After studying in Australia, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom, Hamza Amin decided to join the Doctoral School of Social Sciences at the University of Vienna as a doctoral candidate. He investigates how political and economic influences impact the journalistic culture in the Global South. © privat
Atakan Aral is research fellow at the Faculty of Computer Science of the University of Vienna. He develops smart sensors that track water quality in rivers and create early-warning signals to fight river pollution.
Our “greying world”: In her blogpost Reynalda Cordova, doctoral student at the department of Nutritional Sciences, addresses the connection between the way we eat and cancer risk, or potential cancer development pathways in terms of aging.
Less manager positions, less board seats: Anita Györfi is a PhD candidate at the Vienna Graduate School of Economics (VGSE). In her research, she focus on the “glass ceiling effect” for women and investigates possible roots.
How ethnographic research in Tanzania from afar was possible: In order to complete her joint master’s programme in Urban Studies, Lisbeth Huber would have traveled to Tanzania. Due to Covid-19 she had to find methods to collect relevant data even from a distance.
Marion Borderon is a population geographer and member of CoVprehension, a collective of researchers working together to answer burning questions on the mechanisms of COVID-19 for a broad audience. In this blogpost, Marion describes the process.
The updated recommendations from the University of Vienna are aimed at increasing the visibility of academic publications.
Learning the grammar of a language means more than just learning its system of speech sounds and linguistic forms. In her semester question-blogpost Soonja Choi, research professor at the Department of Linguistics, explores the relationship between language and thought.
How did coral reefs respond to warmer climate periods in the past? A research team of the University of Vienna wants to find out at the Egyptian Red Sea.
Researcher Sandra Guinand explains the important role of Citizen Science to conduct findings for her research surrounding Vienna’s Donau City.
Iacopo Morchio is assistant professor at the Department of Economics. In this blog post he describes his current research on recent trends in European labour markets, and how they relate to this term’s question: “How will we work tomorrow?“. I have always been particularly interested in how economic systems, and the incentives they create, shape … Continued
