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

11.05.2026 18:00
 

Lecture by Cecilia Rikap (in cooperation with IPW and others)

We are thrilled to announce Cecilia Rikap's talk (in cooperation with IPW) on May 11, 2026 06:00 PM

06.05.2026 16:00
 

Vienna STS Talk by Vololona Rabeharisoa

We are thrilled to announce Vololona Rabeharisoa's talk on May 06, 2026 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

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

Fritzsche MC, Akyüz K, Abadía MC, McLennan S, Marttinen P, Mayrhofer MT et al. Ethical layering in AI-driven polygenic risk scores—New complexities, new challenges. Frontiers in Genetics. 2023 Jan. 26;14:1-11. 1098439. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2023.1098439

Serbe-Kamp É, Bemme J, Pollak D, Mayer K. Open Citizen Science: fostering open knowledge with participation. Research Ideas and Outcomes. 2023 Jan. 23;9. doi: 10.3897/rio.9.e96476

Klimburg-Witjes N, (ed.), Trauttmansdorff P, (ed.). Technopolitics and the Making of Europe: Infrastructures of Security. 1 Aufl. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2023. 208 S. doi: 10.4324/9781003267409

Bieszczad SR, Fochler M, Brodschneider R. How Citizen Scientists See their Own Role and Expertise: An Explorative Study of the Perspectives of Beekeepers in a Citizen Science Project. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice. 2023;8(1):1-12. 26. doi: 10.5334/cstp.501