Univ.-Prof. Sarah Davies BSc, MSc, PhD hat seit Februar 2020 die Professor für Technosciences, Materiality and Digital Cultures am Institut für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung inne.
Forschungsschwerpunkte:
- Amateur science, including hacking and making
- The conditions of contemporary academia
- Digitisation within science
- Science communication and public engagement with research
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Monika De Frantz, PhD hat seit Februar 2020 die § 99-Gastprofessur für Politische Soziologie am Institut für Soziologie inne.
Forschungsschwerpunkte:
- Urban Politics - social space, regions & territoriality, culture-led transformations, urban arts/music/architecture, tourism, globalisation, planning & development, multi-level governance, stakeholder participation, EU policy, Urban Agenda & Sustainable Development Goals
- Politics & Society - democracy & legitimacy, social movements, institutional change & legitimacies, science/ as social practices, culture & diversity, publics & political mobilisation, populism & leadership, transnational & international relations, Europeanisation, governance & policy, nation-nationalism-ethnicity, statehood as social process
- Austria, EU & Europe, Central & Eastern Europe, United States/North America, Global South
- new institutional, critical & constructivist theories; interpretative & comparative social research; interdisciplinary practices, knowledge cultures & politics
