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.

Fellowship and award winners
 

Elif Gül, ViDSS student in science and technology studies, was awarded the Johanna-Dohnal-Förderpreis by the Johanna Dohnal Archive for her doctoral thesis project on the material-semiotics of obstetric violence. The award honours authors of outstanding dissertations that promote gender democracy and equality, and serve as role models for women in education. Congratulations!
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Fellowship and award winners
 

Michaela Forrai, Alexandra Wölfle, Thomas Kirchmair and Aleksandra Lazić won the Klaus Schönbach Award 2025 of the Department of Communication. The award aims to support doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers in pursuing, refining and enhancing their own international lines of research.

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Fellowship and award winners
 

We warmly welcome our new sowi:docs Fellows! Léa Dudouet (science and technology studies) will explore the sociotechnical meanings of fertility tracking and reproductive decision-making in Austria. Clara Lerch (communication) will investigate how political and media discourse influences public perception and policymaking in three European Member States.
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Blog
 

(by Alice Vadrot, Emil W. Hildebrand, Carolin Hirt, Wenwen Lyu, Felix Nütz, Hristina Talkova)

Kingston, Jamaica. July 2025. The tickets to Jamaica were already booked, the US transit visa secured, and a field note outline meticulously prepared. Then the news broke: academics and civil society actors would be barred from fully accessing this year’s Council Meeting of the ...
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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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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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Media articles and press releases
 

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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New publications by ViDSS students

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Author Correction: A transdisciplinary, comparative analysis reveals key risks from Arctic permafrost thaw. / Gartler, Susanna (Corresponding author); Scheer, Johanna (Corresponding author); Meyer, Alexandra et al.
In: Communications Earth & Environment, Vol. 6, No. 1, 234, 25.03.2025.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Correction › Peer Reviewed

The impact of local culture on journalistic roles and practices: Evidence from the Pacific Islands. / Leonhardt, Birte Marina; Hanusch, Folker; Singh, Shailendra B. .
In: Journalism, 11.03.2025.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Mainstreaming and transnationalization of anti-gender ideas through social media: the case of CitizenGO. / Righetti, Nicola (Corresponding author); Kulichkina, Aytalina; Paroni, Bruna Almeida et al.
In: Information, Communication & Society, 22.02.2025.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Affective politics and neoliberal subjectivities in ‘left behind’ places: Counter-narrating regional decline within/from Finland’s ‘Capital of Pessimism’. / Gansauer, Grete; Lilius, Johanna; Adams, Ria-Maria.
In: Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 19.02.2025.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Time to BeReal! Exploring users' well-being in relation to BeReal use duration. / Kanková, Jaroslava; Stevic, Anja; Binder, Alice et al.
In: New Media & Society, 19.02.2025.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Policy briefings deriving from WP2-5 M24. / Ramadani, Gentiana; Chatziefraimidou, Angeliki; Sarikakis, Katharine et al.
65 p. 2025.

Publications: Other publication › Other

A transdisciplinary, comparative analysis reveals key risks from Arctic permafrost thaw. / Gartler, Susanna (Corresponding author); Scheer, Johanna (Corresponding author); Meyer, Alexandra (Corresponding author) et al.
In: Communications Earth & Environment, Vol. 6, 21, 16.01.2025.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Für eine dekoloniale Wende in der Wissenschaft: blog interdisziplinäre geschlechterforschung. Bauer, Dominique (Author); Paredes Grijalva, Daniela (Corresponding author). 2025.

Publications: Electronic/multimedia output › Web publication

Austria. / Bauer, Dominique; Mattes-Zippenfenig, Astrid.
Yearbook of Muslims in Europe. ed. / Ahmet Alibašić; Dominique Bauer; Stephanie Müssig; Egdūnas Račius. Leiden: Brill, 2025. p. 54-72 (Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, Vol. 16).

Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter › Peer Reviewed

LOCAL INITIATIVES IN SHRINKING CITIES: On Normative Framings and Hidden Aspirations in Scholarly Work. / Sandmann, Leona (Corresponding author); Gunko, Maria (Corresponding author); Shirobokova, Irina (Corresponding author) et al.
In: International Journal for Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 49, No. 1, 01.2025, p. 214-223.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Writing Choreographies: (STS) Knowledge Production in Post- digital Academia. / Schikowitz, Andrea; Dessewffy, Esther; Davies, Sarah et al.
In: Tecnoscienza: Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, Vol. 1, 01.2025.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

A longitudinal approach to the analysis of social media engagement: The case of anger-driven climate-skeptic message propagation during the 2021 German elections: ZeMKI Working Paper No. 53. / Righetti, Nicola; Tolochko, Petro; Kulichkina, Aytalina et al.
Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI), University of Bremen, 2025.

Publications: Working paper

A narrow gateway from misogyny to the far right: Empirical evidence for social media exposure effects. / Weiß, Phelia; Koban, Kevin; Matthes, Jörg.
In: Information, Communication & Society, Vol. 28, No. 13, 2025, p. 2377-2395.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Bedeutung von Emotionen in interprofessionellen Lehr- und Lernkontexten. / Frenzel, Anne C (Corresponding author); Götz, Thomas; Schmid, Theresa.
Interprofessionelle Bildung für die Gesundheitsversorgung . ed. / Ursula Walkenhorst; Martin Fischer. Springer, 2025. p. 29-39.

Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter › Peer Reviewed

Betonieren, Versiegeln, Verbauen - über ein Straßenbauprojekt mitten in der Klimakrise. / Kolb, Petra.
In: Politix : Zeitschrift des Instituts für Politikwissenschaft, Vol. 53, 2025, p. 38-42.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Building transdisciplinary bridges and learning from the Svalbard context. / Meyer, Alexandra; Olsen, Julia (Corresponding author).
In: Polar Journal, 2025.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Demokratie bilden! / Lange, Dirk; Doppelbauer, Tobias.
Salzburg: Verlag Anton Pustet, 2025. 128 p.

Publications: Book

Die eskalierende Klimakatastrophe als autoritäre Verheißung: Affektive Enthemmung am Beispiel des Tesla Cybertruck. / Meister, Moritz; Trimmel, Markus; Slunecko, Thomas.
In: Psychologie und Gesellschaftskritik, Vol. 49, No. 2, 2025, p. 199-225.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Die SPÖ und das Auto. / Kolb, Petra; Greß, Johannes.
In: Augustin. Die erste österreichische Boulevardzeitung, 2025.

Publications: Other contribution to periodical › Newspaper/Magazine article

Digitize! Online Panel Survey (SUF edition): Version V8. Kritzinger, Sylvia (Editorial Journalist); Pfaff, Katharina (Editorial Journalist); Weitzel, Daniel (Editorial Journalist) et al.. 2025.

Publications: Electronic/multimedia output › Web publication

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