Ongoing Doctoral and Master Theses
For completed doctoral and master theses see the department's list of publications.
Doctoral Theses
AKYÜZ, Kaya: Genopolitics: The Dynamics in Trying to Make a New Research Field (Supervisor: Ulrike Felt)
BAYER, Florian: Indicators and metrics in the Social Sciences and Humanities: A case study on neoliberal transformations within an Austrian university (Supervisor: Ulrike Felt)
BOMM, Laura: Rethinking plastics: Citizen’s perception and sense making of plastics in contemporary Austrian society (Supervisor: Ulrike Felt)
DESSEWFFY, Esther: Topologies in Motion. Mapping academic engagement with simulation software for architectural design (Supervisor: Sarah Davies)
EN, Boka: Means for changing the world? Queer_feminist academics, activists, and knowing/acting (Supervisor: Ulrike Felt)
FALKENBERG, Ruth: Relevant Research?! How researchers negotiate relevance to socio-environmental challenges within their epistemic living spaces (Supervisor: Maximilian Fochler)
FERENT, Lisa-Maria: Biobanking: Creating, maintaining, and inhabiting a trading zone between service, research, and care (Supervisor: Ulrike Felt)
FRANTZ, Florentine: Living with the Ideals of Good Scientific Practice: Necessary Fictions, Distributed Responsibility and Reflexive Care in Contemporary Life Sciences (Supervisor: Ulrike Felt)
GAHBAUER, Susanne: Visual (Re)presentations of 'trans*' persons during hormonal treatment: doing and undoing the category of 'trans*' in biomedicine (and beyond) (Supervisor: Ulrike Felt)
JUST, Paul: Parkinson's disease put on trial: governing regenerative medicine (Supervisor: Ulrike Felt)
PAPADAKI ANASTASOPOULOUS, Artemis: (Re)assembling single-use plastics on different scales: In the EU, Greece and the Municipality of Sikinos (Supervisor: Ulrike Felt)
PHAM, Bao-Chau: Governing Artificial Intelligence: European Imaginaries (Supervisor: Sarah Davies)
PICHELSTORFER, Anna: Experts in the making - practices of performing and attributing expertise in biomedical debates in Austria (Supervisor: Ulrike Felt)
POSPISIL, Bettina: Voice recognition systems in private households: The user behaviour of the Austrian citizens between technology-hype and security-concerns (Supervisor: Ulrike Felt)
RAE, Robin: How some inches matter: (re-)negotiating subjectivities and wheel size in mountain biking (Supervisor: Ulrike Felt)
SCHUH, Daniela: Re-framing citizenship in bioconstitutional futures. The case of transnational surrogacy in France and Germany (Supervisor: Ulrike Felt)
SCHERIAU, Michaela: How does (bio)ethics transform epistemological and medical practices? The role of expert associations in governing futures of human reproduction (Supervisor: Ulrike Felt)
SEPEHR, Pouya: Seeing and Knowing the City like an Algorithm (Supervisor: Ulrike Felt)
SIMUKOVIC, Elena: Of hopes, villains and Trojan horses - Open Access academic publishing and its battlefields (Supervisor: Ulrike Felt)
STERRER, Stefanie: Doing and Valuing Research at Universities of Applied Sciences (Supervisor: Ulrike Felt)
TRAUTTMANSDORFF-WEINSBERG, Paul: European (Technological) Borders of the Future? The Digital Imperative in European Border Management (Supervisor: Ulrike Felt)
ULMER, Vera: Authorship Practices in the Making. On (E)Valuations, Responsibility and Care in Academic Publishing (Supervisor: Ulrike Felt)
VARGOLSKAIA, Virginia: Between Visions And Practices. An Ethnography Of Digitalization In Environmental Research (Supervisor: Ulrike Felt)
WARDEMANN, Rasmus Kvaal: Making research FAIR? Between policy imaginaries and research practices (Supervisor: Ulrike Felt)
Master Theses
BAI, Henan: The politics and economics of Do-It-Yourself biology movement: A case study of Open Biolab Graz (Supervisor: M. Fochler)
BORODIN, Tatjana Andrea: Valuing insects as 'good to eat' (Supervisor: M. Fochler)
EDERER, Nora: Insects as Infrastructures: How Viennese vegetable gardeners know and value biological pest management (Supervisor: M. Fochler)
