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Ukrainian Refugees in Germany and Poland: Employing Social Media for a Rapid Response Survey, with Dr. Steffen Pötzschke

October 3, 2022 at 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM

Location:403 Southam Hall
Audience:Current Students, Faculty

The Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies & Migration and Diaspora Studies are pleased to be hosting Dr. Steffen Pötzchke for a lecture on European and Ukrainian Refugees in Germany and Poland: Employing Social Media for a Rapid Response Survey. This talk will discusses the use of targeted social media advertisements on Facebook and Instagram to sample and survey Ukrainian refugees who fled to Germany and Poland in early 2022. Dr. Pötzchke will also use the talk to provide insights in the used approach and present selected preliminary findings.

The talk take place on October 3rd, 2022 from 1:30PM-2:30PM on the Carleton Campus, 403 Southam Hall.

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About the Speaker: Dr. Steffen Pötzschke is a postdoc and deputy team leader of thee GESIS Panel at GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Mannheim, Germany. He co-founded the IMISCOE Standing Committee Methodological Approaches and Tools in Migration Research in 2019 and currently belong to its governing body. Dr. Pötzschke’s research interests include survey methodology, migration research methods, voluntary and forced migration, mobility, and transnationalism. Many of his recent and ongoing research endeavours investigate the possibility of using social networking sites, Facebook and Instagram in particular, to survey otherwise hard-to-reach populations.

Follow Dr. Pötzchke on Twitter @stpoetzschke