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

26.11.2025 16:00
 

Defensio

We warmly invite you to the Master defensio of Pipi Paloeka de Koning

 

21.10.2025 16:30
 

Defensio

We warmly invite you to the Master defensio of Roman Michael Hansen

 STS Talks Vienna

03.12.2025 16:00
 

Vienna STS Talk by Nikolaus Poechhacker

We are thrilled to announce Nikolaus Poechhacker's talk on December 03, 2025 04:00 PM

25.11.2025 17:00
 

Vienna STS Talk x INNORES Talk by Nanna Bonde Thylstrup

We are thrilled to announce Nanna Bonde Thylstrup's talk on November 25, 2025 05:00 PM

 News

19.05.2025
 

Ulrike Felt explores in her new book the hidden politics of time that shape knowledge production in universities and academic life.

News
08.05.2025
 

We congratulate Rasmus Kvaal Wardemann on his PhD defensio!

News
11.03.2025
 

The ERC-funded Research Project “ALTERBIOTIC” (lead by Assist.-Prof. Dr. Christian Haddad) explores the pressing global health crisis of antimicrobial...

News
05.03.2025
 

Find all the relevant Information about the Department's Master programme in Science-Technology-Society in the recording of the first Information...

News
04.03.2025
 

The ERC-funded Research Project “FutureSpace” (lead by Assist.Prof. Nina Klimburg-Witjes) explores the shifting temporalities, infrastructures, and...

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 New Publications

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 Jun;19(2):326-351. Epub 2023 May 22. doi: 10.1057/s41292-023-00304-z

Akyüz K, Goisauf M, Chassang G, Kozera Ł, Mežinska S, Tzortzatou-Nanopoulou O et al. Post-identifiability in changing sociotechnological genomic data environments. BioSocieties. 2024 Jun;19(2):204-231. doi: 10.1057/s41292-023-00299-7

Haddad C, Vorlicek D, Klimburg-Witjes N. The Security-Innovation Nexus in (Geo-)Political Imagination. Geopolitics. 2024 Mar 26;29(3):741-764. doi: 10.1080/14650045.2024.2329940

Pham BC, Gregory K, Davies S, Schikowitz A, Dessewffy E, Goldberg E et al. Academic citizenship, together: Prioritising care and reflexivity in scholarly life. Journal of Praxis in Higher Education. 2024 Mar 5;6(2):66–79. 6. doi: 10.47989/kpdc478

Felt U, Sepehr P. Infrastructuring citizenry in Smart City Vienna: investigating participatory smartification between policy and practice. Journal of Responsible Innovation. 2024 Mar 1;11(1):1-23. 2313303. doi: 10.1080/23299460.2024.2313303