Master Thesis Topics

2018-2020
  • The Masked Other: A Comparative Study on the Representation of Immigrants in Fox News During the Obama and Trump Administration
  • Not Real Rape? Predictors of Intimate Partner Sexual Violence and Attitudes Towards the #Metoo Movement in Nigeria and Norway
  • Role of Trust, Cultural Orientation and Communication In Times of COVID-19 In Ireland
  • Understanding Motivation Factors and Compassion Fatigue as a Way to Increase Volunteer Recruitment and Retention in NGOs Working with Refugees in Turkey
  • Factors Affecting Employers’ Hiring Preferences towards Asylum Seekers or Refugees in the U.S.: A quantitative study approach
  • Fluidity Of Identity Of People With Multiple Cultural Experiences
  • The influence of self-care on compassion satisfaction, secondary traumatic stress and burnout on humanitarian aid workers working with refugees and asylum seekers
  • Cross-cultural Investigation of the Phenomenon of Androcentrism
  • When and how vulnerable- and grandiose narcissism predict collective narcissism: the role of perceived social status, dimensions of self-worth, intuitive cognition and need for closure
  • The Danger of Social Media: A Mixed-Method Analysis of Threat Content in Right-Wing Hate Tweets
  • “But I’m One of the Good Ones”: A Qualitative Investigation of Internalized Islamophobia
  • Stable and contextually malleable factors of psychological adaptation in home and host country. Studies on Nigerians in Africa and in Poland
  • Strength in Support: Post-Migratory Stress, Social Support, and Quality of Life in Adult Refugees from Syria Resettled in Norway
  • Exploring Emergent Opinion-based Groups in Afghanistan Using Bipartite Modeling
  • Demographic Trends and Normative Influences on Prejudice against Travellers in Ireland
  • Who is the most Kosovar? The role of relative ingroup prototypicality in intergroup relations in Kosovo
  • Exploring social well-being amongst community environmental leaders: a qualitative study
  • Eudaimonic Well-being and Social Support of Queer Migrants
  • Effects of language priming on national and european identification. A cross-national comparison
  • “We should all be Bosnians but…” Youths’ Negotiations of Identification with a Common Bosnian Identity
  • Exploring the Acculturation Gap and Intergenerational Conflict in the Domain of Female Sexuality
  • Gender-based Violence and Psychological Abuse: Exploring the risk factors with survivors of domestic violence in Albania
  • Can we overcome? The social identity dimensions of surviving sexual assault
  • A New Measure of Well-being Combining Social Capital and Subjective Well-being (SWB) Based on Data from the European Social Survey
  • Psychological well-being, coping and stress experiences of postgraduate students at the UL
2017-2019
  • Investigating Ethnic Diversity in Soccer Teams as a Venue to Prevent Extremism: A Multi-Level Study
  • Media Charity Campaigns predicting Collective Action and Positive Stereotypes about Syrian Refugees in Ireland
  • Common Ingroup Identity Model & Structured Free Recall: Comparison of Bias Reduction Approaches on Specific Target Groups
  • Heteronormative Beliefs and the Impact on Self-acceptance and Disclosure of Male Homosexuality in Portugal and Turkey
  • He is (not) one of Us: The Effect of Leaders? National Background on Leader Prototypicality, Sense of Continuity of Identity and Post-Merger Identification
  • Beyond Intergroup Antagonism: Extending the Relational Model to the Group Level
  • When History Perpetuates Stereotypes and Narratives: The Burden of Historical Representations on the Well-Being of Africans Living in Europe
  • Awareness Intervention Against Modern Slavery in India: Influence of Caste Prejudice
  • Is standing by your moral opinion a Western phenomenon? A Cross-cultural study on moral consistency
  • Exploring the treads of service providers working with refugees in Istanbul, Turkey
  • Cross-Cultural Validation of Worries about Leadership and Motivation to Lead in Germany, France, Japan, China and South Korea
  • The influence of social media on the social identification and cross-cultural adaptation of international students in Europe: A longitudinal analysis
  • Are Future Leaders Worried about Work-Family Conflict?
  • Interact & aspire high: Contextual conditions of acculturation and educational aspirations 
  • An Agent Based Model Investigating Group Genesis in a Homogeneous Population via Meta-Contrast
  • I Am Because We Are: In-Group Identification and Perceived Social Support as a Social Cure for Sexual Minorities, A Cross-Cultural Comparison
  • Effects of Racialized Sexual Harassment in the Workplace on Women’s Psychological Wellbeing and Job Satisfaction
  • Beyond National Symbols: Identity and Political Processes on Quality of Intergroup Relationship with Different Outgroups in the Context of South Korea
  • Social Inclusion of Chinese Immigrants in Portugal: The role of Length of Stay and Social Networks
  • Maintenance and Innocence: Motivations that Determine Dominance Strategies of High-status Groups
  • Are Women and Men Equally Motivated and Worried about Leadership?
  • Unfair, unstoppable, unique: Social identity arguments and collective action in Ecuador’s 1990 indigenous uprising
  • Arab Muslims’ negative meta-perceptions and non-normative collective action
  • Education, Acculturation, and Adaptation: Unaccompanied Migrant and Refugee Youths in Italy
  • The Interactive Effects of Perceived Workplace Discrimination and Organizational Culture on Job Attitudes: A Study of Ethiopian Bank Workers
  • Development of Ambivalent Sexism in Childhood: Effect on Future Career Aspirations
  • (Trans)forming queer in migration narratives: the case of Russian gender/sexually nonconforming migrants in Berlin
  • Perceptions of European and National Identities among Georgians
  • Understanding intercultural competence of international students in light of their lived experiences in Ireland