Theses at the Chair of Sustainable Development and Change

Bachelor Theses

We are pleased that you are interested in writing a thesis at the Chair of Sustainable Development and Change. 
Below you will find some information that you should consider.

What we offer:

  • Questions from the areas of sustainable digital change
  • Research seminar for Bachelor students, in which we supervise the Bachelor thesis closely and together with your fellow students

What we expect:

  • Empirical work with own data collection and analysis
  • Participation in the research seminar for Bachelor students
  • Usually we propose several larger topics that fit the profile of the chair and then develop your specific research question for your thesis together with you

Please click here for information about possible topics.

An accompanying Bachelor's colloquium (Wednesday 08:00 to 10:00 am) is offered during the semester to support the preparation of Bachelor's theses.

Registration for Bachelor theses is done centrally via the "Written examination management system (KVS)":
https://wiso-services.uni-hohenheim.de/kvs. Please note the registration deadlines.

Master Theses

If you are considering writing a master's thesis at our department, please note the following things.

What we offer: 

  • Diverse, exciting questions from the fields of human-computer interaction, sustainability motivation, digitalization and sustainability, and artificial intelligence
  • Departmental colloquium that gradually introduces you to writing a thesis
  • Possibility to write the thesis in German or English
  • Transparency
  • Support with questions regarding the statistical analysis of data

What we expect:

  • Empirical work (qualitative or quantitative) with own data collection and analysis
  • Participation in department colloquium
  • Adherence to the Open Science principles
  • Research questions that fit the profile of the chair

Please click here for information about possible topics.

If you decide to write a master thesis at our chair, we kindly ask you to write an email to nicolas.neef@uni-hohenheim.de.

Since supervising master theses requires a lot of effort and our chair capacities are limited, we would like to ask you to include the following application documents (as a single PDF file). Please send them at the latest by the end of lectures of the semester before the planned start of your thesis (semester dates University of Hohenheim).

Application documents:

  • A short cover letter
    - in which you state your motivation
    - present your research idea (if you are not applying for an advertised master thesis)
    - and discuss why their idea fits the profile of the chair
    - The cover letter should be 2 pages max.

  • Your resume in tabular form (max. 1 page)