Steffen Eckhard

Prof. Dr. Steffen Eckhard holds the Chair of Public Administration & Public Policy at Zeppelin University, focusing on the intersection of public administration and political science. He leads interdisciplinary research projects such as Innovations in Local Crisis Management (InnoLoK) and Linguistic Analysis of Public Service Encounters, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the German Research Foundation (DFG), respectively. He also investigates the performance of international organizations using text mining and natural language processing, with affiliations to the Cluster of Excellence at the University of Konstanz and the Computational Social Science research cluster at Zeppelin University.

• Research Interests: Management and societal impact of public administration, inequality in public service delivery, computational text analysis in political science.
• Teaching: Offers courses in public administration, policy studies, and organization research, emphasizing theory-practice integration and methodological training for independent research.
• Collaborations: Partners with international institutions like the University of Passau and the University of Konstanz, and contributes to interdisciplinary projects on crisis management and governance.
• Labs/Teams: Active in Zeppelin University's Computational Social Science cluster, which addresses challenges in digital communication and data-driven social research.