The Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences promotes innovative, excellent, problem-oriented research that aspires to contribute to societal debates and address key global challenges.

The cohorts trained and supported by the ViDSS are part of a vibrant research environment and international networks. The ViDSS encompasses and fosters connections between a broad range of disciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives. The ViDSS embraces the entire range of epistemological, methodological and theoretical approaches that are employed at the Faculty of Social Sciences. Doctoral candidates receive research training and write a doctoral thesis in the fields of communication, demography, development studies, nursing science, political science, science and technology studies, social and cultural anthropology, and sociology. The ViDSS aims for the highest standards in doctoral training and close supervision to ensure a mastery of social scientific debates and relevant theories and methods. As a result, ViDSS graduates are highly employable both within and outside academia.

 

 

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Activities
 

Are you interested in inviting an international guest speaker?

Suggest a ViDSS International Workshop! ViDSS International Workshops are initiated by students and provide methodological training and international networking opportunities for doctoral candidates in the social sciences at the University of Vienna.

Funding
 

ViDSS Final Year Fund 2023

With the Final Year Fund, the ViDSS supports doctoral candidates during the final year of the doctoral studies. ViDSS students can apply for a maximum amount of € 750 for proofreading and printing costs or expenses related to self-organised workshops or conference participation.

Activities
 

Get involved: PhD Clubs

The ViDSS aims at increasing the interaction between students within and across departments through supporting PhD Clubs. From the “Anthropology Club” to the “Media Psych PhD Club” – join existing initiatives or start new ones!

Video
 

Sociologist Clara Holzinger explains why and how she explores the tension between traditionally monolingual organisational structures and de facto social plurilingualism. She won the Impact.Award 2022 that is awarded for outstanding dissertation projects with the potential to achieve social, cultural or economic added value.

Video
 

Dealing with (linguistic) plurality has far-reaching consequences for social justice and influences the lifeworlds of all people living in a migration society. Clara Holzinger’s research is focused on public organisations, the challenges that employees and clients perceive, and the solution strategies they apply.

Podcast
 

Do you often wonder where your time is going? Tune in to episode 9 where Rasmus Wardemann, Bao-Chau Pham and Christoph Beitl explore how we, as PhD students and as human beings, can better manage our time. Learn about the ins and outs of time management in academia and get inspiration for recalibrating your strategies of managing time.

Press
 

Together with Stefan Dullinger and Alice Vadrot, political scientist Silvia Ruiz explains why the biodiversity agreement signed at the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) in Montréal falls short of expectations and why it makes a difference whether we talk about “seas” or “oceans”. (In German)

Podcast
 

To what extent does the legacy of colonialism influence academia and how are researchers at the Vienna Doctoral Schools aiming to overcome inequalities of power? In the semester’s final episode, our host Angelina Illes talks with Daniela Paredes Grijalva and Marcela Torres Heredia about how we can break with asymmetric power relations in academia.

Press
 

Together with Barbara Prainsack, political scientist Seliem El-Sayed explains why our focus on individual control over personal data is insufficient to tackle the problems of the digital age. They argue for strengthening mechanisms of collective control over data to effectively address harmful data practices.

Blog
 

(by Ina Tessnow-von Wysocki)

Member States to the United Nations are meeting in Montreal, Canada to adopt the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). An Open-ended Working Group was tasked to prepare the draft text prior to the upcoming Conference of the Parties (COP). As outstanding issues remained unresolved, time for discussions ...

Press
 

Together with Ulrike Felt, Florentine Frantz (science and technology studies) presents the project “Borderlands of Good Scientific Practice” where they ask what good scientific practice means and for whom. Through a card-based discussion method, they encourage researchers to address the grey zones of good scientific practice. (In German)

Fellowship and award winners
 

We warmly welcome our new sowi:docs Fellows! Arjin Tas (social and cultural anthropology) will study the use of counterinsurgency strategies in urban restructuring in Turkey and Aleksandra Wojewska (development studies) price formation and socio-ecological transformation in global production networks in Sub-Saharan Africa.

New publications by ViDSS students

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Doctor it! Episode 9: Managing time. Riegler, Nadine (Editorial Journalist); Brockhaus, Maximilian (Editorial Journalist); Zogu, Giorgia (Editorial Journalist); Bumann, Ninja (Editorial Journalist); Illes, Angelina (Editorial Journalist); Wardemann, Rasmus Kvaal (Editorial Journalist); Beitl, Christoph (Interviewee); Pham, Bao-Chau (Interviewee). 2023.

