New open access publication: Guideline on the use of Meta’s SNS for survey recruitment, including a flowchart template to facilitate reporting

GESIS has published our new paper “A Guideline on Recruiting Online Survey Respondents through Facebook and Instagram: A Case Study of Hard-to-Access Health Workers.”. This survey guideline is meant as explores the vast potential of social networking sites (SNS), with a particular focus on Facebook and Instagram, as potent tools for recruiting survey participants, especially…

First results of a cross-national survey on Ukrainian refugees published

Following Russia’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine, hundreds of thousands of its residents, citizens and non-citizens alike fled the country. To cope with the challenges associated with such a massive displacement, accurate and timely data are direly needed. Against this background, we conducted a survey of refugees from Ukraine in Germany and Poland in the second…

Webinar on sampling via Social Networking Sites at the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA)

It was my pleasure to give a talk entitled “Survey recruitment of (forced) migrants through targeted advertisements on Facebook and Instagram” in the internal seminar series of the EUAA Research Programme. I want to thank the colleagues at the European Union Agency for Asylum for the invitation, their interest in our research, and the inspiring…

New Preprint: Realizing a Global Survey of Emigrants through Facebook and Instagram

Bernd Weiß and I published a preprint of our first article stemming from the German Emigrants Online Survey. It is available on OSF Preprints and can be downloaded here. Abstract: Research on international migrants has seen a sharp increase during the last decades, yet sampling them remains a major challenge, especially in a cross-national setting…

Webinar „Advertisements on Social Networking Sites as Recruitment Tool for Online Surveys” (Meet the Expert series)

As part of GESIS’ Meet the Expert series, Cristoph Beuthner and I gave an online lecture on the use of Facebook and Instagram to sample survey respondents. This Talk builds on recent work such as our global survey of German emigrants (blog post; preprint) and a recent project investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic…

Time to celebrate! I’m taking up a combined post-doc position as deputy team leader of the GESIS Panel and project consultant

Today is a great day, as I’m joining (or rather re-joining) the GESIS Panel team at GESIS. The GESIS Panel is a probability-based mixed-mode access panel that our institute maintains. A couple of years ago, I worked in the panel’s project management group when I was a PhD researcher.I’m now thrilled to return to this…

New publication! “Studies on the Acculturation of Young Refugees in the Educational Domain”

Great start into the new year: The article “Studies on the Acculturation of Young Refugees in the Educational Domain: A Scoping Review of Research and Methods” I co-authored has been published online fist in Adolescent Research Review on January, 1. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40894-019-00129-7