Team Yuri Kazepov

Dr. Tatjana Boczy, BA MA
Tatjana Boczy

Consultation hours: By appointment (every Thursday)

Profile photoTatjana Boczy
Department of Sociology
Social Sciences Directorate of Doctoral Studies

Research interests

atjana Boczy is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Sociology. Her research interests include comparative urban and regional studies, social change and institutional transformations, political and environmental sociology, and mixed-methods research. Tatjana investigated these topics as part of the Horizon 2020 project COHSMO, focusing on territorial cohesion and the analysis of the European social model in seven partner countries. In other projects, she has examined political measures for the integration of refugees and the opportunities for participation of underrepresented groups, such as homeless people. In her dissertation, she conducted a comparative analysis of neoliberal changes in the local welfare system between 2008 and 2023, using the example of labour market measures in urban and rural areas of England and Austria. In doing so, she analysed local mechanisms in response to recent social, economic, and environmental challenges, such as the global financial crisis and climate change. Her focus is on (changing) legitimations in labour market policy at the local social and climate justice from a sociological perspective.
Previously (2013-2014), she worked as a junior researcher at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Innsbruck, where she conducted research on smart refurbishment and participatory practices. Early 2025, she was awarded her doctorate summa cum laude at the University of Vienna. She completed her master’s degree in sociology on the topic of Smart Cities at the University of Innsbruck in 2017 and her bachelor’s degree in sociology at the University of Innsbruck in 2014.

Employment

Academic third-party funded project staff

Department of Sociology

University of Vienna

Wien, Austria

1 May 201828 Feb 2025

Predoc

Department of Sociology

University of Vienna

Wien, Austria

1 Mar 202129 Feb 2024

Postdoc

Department of Sociology

University of Vienna

Wien, Austria

1 Mar 2025 → present

Academic third-party funded project staff

Research Platform The Challenge of Urban Futures: governing the complexities in European cities

University of Vienna

Wien, Austria

1 Apr 202131 Jul 2021

Publications

The Employment Situation of the Mittelbau at Austrian Universities

Lechner, C., Völkl, Y., Dorner, J., Boczy, T., Part, F., Müller, S., Wilker, S. & Partheymüller, J., 2025.

Räumliche Dimensionen sozialer Innovation: Zwischen lokaler Dynamik und Multiskalarität

Boczy, T., Kazepov, Y. A. K. & Saruis, T., 2022, Soziale Innovation im Kontext: Beiträge zur Konturierung eines unscharfen Konzepts. Schüll, E., Berner, H., Kolbinger, M. L. & Pausch, M. (eds.). Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, p. 227-249 (Zukunft und Forschung).

Place-Sensitive Social Investment and Territorial Cohesion: Implications for Sustainability

Cordini, M., Boczy, T. & Cefalo, R., 24 Jun 2021, In: Sustainability. 13, 13, 16 p., 7085.

The Hammer and the Dance of Urban Research During a Pandemic: Waves of Despair and Hope: (A PhD’s diary)

Boczy, T., May 2021

Stadt, Land, Verdruss

Boczy, T. & Friesenecker, M., 1 Apr 2021

Consolidare l'innovazione sociale in contesti diversi di welfare: tra dinamiche trasformative e adattamento

Boczy, T., Kazepov, Y. A. K. & Saruis, T., 2021, In: Autonomie locali e servizi sociali. 3, p. 579-592 13 p.

Normativität und Staatsentstehung

Boczy, T. & Niedenzu, H-J., 2021, In: Zeitschrift für Altorientalische und Biblische Rechtsgeschichte. 27, p. 31-47

Narratives of Territorial Cohesion and Economic Growth: A Comparative Study

Boczy, T. & Cordini, M., 3 Dec 2020, In: Social Inclusion. 8, 4, p. 218-228 11 p.

Positioning the Urban in the Global Knowledge Economy: Increasing Competitiveness or Inequality

Boczy, T., Cefalo, R., Skovgaard Nielsen, R. & Parma, A., 3 Dec 2020, In: Social Inclusion. 8, 4, p. 194-207 14 p.

Territorialized ‘Social Investment’: A new approach to address Austria’s socio-spatial disparities in employment and unemployment.

Friesenecker, M., Cefalo, R., Boczy, T. & Kazepov, Y. A. K., 2019, In: GAM : architecture magazine. 15, p. 154-167

The Social Investment Perspective and its Territorial Dimension

Boczy, T., Cefalo, R. & Cordini, M., 2019, LPS.05 ed., Milan, 12 p.

World Cafe Method to Engage Smart Energy-District Project Partners in Assessing Urban Co-benefits.

