Doctoral Theses

Trauttmansdorff-Weinsberg, Paul (2022) European (Technological) Borders of the Future? The Digital Imperative in European Border Management. < u:theses >


Öchsner, Susanne (2021) Is all ok? AAL as infrastructure for aging well. < abstract >


Born, Dorothea (2020) Imag(in)ing Nature in Climate Change - Nature Conceptions in Visualisations of Climate Change in Popular Science Magazines - a Comparison between Germany and the USA. <abstract>


Felder, Kay (2019): Temporal Orders and Ontological Politics – Analyzing the Construction of Obesity as a Health Issue. <abstract>


Schönbauer, Sarah (2019) At least a little bit of stability. How scientists do identity work in contemporary life sciences.


Starkbaum, Johannes (2018) Research, Governance, and Imaginaries of Publics. Public Engagement in the Context of the European Biobank Infrastructure.


Lauß, Georg (2017) Biobank Governance: Potentials and Limits of Participation in an Expert Policy Area.


Chelioti, Effrosyni (2017) The Euroscience Open Forum: An experiment in constructing and performing European knowledge societies.


Degelsegger-Márquez (2017) Collaborative reserach in synthethic biology: Forms, functions and challenges as entry points to studying field formation and research-governance relations.


Schikowitz , Andrea (2017) Choreographies of Togetherness. Re-Ordering Collectivity and Individuality in Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research in Austria.


Haddad, Christian (2016) The biopolitics of innovation: (re-)articulating visions and values of research, regulation and human experimentation in the making of regenerative stem cell medicine.


Igelsböck, Judith (2016) The Performances and Transformations of Evidence in Transdisciplinary Research Contexts.


Penkler, Michael (2016) On Gaining and Losing. Performances of Bodies and Selves in Bodyweight Narratives.


Schadauer, Andreas (2016) Verschlungene Wege sozialwissenschaftlicher Wissensproduktion: Zahlen und Statistiken über Gesellschaften, Menschen und Nationen.


Oberthür, Frederik (2015) "Ways of Knowing in Animal Husbandry" - An Actor-Network Theory Perspective on the Knowledge and Interactions of Farmers and Scientists in Livestock Research.


Völker, Thomas (2014) 'Futuring' in Transdisciplinary Sunstainability Research. On the Assemblage, Stabilization and Contestation of Collectively Imaged Futures in the Production of Anticipatory Knowledge. < download >


Musik, Christoph (2014) Computers and the Ability to See. Understanding the Negotiation and Implementation of Image Processing Algorithms. < download >


Schwarz, Claudia (2014) Nano is like... The role of analogies in public engagement with nanotechnology in Austria. < download >


Sigl, Lisa (2012) Embodied Anxiety. On Experiences of Living, Working and Coping with Conditions of Precarity in Research Cultures of the Academic Life Sciences. < download >


Müller, Ruth (2012) On Becoming a Distinguished Scientist. Individuality and Collectivity in Postdoctoral Life Scientists´ Narratives about Living and Working in the Academic Sciences.


Knoll, Eva-Maria (2011) Navigating Socio-technical and Moral Landscapes: Reproductive Tourism in Europe.


Mayer, Katja (2011) Imag(in)ing Social Networks. Zur epistemischen Praxis der Visualisierung sozialer Netzwerke.


Bister, Milena (2010) Soziale Praktiken des Einwilligens: Informed Consent-Verfahren und biomedizinische Forschung im Krankenhauskontext. < download >


Mager, Astrid (2010) Mediated Knowledge: Sociotechnical practices of communicating medical knowledge via the web and their epistemic implications. < download >


Müller Strassnig, Annina (2010) Imaginierte Wissenschaft: Wissenschafts- und Wissenschaftler/innen-Bilder als Verhandlungsobjekte in der Interakton zwischen Genomforscherinnen/Genomforschern und Bürgerinnen und Bürgern.


Erlemann, Martina (2009) Menschenscheue Genies und suspekte Exotinnen. Die Ko-Konstruktion von Physik und Geschlecht in öffentlichen Diskursen.


Pinkl, Petra (2009) Alter (ver)messen? Gesellschaftspolitische Anwendungszusammenhänge wissenschaftlicher Vermessungstechniken zur chronologischen Lebensaltersbestimmung im österreichischen Kontext.


Strassnig, Michael (2009) "Ethics is like a book that one reads when one has time". Exploring lay ‚ethical’ knowledge in a public engagement setting. < download >


Fochler, Maximilian (2008) Participating in which kind of governance? Tracing bottom-up perspectives on the governance of science and the possibilities and limits of public engagement. < download >


Hofmann, Roswitha (2008) Die Konstruktion von Differenz im Diskurs zur "Wissensgesellschaft". Eine Analyse des institutionellen Diskurses der Europäischen Union am Beispiel "Alter".


Cserer, Amélie (2002) Wunsch wie Werkzeug: Deutungsmusteranalyse utopischer Maschinen aus soziotechnischen Problemlagen.


Ratzer, Brigitte (2002) Quantenphysik und Öffentlichkeit: Interpretationen & Popularisierung 1925 – 1938.


Tscherteu, Gernot (1998) Medien. Kulturen. Wirklichkeiten. Zur kulturellen Bewältigung alter und neuer Medien.