Dr. Thomas Krikser has been responsible for consulting and training on methods of empirical social research at the Faculty's Witzenhausen campus since November 2012. He is also a member of staff at the Chair of Sociology of Rural Areas

After completing his diploma in political science at the Free University of Berlin (2005), Mr. Krikser worked at the Center for Educational Futures Research at the Free University of Berlin (2006-2009) as part of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development.

After working as a research assistant at the Center for Agricultural Landscape Research, Müncheberg (2009-2013) and as a visiting scholar at the University of Vermont (2010-2012) and the University of Southern California (2011), Mr. Krikser joined the Department of Agricultural and Food Marketing at the University of Kassel.

Mr. Krikser completed his doctorate on "The Contribution of Foundations to an Ecofriendly and Sustainable Development" at the Institute for Environmental Communication at Leuphana University Lüneburg in 2016. He completed his habilitation on "Measuring the acceptance and success of sustainable products" in January 2024.

• Block and refresher courses SPSS and MaxQDA
• Doctoral colloquium "Principles and Practices of Survey Research: Designing and Conducting Survey"
• Complex Methods of Social Research (MA)
• Research Methods (MA-IFBC)

• Methods of empirical social research
• Method development
• Attitude and preference measurement
• Education for sustainable development
• Urban agriculture

List of the last 6 articles (peer-reviewed)

Krikser, T., Ehlers, MH. & Profeta, A. (2024):Municipal heat provision experiences and expectations in Germany. Energ Sustain Soc 14, 4 (2024). doi.org/10.1186/s13705-023-00433-0

Kühn, D., Profeta, A., Krikser, T. et al. (2023): Adaption of the meat attachment scale (MEAS) to Germany: interplay with food neophobia, preference for organic foods, social trust and trust in food technology innovations. Agric Econ 11, 38 (2023). doi.org/10.1186/s40100-023-00278-3

Kühn, D., Krikser, T., Issa, I., Profeta A. (2023): The witzenhausen food inventory - organic food (WFI-OeL) an itemset for measuring consumers' attitudes and preferences for organic food in Germany. Food Quality and Preference. doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2022.104708

Krikser, T., Jahnke, B. (2021): Phenomena-centered Text Analysis (PTA): a new approach to foster the qualitative paradigm in text analysis. Qual Quant. doi.org/10.1007/s11135-021-01277-6

Kretschmer, S.; Langfeldt, B.; Herzig, C. and Krikser, T. (2021): The organic mindset: Insights from a mixed method grounded theory (mm-gt) study into organic food systems. Sustainability, 13, 2021 doi.org/10.3390/su13094724

Krikser, T.; Profeta, A.; Grimm, S.; Huther, H. (2020): Willingness-to-Pay for District Heating from Renewables of Private Households in Germany. Sustainability, 12, 2020. doi.org/10.3390/su12104129

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