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Franziska Lessky is Assistant Professor at the University of Innsbruck. She is passionate about educational pathways into, through and out of university, as well as careers in the graduate labour market and academia. Her teaching focuses on qualitative and quantitative methodology and professionalization in higher education. Franziska is co-convenor of the Bourdieu Study Group of the British Sociological Association (BSA) and of the German Society for Higher Education Research (GfHf). Furthermore, she is an Early Career Researcher Board Member of Higher Education Quarterly (HEQU).
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Lessky, F. (2025). Educational inequality and equitable transformation: Combining Bourdieu’s relational theory and the ‘conduct of everyday life’ concept to illuminate underrepresented students’ experiences and success in higher education. Austrian Journal of Sociology, 50(1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11614-025-00611-8
Lessky, F., Dollinger, M. (2025). An international comparison of graduate outcome survey instruments: a critical reflection. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360080X.2025.2491884
Lessky, F. (2024). First-in-Family students’ roots and routes into higher education: Familial dynamics as drivers for breaking intergenerational cycles of educational attainment. European Educational Research Journal. https://doi.org/10.1177/14749041241310058
Lessky, F., Freudhofmayer, S., Fellner, M., & Resch, K. (2024). Student civic engagement practices from an equity perspective: case studies from Austrian universities. In C. Stone & S. O'Shea (Eds.), Research Handbook on Student Engagement in Higher Education (pp. 302-315). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035314294.00032
Geppert, Corinna, Lessky, Franziska, Keser Aschenberger, Filiz. 2024. Drawing on Student Voices to Enhance (Online) Teaching in Academic Continuing Education. Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung, 19 (2), 41-62. https://doi.org/10.21240/zfhe/19-2/03