Open positions
The University of Vienna is announcing fully funded doctoral positions in the social sciences all year round.
The University offers both predefined doctoral projects within the framework of externally funded projects and positions as predoctoral university assistants announced by the departments or the doctoral schools. Currently, the following doctoral positions in the social sciences are announced by the ViDSS or the departments supporting the ViDSS.
- University assistant predoctoral at the Department of Development Studies
Research area: green extractivism, energy colonialism, hydrogen politics, post-development, and the politics of ecosystemic survival in the Anthropocene
Working hours: 30 | employment duration: 4 years | application deadline: 22 July 2025 - University assistant predoctoral at the Vienna Doctoral College on Digital Humanism
Research area: affordances of open science infrastructures
Working hours: 30 | employment duration: 4 years | application deadline: 31 August 2025 - University assistant predoctoral at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
within the Health Matters research group
Working hours: 30 | employment duration: 4 years | application deadline: 1 September 2025
Why apply to the ViDSS?
- We offer doctoral training across all research fields of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Vienna,
- close supervision by top researchers in the social sciences and
- a structured doctoral programme and support through cohort integration, career development and different funding programmes.