Zaza Zindel
Researcher National Monitoring of Discrimination and Racism (NaDiRa)
E-mail: zindel(at)dezim-institut.deZaza Zindel is a research associate at the DeZIM Institute since May 2024. She is a sociologist doing her PhD at the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (BGHS) on the use of social media as a means of recruiting marginalized and discriminated against survey participants. Her research interests include survey methodology, the potential of social media for empirical social research, and the exploration of new technologies to improve the statistical representation of rare populations.
Zaza Zindel was previously involved in the BMBF-funded project "Gender and Sexual Diversity in Focus: Participation and Diversity of Lifestyles (SOEP-GeSMin)" at the University of Bielefeld and the FGZ project "ZuSichT: Perspectives of People with Disabilities on Social Positions and Cohesion" at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence (IKG). In both projects, she was responsible for recruiting survey participants, programming the surveys, monitoring the field phase, and processing the data, including weighting.
Research focus
- Survey Methodology
- Social media research
- Discrimination
- Social Inequality