Contact
Seidenstr. 36
70174 Stuttgart
Room: 4.007
Office Hours
By appointment via email
Subject
Research Areas:
Sociology and Social Science Research Methods
Research Foci:
Quantitative Research methods, Survey Research, Political Sociology, Intersectional Inequality Research
Winter Semester 2025/26:
- Statistical Modeling II
Stella Riedel studied Political Science and Economics at the University of Mannheim and Empirical Political and Social Research at the University of Stuttgart. In her master thesis, she examined the governance preferences of citizens who feel socially marginalized, placing particular emphasis on both the content and the linguistic form of the reasoning behind the preferences.
Since July 2025, she has been working as an academic staff member in the Department of Sociology and Social Research Methods at the University of Stuttgart. There, she contributes to the Baden-Württemberg Youth Study, which surveys ninth- and tenth-grade students about their attitudes, values, interests, and future aspirations.
She worked as a student assistant from 2020 to 2022 and again from 2023 to 2025, including for the Baden-Württemberg Youth Study and the Pro-Government Militias Database, and as a statistics tutor.
Stella’s research interests focus on issues of political and social marginalization. She examines the interplay between subjective perceptions and objective indicators of disadvantage, particularly among groups experiencing intersectional marginalization. She employs both qualitative and quantitative methods in her work.