The University of Southampton
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gefion.thuermer@soton.ac.uk

Dr Gefion Thuermer 

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I currently work on the ACTION project, where I am overseeig the development of a toolkit for citizen science.

I hold a PhD in Web Science, with a thesis about the effects of the introduction of online participation processes in the Green Party Germany. This was an interdisciplinary project, situated between political sociology and human computer interaction. The doctorate followed an MSc in Web Sciene, also from Southampton, and a Bachelor's in cultural science from FernUniversität Hagen (Germany). Alongside my undergraduate degree, I worked in consultancy and project management. I also completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller. 

Research

Research interests

I am interested in online participation, and the effect of the web on democratic processes.

Publications

Thuermer, Gefion, Roth, Silke, Luczak-Roesch, Markus and O'Hara, Kieron (2016) Internet use, in- and exclusion in decision-making processes within political parties. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Web Science (WebSci '16). ACM Press. pp. 205-214 . (doi:10.1145/2908131.2908149).

Thuermer, Gefion, Roth, Silke, O'Hara, Kieron and Staab, Steffen (2017) Online participation in democratic processes: the case of the Green Party, Germany. ECPR General Conference, , Oslo, Norway. 06 - 09 Sep 2017. 22 pp .

Thuermer, Gefion and Wilde, Adriana G. (2018) Mentoring MSc students as a practice in STEM. Advance HE Teaching & Learning Conference 2018: Teaching in the spotlight: Learning from global communities, , Birmingham, United Kingdom. 03 - 05 Jul 2018.

Thuermer, Gefion, Roth, Silke, O'Hara, Kieron and Staab, Steffen (2018) Everybody thinks online participation is great – for somebody else: a qualitative and quantitative analysis of perceptions and expectations of online participation in the Green Party Germany. In WebSci '18 Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Web Science. ACM Press. pp. 287-296 . (doi:10.1145/3201064.3201069).

Thuermer, Gefion (2018) Online participation processes in the Green Party Germany: a qualitative and quantitative analysis of perceptions, expectations and experiences. In Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Web Science. ACM Press..

Thuermer, Gefion, Morgan, Cat and Wilde, Adriana G (2018) Mentoring web science MSc students. In Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Web Science. ACM Press..

Thuermer, Gefion (2019) Challenges of online participation: digital inequality in party-internal processes. In Proceedings of the 2nd Weizenbaum Conference 2019. Weizenbaum Institut. 10 pp .

Stalla-Bourdillon, Sophie, Thuermer, Gefion, Walker, Johanna, Catherine and Carmichael, Laura (2019) Data protection by design: building the foundations of trustworthy data sharing. In Proceedings of Data for Policy Conference 2019. 6 pp . (doi:10.5281/zenodo.3079895).

Thuermer, Gefion, Walker, Johanna, Catherine and Simperl, Elena (2019) Data Sharing Toolkit: Lessons learned, resources and recommendations for sharing data.

Stalla-Bourdillon, Sophie, Thuermer, Gefion, Walker, Johanna, Carmichael, Laura and Simperl, Elena (2020) Data protection by design: building the foundations of trustworthy data sharing. Data & Policy, 1 (1).

Walker, Johanna Catherine, Thuermer, Gefion, Simperl, Elena and Carr, Leslie (2020) Smart rural: the open data gap. Data for Policy 2020, Online. 15 - 17 Sep 2020. 5 pp . (In Press)

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