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.

News

Funding
 

Completion Scholarship and Short-term Finishing Contracts

The ViDSS supports doctoral candidates in the final phase of their doctoral studies with the ViDSS Completion Scholarship (maximum duration of six months) and the ViDSS Short-term Finishing Contracts (maximum duration of three months).

Application period: 3–31 May 2023

Activities
 

Rising Voices – social scientists on stage

Celebration of the sowi:doc Awards 2022 and semester closing of the Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences

12 June 2023, 17:00 | Sky Lounge, Oskar Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Vienna | organised by the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences

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.

Fellowship and award winners
 

Demographer Nicholas Gailey and communication scientist Julia Stranzl were awarded the Bank Austria Research Award 2023 for their research projects on demographic futures (Gailey, main award) and the strategic role of internal communications (Stranzl, merit award). Congratulations!

Blog
 

(by Arne Langlet)

“It is normal that every researcher discovers a new species in this area,” the doctoral student Bruno Henrique told me when I congratulated him to describing a new species in his PhD thesis. Indeed, also Bachelor student André Calloni ...

Fellowship and award winners
 

For the paper “Communicating about halal products to non-Muslim consumers – The role of fit and skepticism”, Samira Rahimi Mavi was awarded the Best Paper Award at the 27th International Corporate and Marketing Communications Conference in Cranfield. The paper was co-authored with Sabine Einwiller and Ingrid Wahl.

Podcast
 

Aayu KC talks to Faime Alpagu and Dominik Hagmann about their experiences of starting a new chapter in life. Explore with them how the transition from a PhD candidate to a postdoctoral employee in and beyond academia feels like and learn about their personal reasons for embarking on certain career paths (and not on others).

Fellowship and award winners
 

Communication scientist Jana Egelhofer was awarded the “Förderpreis Medienforschung” by the Verband Österreichischer Zeitungen for her doctoral thesis entitled “I don’t like it – let’s call it ‘fake’ – The content and consequences of the fake news debate”. Congratulations!

Press
 

Together with Sehrazat G. Mart, social and cultural anthropologist Arjin Tas explains why nature alone isn’t to blame for the high number of deaths caused by the recent Kahramanmaras earthquakes and why the already announced post-disaster reconstruction projects are highly political. (Foreign Policy)

Podcast
 

Surging energy prices, high inflation, war in Europe – the European Union is confronted with new challenges since Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Listen in when Bernd Christoph Ströhm and Thomas Kögler explore the role of Germany as the EU’s economic powerhouse in addressing these challenges.

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.

New publications by ViDSS students

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Wer in Österreich als arm gilt (Ö1 Mittagsjournal). Siegert, Christina (Interviewee). 2023.

Publication: Electronic/multimedia outputRadio show


Luck and the ‘situations’ of research. / Davies, Sarah (Corresponding author); Pham, Bao-Chau.

In: Social Studies of Science, Vol. 53, No. 2, 04.2023, p. 287-299.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


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, Vol. 7, No. 4, 04.2023, p. 482-485.

Publication: Contribution to journalShort communicationpeer-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 9: Managing time. Riegler, Nadine (Producer); Brockhaus, Maximilian (Producer); Zogu, Giorgia (Producer); Bumann, Ninja (Producer); Illes, Angelina (Producer); Wardemann, Rasmus Kvaal (Producer); 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


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

Publication: Electronic/multimedia outputRadio show


Doctor it! Episode 7: Parenting as a PhD. Riegler, Nadine (Producer); Bumann, Ninja (Producer); Wardemann, Rasmus Kvaal (Producer); Ströhm, Bernd Christoph (Producer); Brockhaus, Maximilian (Producer); Pokorny, Martin (Producer); Tóth, Kata (Interviewee). 2023.

Publication: Electronic/multimedia outputRadio show


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


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