Third-party Funded Research Projects
The Department of Sociology carries out a variety of third-party funded research projects. The diversity of topics and methods plays an important role in extending and deepening academic knowledge.
Current Research Projects
TP: Bequests & Bonds: Inheritance Practices in Complex Families
Zartler, U. (Project Lead), Christandl, G. (Co-Lead) & Kraemer, K. (Co-Lead)
1/10/26 → 30/09/31
Project: Research funding
Remaking security: technopolitics in the Global East
Vorlicek, D. (Project Lead)
1/09/26 → 31/08/31
Project: Research funding
Loneliness, Emotions, and Regulation: Understanding Institutions through Privacy (LONERS)
Durnová, A. (Project Lead)
1/06/26 → 31/05/31
Project: Research funding
Families and inequality in a flexible world of work (FLIN)
Berghammer, C. (Project Lead)
1/10/24 → 30/09/29
Project: Research funding
FAMREG: Family outcomes of assortative mating: New insights based on couple-level survey/register data
Steiber, N. (Project Lead), Baranowska-Rataj, A. (Co-Lead), Striessnig, E. (Co-Lead), Liedl, B. (Scientific Project Staff), Metzger, S. (Scientific Project Staff), Sandow, E. (Scientific Project Staff), Siegert, C. (Scientific Project Staff) & Zilian, L. (Scientific Project Staff)
1/01/24 → 31/12/28
Project: Research funding
Personal Sphere: Companionship and ComAI
Pfadenhauer, M. (Project Lead) & Aistleitner, M. (Admin)
1/01/25 → 31/12/28
Project: Research funding
Analysing the financialisation of European care systems through a discursive institutionalism lens (MC FinCare)
Dowling, E. (Project Lead) & Schulmann, K. (Co-Lead)
1/10/26 → 30/09/28
Project: Research funding
Gendered STEM Pathways: The Role of Family in Women's Field Choice and Career Persistence (STEMPATHS)
Valdés Fernández, M. T. (Project Lead), Zilian, L. (Co-Lead), Steiber, N. (Co-Lead) & Liedl, B. (Admin)
1/04/26 → 30/09/28
Project: Research funding
From Registers to Research: Building an AMDC-based Household Panel (R2R)
Mühlböck, M. (Project Lead), Steiber, N. (Project Lead) & Liedl, B. (Scientific Project Staff)
1/07/26 → 30/06/28
Project: Research funding
Creating Identity out of War and Migration
Mijic, A. (Project Lead)
1/02/25 → 31/01/28
Project: Research funding