SPACE researcher wins renowned FWF prize

SPACE project leader Stephan Pühringer wins the renowned FWF START-prize Following the good news from last week, we are pleased to announce that SPACE project leader Stephan Pühringer has been awarded the renowned START Award for outstanding young researchers by the Austrian Science Fund FWF. In his START project SETER, Stephan will identify approaches to […]

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SPACE researchers win ÖAW grant

SPACE researchers win ÖAW Doc-Team Fellowship We are excited to announce that SPACE researchers Susanna Azevedo from the University of Vienna and Theresa Hager and Laura Porak from the Institute for Comprehensive Analysis of the Economy at JKU Linz have been awarded the Doc Team Fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). Over the […]

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SPACE in the media: Competition in Academia

SPACE researcher Stephan Pühringer was invited in the Podcast “Aus dem Elfenbeinturm” to talk about competition in Academia SPACE reseracher Stephan Pühringer was a guest recently on the Podcast “Aus dem Elfenbeinturm: Arbeiten und Leben in der Wissenschaft” to talk about competition in Academia, the precarious situation of (young) scholars and the relationship of science […]

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New Working Paper: The Field of Nonprofit Housing Developers in Vienna

“The Field of Nonprofit Housing Developers in Vienna: A Descriptive Account.” by Litschauer, Altreiter and Kumnig In this paper, SPACE reserachers Katharina Litschauer, Carina Altreiter & Sarah Kumnig present descriptive data on the Vienna housing market. Nonprofit housing has a long tradition in Vienna and nonprofit developers have a major impact on the housing market. […]

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New Working Paper: Competitive Performativity of (Academic) Social Networks

“Competitive Performativity of (Academic)Social Networks: The subjectivation of Competition on ResearchGate, Google Scholar and Twitter” by Pühringer and Wolfmayr In this paper, SPACE researchers and project leaders Stephan Pühringer and Georg Wolfmayr, develop a better understanding of the explicit and implicit implications of the academic field’s competitization, with a specific focus on the role that […]

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