Research Teams

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

TEAM BRECKNER

Visual Sociology
Biographical Research
Social Media
Method Development

TEAM FLECKER

Work organisation and relationships
Labour market
Digitalization
Transnationalism
Youth
Right-wing populism and extremism

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 KOLLAND

Ageing
Education
Life styles
Sociology of developing countries

TEAM PFADENHAUER

Sociology of knowledge
Social constructivism
Mediatisation
Social robotics

TEAM SCHEIBELHOFER

interpretative social research
migration
mobility
transnational social spaces

TEAM STEIBER

Social stratification and social inequality
Education and social mobility
Employment
Family
Ageing
Well-being/health
Quantitative methods

TEAM ZARTLER

family
childhood
divorce
qualitative social research