Boczy, T., Bisello, A. & Balest, J., 2018, Integrated Evaluation for the Management of Contemporary Cities.. Springer International, p. 521 - 533

Activities

University of the West of England

Tatjana Boczy (Visiting researcher)

1 Feb 202230 May 2022

University of the West of England

Tatjana Boczy (Visiting researcher)

1 Sept 202128 Nov 2021

Connected is Beautiful. Transnational Cooperation Among Towns for Post-Growth.

Tatjana Boczy (Speaker) & Elisabetta Mocca (Contributor)

28 Aug 2020

RC21

Tatjana Boczy (Participant)

18 Sept 201921 Sept 2019

6th RC21 Summer School in Comparative Urban Studies

Tatjana Boczy (Participant)

7 Sept 201917 Sept 2019

Social policies in context: the interplay of the territorial dimension and institutional arrangements

Tatjana Boczy (Speaker)

25 Apr 2019

Prizes

Beste Masterarbeiten Soziologie 2017-2018

Boczy, Tatjana (Recipient), 2019

Leistungsstipendium

Boczy, Tatjana (Recipient), 2014

Leistungsstipendium

Boczy, Tatjana (Recipient), 2012

Leistungsstipendium

Boczy, Tatjana (Recipient), 2015

Marietta Blau

Boczy, Tatjana (Recipient), 2021

Studienförderung

Boczy, Tatjana (Recipient), 2015

Studienförderung

Boczy, Tatjana (Recipient), 2016

Projects

COHSMO: COHSMO: Inequality, urbanization and Territorial Cohesion: Developing the European Social Model of economic growth and democratic capasity

Kazepov, Y. A. K., Kirsch, H. V., Cefalo, R., Boczy, T., Alexander, L., Friesenecker, M., Görgen, N. & Finocchiaro, L.

1/05/1731/10/21

Governance Enhancement for Cohesive Societies

Kazepov, Y. A. K., Boczy, T., Ahn, B., Kilgus, L., Franz, Y. & Spöttl, F.

1/04/2331/03/26

SIforREF: Integrating Refugees in Society and Labour Market through Social Innovation

Kazepov, Y. A. K., Franz, Y., Mocca, E., Kirsch, H. V., Schnelzer, J., Finocchiaro, L. & Boczy, T.

1/04/1930/04/22


Boczy, T., Kazepov, Y. A. K., & Saruis, T. (2022). Räumliche Dimensionen sozialer Innovation: Zwischen lokaler Dynamik und Multiskalarität. In E. Schüll, H. Berner, M. L. Kolbinger, & M. Pausch (Eds.), Soziale Innovation im Kontext: Beiträge zur Konturierung eines unscharfen Konzepts (pp. 227-249). Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-37221-7_10


Boczy, T. (2021). The Hammer and the Dance of Urban Research During a Pandemic: Waves of Despair and Hope: (A PhD’s diary). Web publication, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR).

Boczy, T., & Friesenecker, M. (2021). Stadt, Land, Verdruss. Radio show






Boczy, T., Cefalo, R., & Cordini, M. (2019). The Social Investment Perspective and its Territorial Dimension. (LPS.05 ed.).

Boczy, T., Bisello, A., & Balest, J. (2018). World Cafe Method to Engage Smart Energy-District Project Partners in Assessing Urban Co-benefits. In Integrated Evaluation for the Management of Contemporary Cities. (pp. 521 - 533). Springer International.

Governance Enhancement for Cohesive Societies

Kazepov, Y. A. K., Boczy, T., Ahn, B., Kilgus, L., Franz, Y. & Spöttl, F.

1/04/2331/03/26

Project: Research funding


SIforREF: Integrating Refugees in Society and Labour Market through Social Innovation

Kazepov, Y. A. K., Franz, Y., Mocca, E., Kirsch, H. V., Schnelzer, J., Finocchiaro, L. & Boczy, T.

1/04/1930/04/22

Project: Research funding


COHSMO: COHSMO: Inequality, urbanization and Territorial Cohesion: Developing the European Social Model of economic growth and democratic capasity

Kazepov, Y. A. K., Kirsch, H. V., Cefalo, R., Boczy, T., Alexander, L., Friesenecker, M., Görgen, N. & Finocchiaro, L.

1/05/1731/10/21

Project: Research funding


Connected is Beautiful. Transnational Cooperation Among Towns for Post-Growth.

Tatjana Boczy (Speaker) & Elisabetta Mocca (Contributor)

28 Aug 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Social policies in context: the interplay of the territorial dimension and institutional arrangements

Tatjana Boczy (Speaker)

25 Apr 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Summer term 2025
230032 SE B6 Poverty: A question of ressources? - Current Societal Developments

Department of Sociology

Rooseveltplatz 2
1090 Wien
Room: R.215

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tatjana.boczy@univie.ac.at