2019 (starting 2020): Approval of permanent funding for an extension of the ZPID service and research portfolio Role: Inventor of the strategic expansion concept (presented in November 2016, further described here), Director of ZPID 2019 - 2022: DFG Project "Mechanisms of Panel Conditioning" Role: PI, together with Dr. Henning Silber, GESIS 2017 - 2019: DAAD - PPP Programme for Project-Related Personal Exchange with Slovenia, University of Ljubljana: "Evidence-based survey methodology"Role: Grant recipient for Germany 2016: Approval of permanent funding for an extension of the GESIS service and research portfolio (integrated data collection infrastructure, IEDI; BMBF Sondertatbestand) Role: Member of the GESIS core proposal development and project implementation group DFG SFB 884, Evaluating political reforms using surveys (A08*) Role: Co-applicant (see GEPRIS entry) 2013, August: Research project funding: GESIS Panel Campus, BMBF step-up funding for the GESIS Panel Role: Principle investigator/applicant 2013, June: Honorary Full Professorship, University of Mannheim, School of Social Sciences. 2013 - 2015: Research leave, funded by GESIS Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences in Mannheim (Germany), Dept. of Survey Methodology and Design (SDM), BMBF Project ´GESIS Panel´. 2011, October: Isaac Manasseh Meyer Fellowship by the National University of Singapore 2009 - 2011: Research project: "Tourists Experiencing Eudaimonia through Sports and Recreational Acitivity Programs: Determinants and Conserquences", funded by FU Bozen/Bolzano Role: Principal investigator 2008 - 2011: Research project: "Expanding the concept of self-congruity to other dimensions of destination image to explain and predict post-visit evaluations in South Tyrolean tourism: Testing a comprehensive model", funded by FU Bozen/Bolzano. Role: Principal investigator (together with Oswin Maurer, FU Bozen/Bolzano) 2008 - 2010: SPP 1292 Survey Methodology, Sub-project: "Increasing nonresponse error by reducing nonresponse rates? Investigating the biasing effect of methods and procedures aimed at increasing response rates in Web-based access panel surveys", funded by DFG (German NSF). Role: Participanting researcher (see GEPRIS entry) Applicants: Wolfgang Bandilla (GESIS-ZUMA, Mannheim), Mick Couper (U Michigan) 2008, February - 2009, June: Grant to replicate and extend a meta-analysis on the risks of environmental tobacco smoke and on risk communication strategies. Role: Primary researcher. Project-related results and materials can be found here (in German): Projektzusammenfassung: Passivrauchexposition am Arbeitsplatz und Lungenkrebsrisiko: Replikation und Erweiterung der Meta-Analyse von Stayner et al. (2007) 2007, October: Affiliated member of the Campbell Collaboration (C2) Methods Groups ("C2 Methods Groups Affiliate"). 2007, April: Nomination for the federal state of Baden-Württemberg teaching excellence award 2007 (German: Landeslehrpreis 2007) by the Psychology students council. 2007, March: Appointment as an Associate Editor for Statistics and Research Methodology at Social Science Computer Review. 2005, December: Call as a Guest Professor to the University of Zagreb (Croatia), Faculty of Organization and Informatics at Varazdin. 2005, May: Call as an Associate Professor of Marketing to the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy. 2005, February/March: Invited guest researchers at the University of Chemnitz, Germany, Department for Differential and Personality Psychology (Prof. Dr. Astrid Schütz). 2003, October: Karin Islinger Award 2002, best Dissertation at the University of Mannheim in the Social Sciences 2002. 2003 thru 2005: "Intelligent tourist organisation ULIXES", Eureka project E!2584, lead by Prof. Dr. Bozidar Klicek (University of Zagreb, FOI Varazdin). Role: External partner and advisor to the main applicant for the area consumer behaviour and consumer satisfaction in tourism, Web-based and mobile data collection methodology. 2003: "The Technological and Social Prerequisites for E-democracy", funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Croatia, lead by Prof. Dr. Bozidar Klicek (University of Zagreb, FOI Varazdin). Role: External advisor, development and refinement of the theoretical base to predict and explain the willingness to use e-democracy tools. The project was nominated for the World Summit Award 2003, section e-government. 2002 thru 2005: "Web Survey Methodology Site (websm.org)", thematic network funded by the European Union, 5th Framework Program (No.: SETN 2002-00040). Role: Co-applicant with colleagues from Italy (Bergamo), Slovenia (Ljubljana), Sweden (Linköping); Partner for Germany. 1998, June: AACE ED-Media/ED-Telecom Conference 1998 in Freiburg/Germany. Best paper award for the paper "Supporting hypertext-based argumentation skills" (received together with Prof. Dr. Peter Reimann). |