Laufende Abschlussarbeiten
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Dissertationen
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)
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)
POSPISIL, Bettina: Voice recognition systems in private households: The user behaviour of the Austrian citizens between technology-hype and security-concerns (Supervisor: Ulrike Felt)
MARQUEZ, Rodessa: Digital health infrastructures: Between promising sociotechnical futures and challenges of environmental sustainability (Supervisor: Ulrike Felt)
MUENSTER, Noah: Tracing microplastics through wastewater: Materialisations, problematizations, and actions (Supervisor: Ulrike Felt)
REGEN, Livia: Imagining futures in a residue-filled present: how citizens make sense of innovating, wasting, and caring (Supervisor: Ulrike Felt)
SCHUH, Daniela: Re-framing citizenship in bioconstitutional futures. The case of transnational surrogacy in France and Germany (Supervisor: Ulrike Felt)
STERRER, Stefanie: Doing and Valuing Research at Universities of Applied Sciences (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)
Masterarbeiten
ALBIEZ, Andreas: The Modern Monetary Theory Controversy: A Window into Macroeconomics (Supervisor M. Fochler)
BEDNAROVA, Jana: How psychology produces understanding: The case of climate anxiety (Supervisor: M. Fochler)
BRAILOVSKA, Kateryna: Coping with Energy Supply Disruptions amidst the Conflict in Ukraine: Lay People's Narratives of Resilience Strategies (Supervisor: U. Felt)
BUNTFUSS, Paul: Science advice in times of emergency. The case of the Robert-Koch Institut at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic (Supervisor: C. Haddad)
BUTKOVÁ, Tereza: East Meets West: Understanding Positionality in European Social Science Research (Supervisor: A. Schikowitz)
ÇINAR, Gözde Özlem: Beauty Technologies (Supervisor: M. Fochler)
EDERER, Nora: Insects as Infrastructures: How Viennese vegetable gardeners know and value biological pest management (Supervisor: M. Fochler)
FREIHERR VON WERTHERN, Tilman Orfeo Fernando: The use of DIV loop systems for automated insulin dosing by diabetes I patients in Germany against the backdrop of conventional alternatives (Supervisor: Chr. Haddad)
GRIESSLER, Julius: Conceptualizing science in the Austrian education system. The case of the VWA. (Supervisor: M. Fochler)
GÜL, Elif: Masculinity and Contraception (Supervisor: M. Fochler)
HARJES, Caitlin: Creating Digital Learning Tools: The case of a computer game developed for civics education (Supervisor: F. Mora Gámez)
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: Boutique Virtual Analogue – The Real Deal or Virtual Insanity? How online users respond to Roland's digital recreations of their classic analogue synthesizers (Supervisor: M. Fochler)
LENZ, Daphne: Sustainable Chemistry – Caring for chemical pollution The assemblage of matters of chemical pollution (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)
MATHIES, Kaye: Standardization and Scientization of Microplastics in EU Policy (Supervisor: U. Felt)
MOORE, Georgie: Machine Learning Approaches for the Diagnosis of Unkown Primary (CUP) (Supervisor: M. Fochler)
NENSEL, Lucas Marius: Rhythms and Revolutions. A time-sensitive investigation into Skylab IV´s labor conflicts (Supervisor: N. Klimburg-Witjes)
NISHI, Masafumi: Promising the Future: Performativity of Expectations in European Nuclear Fusion Research and Development for ITER (Supervisor: U. Felt)
NOWAK, Veronika: Spacesuits for Mars. The Austrian Space Forum and its spacesuit program (Supervisor: N. Klimburg-Witjes)
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)
PICHLER, Sascha: ChatGPT - A chatbot between opportunity and concern. From hype to regulation (Supervisor: S. Davies)
PLUDE, Miakoda: Gold Standard Treatment: A negotiation in Sublocade Funding (Supervisor: Chr. Haddad)
POHLOVÁ, Eliska: Evaluating intimacy and connection enacted through communication technologies by the actors in long-distance relationships (Supervisor: S. Davies)
ROMANACH NASSER, Carina: At the Crossroads of Gender and Migration: Nonbinary Third-Country Nationals Navigating State Classification lnfrastructures in Austria (Supervisor: F. Mora Gámez)
STILL, Laura: Knowledge Cultures of Former Austrian Conspiracy Theorists (Supervisor: M. Fochler)
STRAUSS, Joscha: 'Clean or Green?' The conflict of sterility and sustainability through the case of medical packaging (Supervisor: U. Felt)
TAXENBACHER, Magdalena: "Governing Trolls". The sociotechnical imaginaries of the internet in the face of governing disinformation (Supervisor: N. Klimburg-Witjes)
VEDUTA, Anna: Human Cost of Military Innovations: To know or better not to? (Supervisor: N. Klimburg-Witjes)
WIESINGER, Sophie: Hormonal contraception Technologies. Accounting for the materiality, knowledge and expertise of oral hormonal contraception (Supervisor: S. Davies)
WYNANDS, Harry: Science on Trial: Negotiationg the Boundaries of CDC Expertixe during Covid-19 (Supervisor: S. Davies)
YAZDANI, Nushin: The Hidden Labour of AI Impersonation - Humans Pretending to be Machines (Supervisor: F. Mora Gámez)
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)
ZUCKERHUT, Michaela: Valuation of Chemical Substances in the Case of PFAS (Supervisor: U. Felt)