Institut für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung

Wissenschaft, Technologie und Innovation formen zahllose Aspekte des Lebens in modernen Gesellschaften. Manche Veränderungen werden als positiv erlebt, andere sind hoch kontroversiell. Zugleich beeinflussen Politik, Medien, Firmen und andere gesellschaftliche Akteure, wie Wissen und Technologie erzeugt werden. Die Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung analysiert diese Beziehungen und fördert kritische und reflexive Debatten zu den Beziehungen von Wissenschaft, Technologie und Gesellschaft.

 Defensiones

09.01.2026 12:30
 

Defensio

We warmly invite you to the Master defensio of Violeta Heinze

18.12.2025 10:30
 

Defensio

We warmly invite you to the Master defensio of Nora Ederer

 

 STS Talks Vienna

03.11.2026 16:00
 

Please join for us an informal panel discussion on the topic ‘What is STS and where is it going?’,

chaired by Max Fochler and with guests Jack...

25.06.2026 17:30
 

Vienna STS Talk x ALTERBIOTIC Talk by Kaushik Sunder Rajan

We are thrilled to announce Kaushik Sunder Rajan's talk on June 25, 2026 05:30 PM

 

 Events

24.06.2026 09:30
 

PhD Workshop: From Pessimism to Promise Alternative Imaginaries of Social Digital Innovation from the Global South to Europe

PhD Workshop (co-located with the DIGHUM Conference) organised by UniVie STS (Katja Mayer) and ÖAW (Astrid Mager) on June 24, 2026:

12.11.2025 13:15
 

Research colloquium: ALTERBIOTIC - Antibiotic resistance: a multiple crisis of health, innovation, and modern biopolitics

Christian Haddad and his team will introduce the work on this matter conducted in the ERC Starting Grant Project ALTERBIOTIC. The project investigates...

 News

07.07.2026
 

Apply to join the Department of Science and Technology Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, to work as part of the Research Platform ‘Spacetrace’....

News
08.06.2026
 

Ulrike Felt was awarded the John Desmond Bernal Award by the Society for Social Studies of Science for her distinguished contributions to the field of...

News
16.01.2026 16:00
 

We invite you to the inaugural lecture by Maximilian Fochler on "How to know responsibly in a world in crisis?"

News
18.12.2025
 

We are looking for a PhD student to join the Department of Science and Technology Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, to work in the area of...

News
26.11.2025
 

We invite applications for a postdoctoral researcher position (2 years, with a possible 1-year extension) to join the FutureSpace research team at the...

News
20.11.2025
 

Read about Katja Mayer's research on openness in scientific praxis.

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 New Publications

Verstappen S, Davies S. Ethnographic film as world-making: Connecting visual anthropology with Science and Technology Studies. Visual Anthropology Review. 2024 Okt. 3;40(2):147-160. Epub 2024 Okt. 3. doi: 10.1111/var.12338

Pham BC, Davies S. Policy as infrastructure: Enacting artificial intelligence and making Europe. in Klimburg-Witjes N, Trauttmansdorff P, Hrsg., Technopolitics and the Making of Europe: Infrastructures of Security. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis. 2024. S. 125–140 Epub 2023.

Tzortzatou-Nanopoulou O, Akyüz K, Goisauf M, Kozera Ł, Mežinska S, Th Mayrhofer M et al. Ethical, legal, and social implications in research biobanking: A checklist for navigating complexity. Developing World Bioethics. 2024 Sept.;24(3):139-150. Epub 2023 Juli 10. doi: 10.1111/dewb.12411

Schikowitz A, Davies S. Housing activists' science communication: online practices as contextual and reflexive. JCOM. 2024 Juni 17;23(5):A01. doi: 10.22323/2.23050201

Radhuber I, Haddad C, Kieslich K, Paul KT, Prainsack B, El-Sayed S et al. Citizenship in times of crisis: biosocial state–citizen relations during COVID‑19 in Austria. BioSocieties. 2024 Juni;19(2):326-351. Epub 2023 Mai 22. doi: 10.1057/s41292-023-00304-z