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 recent publication by ViDSS Student Carolin Hirt (co-authored with Alina Brad, Etienne Schneider, Christian Dorninger, Willi Haas, Dominik Wiedenhofer and Simone Gingrich) reveals that climate policy in Austria focus on efficiency improvements and technological alternatives. Measures aimed at directly reducing emissions-intensive demand remain largely untapped. (In German)
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Fellowship and award winners
 

Communication scientist, ViDSS Alumna and former sowi:doc Fellow Selina Noetzel received one of the 40 Awards of Excellence (Staatspreise für die besten Dissertationen) for her doctoral thesis “Why am I seeing this? Cognitive, attitudinal, and behavioral effects of online political microtargeting”. Congratulations!
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Blog
 

(by Jule Kegel)

When asked about their views on politicians, the British public does not hold back. Eight in ten Britons agree that the gap between ordinary people and politicians is wider than the differences among ordinary people. The same proportion say that MPs in Parliament ...
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Together with Ulrike Zartler and Lena Grabner, sociologist Vera Dafert presents the project “How 2 Survive A Pandemic” which investigates how the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting lockdowns changed the daily lives of youth and the competencies they developed to overcome this crisis. (In German)
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Video
 

Political scientist Adham Hamed was interviewed by the TV channel Puls 24 about the implications of the 20-point Gaza Peace Plan initiated by US President Donald Trump and the risks related to its implementation. (In German)
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Together with Katharina T. Paul, political scientist Nora Hansl explains that while klindergartens could serve as an important opportunity for distributing information about vaccinations among parents, they are not yet included in official vaccination education strategies. (In German)
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Fellowship and award winners
 

The sowi:doc Awards for the academic year 2024/2025 are awarded to Ivan Josipovic (“The politics and legitimacy of digital evidence in asylum governance”), Selina Noetzel (“Why am I seeing this? Cognitive, attitudinal, and behavioral effects of online political microtargeting”) and Christina Siegert (“Poverty risk within couples across the family life course”). Congratulations!
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Fellowship and award winners
 

Social and cultural anthropologist and ViDSS Student Alberto Enrique Buela Acevedo was awarded a DOC Fellowship by the Austrian Academy of Sciences for his doctoral thesis project on social networks and resilience among indigenous rural communities in the Arctic. Congratulations!
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Radio and podcast
 

Felix Maile and Dorota Vargová provide insights into their experiences with archives and data bases. Learn about the extraordinary lengths they had to go to chase primary sources, which ethical questions they have to deal with and why they are not using any AI tools for their analyses.
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New publications by ViDSS students

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“That’s a tricky question”: perceptions of mandatory vaccination among parents and paediatricians in Austria. / Hansl, Nora; Paul, Katharina Theresa (Corresponding author).
In: Health Policy, Vol. 157, 2025.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Understanding news media trust through the lens of phenomenological sociology. / Garusi, Diego; Juarez Miro, Clara; Hanusch, Folker.
In: Communication Theory, Vol. 35, No. 3, 2025, p. 163–172.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

"Und ist ganz einfach eingeschlafen": Eine Geschichte aus der ehrenamtlichen Tätigkeit in einem Pflegewohnheim. / Dressel, Gert; Heimerl, Katharina; Hutter, Evelyn et al.
In: Fachzeitschrift für Palliative Geriatrie, Vol. 1, No. 1/2025, 2025, p. 35-37.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Welcher Journalismus für welche Gesellschaft? Die Grenzen des Journalismus in Österreich. Hanusch, Folker (Editorial Journalist); Nölleke, Daniel (Editorial Journalist); Maares, Phoebe (Editorial Journalist) et al.. 2025.

Publications: Electronic/multimedia output › Web publication

Wie lässt sich konstruktiv mit verhärteten Wissenskonflikten umgehen? / Bogner, Alexander; Kirchner, Agnes; Miko-Schefzig, Katharina et al.
Wien: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW), 2025.

Publications: Working paper

Zwischen Deutungswissen und Selbst-Bildung. Über deliberative Beteiligungsformen als Thema von Demokratiebildung. / Kolb, Petra; Bredl, Patrick.
Innovationen in der politischen (Weiter-) Bildung: Politikdidaktische Strategien, Konzepte und Methoden in Zeiten der Polykrise. ed. / Elizaveta Firsova-Eckert; Dirk Lange. SpringerVS, 2025. p. 161-170 (Bürgerbewusstsein).

Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter › Peer Reviewed

Zwischenräume - Zwischenträume. St. Marx für Alle! / Kolb, Petra.
In: Progress, 2025.

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