Sara Perlstein is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs under the research group 'Crisis Governance'. Her research focuses on the interpersonal discussion of risk among laypeople.

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Sara Perlstein is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs under the research group 'Crisis Governance'. Her research focuses on the interpersonal discussion of risk among laypeople. In particular, she is interested in the factors leading to such conversations occurring as well as how they may be impacted by the social context in which they happen. She investigates this using quantitative approaches such as conjoint experiments and quantitative content analysis. 

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 Rotterdam, Sara studied sociology at Heidelberg University, Germany.