Our services for students

You want to write term papers that won’t just be filed away, but use your research for real social challenges? Whether you are part of our interdisciplinary research team together with experienced researchers or if you are independently researching as part of your final thesis or a research internship, ROSI provides you with the opportunity to research relevant questions from and beneficial to Hamburg’s civil society.

What can the Research Office for Social Innovation do for you?

Our mission is to make empirical research for students accessible in practice and make our community better. The Research Office for Social Innovation coordinates research projects involving students supported by experienced researchers working on fascinating current social issues. Working with our collaboration partners from the community, politics, culture, and business, you can drive social innovations further.

For professionals only? Not at all! The Research Office offers all students at the University of Hamburg the opportunity to get involved, whether within the University curriculum, in specific projects, and in the office itself. As part of knowledge exchange in the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, we are open to all students and we welcome everyone from all disciplines interested in practical research in the service of society.

Regardless of where you are in your studies, we provide you with the opportunity to learn important skills in practice and to contribute to society— whether you are an undergraduate or graduate research assistant in commissioned research, participant in practical research in your seminars, or undertaking independent research as part of practical research or collaborations for your bachelor’s or master’s thesis.

Staff members in our commissioned research and front office

Get involved behind the scenes—supervise projects and develop skills

Do you want to be part of a skilled team, and conduct research as a paid student employee under the guidance of experienced researchers? With us, you can not only apply and expand your methodological skills, but also form vital connections with actors from professionally relevant fields in politics, administration, and business.

Conducting research is one thing. Planning, coordinating, and administering it is another. Whether it’s project management, student advice, or public affairs: take on tasks associated with the research process as an undergraduate research assistant or intern with ROSI. This provides you not only with insights into relevant fields of research, but also expands your practical and professional skills in collaboration with the ROSI team, as well as the researchers and students of the faculty.

Make sure you don’t miss any job offers and research internships and register(rosi.wiso"AT"uni-hamburg.de) for our mailing list. We regularly offer internships in the Research Office. Ff you are interested, just send an email to rosi.wiso@uni-hamburg.de. If you would like to do an internship as part of your studies, the internship advisor in your department can answer questions about scope and accreditation.

Curious about research projects? Find a list of our ongoing and completed teaching and commissioned research projects.

Collaboration projects in your studies

ROSI brings real-world practice into your seminars and a close-up look at the questions of our time

For example, sociology and political science bachelor’s students come face to face with practical research projects in the Methods of Empirical Social Research foundation course. Students work with ROSI collaboration partners on current issues in the civil society context. So, not only can you already get a taste of real-life practice in your second semester, but also generate important knowledge for non-profit collaboration partners.

ROSI also enables seminars with practical relevance in other teaching formats. Check out our current project list to see what is going on.

Do you want to conduct your own research?

Project-related research internships or collaboration on final theses

A research internship is a great opportunity to get fully involved in a specific collaboration project and get to know every step of the research project. We want your input—from developing the questions and creating, conducting, and analyzing a survey to writing up the research report. We offer regular internship opportunities that can count towards the internship required for your degree! To make sure you’re not missing any of our offers, sign up to our mailing list! All you have to do is send a short email(rosi.wiso"AT"uni-hamburg.de) with the subject “Verteiler.”

Are you involved in an association or a corporation? Is there a particular party or NGO that is close to your heart? Do you know where research is needed and you want to help? We’d love to hear your ideas! We support every step of your collaboration, from developing a project plan, designing the research and collection process, to finding a suitable academic supervisor for your project, and potential provision of data from a previous project.