Research Teams

Teams operate under the guidance of professors from the Department and consist of postdocs, predocs, teaching assistants and sometimes administrative staff.

TEAM BORDONE
  • Ageing
  • Intergenerational relationships
  • Grandparent (ship)
  • Well-being
  • Health

 

 

 

TEAM DOWLING
  • Social change
  • Socio-ecological transformation
  • Political economy
  • Gender, care and social reproduction
  • Work and emotions, affect theory(ies)
  • Social movements and civil society organizations
  • Welfare regimes and social policy
  • Participatory methods

TEAM DURNOVA
  • Political sociology
  • Sociology of emotions
  • Cultural sociology
  • Public policy
  • Feminist sociology
  • Interpretive methods

TEAM FLICKER
  • Visual Sociology
  • Sociology of film/ media
  • Gender studies
  • Organizational/ group dynamics

 

 

TEAM KAZEPOV
  • International urban sociology: poverty, segregation, governance, local social policy, city regeneration projects, multilevel governance ...
  • Comparative social policy: Welfare regimes, social benefits , activations policies, migration, rescaling and regionalising of social policy, citizenship ...

TEAM MIJIC
  • Qualitative methods (especially interpretative and reconstructive methods)
  • Research on migration and flight
  • Sociology of identity
  • Art and migration
  • Sociology of knowledge

TEAM PARZER
  • Cultural sociology
  • Social inequality
  • Migration
  • Interpretative social research

TEAM PFADENHAUER
  • Sociology of knowledge
  • Social constructivism
  • Mediatisation
  • Social robotics

TEAM SCHEIBELHOFER
  • Interpretative social research
  • Migration
  • Mobility
  • Transnational social spaces

 

 

    TEAM ZARTLER
    • Family
    • Childhood
    • Divorce
    • Qualitative social research

    TEAM STEIBER
    • Social structure and social inequality
    • Education and social mobility
    • Work/ employment
    • Family
    • Age
    • Well-being/ health
    • Quantitative methods