Buchner, Tobias
Professorship in Inclusive Education and Disability Studies at the Centre for Teacher Education and the
Faculty of Philosophy and Education
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My Research
My research is influenced by the social model of disability, according to which disability is not a medical category but a socially constructed one. Following this understanding, which originates from disability studies, my research focuses on the barriers to participation that exist for children and young people with disabilities in schools – and how these barriers can be broken down.
In my current studies, I am investigating how digital technologies can contribute to making education systems more inclusive – in Austria, Asian countries and the USA. The knowledge gained from this research is being incorporated into the “Inclusive Digital Education Lab”, which I am privileged to be setting up at the University of Vienna.
Curriculum Vitae
- 2010-2014 Research assistant, Institute of Education, University of Vienna, Austria
- 2014 Visiting Fellow, School of Education, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
- 2015-2017 Senior researcher at queraum.kultur- und sozialforschung
- 2017-2019 Senior lecturer at the Institute of Education, University of Vienna
- 04/2019 – 09/2019 Visiting Professor for Inclusive Education, University of Halle/Germany
- 2019-2026 Professor of Inclusive Education, University of Education Upper Austria
- 2020/2021 Visiting Professor of Disability Studies and Inclusive Education at the Institute of Education, University of Innsbruck
- 2020-2026 Head of the Institute for Inclusive Education, University of Education Upper Austria
- since March 2026 Professor of Inclusive Education and Disability Research, University of Vienna