research projects

My research interests are widespread and led to diverse cooperations and peer-reviewed publications in topics like tourism science, political science or nutrition. Below you can find a selection of research projects I currently work on.

For a full overview see my Google Scholar


Healthy nutrition for pets


Knight et al. (2024)
Vegan versus meat-based dog food: Guardian-reported health outcomes in 2,536 dogs, after controlling for canine demographic factors

Knight et al. (2023)
Vegan versus meat-based cat food: Guardian-reported health outcomes in 1,369 cats, after controlling for feline demographic factors

Healthy nutrition for humans


Sadler et al. (2025)
How Sustainable Are Hospital Menus in the United Kingdom? Identifying Untapped Potential Based on a Novel Scoring System for Plant-Based Provisions

Metoudi et al. (2025)
A cross-sectional survey exploring knowledge, beliefs and barriers to whole food plant-based diets amongst registered dietitians in the United Kingdom and Ireland

R software packages


fuzzyclara (GitHub)
Efficient Medoid-based Clustering Algorithms for Large and Fuzzy Data

APCtools (GitHub, Bauer et al. 2022)
Descriptive and Model-based Age-Period-Cohort Analysis

coalitions (GitHub, Bender & Bauer 2018)
Coalition probabilities in multi-party democracies