Ongoing Doctoral and Master Theses
For completed doctoral and master theses see the department's list of publications.
Doctoral Theses (Supervisor: Ulrike Felt)
AKYÜZ, Kaya: Genopolitics: The Dynamics in Trying to Make a New Research Field
BORN, Dorothea: Imag(in)ing Nature in Climate Change - Nature Conceptions in Visualisations of Climate
FELDER, Kay: Temporal Orders and Ontological Politics – Analyzing the Construction of Obesity as a Health Issue <abstract>
JUST, Paul: Parkinson's disease put on trial: governing regenerative medicine
OECHSNER, Susanne: Imagining future users. Local practices of co-producing Ambient Assisted Living technologies, embodied users and a well-aging society
PICHELSTORFER, Anna: Experts in the making - practices of performing and attributing expertise in biomedical debates in Austria
RAE, Robin: How some inches matter: (re-)negotiating subjectivities and wheel size in mountain biking <abstract>
SCHOENBAUER, Sarah: Situierte Identitäten - Die Verknüpfung von corporate und sozialen Identitäten in Forschungsgruppen der Biowissenschaften <abstract>
SCHUH, Daniela: Re-framing citizenship in bioconstitutional futures. The case of transnational surrogacy in France and Germany
SCHUMANN, Simone: Citizens’ Encounters with “Nanofood” in the Austrian Context. Investigating Individual and Collective Appropriation Work <abstract>
SIMUKOVIC, Elena: Of hopes, villains and Trojan horses - Open Access academic publishing and its battlefields
STARKBAUM, Johannes: Science, Governance and Imaginaries of Publics. The role of public engagement in the context of the European biobank infrastructure for research
Master Theses
ACKERL, Clemens: Manifestation(s) of expectation(s)? How Aspern's 'pilot' Smart Factory manifests and materializes expectations of the 'contested future of production' and the 'contested future of the working society' (Supervisor: E. Aarden)
ANDRIESCU-BRANZA, Alina: Music Technology in Music Education (Supervisor: E. Aarden)
BAI, Henan: The Politics and Economics of Do-It-Yourself Biology Movement: A Case Study of Open Biolab Graz (Supervisor: M. Fochler)
BIESZCZAD, Sarah Rose: "... Because they never had this whole question of morality" - Genome editing and citizen's sense making within moral geographies (Supervisor: U. Felt)
Chang, Tzu-Min: 3D Food Printing: Novel Food Technology Configured by Developers (Supervisor: E. Aarden)
DOPONA, Valentina: How do researchers describe Facebook as political and as epistemic object? (Supervisor: U. Felt)
EBERTH, Sebastian: "America's Destiny to Lead" - Presidential Contributions to the Sociotechnical Imaginary of 'Conquering Space' (Supervisor: U. Felt)
ELTEM, Mehmet Irfan: Governing Technologies: Blockchain Technology (Supervisor: I. Metzler)
EN, Boka: <3? Relationship Ideologies in Social Research (Supervisor: U. Felt)
ENGELHART, Jasmin: Of Forms and minced Lard: Making Drugs safe between regulatory Practice and public Space (Supervisor: E. Aarden)
FALKENBERG, Ruth: Downward-facing dog meets randomized controlled trial - Investigating valuations in biomedical research on yoga (Supervisor: M. Fochler)
HUBER, Sophie Marie: Narrative as Politics. Sociotechnical Visions in Transhumanist Constitutions and Party Programs. (Supervisor: I. Metzler)
HENNEBACH, Marilen: Relating Art and Science: Arts-Based Research Practice and Education (Supervisor: M. Fochler)
HURME, Milla Emilia: Whose Goods, Whose Science? A Case Study of Narratives in Austrian Stem Cell Research (Supervisor: E. Aarden)
JENKINS, Barry: Put to Sleep: The Construction of Consent in Canine Euthanasia. (Supervisor: Ulrike Felt)
