Thorsten Euler has been working as a researcher at the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW) since March 2017. He examines the vocational development of the 2005 cohort of higher education graduates ten years after their university degree. After graduating in social sciences from Justus-Liebig University, Giessen in 2010, he worked as a researcher in sociology at the universities in Halle-Wittenberg, Hamburg, Bremen, and Oldenburg, researching and teaching primarily on empirical research methods, social network analysis, and social structure analysis. He has held lectures at several higher education institutions (questionnaire design and statistical software packages).

Thorsten Euler
Research area Educational Careers and Graduate Employment
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Perspektiven des Forschungsclusters Bildungserträge – Inhaltliches Update 2020 und Planung für 2021.
Perspektiven des Forschungsclusters Bildungserträge – Inhaltliches Update 2020 und Planung für 2021. Workshop des Forschungsclusters "Erträge tertiärer Bildung", DZHW, Hannover. |
Survey Attitude Scale (SAS) revised: A Randomized Control Trial among Higher Education Graduates in Germany.Euler, T., Schwabe, U., Kastirke, N., Fiedler, I., & Sudheimer, S. (2020, September).Survey Attitude Scale (SAS) revised: A Randomized Control Trial among Higher Education Graduates in Germany. Poster präsentiert auf der 22. General Online Research Conference (GOR20) in Berlin. Abstract
Various empirical evidence signals that general attitudes towards surveys do predict willingness to participate in (online) surveys. The nine-item short form of the Survey Attitude Scale (SAS) as proposed by de Leeuw et al. (2010, 2019) differentiates between three dimensions: (i) survey enjoyment, (ii) survey value, and (iii) survey burden. Previous analyses in different datasets have shown that two dimensions do not perform satisfactory with respect to internal consistency and factor loadings in different samples (Fiedler et al. 2019). Referring to de Leeuw et al. (2019), we therefore investigate into the question whether the SAS can be further improved by reformulating single items and adding new ones from existing literature |
Does a Doctoral Degree (Still) Pay Off? Changing PhD-Wage-Gaps in the Last Decade.Trennt, F., & Euler, T. (2019, Dezember).Does a Doctoral Degree (Still) Pay Off? Changing PhD-Wage-Gaps in the Last Decade. Vortrag auf dem Workshop "Career Pathways and Decisions of PhD-Students and PhD-Holders" in Hannover, DZHW. |
Does a Doctoral Degree (Still) Pay Off? Changing PhD-Wage-Gaps in the Last Decade.Euler, T., & Trennt, F. (2019, September).Does a Doctoral Degree (Still) Pay Off? Changing PhD-Wage-Gaps in the Last Decade. Vortrag auf der 9th Annual Conference der Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (SLLS) in Potsdam. |
Teaching in Multicultural Classes: (Prospective) Teachers' Attitudes and Self-Efficacy Beliefs.Ortenburger, A., Menge, C., Schaeper, H., & Euler, T. (2019, August).Teaching in Multicultural Classes: (Prospective) Teachers' Attitudes and Self-Efficacy Beliefs. Vortrag auf der 18th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), Aachen. |
Macht sich ein Doktortitel heute noch bezahlt? Eine Untersuchung der Entwicklung promotionsbezogener Gehaltsunterschiede in der letzten Dekade.Euler, T., & Trennt, F. (2019, März).Macht sich ein Doktortitel heute noch bezahlt? Eine Untersuchung der Entwicklung promotionsbezogener Gehaltsunterschiede in der letzten Dekade. Vortrag auf der 14. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Hochschulforschung (GfHf) in Magdeburg. |
Der Einfluss von Lerngelegenheiten auf die Einstellungen (angehender) Lehrkräfte zum Unterrichten in multikulturellen Klassen.Menge, C., Ortenburger, A., Schaeper, H., & Euler, T. (2019, Februar).Der Einfluss von Lerngelegenheiten auf die Einstellungen (angehender) Lehrkräfte zum Unterrichten in multikulturellen Klassen. Vortrag auf der 7. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für empirische Bildungsforschung (GEBF) in Köln. |
Bereit für Vielfalt? Lerngelegenheiten und Überzeugungen von Lehrkräften zu Heterogenität in Schulen.Euler, T., Menge, C., Schaeper, H., & Ortenburger, A. (2018, September).Bereit für Vielfalt? Lerngelegenheiten und Überzeugungen von Lehrkräften zu Heterogenität in Schulen. Vortrag auf der 83. Tagung der Arbeitsgruppe für Empirische Pädagogische Forschung (AEPF) "Lehrer.Bildung.Gestalten", Lüneburg. |
Inclusive Education of Special Needs (and Culturally Diverse) Students. (Prospective) Teachers’ Attitudes and Self-Efficacy Beliefs.Euler, T., Menge, C., Schaeper, H., & Ortenburger, A. (2018, September).Inclusive Education of Special Needs (and Culturally Diverse) Students. (Prospective) Teachers’ Attitudes and Self-Efficacy Beliefs. Vortrag auf der European Conference on Educational Research (ECER 2018) der European Educational Research Association (EERA) in Bozen/Bolzano, Italien. |
Resource exchange networks between environmental organizations - results from a regional survey in South Africa.Euler, T. (2015, Juni).Resource exchange networks between environmental organizations - results from a regional survey in South Africa. Vortrag auf der XXXV. International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA), Brighton, Vereinigtes Königreich. |