PhD students of the Department of Social Policy and Social Security Studies

Friederike Windhofer

As a cultural scientist, Friederike Windhofer takes a closer look at the climate justice movement. She compares different groups such as Fridays For Future, Extinction Rebellion and The Last Generation and looks for reasons for the choice of different forms of protest, from moderate to confrontational.
Supervision: Prof. Dr. Remi Maier-Rigaud

Sandra Wrzeziono
In recent years, the collective participation of citizens has increasingly found its way into the German health care system in order to orient health policy decisions more strongly towards the needs of patients. Because of the challenges in the implementation and establishment of collective participation possibilities as well as the ongoing discussion about the democratic deficit in the German health care system, PhD student Sandra Wrzeziono examines in her research project the understanding of democracy of the involved actors by means of qualitative interviews. The project aims to shed more light on the implications for the future design of institutionalized citizen participation.
Supervision: Prof. Dr. Remi Maier-Rigaud