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.

Media articles and press releases
 

A study conducted by ViDSS Student Rinat Meerson (co-authored with Kevin Koban and Jörg Matthes) examines how exposure to digital hate affects social media users. The findings show that frequent exposure to hate leads to more direct intervention such as commenting or countering but reduces the willingness to rely on moderation.
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Fellowship and award winners
 

Supported by a Marietta Blau Grant, Ali Heuser from the Department of Development Studies has completed research stays in Peru and the UK and will stay at the University of Kassel this summer. Ali's doctoral research project investigates the transformation of gender relations in social protest against large-scale mining extractivism in the southern Andes of Peru.
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Blog
 

(by Wenwen Lyu)

From 14–25 April 2025, states gathered at UN Headquarter in New York for the first meeting of the Preparatory Commission (Prep Com) under the international agreement on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ Agreement). Nearly two years since the Agreement’s historic adoption ...
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A recent study by Jeanne Marlier (co-authored with Matthias Kaltenegger and Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik) investigates why people like technocrats despite their lack of responsiveness and accountability to voters. They show that voters perceive technocracy as a multi-dimensional phenomenon, associating distinct advantages and disadvantages with ministers’ expertise and their (non-)partisanship.

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Fellowship and award winners
 

Aleksandra Fila from the Department of Development Studies was awarded a GO.INVESTIGATIO Fellowship by the Austrian Academy of Sciences for her ethnographic and archival research in the Polish cities of Oleśnica and Warsaw. Aleksandra’s doctoral research project investigates the feminist political economy of creativity in the Polish neoliberal transformation in the 1990s. Congratulations!
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Fellowship and award winners
 

Communication scientist Andrea Stockinger was awarded the Top Student Best Paper Award 2025 of the Communication & Technology Division of the International Communication Association for her paper “Tackling online incivility and misinformation: A user-centric evaluation of different content moderation strategies”. Congratulations!
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Radio and podcast
 

What is a family? Why do parents separate? How much say should children have in a divorce? In the Podcast “Focus” of ORF Radio Vorarlberg, sociologist Viktoria Parisot presents a project in which divorce was researched through a participatory approach. (In German)
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Radio and podcast
 

Giorgia Zogu and Ying Liang Zhang talk with Jana Bernhard-Harrer and Nisa Iduna Kirchengast about their experiences with co-authorship. How have they dealt with challenges related to joint publications and how have they benefited from contributing to co-authored papers? Find out about disciplinary specifics and get practical advice on building productive research partnerships.
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Video
 

The perfect protein shake, the five signs of ADHD, the optimal workout routine? Communication scientists and ViDSS Students Elena Engel and Sascha Gell were interviewed for the science communication initiative FÄKT. Together with Kathrin Karsay and Raffael Heiss, they explain how we can distinguish between genuine health tips and hidden advertising. (In German)
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New publications by ViDSS students

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Komplexe Prozesse der „Dequalifizierung“ von Migrant*innen in Wien verstehen: Herausforderungen und Lösungsstrategien. Holzinger, Clara (Interviewee); Draxl, Anna-Katharina (Interviewee); Scheibelhofer, Elisabeth (Interviewee). 2024.

Publications: Electronic/multimedia output › Web publication

Konflikte um Kupferbergbau in Peru: Eine Analyse von Körper-Territorien in der extraktivistischen Biopolitik. / Heuser, Alina Meike; Preiser, Anna.
Umkämpfte Transformation. 2024.

Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter

MARIPOLDATAbase (SUF edition). / Langlet, Arne; Vadrot, Alice BM; Fellinger, Simon et al.
2024.

Publications: Other publication › Other

Neue Beziehungsweisen knüpfen. Abolitionistische Utopie und ihre Bedeutung für eine transformative Politische Bildung. / Schuller, Maida.
In: Schulheft, Vol. 194, 12, 2024.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article

New Municipalism and the Challenges of Design: Context, Instruments and Implementation. / Ahn, Byeongsun (Corresponding author); Kazepov, Yuri Albert Kyrill.
In: Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 2024.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Parenthood and poverty risk within couples: individual and household poverty risks by gender and education in four European countries. / Siegert, Christina.
In: European Sociological Review, 2024.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Peripheral actors in lifestyle journalism. / Hanusch, Folker; Löhmann, Kim Dana.
The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies. ed. / Scott A. Eldrige II.; David Cheruiyot; Sandra Banjac; Joëlle Swart. 2. ed. Routledge, 2024. p. 289-298.

Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter › Peer Reviewed

Price-making in provisioning systems and social-ecological transformation? The cases of the electric vehicle metals copper, cobalt and lithium. / Staritz, Cornelia; Tröster, Bernhard; Wojewska, Aleksandra Natalia.
In: Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2327667, 2024.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Proteste - eine Form der präfigurativen Bildung? Eine Analyse vor einem radikaldemokratischen Hintergrund. / Kolb, Petra.
In: Schulheft, Vol. 195, 2024, p. 43-53.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Remote Yet Hyperconnected: Svalbard Airport and Community Transitions in Longyearbyen. Meyer, Alexandra (Editorial Journalist). 2024.

Publications: Electronic/multimedia output › Web publication

Rezension von „Eine Arbeiterin. Leben, Alter und Sterben“ von Didier Eribon. / Kolb, Petra.
In: Politix : Zeitschrift des Instituts für Politikwissenschaft, Vol. 52, 2024.

Publications: Other contribution to periodical › Book/Film/Event review

Solidaridad y autoorganización: experiencias sobre el cuidado de la vida en tiempos de COVID-19 en Bolivia. / Jasser, Marie Theresa (Corresponding author); Colque, Blanca; Becerra, Carla et al.
COVID-19 en América Latina: solidaridad, desigualdades y espacios cotidianos. ed. / Consuelo Fernández Salvador; Michael D. Hill; Isabella Radhuber; José Antonio Román Brugnoli. Quito, Ecuador: FLACSO Ecuador, 2024. p. 77-102.

Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter › Peer Reviewed

Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung mit Dolmetscher*innen – Praktische Erfahrungen und methodische Reflexion. / Holzinger, Clara; Draxl, Anna-Katharina.
Zwischenstationen/Inbetween: Kommunikation mit geflüchteten Menschen/Communicating with Refugees. ed. / Katia Iacono; Barbara Heinisch; Sonja Pöllabauer. Frank & Timme Berlin, 2024. p. 279-291.

Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter › Peer Reviewed

Stadtproteste. Eine politische Utopie? / Kolb, Petra.
In: Schulheft, Vol. 194, 2024.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Storytelling cafés about and at the end-of-life. Intersectional analysis of power relations. / Pichler, Barbara; Reitinger, Elisabeth; Hutter, Evelyn et al.
In: International Journal of Ageing and Later Life, 2024.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

The future of transport infrastructures in the town of Churchill: Executive summary of scenario workshops. / Budka, Philipp; Schweitzer, Peter; Povoroznyuk, Olga et al.
16 p. 2024.

Publications: Other publication › Other

The political contention of LGBTQ+ communities in the digital age - state of the art, limitations, and opportunities for comparative research. / Brändle, Verena K. (Corresponding author); Eisele, Olga; Kulichkina, Aytalina.
In: Journal of Information Technology & Politics, Vol. 21, No. 3, 2024, p. 218-233.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Towards a processual understanding of trust: A study of trust-building strategies of constructive journalists. / Garusi, Diego; Leonhardt, Birte Marina.
In: Journalism, 2024.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Über den Status der Staatsbürger*innenschaft im migrationspolitischen Kontext – eine kritische Betrachtung. / Kolb, Petra.
Dekolonialität in der Politischen Bildung: Beiträge aus Theorie und Praxis. ed. / Lara Kierot; Malte Kleinschmidt; Dirk Lange. SpringerVS, 2024. p. 71-84 (Citizenship - Studien zur politischen Bildung).

Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter › Peer Reviewed

Verónica Gago: Für eine feministische Internationale. Wie wir alles verändern. / Heuser, Alina Meike.
In: Journal für Entwicklungspolitik (JEP), Vol. Enacting the Future: Environmental Activism Worldwide, 2024, p. 234-237.

Publications: Other contribution to periodical › Book/Film/Event review

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