- Religion, ethnicity, and conflict
- Institutional development
- State- and peacebuilding
- Aid allocation
- Social and political trust
- Migration and refugees
- Quantitative methods
Email: patsch@prio.org
Patrick is a Research Assistant focusing on data and quantitative methods with a wide interest He is currently working on the TRUST project with data quality and studying how farmland quality surrounding refugee settlements impacts host-community-refugee relations.
For POLIMPACT, Patrick is leveraging supervised machine learning for a systematic literature review on how conflict and political dimensions impact climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts.
Patrick has previously worked on a pilot study to obtain disaggregated data on aid allocations for mine action which he presented at the UN during the 21st meeting of the States Parties to the APBMC.
As part of the TRUST Project, his MA Thesis investigated how ethnic composition and refugee arrivals affect attitudes of social trust in African host-communities, titled "Distrusting Ethnic Changes? A quantitative study on the moderating role of ethnic group change in the refugee population for refugee-hosting communities' social trust in Uganda, Tanzania, and Zambia".