Assoz. Prof. Emma Dowling, MSc MRes PhD
Emma Dowling

News: 
New publication: The Boundary-Work of Volunteering and the Value of Unwaged Work in the Dual Crisis of Care. Sociological Review 0(0). Online First December 24. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261241305259

Consultation hours: 
Summer semester 2025:

Wednesdays from 3pm to 4:30pm and by appointment
(Please always make an appointment by email via: leon.romauch@univie.ac.at)

Meetings in person: Room 205
Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/bdz36fcy

Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Change
Deputy Director of Studies, Social Science Doctoral Programme
Deputy Speaker of the Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences (ViDSS)

Academic qualification and previous positions

2019Habilitation (Venia) in Sociology, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
2017 - 2019Senior Researcher; Institute for Sociology, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
2016Senior Fellow; Research Group on Postgrowth Societies, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
2012 - 2017Senior Lecturer (Sociology); Middlesex University London
2009 - 2012Lecturer (Organisational Change); Queen Mary, University of London
2009Certified Translator for English and German in the Social Sciences; Berlin Senate for Education, Youth and Science
2010Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Politics; Birkbeck, University of London
2006Master of Research (MRes) in Social and Political Theory; Birkbeck, University of London.
2003Master of Science (MSc) in Global Ethics; University of Birmingham
2002Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Politics with International Studies; University of Birmingham

Prizes

Kaethe Leichter Preis fuer Geschlechterforschung

Dowling, Emma (Recipient), 2021

Kurt-Rothschild Preis für Wirtschaftspublizistik

Dowling, Emma (Recipient), 7 Nov 2023

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Getzner, M., Damjanovic, D., Dowling, E., Plank, L., Strickner, A., Evers, P. S., Damböck, C., Kalhorn, A., Pöchhacker, T., & Müller, H. L. (2024). Daseinsvorsorge 2030: Gute Grundversorgung für alle innerhalb planetarer Grenzen. Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte für Wien. Informationen zur Umweltpolitik https://emedien.arbeiterkammer.at/viewer/image/AC17328816/





Dowling, E., Stani, L., & Angioni, J. (2023). Lernen für den Wandel. Auf dem Weg zu einer emanzipatorischen Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie. Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte für Wien. Informationen zur Umweltpolitik Vol. 210 https://emedien.arbeiterkammer.at/viewer/image/AC16941673/









Dowling, E. (2022). Platform care as care fix. In A. Strüver, & S. Bauriedl (Eds.), Platformization of Urban Life: Towards a Technocapitalist Transformation of European Cities (pp. 103-118). Transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839459645-007



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After Globalisation: Fixes to the Care Crisis

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

18 Feb 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Philo-Bowl: Was heißt hier eigentlich "Caring Society"? (Paneldiskussion)

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

28 Nov 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Daseinsvorsorge 2030: Gute Grundversorgung für alle innerhalb planetarer Grenzen (Studienvorstellung)

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

25 Nov 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Sorgende Städte: Ein Rahmen für den Wandel?

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

15 Nov 202416 Nov 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Citizen self-formation: Politische Bildung von unten (respondent)

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

7 Nov 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Future of Research and Policy in Long-term Care (respondent)

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

26 Sept 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Keine Profite mit der Pflege - Strategien für eine gute Pflege für alle

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

3 Jun 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Households Dispersed: Strategies for Recombining Care

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

23 May 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Bedürfnisse - Wirtschaft neu ausrichten (Paneldiskussion)

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

14 May 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Care Beyond Crisis: From Privatisation to Solidarity

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

27 Mar 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Krise als Überforderung: Sorgesysteme zwischen Stagnation und Nachhaltigkeit

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

21 Sept 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Ein Gesundheitssystem, das nicht sorgen kann?

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

4 Jul 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Fürsorgebasierte Gesellschaftsmodelle: Welche Anknüpfungspunkte gibt es für Gesundheits- und Sozialberufe

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

23 May 202325 May 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Transformative Sorgetransformation? Care zwischen Produktivismus und Postwachstum

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

9 May 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Fault-Lines of the Care Crisis

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

3 Apr 20235 Apr 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


A Health System That Cannot Care?

