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

15.12.2025 17:00
 

Vienna STS Talk x ALTERBIOTIC Talk by Claas Kirchhelle & Janina Kehr

We are thrilled to announce Claas Kirchhelle's talk & Janina Kehr's talk on December 15, 2025 05:00 PM

04.12.2025 16:00
 

Vienna STS Talk x FutureSpace Talk by Mia Bennett

We are thrilled to announce Mia Bennett's talk on December 04, 2025 04:00 PM

 Events

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...

04.11.2025 12:30
 

STS Lunch Lecture by Mirko Schäfer

We warmly invite you to join our STS Lunch Lecture, where Mirko Tobias Schäfer will speak about “Custodial Work for Algorithmic Systems: Researching...

 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.

News
17.11.2025
 

The 2025 Friedrich Schiedel Prizes honor Ulrike Felt and Martha Minow, two visionary thinkers whose work is redefining the ethical and social...

News
16.10.2025
 

We congratulate Laura Bomm and Bao-Chau Pham on their PhD defensio!

News

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 New Publications

Schikowitz A, Maasen S, Weller K. Constitutive Tensions of Transformative Research: Infrastructuring Continuity and Contingency in Public Living Labs. Science & Technology Studies. 2023 Mär 29;36(3):60-77. doi: 10.23987/sts.122123

Sepehr P, Aarden E. Between straight lines and winding alleys: Streets as boundary objects in the transnational modernization of urban planning in Iran. in De Munck B, Lachmund J, Hrsg., Politics of Urban Knowledge: Historical Perspectives on the Shaping and Governing of Cities. Routledge, Taylor & Francis. 2023. S. 179-200 doi: 10.4324/9781003312628

Sigl L, Falkenberg R, Fochler M. Changing articulations of relevance in soil science: Diversity and (potential) synergy of epistemic commitments in a scientific discipline. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A. 2023 Feb;97:79-90. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2022.12.004

Mora-Gámez F. Curating Reparation and Recrafting Solidarity. in Ecological Reparation: Repair, Remediation and Resurgence in Social and Environmental Conflict. Bristol University Press. 2023. S. 258-272

Sepehr P. Post-Automobility Futures: Technology, Power, and Imaginaries. Mobility Humanities. 2023 Jan 31;2(1):164-167. doi: 10.23090/MH.2023.01.2.1.164