Topics for Bachelor and Master Theses


General Information
Time of Start Anytime
Language English preferred
Period Bachelor Thesis: 12 weeks; Master thesis: 20 weeks
Application Please send an E-Mail with your preferred topic to the mentioned supervisor. Please add in any case your CV and up to date grade sheet from FlexNow (simple printout) in order to find a suitable topic that matches your area of interest.
Own Suggestions You can also send your own suggestions to a suitable supervisor from our team.
Contact for General Questions Kristin Masuch

Available Topics (Bachelor):

State-of-the-Art and Best Practices in the Development of Health Information Systems
Description Details
Method Structured Literature review
Contact Gilbert Hövel



Available Topics (Master):

Do you ever come out of the basement?“ Qualitative Analysis of User-Involvement in the Development of Health Information Systems
Description Details
Method Expert interviews & Interview analyzation methods
Contact Gilbert Hövel
People are not the same: Examining human-centered IT security interventions beyond their average impact
Method Experiment and quantile regressions
Contact Prof. Dr. Simon Trang
Suggestions from Dr. Ilja Nastjuk
Research Areas IT security and impacts on human psychology
Technostress in the context of in-vehicle information systems/dating portals/further areas
The dark side of digitalization
User acceptance of technologies
Application Please send me your CV and up to date grade sheet from FlexNow (simple printout) in order to find a suitable topic that matches your area of interest.
Contact Dr. Ilja Nastjuk
Development and evaluation of employee-centric IT security competence profiles
Description Details
Method Design Science, i.e. develop and evaluate security competence facets and roles
Contact Kristin Masuch
Development and evaluation of IT security competence measurement instrument
Description Details
Method Scale developement (includes development of tests and quantitative empirical evaluation)
Contact Kristin Masuch
The impact of data breaches on market value: A contingency perspective
Description Details
Method Event Study Methodology (methods will be taught as part of the supervision)
Data Secondary data collection (commercial and open databases)
Contact Kristin Masuch
Evaluation of the use of cyber insurances in SMEs
Method Literature Review, Expert Interviews
Contact Florian Schütz
Design of competence development tracks in the domain of IT-safe behaviour
Method Expert Interviews, Design Science
Contact Florian Schütz