VieCER PhD Club

Target group: doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers studying elections and political communication in the broadest sense; but also open to other research questions.

Contact: George Georgarakis, Hannah Greber


The VieCER PhD Club has been convened by the Vienna Center for Electoral Research (VieCER) since 2017 and offers doctoral candidates the possibility to discuss their ongoing research. VieCER is an interdisciplinary research unit; accordingly, also the PhD Club has targeted an interdisciplinary group of students, mostly from the Department of Government, the Department of Communication, but also the Department of Political Science and external research institutes like the Austrian Academy of Science and the Institute for Advanced Studies. Research questions cover a broad range of topics, relating to elections but also more generally, addressing substantive or methodological aspects of political communication research.

The meetings are open to all PhDs and postdocs regardless of the department they work. The format of the meetings is as follows:

a. 11:00–11:15 minutes open question panel

b. 11:15–12:00 topic of the day (all topics will be communicated upon registration)

c. 12:00–12:30 space for formal presentations (this is optional, if nobody signs up on the different dates we plan to just extend the topic of the day session to 12:30). 

After the meetings, all participants can have lunch together & around once a semester we will plan drinks for Wednesday evenings.


Next meetings:


Wednesday, 09.10.2024, 16:00–18:00

Wednesday, 06.11.2024, 11:00–12:30

Wednesday, 20.11.2024, 11:00–12:30

Wednesday, 04.12.2024, 11:00–12:30

Wednesday, 18.12.2024, 11:00–12:30

Wednesday, 08.01.2025, 11:00–12:30

Wednesday, 22.01.2025, 11:00–12:30