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17.04.2026
Innovative Teaching Project Brings Democratic Practice into the Seminar
A Students-as-Partners project led by Dr. Jakub Sowula and students at the IfP
Dr. Jakub Sowula (Institute of Political Science, University of Tübingen) is running the seminar “Pulse of the People? Public Opinion and Survey Methodology” in the current semester.
The seminar is supported through the university’s teaching innovation programme “Dare to make teaching more innovative!” that promotes the development of innovative teaching formats and the continued development of teaching practice. It combines standard methodological training with a collaborative research process embedded directly into the course structure.
With a focus on misinformation and democracy, students and the instructor jointly develop a survey experiment from the ground up, following a Students-as-Partners approach. This includes defining the research question, developing the theoretical framework, and designing the survey instrument. All key methodological decisions are taken through structured group discussion, with participants jointly responsible for the research design.
The final survey will be implemented by a professional survey company and fielded with a representative sample of 2,000 respondents in Germany. This ensures that the work developed in the seminar is directly carried into a real-world research context.
The project focuses on how participatory teaching formats can be used within empirical research training in political science, while giving students structured responsibility in the research process itself.
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