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…

From September 23 to October 30, 2022, I had the privilege of spending a research stay of almost one and a half months at the Department of Sociology at Western University in London, Ontario. This research visit was made possible through the invitation and support of Howard Ramos, to whom I’m eternally grateful for this…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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