© Natalia Borrego

Thu, 29-02-2024

In the realm of lions: insights from the field

“Contrary to ‘The Lion King’ there is no king or queen in lion societies.

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© RundschauDuisburg

Thu, 29-02-2024

Taking risks with research

How do you investigate serious administrative failures when authorities set up barriers and refuse to provide information?

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© Kathrin Binner

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A behind-the-scenes look at research

Working at a university, developing and implementing an idea for a project, responding to challenges and gaining new insights: What exactly does this

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Doors open for dialogue

It’s not (just) about the money: The literary scholar Juliane Vogel talks about everything winning the Leibniz Prize made possible and how the NOMIS F

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Mon, 05-02-2024

Doctoral thesis adventure

Since the beginning of March 2023, doctoral students from various disciplines at the University of Konstanz have been providing weekly insights into t

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Pacing for the long game

After developing a theory to explain her research findings, Christina Zuber still had a long way to go before she could hold the book in her hands – f

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Fri, 15-03-2024

A good first impression and a broad perspective

A collaborative research environment is key for establishing a new research group: insights from bioinformatician Andreas Gruber, funded within the fr

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Too new for the scientific community

What do you do when no one believes your scientific discovery? Physicist Alfred Leitenstorfer describes how a new approach met with great scepticism

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© Christina Zuber

Fri, 05-04-2024

Migration: threat or opportunity?

How do regions that are home to national minorities respond to immigration?

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Ethical considerations in conflict and development research

"An essential ethical requirement for any survey is, for example, that participation is voluntary, uncoerced and can be terminated at any time.&q

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Mon, 08-04-2024

We choose to study what we understand least

How does a new research topic take shape? Does the idea originate from past research? Or does it arise from a completely different question?

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Fri, 15-03-2024

Arriving in Konstanz – interview with chemist Lena Barra

What's it like to be an early career researcher at the University of Konstanz?

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Coincidences and what you make of them

Professor Rudolf Schlögl, now retired, researched and taught for two and a half decades as a professor of modern history at the University of Konstanz

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© Dr Hannah Williams

Tue, 24-05-2022

Freigeist Fellowship for Dr Hannah Williams

Why a young scientist is on the search of the Optimal Movement Theory

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© Axel Giersch, Max-Planck-Institut für Verhaltensbiologie

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Like animal, like man

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize laureate Iain Couzin talks about research for which he will use the prize money of 2.5 million euros

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The “Information War” in Russia

Can Russia's control of national media be successful? Interview with political scientist Professor Nils Weidmann

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Mon, 18-07-2022

Hosting the first-ever TEDxKonstanz

Students from the University of Konstanz and the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior overcame the difficulties of a pandemic year to host the firs

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"To remember the past is to work on the future"

8 May 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War – In an interview, Aleida Assmann, Konstanz professor for cultural studies, e

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© Bild: Arek Socha/Pixabay

Mon, 04-05-2020

“There’s no such thing as the ‘one’ Africa’”

Africa is at the focus of the latest report by the Expert Council of German Foundations for Integration and Migration.

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What about educational equity?

We run the risk of regressing in terms of educational and gender equity, says Professor Axinja Hachfeld, educational researcher in Konstanz.

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