EN, Boka: <3? Relationship Ideologies in Social Research (Supervisor: U. Felt)
GÜL, Elif: Masculinity and Contraception (Supervisor: M. Fochler)
HÄMÄLÄINEN, Hanna-Kaisa: The implied visitor in an Al exhibition - studying inclusivity of science communication in a museum space (Supervisor: S. Davies)
HAFEZ, Xenia: Practices of demand in converging infrastructures (Supervisor: M. Fochler)
HAIDEN, Sofie Anna: "It all comes down to Soil.Life!" Exploring valuation practices of Autrian farmers aiming at developing climate-adapted and sustainable agriculture (Supervisor: M. Fochler)
HOLMER, Constantin: The 'glacier marriage project'. The (re-)imagination of the future(s) of ski tourism in the Ötztal & Pitztal valleys in Tyrol, Austria (Supervisor: M. Fochler)
JENKINS, Barry: Put to Sleep: The Construction of Consent in Canine Euthanasia (Supervisor: U. Felt)
LEHFELDT, Luise: Pursuing a Social Mission as a Market Based Business: An Investigation of a Green Tech Startup (Supervisor: S. Davies)
MANDZHIEVA, Renata: Creating Better Spaces: Public Participation in Urban Research and Planning in the Context of a Smart City Project (Supervisor: M. Fochler)
MÜNSTER, Noah: Accelerating Futures: Tracing expectations of a particle accelerator in the making (Supervisor: U. Felt)
NOWAK, Veronika: Spacesuits for Mars. The Austrian Space Forum and its spacesuit program (Supervisor: N. Klimburg-Witjes)
PANTELIADIS, Anastasios: Translating Innovation: Innovation as a differentiating and coordinating concept for/of practices within the Austiran Institute of Technolgy (AIT) (Supervisor: M. Fochler)
PERLAKI, Eszter: Caring for Digital Contact Tracing: The case of the Austrian STOPP Corona App and data rights activism (Supervisor: S. Davies)
PETRUTIU, Andra Sonia: Postcolonial Science Studies and the Anthropocene: Lessons to be Learned for Climate Modelling in India and Beyond (Supervisor: E. Aarden)
RABÉ, Celine: The portrayal of forensic DNA-analysis in Austrian news media (Supervisor: S. Davies)
RUST, Magnus: Genetic Technologies of the Self. How lay people on YouTube make sense of their MyHeritageDNA ancestry tests (Supervisor: U. Felt)
SHARON, Dikla: The Biopolitics of Gene Therapy: Redefining Hemophilia through Policies (Supervisor: M. Fochler)
SIMKUTE, Neringa: Stabilising antimicrobial resistance (AMR) through global surveillance and standardisation. The case of the Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS) (Supervisor: Chr. Haddad)
STILL, Laura: Knowledge Cultures of Former Austrian Conspiracy Theorists (Supervisor: M. Fochler)
TAXENBACHER, Magdalena: "Governing Trolls". The sociotechnical imaginaries of the internet in the face of governing disinformation (Supervisor: N. Klimburg-Witjes)
TOPCU, Ilknur: Visualization of Future in Nano Fiction. Futuristic Imaginaries and Co-construction of Science and Society Relation in Blockbuster Movies (Supervisor: U. Felt)
VANDER HOEVEN, Julia: Caring for Healthcare. Imagining and creating practices of care through developing digital health infrastructures (Supervisor: U. Felt)
VAN DER VAEREN, Auriane: The political deepfake phenomenon: how does it materialise and how do policy approaches affect that materialisation? (Supervisor: S. Davies)
VEDUTA, Anna: Human Cost of Military Innovations: To know or better not to? (Supervisor: N. Klimburg-Witjes)
WINKLER, Antonia: Datafying Relations/Relationalising Data: Rethinking collaboration in the context of the CERN open data portal (Supervisor: U. Felt)
WINKLER, Florian: (E)valuation regimes and postcolonialism in the case of the solar geoengineering project SCoPex (Supervisor: M. Fochler)
WYNANDS, Harry: Science on Trial: Negotiationg the Boundaries of CDC Expertixe during Covid-19 (Supervisor: S. Davies)
ZINGERLE, Simon: Producing Compliant Publics: The performative display of public participation in an informational film by the German Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (Supervisor: U. Felt)