Dr. Laura Wiesböck

  • Education and Employment
Senior Researcher
+43 1 59991 181
laura.wiesboeck@ihs.ac.at

Social Inequality
Labour Market
Poverty
Gender
Online Research Methods
Qualitative and Multi-method Research

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  • Laura Wiesböck is a Senior Researcher at the equi group. She holds a doctorate in Sociology from the University of Vienna. Throughout her academic career she has also studied, conducted research or taught at Oxford University, Graduate School of the City University of New York, University of Syracuse, University of Ghana, National Taiwan University and UC Louvain La Neuve.

    Laura Wiesböck’s research interests fall in the field of social inequality with a focus on gender, poverty and labour market. Currently she is the principal investigator of "GigClean" (funding: AK Digifonds), "QUEERDEM" (funding: City of Vienna – 'democracy in progress' call) and HearMeOut (funding: AK Digifonds).

    The sociologist was granted several prizes in recognition of her academic work (Prize of the City of Vienna for the Humanities 2024, Käthe Leichter Prize 2021, Danubius Young Scientist Award 2020, Kurt Rothschild Prize 2019, Bank Austria Research Award 2018 and Theodor Körner Prize 2016).

    In addition to scientific articles Laura Wiesböck regularly communicates research findings and perspectives to the public through media interviews (e.g. Associated Press, Libération, Deutschlandfunk, DIE ZEIT, 3SAT, ORF), her personal social media channels (e.g. Twitter, Instagram) and public lectures (e.g. Diagonale Film Festival, Austrian Parliament, Tanzquartier Vienna).

  • CURRENT

    HearMeOut – Gender and Online Meetings

    Project Lead: Laura Wiesböck
    Team: Julia Radlherr
    Duration: June 2023 – December 2024
    Funding: Digifonds of the Vienna Chamber of Labour

    QUEERDEM – Democratic Practice of LGBTIQ+ Persons in Vienna

    Project Lead: Laura Wiesböck
    Team: Ekaterina Osipova, Ella O'Connor
    Duration: March 2023 – August 2024
    Funding: City of Vienna – 'democracy in progress' call

     

    COMPLETED

    GigClean – Working realities of gig-based female cleaners in private households in Vienna

    Project Lead: Laura Wiesböck
    Team: Mai Linh Angelique Vo, Julia Radlherr
    Duration: April 2022 – November 2023
    Funding: Digifonds of the Vienna Chamber of Labour

    CAREDEMIA - Careers of female early-stage researchers with care responsibilities in the COVID19-pandemic

    Project Lead: Laura Wiesböck
    Team: Maria Köpping
    Duration: May 2022 – February 2023
    Funding: City of Vienna, Vienna Chamber of Labour

    Lehre

    Universität Wien

    VO Struktur und Entwicklung der Gegenwartsgesellschaft: Europa im Wandel | gemeinsam mit Roland Verwiebe | Link

    FS Forschungslabor 2: Schrumpfende Mittelschicht in Österreich | gemeinsam mit Roland Verwiebe | Link

    FPR Forschungspraktikum 1: Migrationsforschung in der Soziologie | gemeinsam mit Roland Verwiebe und Raimund Haindorfer | Link

    FPR Forschungspraktikum 2: Migrationsforschung in der Soziologie | gemeinsam mit Roland Verwiebe und Raimund Haindorfer | Link

    SE Virtuelle Ethnographie – Digitale Räume erforschen | Link

    WS Gesellschaftsdiagnosen: Soziologie der Liebe | Link

    WS Gesellschaftsdiagnosen: Coolness als kulturelle Praxis | Link

    UE Professionalisierung wissenschaftlicher Recherche | Link

    UE English Reading and Writing for Sociologists | Link

     

    Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien

    UE Sociology and Human Rights

    Sigmund Freud Privatuniversität Wien

    VO Introduction to Philosophy of Social Research | gemeinsam mit Barbara Rothmüller


    University of Ghana

    SE Contemporary Social Theories | gemeinsam mit Dan-Bright Dzorgbo.

    SE Quantitative Methods and Social Research | gemeinsam mit Rabiu Asante und Sylvia Gyan.

     

    Gastvorträge

    Goethe Universität Frankfurt

    Wissenschaftskommunikation | 28. Februar 2022
     

    Kunstuniversität Linz

    Scham und Beschämung als Herrschaftsinstrument | 11. Jänner 2022
     

    Hochschule Merseburg

    Über die (Re)Produktion von Sozialer Ungleichheit | 2. November 2021
     

    FH Wien

    Soziale Ungleichheit, Sprache und Macht | 21. April 2021
     

    Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien

    Einführung in qualitative Interviewmethoden | 12. April 2021
     

    WU Wien - Wirtschaftspolitische Akademie

    Sprache und Macht: Rhetorische Strategien zur (Re)Produktion sozialer Ungleichheit | 14. Oktober 2017

    Arbeitsmobilität in Europa am Beispiel der Central European Region | 11. Oktober 2014