Professors and research teams
Caroline Berghammer
Associate Professor for quantitative methods
Research interests: Work and Family, Inequality, Demography
Valeria Bordone
Associate Professor for life course, generations, age
Research interests: Intergenerational relationships, ageing and inequality, ageing society, well-being/ health, sociology of the family, biography
Roswitha Breckner
Associate Professor for visual sociology
Research interests: Visual sociology (in particular image analysis), methodology and methods of interpretative social research/ biographical research, migration (from a biographical perspective) and concepts of the "foreigner"
Emma Dowling
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Socio-ecological transformation (just transition/ sustainability and social justice), feminist political economy, financialization and society, public services of general interest, structural change of the welfare state, care work and social reproduction, work and emotions, participatory research methods
Anna Durnova
Professor for political sociology
Research interests: Political Sociology, sociology of emotions, public policy, feminist sociology, women´s health and sociology of the body, interpretative social research
Jörg Flecker
Professor for general sociology
Research interests: Sociology of work, work organization and industrial relations, labour market, transnationalization, international comparative research
Eva Flicker
Lecturer for visual sociology
Research interests: Visual Sociology, Sociology of Film/Media, Gender Studies, Organizational/Group Dynamics
Yuri Albert Kyrill Kazepov
Professor for urban sociology
Research interests: International urban sociology, comparative social policy
Michael Parzer
Associate Professor for inclusion and exclusion
Research interests: Culture, social inequality, migration and social participation, interpretative social research
Michaela Pfadenhauer
Professor for culture and knowledge
Research interests: Sociology of knowledge, social constructivism, mediatization, social robotics, vaccination scepticism
Elisabeth Scheibelhofer
Associate Professor for qualitative methods
Research interests: Interpretative social research, migration, mobility, discrimination, transnational social spaces
Nadia Steiber
Professor for social structure research and quantitative methods
Research interests: Social structue and social inequality, education and social mobility, work/ employment, sociology of the family, age and aging of society, well-being/ health, biography, quantitatives methods
Ulrike Zartler-Griessl
Professor for sociology of the family
Research interests: Family, childhood and youth sociology, transitions in the biography, divorce/ separation, social media in childhood, youth and family, sociological analysis of family and child law, qualitative social research