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.

Media articles and press releases
 

In their latest research overview, #UseTheNews presents the paper “Unpacking news consumption and trust decisions” by communication scientist Diego Garusi (co-authored with Clara Juarez Miro). The study shows the ongoing importance of traditional journalistic values for audiences’ news use and trust decisions despite the emergence of new forms of journalistic actors. (In German)
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Fellowship and award winners
 

Communication scientist Melanie Haberl was awarded the Förderpreis Journalismus 2024 of the German Communication Association for her ongoing doctoral thesis project about the balance between proximity and distance in journalists’ professional relationships with politicians. Congratulations!
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Social and cultural anthropologist and ViDSS Alumna Ilona Grabmaier was awarded the GAIN Gender & Agency Prize and the Förderpreis of the Dr. Maria Schaumayer Stiftung for her doctoral thesis entitled “Stayed at home. (Re)Configurations of care in rural Ukraine”. Congratulations!
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Sociologist and ViDSS Alumna Clara Holzinger won the Danubius Young Scientist Award 2024. The Award aims at honouring the scientific contribution to addressing challenges of the region and at strengthening the networking between the talents in the region. 14 young scientists were granted this award, one for each country that is part of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region. Congratulations!
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Childbirth is often associated with joy, family, and new beginnings, but what happens when it becomes a source of harm? Elif Gül, ViDSS student in science and technology studies, delves into obstetric violence and reproductive justice, specifically birth justice, a concept introduced by Black feminist activists in the 1990s.

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Political scientist Jule Kegel explains in a short video class for children what participation means and why it is important for democracy. The initiative is part of the project “Nachgefragt” organised by the Kinderbüro of the University of Vienna. (In German)
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Fellowship and award winners
 

Political scientists Carolin Brodtmann and Tobias Doppelbauer were awarded a DOC-team Fellowship by the Austrian Academy of Sciences for their doctoral thesis projects on transformative political education in civil society engagement against far-right ideologies (Brodtmann) and in self-organised learning communities in alternative agri-food systems (Doppelbauer). Congratulations!
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Communication scientist Sophie Mayen was awarded the Best Paper Award of the Fachgruppe Gesundheitskommunikation during the DGPuK Health Communication Conference 2024 in Lucerne (2nd place) for her paper “Parental mediation trajectories and their associations with adolescents’ mental health” (co-authored with Anne-Linda Camerini). Congratulations!
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The sowi:doc Awards for the academic year 2023/2024 are awarded to Hannah Greber (“Immersive journalism – The future of the news?”), Ina Tessnow-von Wysocki (“Science-policy interfaces for ocean protection”) and Teresa Weikmann (“Getting real with fakes: Characteristics and consequences of ‘deepfakes’ in democracies”). Congratulations!
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New publications by ViDSS students

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Schauplatz Gramatneusiedl: Jobgarantie als Chance für vormals langzeiterwerbsarbeitslose Einwohner:innen? / Quinz, Hannah.
Mit einer Jobgarantie zum Recht auf gute Arbeit: Ansätze fortschrittlicher Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Österreich. ed. / Moder Clara; Quinz Hannah; Tamesberger Dennis; Theurl Simon; Witzani-Haim Daniel. ÖGB-Verlag, 2024. p. 229.

Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter › Peer Reviewed

Solidaridad y autoorganización: experiencias sobre el cuidado de la vida en tiempos de COVID-19 en Bolivia. / Jasser, Marie Theresa (Corresponding author); Colque, Blanca; Becerra, Carla et al.
COVID-19 en América Latina: solidaridad, desigualdades y espacios cotidianos. ed. / Consuelo Fernández Salvador; Michael D. Hill; Isabella Radhuber; José Antonio Román Brugnoli. Quito, Ecuador: FLACSO Ecuador, 2024. p. 77-102.

Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter › Peer Reviewed

Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung mit Dolmetscher*innen – Praktische Erfahrungen und methodische Reflexion. / Holzinger, Clara; Draxl, Anna-Katharina.
Zwischenstationen/Inbetween: Kommunikation mit geflüchteten Menschen/Communicating with Refugees. ed. / Katia Iacono; Barbara Heinisch; Sonja Pöllabauer. Frank & Timme Berlin, 2024. p. 279-291.

Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter › Peer Reviewed

Specification Overfitting in Artificial Intelligence. / Roth, Benjamin; Luz de Araujo, Pedro Henrique; Xia, Yuxi et al.
In: Artificial Intelligence Review, 2024.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Stadtproteste. Eine politische Utopie? / Kolb, Petra.
In: Schulheft, Vol. 194, 2024.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

The future of transport infrastructures in the town of Churchill: Executive summary of scenario workshops. / Budka, Philipp; Schweitzer, Peter; Povoroznyuk, Olga et al.
16 p. 2024.

Publications: Other publication › Other

The political contention of LGBTQ+ communities in the digital age - state of the art, limitations, and opportunities for comparative research. / Brändle, Verena K. (Corresponding author); Eisele, Olga; Kulichkina, Aytalina.
In: Journal of Information Technology & Politics, Vol. 21, No. 3, 2024, p. 218-233.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

The 'Werther Effect' of Goethe's Werther: Anecdotal evidence in historical news reports. / Mestas, Manina.
In: Health Communication, Vol. 39, No. 7, 2024, p. 1279-1284.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Towards a processual understanding of trust: A study of trust-building strategies of constructive journalists. / Garusi, Diego; Leonhardt, Birte Marina.
In: Journalism, 2024.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Über den Status der Staatsbürger*innenschaft im migrationspolitischen Kontext - eine kritische Betrachtung. / Kolb, Petra.
Dekolonialität in der Politischen Bildung: Beiträge aus Theorie und Praxis. 2024.

Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter › Peer Reviewed

Über den Status der Staatsbürger*innenschaft im migrationspolitischen Kontext – eine kritische Betrachtung. / Kolb, Petra.
Dekolonialität in der Politischen Bildung: Beiträge aus Theorie und Praxis. ed. / Lara Kierot; Malte Kleinschmidt; Dirk Lange. SpringerVS, 2024. p. 71-84 (Citizenship - Studien zur politischen Bildung).

Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter › Peer Reviewed

Verónica Gago: Für eine feministische Internationale. Wie wir alles verändern. / Heuser, Alina Meike.
In: Journal für Entwicklungspolitik (JEP), Vol. Enacting the Future: Environmental Activism Worldwide, 2024, p. 234-237.

Publications: Other contribution to periodical › Book/Film/Event review

Wenn grenzüberschreitende Mobilität und Sprachkenntnisse den Zugang zu sozialer Sicherheit erschweren: Fallstudien aus Österreich. / Holzinger, Clara; Scheibelhofer, Elisabeth; Draxl, Anna-Katharina.
Die Verknüpfung von Migrationskontrolle und Sozialpolitik in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. ed. / Lisa Borelli; Stefanie Kurt; Nora Ratzmann. 2024.

Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter › Peer Reviewed

What changes over time? Planning history and institutional change from a policy design perspective. / Ahn, Byeongsun (Corresponding author).
In: European Planning Studies, Vol. 32, No. 12, 2024, p. 2535-2554.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Why do people like technocrats? / Marlier, Jeanne; Kaltenegger, Matthias; Ennser-Jedenastik, Laurenz.
In: European Journal of Political Research, 2024.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Wie sich Jugendliche Demokratie vorstellen: Eine Studie zur Didaktik der Politischen Bildung. / Straub, Sarah; Metz, Corinna; Berger, Clara Christina et al.
Springer VS, 2024. 78 p. (Citizenship - Studien zur politischen Bildung).

Publications: Book

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