Johanna Mehltretter

Year: 2021

Center: Social Sciences

Supervisor: Florian Keusch

Johanna Mehltretter is a doctoral student in Sociology at the CDSS. She is associated with the Professorship for Statistics and Methodology where she works in the project ‚Integration Research 2.0‘ on new data sources in the field of migration and integration research. She holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Sociology from the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg as well as a Master’s Degree in Sociology and Social Research from the University of Trento (Italy). Additionally, she worked as a student research assistant at the Leibniz-Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) in Bamberg and as an intern at the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento. After completing her studies, she worked as a research assistant in the project ‚Refugees in the German Educational System‘ at the LIfBi where she was mainly occupied with data validation.

In her Master thesis, she applied different multilevel approaches using several waves of the European Social Survey as well as country-level data from the European Commission to examine the impact of the current technological change on the effect of having a migration background on different labor market outcomes across Europe.

Research interests:

• Survey methodology
• Opportunities of using big data in the social sciences
• Migration and attitudes research