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.
New publications by ViDSS students
What Difference Does a Railroad Make? Transportation and Settlement in the BAM Region in Historical Perspective. / Povoroznyuk, Olga; Schweitzer, Peter.
The Siberian World. ed. / V. Davydov; J. Ferguson; J. Ziker. Routledge, 2023.Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter › peer-review
Why Do People Like Technocrats? / Marlier, Jeanne; Kaltenegger, Matthias; Ennser-Jedenastik, Laurenz.
2023. Paper presented at ECPR General Conference 2023, Prag, Czech Republic.Publications: Contribution to conference › Paper
"Wir können nicht alle Sprachen der Welt sprechen" : Eine Studie zu Street-level Bureaucracy im Kontext migrationsbedingter Heterolingualität am Beispiel des österreichischen Arbeitsmarktservice. / Holzinger, Clara.
2023, Thesis.Publications: Other publication › Other
Zukunftsorientierungen von Mädchen und Jungen nach Abschluss der NMS. / Malschinger, Paul; Schels, Brigitte Katrin.
Junge Menschen gehen ihren Weg. Längsschnittanalysen über Jugendliche nach der Neuen Mittelschule. ed. / Veronika Wöhrer; Jörg Flecker; Brigitte Schels. 1. ed. Göttingen : V&R unipress, Vienna University Press, 2023. p. 153-172.Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter › peer-review