Sara Perlstein is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs under the research groups 'Crisis Governance' and 'Physical Violence and Public Order'. Her research focuses on risk perception in relation to pandemics and terrorism, respectively.

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Sara Perlstein is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs under the research groups 'Crisis Governance' and 'Physical Violence and Public Order'. Her research focuses on risk perception in relation to pandemics and terrorism, respectively.

Sara has a background in cultural sociology with an emphasis on quantitative methods and completed her master's degree, 'Sociology of Culture, Media and the Arts', at Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2020. Her master's thesis investigated the relationship between governmental Covid-19 strategies and social media discourse in four different Northern European countries during the initial stages of the Covid-19 pandemic. Prior to studying in Rotterddam, Sara studied sociology at Heidelberg University, Germany. In addition to disaster research, Sara's main research interests include the topics of trust and authority as well as digitalization.

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