Write your Bachelor's or Master's Thesis at the CLPM!
At the CLPM, you have the opportunity to apply for specifically advertised thesis topics or broader research areas for your Bachelor's or Master's Thesis.
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Our Offer
- High methodological diversity of research approaches, for example quantitative and qualitative approaches as well as research in the laboratory and field,
- excellent induction and structured support in the preparation of your thesis,
- and the opportunity to actively contribute to current research topics.
Below you will find more detailed information on the subject areas in which we offer theses and how the application and supervision process works.
Possible Topics for Theses
- The impact of leadership on employee behavior (e.g., creativity, voluntary engagement) and attitudes (e.g., loyalty, satisfaction)
- Destructive leadership
- Authentic leadership
- Ethical leadership/corruption
- Leadership in the university context
- Women in leadership positions
- Leadership development
- Leadership and complexity
- Leadership in healthcare
- Evaluation and transfer of professional development programs
- Voluntary participation in professional development activities
- Attitudes toward continuing education
- The impact of different learning environments
- Personnel selection and development
- Time management and self-management
- Mentoring
- Positive and negative interactions between work and personal life
- Strategies for managing boundaries between different life domains
- Work-related illness: performance, exhaustion, and burnout
- The changing nature of work
- Interactions between different workplace resources
- Psychological capital (hope, self-efficacy, resilience, and optimism)
- Effects of perceived workplace support
- Examining positive psychology interventions (e.g., gratitude exercises, best-possible-self intervention)
Application
Your profile
- Student of psychology or a related field of study
- Sound PC skills (Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel; SPSS, R; literature databases)
- Committed, reliable and well organized
- Quick comprehension and willingness to learn
Current application deadlines for Bachelor's and Master's theses
for the broader topics listed below
- For theses in the summer semester 2025, please apply by 30 November 2024.
- For theses in the winter semester 2025/26 , please apply by 31 May 2025.
Applications will depend on supervisor capacity. If we are unable to supervise your work, you have the option of being placed on a waiting list.
Formal requirements
- The guidelines of the Examination Office for Humanities and Social Sciences (PAGS) and your respective examination and study regulations (PStO) must be observed when writing your thesis.
- In consultation with your supervisor, the thesis can be written in German or English.