KOVACS, Reka: Tracing the development of public meanings and debates in the mobile phone controversy. (Supervior: U. Felt)
KREMER, Alexandre Edouard: Bionics - Following the Footsteps of a Sociotechnical Vanguard. Case Study: Hugh Herr (Supervior: M. Fochler)
LIN, Meihsin: Sociotechnical imaginary in the making: Kapsch's vanguard vision in future mobility (Supervisor: M. Fochler)
MARANTE MENDOZA, Daniel Eduardo: Production of Expectations: Diabetes and Insulin Pumps (Supervisor: M. Fochler)
MATSUYAMA, Naoki: Sound Publics: Imaginations of the public inscribed in a Japanese public loudspeaker system (Supervisor: U. Felt)
MAZORRA SANDOVAL, Angela Liseth: Passive Houses, Passive Householders? How end-users of Passive Houses in Vienna experience the new standard in their domestic lives. (Supervisor: E. Aarden)
MYKHAILYSHYNA, Mariana: Imaginaries about Participants of the Public Engagement with Science Events and their Inscription in the Event´s Organisation (Supervisor: U. Felt)
NUDMAN, Ari: Successful Stories of Success: The Rhetorical (Re)Presentation of the Biomedical and Healthcare Research in Policy within the Horizon 2020 Framework Program (Supervisor: E. Aarden)
OCHIA, Oana: Do Cemeteries Have a Future? Sustainability, Obduracy and Urban Sociotechnical Change in the Viennese Central Cemetery (Supervisor: E. Aarden)
PANTELIADIS, Anastasios: Translating Innovation: Innovation as a differentiating and coordinating concept for/of practices within the Austiran Institute of Technolgy (AIT) (Supervisor: M. Fochler)
PAPADAKI ANASTASOPOULOUS, Artemis Anna: Plastic Matters: Material Politics of Plastics in the Environment Agency Austria (Supervisor: U. Felt)
PRENDL, Angela: Research at Home? Social Scientists and their Understanding and Use of the Internet as a Site of Research (Supervisor: E. Aarden)
RASZ, Stefan: Imagining a Mind: How Visionaries Craft the Future of Intelligence (Supervisor: M. Fochler)
RATASIEWICZ, Katarzyna Helena: Vinyl is not what it used to be: User Perspective on Innovating Technostalgic Artifact (Supervisor: E. Aarden)
REDING, Steve: From Institutional Change Management to Epistemic Change in the Humanities? The Case of Catholic Theology at the University of Vienna (Supervisor: L. Sigl)
SCHMID, Hugh: The Good Scientist? How evangelical biologists construct the relationship between faith and science (Supervisor: M. Fochler)
SCHNEIDER, Walter: How are science communication formats in schools perceived by families of different social groups? (Supervisor: M. Fochler)
SIDIROPOULOS, Viktor: Models of Social Innovation in Practice: Focusing on the Promotion of Social Impact and the Fostering of Social Entrepreneurship in Impact Hub Vienna (Supervisor: L. Sigl)
SOUZA, Cylene: Biomedicalization of aging and end of life scenarios: How doctors navigate through the Brazilian health setting (Supervisor: E. Aarden)
STUBNA, Phillip: Students' Perception of the City of Vienna, through the Use of the Subway Network: A Case Study of Students Living in Dormitories in Seestadt (Supervisor: E. Aarden)
SUKRAKARN, Ployplor: Controversy over Health Risk from Electromagnetic Field (EMF): the case of cell tower in Thailand (Supervisor: M. Fochler)
TOPCU, Ilknur: Visualization of Future in Nano Fiction. Futuristic Imaginaries and Co-construction of Science and Society Relation in Blockbuster Movies (Supervisor: U. Felt)
WOLKENSTEIN, Maresa Barbara: Does a conception of public influence how science journalists do their work? An ethnographic study of how science content is produced in Austrian daily newspapers. (Supervisor: M. Fochler)
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)