About the project


Creating a long-term research collaboration between Psychologists of Saarland University and Computer Scientists of Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)

Main Goals:

    Cross-culturally studying the online privacy concerns in Pakistan and Germany
  • Capacity-building in Pakistan for social science skills needed in IT security and privacy research by providing training in qualitative and quantitative research methods to assure data quality
  • Uplifting the skills in academic writing to assure that the conducted research is publishable in high impact journals and conferences of the field
  • Enabling prolonged research visits for expanding on the German-Pakistani exchange

Studies

Conducting joint studies on privacy concerns of children, young adults, and women and submitted first findings as manuscripts for publication in high impact journals and conferences

Training

Conducting joint trainings and exchanged staff members to achieve a better understanding of privacy concerns in Pakistan and Germany

Outlook

Creating an outlook for joint German-Pakistani research projects beyond the scope of this project

Project Partners

Saarland University

Germany

Lahore University of Management Sciences

Pakistan

Contact us!

Saarland University

Building A1.3, Ground Floor
66123 Saarbrücken

Dr. Nida Bajwa
+49 681 302 4760
n.bajwa@mx.uni-saarland.de