Supervision Bachelor's and Master's Theses

The ideal prerequisite for writing a Bachelor's or Master's thesis supervised by Prof. Dr. Tanja Schneider is the successful completion of at least one course in the area of concentration Technologies in the Contextual Studies programme.

If you meet this requirement, for a Bachelor's thesis please fill in the linked form and send it together with your CV (max. 1-2 page/s) by email to tanja.schneider@unisg.ch.

Supervision Agreement

For BBWL (O19) theses, this form is filled out by the students after the first get-to-know-you meeting.

Consultation hours

Students writing a Bachelor's- or Master's thesis supervised by Prof. Dr. Tanja Schneider can make an appointment here.

General regulations of the HSG

Bitte orientieren Sie sich bei Ihrer Arbeit an den generellen Bestimmungen der HSG

Bachelor's thesis

Master's thesis

All scientific papers at the University of St.Gallen must be accompanied by a signed declaration of authorship.

Literature

A selection of basic literature on science and technology studies can be found below.

We recommend to use a literature management program such as Endnote, Zotero, Citavi or Mendeley when writing your thesis. The HSG offers access to these tools as well as support in learning the applications

Qualitative research

We recommend the following basic literature on qualitative research:

• Flick, U. (2018). An Introduction to Qualitative Research. 6th edition, London: Sage.
• Soldano, J. and Omasta, M. (2017). Qualitative Research: Analyzing Life. London: Sage.
• Eriksson, P. and Kovalainen, A. (2012). Qualitative Methods in Business Research. 2nd edition, London: Sage.

Academic writing

The language of the work must be non-discriminatory. The HSG language guidelines explicitly mention linguistic inequalities based on age, skin color, gender, language, national or social origin, etc. as discriminatory. Citation styles such as the APA style also contain regulations on non-discriminatory language.

The Writing Lab at the University of St.Gallen offers writing workshops and individual writing consultations.

Length and typical outline of the paper

The following table gives you a guide for writing empirical and theoretical papers.

The recommendations here are to be understood as supplementary to the official fact sheets. In addition, please note that these are by no means purely quantitative; rather, the successful submission of this work depends on the substance of the individual chapters.