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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Die MISSCARE-Austria-Studie : Zusammenfassende Implikationen und weiterführende Überlegungen. / Cartaxo, Ana; Eberl, Inge; Mayer, Hanna.

In: HeilberufeSCIENCE, Vol. 13, 02.11.2022, p. 79-82.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticle


Doctor it! Episode 5: Getting abroad. Riegler, Nadine (Editorial Journalist); Brockhaus, Maximilian (Editorial Journalist); Wardemann, Rasmus Kvaal (Editorial Journalist); Illes, Angelina (Editorial Journalist); Kc, Aayushma (Editorial Journalist); Zogu, Giorgia (Editorial Journalist); Bumann, Ninja (Editorial Journalist); Pokorny, Martin (Editorial Journalist); Castelijns, Eline (Interviewee); Rankovic, Aleksandar (Interviewee). 2022.

Publication: Electronic/multimedia outputRadio show


Orchestrating Ageing - A Field Approach Towards Cultural Disengagement in Later Life. / Gallistl, Vera; Parisot, Viktoria.

In: International Journal of Ageing and Later Life, Vol. 16, No. 2, 17.10.2022, p. 11-32.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


Der kollektive Schrei : Eine chilenische Performance geht um die Welt. / Torres Heredia, Jenny Marcela.

Global Female Future: wie feministische Kämpfe Arbeit, Ökologie und Politik verändern. ed. / Andrea Ernst; Ulrike Lunacek; Gerda Neyer; Rosa Zechner; Andreea Zelinka. Wien : Kremayr & Scheriau, 2022. p. 50-53.

Publication: Contribution to bookChapter


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

In: Social Studies of Science, 10.2022.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


Amtssprache Deutsch? Öffentliche Organisationen zwischen gesellschaftlicher Mehrsprachigkeit und monlingualer Orientierung. / Holzinger, Clara; Draxl, Anna-Katharina.

Jenseits der Migrantologie: Aktuelle Herausforderungen und neue Perspektiven der Migrationsforschung. ed. / Wiebke Sievers; Rainer Bauböck; Ivan Josipovic; Dženeta Karabegović; Kyoko Shinozaki. Verlag der Österr. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2022. p. 211-230.

Publication: Contribution to bookChapterpeer-review


Cemetery Enchanted, Encore: Natural Burial in France and Beyond. / Tschebann, Saskya.

Interdisciplinary Explorations of Postmortem Interaction. Cham : Springer, 2022. p. 249-268 (Bioarchaeology and Social Theory).

Publication: Contribution to bookChapterpeer-review


Citizenship Education als Beziehungspraxis : Inklusion und Partizipation junger Bürger*innen am Beispiel von 1:1-Mentoring in der Primarstufe. / Straub, Sarah.

Das Politische in der Demokratiebildung : Zu Partizipation und Handlungsräumen mündiger Bürger*innen. ed. / Susanne Reitmair-Juarez; Dirk Lange. Frankfurt a. M. : Wochenschau Verlag, 2022.

Publication: Contribution to bookChapterpeer-review


Citizenship Education as a relational practice. / Straub, Sarah.

Unleashing Children’s Voices in Democratic Primary Education. ed. / Julia Flutter; James Biddulph; Luke Rolls. Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2022.

Publication: Contribution to bookChapterpeer-review


Demokratische Kommunikation und Deliberation. / Straub, Sarah.

Young Citizens. Handbuch für Politische Bildung in der Grundschule. ed. / Iris Baumgardt; Dirk Lange. Bonn : Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 2022. p. 236-242.

Publication: Contribution to bookChapterpeer-review


Driving forces in green advertisements: A comparison of green advertisements in ten countries. / Matthes, Jörg; Eicher, Carolin; Naderer, Brigitte; Neureiter, Ariadne; Schmuck, Desiree; Zibarzani, Masoumeh.

Nachhaltigkeit als Gegenstand und Zielgröße der Rezeptions- und Wirkungsforschung: Aktuelle Studien und Befunde. ed. / Anna-Sophie Kümpel; Christina Peter; Anna Schnaufer-Stockmann; Frank Mangold. Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlag, 2022. p. 209-230.

Publication: Contribution to bookChapter


Erwerbsarmut in Österreich aus Geschlechterperspektive. / Siegert, Christina.

In: Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, Vol. 47, No. 4, 2022, p. 511-535.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


Four paths to misperceptions: A panel study on resistance against journalistic evidence. / Stubenvoll, Marlis; Matthes, Jörg.

In: Media Psychology, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2022, p. 318-341.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


Frauen bei den Corona-Protesten. Why do they care? / Daniel, Antje; Brunner, Markus; Knasmüller, Florian ; Maile, Felix; Ziegelauer, Franziska.

Frauengesundheit und Pandemie. Wie weiter? Sammelband des Wiener Programms für Frauengesundheit. Schriftenreihe Frauen*Gesundheit*Wien . Vol. 3 Wien , 2022. p. 17.

Publication: Contribution to bookChapter


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