Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Veronika Wöhrer
Professorship for Education and Inequality at the Faculty of Philosophy and Education
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Curriculum Vitae:
1994-2001 Diploma studies in sociology and selected subjects (political science, philosophy, women's studies, Slavic studies) at the University of Vienna
2000 Research stay at the Comenius University Bratislava
2001-2007 Doctoral studies in sociology at the University of Vienna
2002 Research semester at the Charles University in Prague
2003-2004 Praedoc Fellow of the Marie Curie Program of the European Commission "Building on the Past. European Doctorate in the Social History of Europe and the Mediterranean" at the Institute of Ethnology at the Slovak Academy of Sciences.
2006-2009 Research assistant at the Institute for Science Studies at the University of Vienna as part of the EU STREP project "KNOWING - Knowledge, Institutions and Gender: an East-West Comparative Study"
2007-2015 Senior Scientist and scientific project manager at Science Communications Research (Vienna)
2007-2009 Co-director of the WWTF research project "Science with All Senses - Gender in the Making"
2008-2010 Head of the "Sparkling Science" research project "Tricks of the Trade - field research with school students"
2013-2016 Head of the "Sparkling Science" research project "Border crossings - field research with pupils"
2010-2014 Research assistant (postdoc) at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Freiburg
2011 Visiting Fellowship at the School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (IND)
2013 Visiting Fellowship at the Rutgers State University of New Jersey (USA)
WS 2014/15 Visiting Professor at the Institute for Pedagogical Professionalization at the University of Graz
2016 Marie Jahoda Scholarship from the University of Vienna
2017-2018 Professor for Learning and Educational Processes with Special Consideration of Gender Research at the Institute for Pedagogical Professionalization at the University of Graz
2018-2020 University assistant (postdoc) at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Vienna
since January 2020 Head of the Austrian case study of the EU research project "Co-designing Citizen Social Science for Collective Action (CoAct)"
since September 2020 Professor of Education and Inequality at the Department of Education at the University of Vienna
Research areas:
* Intersectional approach to education and inequality in schools, universities and extracurricular educational institutions
* Gender studies
* Participatory research
* Qualitative methods
"Asking questions about inequalities in the education system is essential in order to improve educational processes and educational institutions. I am particularly dedicated to the perspectives of those children and young people who are not necessarily among the winners in our education system. Because their voices and their ideas can make a significant contribution to change." (Veronika Wöhrer)