Anne Gerstenberg

Anne Gerstenberg is a doctoral researcher at CLICCS since October 2021 with a thematic focus onto Climate Policy Instruments and their implications for Social Policy. She holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy and Human Development from United Nations University-MERIT and Maastricht University as well as a Master’s degree in Public Administration from University of Potsdam. In her Bachelor’s degree, she studied Political Science and Sociology at Ludwig-Maximillian’s University in Munich. During her studies, she worked as a student assistant at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) and the Berlin Research Center for Sustainability (FFN) and interned at the Federal Ministry for Social and Labour Policy.

Her research interests include European Integration, Social and Labour Policy, Gender- and Post-Colonial Studies and Environmental Policy. She has expertise in conducting qualitative and quantitative methods such as expert interviews, qualitative network analysis, regression-based policy evaluation, supervised machine learning and text-as-data analysis.

In her Master’s theses, she researched Zambian Parliamentarians’ perceptions of Social Protection Policy (Maastricht) and conducted a supervised machine learning approach to study abusive language on Twitter against female Parliamentarians in Germany (Potsdam).