Dr. Nicole Schwitter

Nicole Schwitter
Project staff
nicole.schwitter [at] uni-mannheim.de
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2878
Fax: 
+49-621-181-2803
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+49-621-181-2804
Postal Address
University of Mannheim, MZES
68131  Mannheim
Germany
Visiting Address
University of Mannheim, MZES
A5, 6 Building A
Room:A 319
68159  Mannheim

Profile/Career

Since October 2023, Dr Nicole Schwitter has been working as a postdoctoral researcher in Dr Nan Zhang's project "Making Diversity Work".
Nicole Schwitter studied sociology and computer science in Bern and Leipzig. She completed her PhD in 2023 at the University of Warwick on the topic of offline interactions in online communities, using Wikipedia as an example. Her research interests include computational social science, social networks, and discrimination and migration.

Projects

A3 Focus Groups of Societal Integration: Migration and Ethnic Minorities

A3.2105
Making Diversity Work: New Behavioural Indicators of Social Cohesion in Multiethnic Communities

Publications

Journal Articles

Schwitter, Nicole, and Ulf Liebe (2024): Using Natural Experiments to Uncover Effects of Anti-Refugee Riots on Attitudes of Refugees. Sociology, 58, issue 1, pp. 253-262. more
Schwitter, Nicole (2023): Bridging the offline and online: 20 years of offline meeting data of the German-language Wikipedia. Journal of Computational Social Science, 6, issue 2, pp. 1103–1124. more
Schwitter, Nicole, and Ulf Liebe (2023): Not Cologne but the data collection (might have) changed everything: a cautionary tale on ignoring changes in data recording in sociological research. European Sociological Review, 39, issue 6, pp. 1005–1010. more

Conference Presentations

Schwitter, Nicole (2023): Data Brief: Twenty years of offline meeting data of the German-language Wikipedia. [WikiWorkshop, (virtual), May 11th, 2023] more