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Sophia Dasch
Project Manager

Tel: +49 (0)30 2359116-15
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Sophia Dasch has been working as a Project Manager at ConPolicy since October 2024, leading projects in the areas of consumer behavior and consumer policy. She has methodological expertise in conducting and analyzing quantitative and qualitative studies, as well as creating experimental designs. Her main topics include sustainability communication, sustainable consumption, education for sustainable development, and digitalization. 

Sophia Dasch completed her studies in psychology at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Brown University (USA), and the University of Sussex (UK), with a focus on environmental psychology. She has published in academic journals on the psychology of environmental action and co-authored the book “Klimabewegt – Die Psychologie von Klimaprotest und Engagement” (The Psychology of Collective Climate Action), published by oekom in 2024. Since 2021, she has been a board member of Wandelwerk e.V., a non-profit educational collective dedicated to applying psychological research to practical environmental protection. She is also a member of the Initiative Psychology in Environmental Protection (IPU e.V.) and the International Society of Political Psychology. 

Prior to joining ConPolicy, Sophia Dasch conducted research at Leipzig University as part of a European project on the psychology of the energy transition. Previously, she served as a project manager in the project “CO2ero – Wege zum Klimaschutz”, where she supported schools in implementing climate protection measures. She also gained experience as a student assistant at the Ecological Research Network (Ecornet) and as a member of the R.I.S.E. Lab at Brown University, where she researched the perception of fairness in machine learning. 

Selected publications

  • Hamann, K. R. S. et al. (2024). How Can Psychological Research Support Movements for Socio-Ecological Change? A Qualitative Study on Psychological Challenges and Questions of Activists, Global Environmental Psychology.
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  • Hamann, K., Blumenschein, P., Junge, E., Dasch, S., Wernke, A., & Bleh, J. (2024). Klimabewegt – die Psychologie von Klimaprotest und Engagement. oekom Verlag.
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  • Dasch, S. T., Bellm, M., Shuman, E., & Van Zomeren, M. (2024). The radical flank: Curse or blessing of a social movement? Global Environmental Psychology.
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  • Hamann, K. R. S., Masson, T., Fritsche, I., Jans, L., Dasch, S., & Von Der Kaus, K. (2023). Energy community set-ups, energy visions and collective agency as predictors of energy citizenship and pro-environmental spillover (Report).
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  • Boykin, C. M. et al. (2021). Opportunities for a More Interdisciplinary Approach to Measuring Perceptions of Fairness in Machine Learning. Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization, 1–9.
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Selected lectures and presentations

  • Umweltzentrum Schwarzwald Baar Neckar e.V.: Presentation about the psychology of sustainability (Villingen-Schwenningen, April 25, 2022)
  • Heinrich Böll Stiftung Baden-Württemberg: Workshop about strategic environmental action in times of Corona – an environmental psychology perspective (with Eva Junge) (Digital, October 13, 2020)
  • 53rd conference of the Initiative Psychology in Environmental Protection (IPU e.V.): Presentation about the psychology in environmental protection: starting points and barriers for pro-environmental behaviour (with Elena Wendler) (Würzburg, May 30, 2019)