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
 

Lena Dege-Barron, Sofie Kronberger and Catherine Raya Polishchuk have started their fellowships at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies of the University of Art and Design Linz in Vienna to continue their doctoral research on wind turbines in Mexico (Lena), (re-)configurations of hearing and artificial intelligence (Sofie) and urban renewal in Vienna (Raya). Congratulations!
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Fellowship and award winners
 

The Austrian Society for Political Science awarded one of the Early Career Awards to Christina Gahn for her dissertation “Debunking the myth of targeted and tailored political advertising” completed at Humboldt University of Berlin. Christina was a visiting PhD student at the ViDSS during the academic year 2023/2024. Congratulations!
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Blog
 

(by Jule Kegel)

Over the past three months, I was the second doctoral candidate from our network to complete a secondment at Public First, a company in London that combines opinion research, economic modelling, and policy consulting. Until now, my working experience had been almost entirely in academia. As a political scientist, I know ...
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Fellowship and award winners
 

Social and cultural anthropologist and ViDSS Student Alberto Enrique Buela Acevedo was awarded a DOC Fellowship by the Austrian Academy of Sciences for his doctoral thesis project on social networks and resilience among indigenous rural communities in the Arctic. Congratulations!
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Fellowship and award winners
 

Sociologist and ViDSS Student Mirah Langer was awarded the 2025–2026 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellowship for her doctoral research on intergenerational memory transmission and the evolving role of Holocaust survivor descendants in remembrance cultures across the United States and Germany. Congratulations!
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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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Fellowship and award winners
 

Members of the AdMe Research Group received awards for co-authored papers during the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication: Maryam Khaleghipour the Top Paper Award, Jaroslava Kaňková the Top Method Paper Award, and Thomas Kirchmair the OMGC Faculty Paper Award and the 2nd Place in the ICD Robert L. Stevenson Paper Competition. Congratulations!
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Blog
 

(by Emil W. Hildebrand)

The 30th meeting of the ISA’s Council and Assembly were, as always, both eventful and contentious. The Council finished their second reading of a draft Mining Code, but big divergences remain. US unilateral action keeps looming over the process and new states are calling for a moratorium ...
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Fellowship and award winners
 

Sociologist and ViDSS Alumna Christina Siegert was awarded the Theodor Körner Förderpreis and the Kurt-Rothschild-Preis for her doctoral thesis “Poverty risk within couples across the family life course”. Her work sheds light on income inequality and the risk of poverty among heterosexual couples. Congratulations!
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New publications by ViDSS students

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Local journalists and the construction of social identities. A phenomenological approach. / Garusi, Diego (Corresponding author); Juarez Miro, Clara; Hanusch, Folker.
In: Journalism, 14.04.2025.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Geschlecht methodologisch: „Wissen ist Macht!“. / Grenz, Sabine; Gül, Elif.
Geschlechtersoziologie. ed. / Eva Tolasch; Anna Buschmeyer; Sabine Grenz; Carolin Küppers. 1. ed. Paderborn: Brill Ferdinand Schöningh, 2025. (Soziologie im 21. Jahrhundert).

Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter

Trans*sensible Praxisgestaltung. / Ihrig, Felix Lene.
In: JATROS Gynäkologie & Geburtshilfe, No. 2, 04.2025, p. 6-7.

Publications: Other contribution to periodical › Newspaper/Magazine article

Scheidung aus Sicht der Kinder. Radio Vorarlberg, Focus. Parisot, Viktoria (Other role). 2025. ORF Radio Vorarlberg.

Publications: Electronic/multimedia output › Radio show

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

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. The Reboot Project (Reviving, Boosting, Optimising and Transforming European Film Competitiveness – REBOOT), funded by the European Union's Horizon Europe Research and Innovation programme under Grant Agreement No.101094769. 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

Listen to me! Target perceptions of digital hate: A scoping review of recent research. / Khaleghipour, Maryam (Corresponding author); Koban, Kevin; Matthes, Jörg.
In: Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 04.01.2025.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › 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

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

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

Publications: Other contribution to periodical › Newspaper/Magazine article

Diversität im journalistischen Selbstverständnis. Eine Analyse des Rollenselbst- und -fremdbildes traditioneller und peripherer Akteur*innen im österreichischen Journalismus. / Löhmann, Kim Dana; Maares, Phoebe; Hanusch, Folker et al.
In: Medien und Kommunikationswissenschaft, Vol. 73, No. 3, 2025, p. 424–441.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Ektogenese als feministische Utopie? Potenziale der Dekonstruktion von Geschlecht. / Beck, Celina.
In: Medien & Zeit: Kommunikation in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, 2025.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Fem-vertised and fem-washed advertising on Instagram: How do they affect the attitude towards the brand and purchase intention? / Noronha dos Reis, Iara (Corresponding author); Harm, Katharina; Saumer, Melanie et al.
Advances in advertising research XIII: Frontiers of advertising: Re-considering its shapes and forms. ed. / Daria Gunina; Martin K. J. Waiguny. 1. ed. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2025. p. 145-159 (European Advertising Academy).

Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter

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