Publication: Electronic/multimedia outputRadio show


Hunting a ‘good life’: young lifestyle migrants in Finnish Lapland. / Adams, Ria-Maria.

In: Polar Geography, 27.02.2023.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


Theory-based evaluation and programme theories in nursing: A discussion on the occasion of the updated Medical Research Council (MRC) framework. / Wallner, Martin; Mayer, Hanna; Adlbrecht, Laura; Hoffmann, Anna Louisa; Fahsold, Anne; Holle, Bernhard; Adelheid, Zeller; Palm, Rebecca.

In: International Journal of Nursing Studies, Vol. 140, 104451, 04.2023.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


Doctor it! Episode 8: Decolonising academia. Riegler, Nadine (Editorial Journalist); Illes, Angelina (Editorial Journalist); Bumann, Ninja (Editorial Journalist); Pokorny, Martin (Editorial Journalist); Paredes Grijalva, Daniela (Interviewee); Torres Heredia, Jenny Marcela (Interviewee). 2023.

Publication: Electronic/multimedia outputRadio show


Making marine biotechnology work for people and nature. / Blasiak, Robert (Corresponding author); Jouffray, Jean-Baptiste; Amon, Diva J.; Claudet, Joachim; Dunshirn, Paul; Jørgensen, Peter Søgaard; Pranindita, Agnes; Wabnitz, Colette C. C.; Zhivkoplias, Erik; Österblom, Henrik.

In: Nature Ecology & Evolution, 23.01.2023.

Publication: Contribution to journalShort communicationpeer-review


How Context Matters: Challenges of Localizing Participatory Budgeting for Climate Change Adaptation in Vienna. / Ahn, Byeongsun; Friesenecker, Michael; Kazepov, Yuri Albert Kyrill; Brandl, Jana.

In: Urban planning, Vol. 8, No. 1, 02.01.2023.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


Zentral vs. Peripher: Persuasionswege und Einstellungsänderungen in den Arbeiten von Petty und Cacioppo. / Neureiter, Ariadne.

Schlüsselwerke der Werbeforschung. ed. / Tino Meitz; Nils S. Borchers; Brigitte Naderer. 1. ed. Wiesbaden : Springer VS, 2023. p. 159-170.

Publication: Contribution to bookChapter


Austria -Islam and Muslims in Austria. / Mattes-Zippenfenig, Astrid; Bauer, Dominique.

Yearbook of Muslims in Europe. ed. / Samim Akgönül; Jorgen S. Nielsen; Ahmet Alibasic. Vol. 14 2023. (Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, Vol. 14).

Publication: Contribution to bookChapter


Demokratiebildung: Von der Theorie zur Praxis. / Lange, Dirk; Straub, Sarah.

Doing Democratic Education in School and University: Democratic Education als Aufgabe von Schule und Hochschule. ed. / Gabriele Kulhanek-Wehlend; Sabine Hofmann-Reiter; Harald Knecht; Stefanie Wagner; Oliver Wagner; Evelyn Süss-Stepancik; Ruth Petz. Wien : LIT Verlag, 2023. p. 3-11 (Forschungsperspektiven).

Publication: Contribution to bookChapterpeer-review


Digitalization in public relations—Changing competences: A longitudinal analysis of skills required in PR job ads. / Bernhard, Jana; Russmann, Uta.

In: Public Relations Review, Vol. 49, No. 1, 2023, p. 1-12.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


Methodische Grundlagen und Forschungsdesign der Studie. / Wöhrer, Veronika; Vogl, Susanne; Schels, Brigitte Katrin; Mataloni, Barbara; Malschinger, Paul; Astleithner, Franz.

Junge Menschen gehen ihren Weg. Längsschnittanalysen über Jugendliche nach der Neuen Mittelschule. ed. / Veronika Wöhrer; Jörg Flecker; Brigitte Schels. 1. ed. Göttingen : V&R unipress, Vienna University Press, 2023. p. 29-56.

Publication: Contribution to bookChapterpeer-review


Migration und soziale Ungleichheiten. / Holzinger, Clara.

Aktuelle Ungleichheitsforschung: Befunde – Theorien – Praxis. Beltz Juventa, 2023. p. 146.

Publication: Contribution to bookChapter


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