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Dr. 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 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 - working realities of gig based female cleaners in private households in Vienna" (funding: AK Digifonds) and "CAREDEMIA - Careers of female early-stage researchers with care responsibilities in the COVID19 pandemic" (funding: City of Vienna, Vienna Chamber of Labour).
The sociologist was granted five prizes in recognition of her academic work: Käthe Leichter Prize 2021, the Austrian national award for women's studies, Danubius Young Scientist Award 2020, honoring scientific achievements in relation to the Danube region, Kurt Rothschild Prize 2019, for original scientific contributions that are made accessible to a broader public audience, Bank Austria Research Award 2018, for promising research projects and Theodor Körner Prize 2016, in recognition of scientific advances.
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 @laurawies) and public lectures (e.g. Diagonale Film Festival, Austrian Parliament, Tanzquartier Vienna).
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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: AK Wien – DigifondsCAREDEMIA - 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 LabourLehre
Universität WienVO 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 WienUE Sociology and Human Rights
Sigmund Freud Privatuniversität Wien WienVO Introduction to Philosophy of Social Research | gemeinsam mit Barbara Rothmüller
University of GhanaSE Contemporary Social Theories | gemeinsam mit Dan-Bright Dzorgbo.
SE Quantitative Methods and Social Research | gemeinsam mit Rabiu Asante und Sylvia Gyan.
Gastvorträge
Goethe Universität FrankfurtWissenschaftskommunikation | 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