Chair for Social Policy and Public Finance

Judith Clauß has been working as a research assistant on the Mental Health and Life-long Productivity project at the Chair of Social Policy and Public Finance since September 2025. She holds an MA in Social Research Methods from Ruhr University Bochum and a BA in Political Science and Public Administration from the University of Konstanz. Through various part-time jobs and internships, she gained practical experience in quantitative data collection, data analysis and statistical methods. Most recently, she worked as a research assistant at the Methodology Centre and the Section for Social Science Methods & Statistics at the Faculty of Social Sciences at RUB.

Work Experience:

01/2022 – 08/2023    Student assistant, Project Data.Literacy@RUB, Methodology Centre, Ruhr-University Bochum

02/2023 – 07/2023    Student assistant, Course: „Modern Applied Regression Analysis with R“, Section Social Science Methodology and Statistics, Ruhr-University Bochum

05/2019 – 08/2019    Intern, Social Research Department, infas Institute for Applied Social Science

11/2018 – 03/2019    Student assistant, Course: „Datenanalyse mit R“, PD Dr. Michael Herrmann, University of Konstanz

Education:

10/2020 – 12/2024    M.A. Social Science – Social Research Methods, Ruhr-University Bochum

10/2015 – 03/2019    B.A. Political Science and Public Administration, University of Konstanz

2014                          High school degree (Abitur), Wildermuth-Gymnasium Tübingen

Current projects:

Mental health and lifelong productivity