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Blick auf die Universität Mannheim und den gesamten Ehrenhof. Der Himmel ist blau und bewölkt. Ein paar Menschen laufen herum.
Heute beginnen die internationalen Wochen gegen Rassismus! Die Uni Mannheim misst der Bekämpfung von Rassismus große Bedeutung zu. Eine Anlaufstelle für Betroffene ist die Beratungsstelle „Antidiskriminierung“.
Wissenschaftliche Hilfskräfte (m/w/d) gesucht
An den Steuerlehrstühlen der Area Accounting & Taxation sind ab März 2021 mehrere Stellen als wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft (m/w/d) mit empirischem Fokus zu besetzen.
Portrait von Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi. Sie trägt einen schwarzen Blazer über einer weißen Bluse.
Frauen investieren weniger
Im Podcast “Clever Girls – rebellisch, feministisch, wegweisend” des RBB spricht Prof. Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi über den Gender Investment Gap, dessen Ursachen und Möglichkeiten zur Eindämmung.
Ein Stapel voller Münzen
Transparenz alleine nicht ausreichend
Prof. Andreas Gulyas erläutert im STANDARD, warum ein Lohntransparenzgesetz nicht ausreicht, um den Gender-Pay-Gap zu schließen und verdeutlicht, welche Maßnahmen stattdessen helfen könnten.
Professor Fischinger: Lehrbuch Arbeitsrecht in der zweiten Auflage
Druckfrisch und brandaktuell
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Stefan Radev handed in his dissertation.
Stefan Radev is the 6th SMiP PhD Candidate to hand in his dissertation. The cumulative thesis is titled “Deep learning architectures for amortized Bayesian inference in cognitive modeling” and was submitted on 15 March 2021 at the University of Heidelberg. Congratulations, Stefan, and good luck for ...
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Special events in March 2021: February of failures continued and self-regulation workshop.
The SMiP equal opportunities committee happily announces that  the next meeting of the event series “February of failures” will take place on 23 March 2021 (12:30 – 13:30), with Mandy Hütter and Edgar Erdfelder sharing their experiences and discussing „normal“ setbacks in academic careers, and ...
Call for Papers: Measurement Instruments in Corona Studies
Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences invites researchers to submit Short Report manuscripts (up to 3,000 words) for a special issue on Measurement Instruments in Corona Studies.
Call for Papers: Measurement Instruments in Corona Studies
Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences invites researchers to submit Short Report manuscripts (up to 3,000 words) for a special issue on Measurement Instruments in Corona Studies.
Abschlusskolloquium von ForDigital
Die regionale Forschungsallianz ForDigital zieht in ihrem Abschlusskolloquium eine beeindruckende Bilanz.
Exam date

The exam of the BA lecture “Ausgewählte Themen der Vergleichenden Regierungslehre: Authoritarian Politics” held by Professor Traunmüller will take place on Wednesday, 11. June 2025.

The retake of the exam is planned to be on Saturday, 23 August 2025.

26/01/2022 Conditional Accept at PSRM!

Our paper “Computing quantities of interest and their uncertainty using Bayesian simulation” has just been conditionally accepted at Political Science Research & Methods (with Andi Murr and Jeff Gill).

14/12/2021 Invited Talk at WZB

Tomorrow, I will give a talk on “Free Speech and Self-Censorship at the University: Testing the ‘Campus Cancel Culture’ Hypothesis” in the MaD Colloquium at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB).

24/11/2021 Pre-registered Study In-Principle-Accepted!

Our pre-registered study for the GLES Open Science Challenge “Subjective Freedom of Speech: Why Do Citizens Think They Cannot Speak Freely?” (with Jan Menzner) has been in-principle-accepted for publication in Politische Vierteljahresschrift.

06/07/2020 Our Survey Items on Covid-19 are included in ESS Round 10!

Our (Marc Helbling, Rahsaan Maxwell and myself) survey items on Covid-19 were chosen to be included in the next round of the European Social Survey, due to be fielded across Europe from September 2020. The survey items on government authority and legitimacy in the age of a pandemic will focus on attitudes... 

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17/08/2020 Conditional Accept at KZfSS!

Our paper “Is Free Speech in Danger on University Campus? Evidence from a Most Likely Case” (with Matthias Revers) has just been conditionally accepted for publication in the Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie!

17/08/2020 Accept at PA!

What a day: Our paper “Eliciting Beliefs as Distributions in Online Surveys” (with Lucas Leemann and Lukas Stoetzer) has just been accepted for publication in Political Analysis!