Franziska Lessky

  • Higher Education Research
Senior Fellow

franziska.lessky@ihs.ac.at

Social Dimension in Higher Education

Educational Transitions and Pathways

Student Success, Equity and Graduate Employability

Student Engagement and Community Engagement in Higher Education

Precarity in Academia

Bild Franziska Lessky

  • Education

    • 2015 – 2021: PhD (Social and Economic Sciences, WU Vienna) (passed with distinction)
    • 2012 – 2015: MSc (Socioeconomics, WU Vienna) (passed with distinction)
    • 2008 – 2012: BA (Development Studies, University of Vienna)

    Work Experience

    • since 2022: Post Doc at the Department of Psychosocial Intervention and Communication Studies, University of Innsbruck
    • 2021-2022: Post Doc at the Department for Higher Education Research, University for Continuing Education Krems
    • 2021: Consultant for Higher Education, Austrian Chamber of Labour
    • 2015-2021: Research and Teaching Associate (prae doc) at the Education Sciences Group, Vienna University of Economics and Business

    Awards

    • 2022: Stephan-Koren-Prize for excellent dissertations
    • 2020: Award for Outstanding Research Achievements (WU Vienna)
    • 2020: Award for Outstanding Research Achievements (WU Vienna)
    • 2016: Dr. Maria-Schaumayer-Award for Master’s Thesis (Austrian Federal Reserve Bank [OeNB])

  • Find a complete list of publications here

    Lessky, Franziska. 2023. Studium als Balanceakt. Lebensführung von erwerbstätigen First-in-Family Studierenden. Wiesbaden: Springer. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-40359-1

    Lessky, Franziska; Nairz, Erna; Wurzer, Marcus. 2022. Social selectivity and gender-segregation across fields of study: comparative evidence from Austria. International Journal of Comparative Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/00207152221099171

    Lessky, Franziska; Unger, Martin. 2022. Working long hours while studying: a higher risk for First-in-Family students and students of particular fields of study?. European Journal of Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/21568235.2022.2047084

    Lessky, Franziska; Geppert, Corinna; Campbell, David F. J.; Pausits, Attila. 2022. Die Situation von (Nachwuchs-)Wissenschafter:innen an österreichischen Hochschulen. Ergebnisse einer Sonderauswertung der APIKS-Austria-Befragung. Studie im Auftrag der Arbeiterkammer. Schriftenreihe Weiterbildung und lebensbegleitendes Lernen, Krems (Edition Donau-Universität Krems). https://doi.org/10.48341/g28b-x777

    Posch, Katharina; Thaler, Bianca; Lessky, Franziska. 2021. Einflussfaktoren auf Studienerfolg: Heterogene Effekte nach Studienfachgruppe? Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung. 16 (4), 143–162. https://doi.org/10.3217/zfhe-16-04/08

    Lessky, Franziska; Nairz-Wirth, Erna; Feldmann, Klaus. 2021. Informational capital and the transition to university: First‐in‐family students' experiences in Austrian higher education. European Journal of Education. 56 (1), 27-40. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejed.12437

    Nairz-Wirth, Erna; O‘Shea, Sarah; Lessky, Franziska. 2021. Higher education access, participation and progression: Inequalities of opportunity. European Journal of Education. 56 (1), 3-8. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejed.12441

    01 / 2022: Visiting Researcher at Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institute of Education

    10 / 2021: Visiting Researcher at Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark

    03 / 2020: Visiting Researcher at Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institute of Education

    01 / 2019: Visiting Researcher at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), Institute of Education

    07 / 2018: Visiting Researcher at University of Wollongong (UOW), University of New South Wales (UNSW) und University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia