Miriam Zeitler completed her bachelor's degree in political science and social & cultural anthropology and her master's degree in Public Policy and Social Change at the University of Tübingen. From October 2024 to March 2025, she was also a recognized student at the University of Oxford, Department of Social Policy and Intervention. Since October 2025, she has been a PhD student at the University of Tübingen under the supervision of Prof. Martin Seeleib-Kaiser and Prof. Milena Büchs from the University of Leeds. Simultaneously, she works as a research assistant at the Research Unit of Comparative Public Policy and at the Geo- and Environmental Center.
For her PhD, Miriam is researching social policy in relation to climate change. Her PhD-project is financed by the German Scholarship Foundation.
Miriam focuses on sustainable welfare, particularly the intersection between social security systems, economic institutions, and climate change, and is especially interested in the issue of growth dependent welfare states. She works with both qualitative and quantitative methods.
