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.
- Predoctoral University Assistant within the project “PromoLi”
Für Menschen mit begünstigbarer Behinderung und/oder chronischer Erkrankung
Working hours: 30 | employment duration: 5 years | application deadline: 17 April 2024 - 7 Predoctoral University Assistants within the FWF doc.funds project “The Dynamics of Change and the Logics of Transformation”
Affiliated with the Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET) and the Research Platform “Transformations and Eastern Europe”
Working hours: 30 | employment duration: 3+1 years | application deadline: 26 April 2024 - Predoctoral University Assistant at the Department of Science and Technology Studies
Research area: technosciences, materiality, and digital cultures
Working hours: 30 | employment duration: 4 years | application deadline: 30 April 2024 - PhD Position at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Research area: anthropology of art and digital media
Working hours: 30 | employment duration: 1+3 years | application deadline: 26 May 2024 - PhD Position at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Research area: visual anthropology
Working hours: 30 | employment duration: 1+3 years | application deadline: 26 May 2024
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.