The wider context

Biological, preclinical and clinical research is not the only type of research that adds to our understanding of how to handle pandemics. Here you will find projects with research topics that may be of special interest amid the current pandemic. This selection provides a glimpse of the breadth of DFG-funded research and is not intended to be complete.

Subject Area Project in GEPRIS
Social and Behavioural Sciences
Biology
Humanities
Medicine
Funded between 2009 to 2019
SPP 1409: Science and the General Public: Understanding Fragile and Conflicting Evidence
Social and Behavioural Sciences
Humanities
Funded between 2010 to 2021
CRC 884 Political Economy of Reforms
Human Geography
Funded between 2010 to 2015
Cultures of Resilience and Adherence: Adaptation and Coping in the Context of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Botswana
Social and Behavioural Sciences
Funded between 2011 to 2020
FOR 1612: Mechanism of Elite Education within the German Educational System
Social Psychology, Industrial and Organisational Psychology
Differential, Clinical and Medical Psychology, Methods
Communication Sciences
Funded between 2017 to 2021
Gaining behavioral insights to improve evidence-informed health communication - the cases of vaccine hesitancy and antibiotic resistance
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Differential, Clinical and Medical Psychology, Methods
Funded between 2014 to 2021

Adaptation to major life events: a learning opportunity for some and a route to de-pression for others?

History of Science
since 2015



Humanities Social and Behavioural Sciences
since 2011:

Threatened but stable medical systems of knowledge. Ebola in West Africa and endangered orders of medicine (2013 - 2016)

To the CRC 923 "Threatened Orders

Practical Philosophy
Funded between 2016 to 2020
Medical Necessity in the Contexts of Patient Care, Health Politics, and Setting Limits to Health Services. An Analysis in Medical Philosphy, Health Ethics, and Social Law
Public Health, Health Services Research, Social Medicine
Anaesthesiology
Funded between 2016 to 2020
Randomised controlled study on quality of care using either a telemedical or conventional physician based out-of-hospital emergency system
Public Health, Health Services Research, Social Medicine
since 2017
Family, Health and Work - a Duo-Centric Cohort Study
Social and Behavioural Sciences
since 2018
TRR 224: Economic Perspectives on Societal Challenges: Equality of Opportunity, Market Regulation, and Financial Stability
Social Psychology, Industrial and Organisational Psychology
since 2018
Not detaching from work during leisure time, affect, and well-being: Testing the underlying processes
Medicine
since 2019
FOR 2959: Health literacy in early childhood allergy prevention: parental competencies and public health context in a shifting evidence landscape (HELICAP)
Production Systems, Operations Management, Quality Management and Factory Planning
since 2019
Migration planning of global production networks – methodological support for the determination of robust migration paths and risk-efficient enablers of change
Social Sciences
History
Philosophy
Jurisprudence
Social and Cultural Anthropology, Non-European Cultures, Jewish Studies and Religious Studies
Economics
since 2019
EXC 2055: Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS)
Social Sciences
since 2019
EXC 2035: The Politics of Inequality: Perceptions, Participation and Policies
Social Psychology, Industrial and Organisational Psychology
since 2020
Understanding and fighting the impact of conspiracy mentality – the example of vaccination