Ass.-Prof. Emma Dowling, BA MSc MRes PhD
Emma Dowling

Consultation hours: Thursdays from 1pm to 2:30pm 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

TT-Professor for the Sociology of Social Change

Working languages:
English and German

Areas of research:
Socioecological change (Just Transition/sustainability and social justice), feminist political economy, financialisation and society, welfare state transformation, care and social reproduction, work and emotions, affect theory, participatory research methods.

Qualifications and Previous Positions

2019Habilitation 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 (Affecting Legitimation: The Productivity of Resistance in Global Neoliberal Governance)
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.
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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/10.14361/9783839459645








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Fürsorgebasierte Gesellschaftsmodelle: Welche Anknüpfungspunkte gibt es für Gesund-heits- und Sozialberufe

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

23 May 202325 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


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

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 Sep 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 (Keynote)

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" (Keynote)

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 Sep 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Refracting the Household

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

14 Sep 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Feminist Political Economy Beyond Productivism

Emma Dowling (Speaker)

1 Sep 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


Department of Sociology

Rooseveltplatz 2
1090 Wien
Room: R.205

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emma.dowling@univie.ac.at