Bachelor Thesis, Master Thesis or Project Study
📌 Key facts
Contents
- 💡 Background
- 🦾Who We Are
- 🎯 Goals
- 🎓 Profile
- 🧠 Topics of Interest
- 📚 Further Reading
- 📄 Requirements to any Work
- 📬 How to Apply
💡 Background
Effective altruism is a movement which asks the questions where and how 1 Euro can have the greatest impact to reduce pain. It uses evidence and rationality as leading principles to decide how financial measures can be used most effectively for example by prioritising problems and challenges. Such considerations are important for
- Social entrepreneurship
- Work of foundations
- Donations
- Wealthy individuals
🦾Who We Are
The Chair for Strategy and Organization is focused on doing research with impact. This means we do not want to repeat old ideas and base our research solely on the research people did 10 years ago. Instead, we currently research topics that will shape the future. Topics such as Agile Organizations and Digital Disruption, Blockchain Technology, Creativity and Innovation, Digital Transformation and Business Model Innovation, Diversity, Education: Education Technology and Performance Management, HRTech, Leadership and Teams. We are always early in noticing trends, technologies, strategies and organizations that shape the future, which has its ups and downs.
🎯 Goals
- Collect and analyse theories of effective altruism
- Identify proponents and representatives
- Analyse core principles to guide foundations and monetary allocation to problems
- Identify organizations that already use these principles
- Analyse which funding principles guide major organizations and compare them with effective altruism (e.g. The Gates Foundation)
- Prepare an overview of the biggest challenges of humanity and the world, the best way to address them in the view of effective altruism
- Create a guide for wealthy individuals, organisations, and foundations (and politics) to decide how and where to invest with the most impact
🎓 Profile
- Reliable and self-driven
- Enthusiasm for data-based decision making / sustainable finance / altruism / social commitment
- Ability to do sophisticated internet, desk research, and connect with practitioners
- Passion to learn more about the future and do research with impact
🧠 Topics of Interest
- Dependency on click rates
- Deepfakes
- Start-ups in journalism
- Quality measurement in journalism
- Media technologies
- etc.
📚 Further Reading
📄 Requirements to any Work
We do not want your research to gather dust in some corner of a bookshelf but make it accessible to the world. Thus, we warmly encourage you to create some or all of the following:
- Infograph - visually represent some of your work (find examples here)
- Slide Deck - summarize your research and possibly present it
- Extract most important sequences from podcasts, videos, and other media
- 3-4 Tweets about the most important findings and summarizing the topic
- optional: Medium Article - let people outside university know about your research and start your personal brand
📬 How to Apply
If you are interested, please contact Prof. Dr. Isabell Welpe (e-mail below) by submitting your CV and grade report. Please also briefly outline your tentative research idea (research question, data and methods, possible outcomes with a tentative outline all in word as *.docx)
We're greatly looking forward to hearing more about you!