Department of Science and Technology Studies

Science, technology and innovation shape life in modern societies in countless ways. Some of these are perceived as positive, others are deeply controversial. In turn, policy, corporations, the media and other societal actors influence how knowledge and technologies are produced. Science and technology studies analyzes these interactions, and aims to foster critical and reflexive debates on the relations of science, technology and society.

 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

26.03.2026 16:00
 

Vienna STS Talk x FutureSpace Talk by Asif Siddiqi

We are thrilled to announce Asif Siddiqi's talk on March 26, 2026 04:00 PM

11.03.2026 16:00
 

Vienna STS Talk x LLEA Talk by Stefan Kitzler

We are thrilled to announce Stefan Kitzler's talk on March 11, 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!

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 New Publications

Mayer K. Merton (1950): Patterns of Influence. In Holzer B, Stegbauer C, editors, Schlüsselwerke der Netzwerkforschung. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. 2019. (Netzwerkforschung).

Metzler I, Just P. “Think positively”: Parkinson’s disease, biomedicine, and hope in contemporary Germany. Health: an interdisciplinary journal for the social study of health, illness and medicine. 2018 Sept 1;22(5):483-499. Epub 2017 Jun 21. doi: 10.1177/1363459317715774

Falkenberg RI. Yoga and immune system functioning: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials. Journal of Behavioral Medicine. 2018 Aug;41(4):467-482. doi: 10.1007/s10865-018-9914-y

Aarden E. Repositioning biological citizenship: State, population, and individual risk in the Framingham Heart Study. BioSocieties. 2018 Jun;13(2):494–512. Epub 2017 Nov 22. doi: 10.1057/s41292-017-0081-0