The Faculty of Social Sciences offers a wide range of undergraduate and graduate programmes. It comprises the following subunits: Department of Methods in Social Sciences, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Department of Nursing Science, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Department of Communication, Department of Government, Department of Social Studies of Science and the Project: Family Studies in Austria. 

Job Openings

Current job vacancies for professorial positions at the Faculty of Social Sciences:

Full Professor of Communication Science with a focus on Media Change and Media Innovation

Full Professor of Communication Science with a focus on Public Relations Research

Full Professor of Methods of Empirical Social Science with a focus on Text Analysis

Full Professor of Political Theory

Closing date for applications is August 31, 2012.


The Faculty of Social Sciences is also hiring for the following tenure track position:

Tenure Track Position for Global Environmental Governance/Political Ecology

Closing date for applications is June 15, 2012.


All other positions at the Faculty of Social Sciences can be searched via Job Center of the University of Vienna.