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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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.

(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 ...

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)

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.