social inequality
- Social impact of AI
- Quantitative and qualitative research methods
Career
Daria holds a B.A. and M.A. in Sociology from the University of Mannheim. In her master thesis, she analyzed the influence of media consumption on adolescent body image. During her studies, she worked as a student research assistant at the Center for Preventive Medicine and Digital Health (CPD) in Mannheim, where she analyzed qualitative data for a public health project.
In August 2022 she joined the Professorship for Social Data Science and Methodology as a research assistant, where she supports a project on artificial intelligence and social inequality.
Publications
- Szafran, D. and Bach, R. L. (2024). “The human must remain the central focus”: Subjective fairness perceptions in automated decision-making. Minds and Machines, 34, 1–37.
- Gereke, J., Hellyer, J., Behnert, J., Exner, S., Herbel, A., Jäger, F., Lajic, D., Mezenský, ., Ngoc Anh, V., Ogłaza, T., Schabinger, J., Sokolova, A., Szafran, D., Tirolf, N., Veit, S. and Zhang, N. (2022). Demographic change and group boundaries in Germany : The effect of projected demographic decline on perceptions of who has a migration background. Sociological Science, 9, 206–220.
- Rodewald, F., Keusch, F., Szafran, D. and Bach, R. L. (2024). Mesuring privacy behavior with donated data. Data Donation Symposium 2024, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- Gerdon, F., Szafran, D., Kappenberger, J., Bach, R. L. and Kern, C. (2023). Using survey experiments and agent-based modeling to simulate mobility behavior in smart cities. European Survey Research Association (ESRA) Conference 2023, Milano, Italy.
Projects