Open Theses Topics

Welcome. Being here, you might be interested in doing Bachelor or Master Thesis at the Climate Policy Lab. Here is what you should know before you take a look around.

We sometimes have thesis topics available, which you will find here and/or on the respective DUSYS Moodle. If the idea matches our research agenda, we are also happy to support you in developing your own topic.

Note, the topics we provide are not necessarily fully developed proposals, but still require you to figure out an appropriate research question, and methods set to be applied. We firmly believe that this is the most challenging part in doing research and we do not want to take that away from you.

This also means that there will be an intense phase of communication and work when developing your thesis proposal at the beginning of the process which starts ahead of the official starting date. Rest assured this usually pays off for the actual thesis process and helps both you and your supervisor to be certain that the topic and you are a match.

2024-02-08 – Who gets to fly in the future? Applying justice principles to a constrained aviation budget

To meet ambitious climate targets, changes in flying behaviour will likely be unavoidable. The decision of who gets to fly is, however, very non-trivial. Any such decision will inherently come with distributional implications, with some groups winning and others losing. One way to approach this decision-making is to apply different justice principles (equality, priority, proportionality, etc.) to obtain different patterns of how the remaining flying budget is divided. DownloadMore information (PDF, 226 KB)

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