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

18 Mar 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Global Housing Crisis - Local Responses? (Launch of the Research Center New Social Housing)

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

13 Oct 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Die Bedeutung des Care-Sektors in der Volkswirtschaft und der Alltagsökonomie

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

21 Sept 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Sorge(n)volle Zukunft? Überlegungen zur materiellen und ideellen Einbettung von Care im Zuge der Pandemie

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

25 Jun 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Gender/Space

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

24 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Sustainable Careers as Solution to the Care Crisis?

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

11 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Care Beyond Crisis (IPW Lecture)

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

3 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Considering Care

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

2 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Herzensangelegenheiten: Freiwilliges Engagement und der ambivalente Wert nicht-entfremdeter Arbeit

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

26 Apr 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Care Crisis and the Financialisation of Social Care in the UK (Webinar "Social Care in South Korea and the UK" ESRC Research Network)

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

21 Apr 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Visionen für einen Wohlfahrtsstaat der Zukunft (uniMind - University Meets Industry - Lecture)

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

7 Apr 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Intersections Conference 2022 "Care and Crisis: Spaces of Performances"

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

31 Mar 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Antinomies of Care and Control (Seminar 'Who Cares?' In Contemporary Women's Writing and Film)

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

28 Mar 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Krisen und Grenzen des Kapitalismus (Tagung "Rechtsstaat unter Druck - Perspektiven in der sozialen und ökologischen Krise")

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

24 Mar 202226 Mar 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Tackling the Staffing Crisis in Health and Social Care

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

22 Feb 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


COVID-19 and the Financialisation of Social Care

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

8 Feb 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Geschlechterspezifische Aspekte der Daseinsvorsorge

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

2 Feb 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


The Future of Care

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

3 Dec 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


The Care Crisis

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

11 Nov 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


The Care Crisis

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

31 Oct 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Fixing the Crisis? Care in the Wake of the Pandemic

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

20 Oct 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Ways Out of the Care Crisis

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

10 Oct 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Gemeinsam auf Distanz? Teilhabe, Care & Digitalisierung

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

30 Sept 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Refracting the Household

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

14 Sept 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Feminist Political Economy Beyond Productivism

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

1 Sept 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Aufgekündigt? Der Reproduktionsdeal und die Krise der Globalisierung

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

24 Aug 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Author Meets Critics: The Care Crisis

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

23 Aug 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Wie die Dynamiken der Care-Krise erklären?

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

23 Aug 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Tackling Growth Dependency in the Welfare System

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

13 Jul 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Investing in Care? Private Finance and Social Infrastructures

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

7 Jul 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Erlesenes Erforschen - Care Krise: Ursachen und Lösungen

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

30 Jun 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Covid Re-figuring Daily Life and Social Economies: A Pandemic Observatory.

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

24 Jun 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Care Crisis

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

23 Jun 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Care Municipalism: Exploring the Potentials for Addressing the Care Crisis

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

15 May 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


From Crisis to a New Politics of Care

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

13 Apr 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


The Care Crisis

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

24 Mar 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Die Care-Krise in Großbritannien

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

23 Mar 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Couldn't Care Less - The Permanent Crisis of Care

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

11 Mar 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Care Inequalities and the Politics of Interdependence

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

10 Mar 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Care Crisis - Emma Dowling in Conversation with Helen Hester

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

9 Mar 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


7. Barbara Prammer Symposium, Wien

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

Jan 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Summer term 2025
230063 SE B9 Sociology of the future - Sociological Theories: Consolidation (Seminar)
230110 UE M3 Social Theory and Critique - Theory - Workshop
Winter term 2024
230027 SE B6 Challenges for the socio-ecological transformation - Current Societal Developments

Department of Sociology

Rooseveltplatz 2
1090 Wien
Room: R.205

T: +43-1-4277-49203

emma.dowling@univie.ac.at