Overview

Key features

Knowledge and technologies are deeply intertwined with the ways we live in the world. How we communicate, move, work and care for our health - all this is constantly changing through new scientific and technological options. However, new techno-scientific possibilities also challenge existing value structures and ways of living, which leads to societal debates about risks, ethics and social justice.

At the same time, science and technology are not untouched by the societal environment they are part of. Socio-economic expectations and broader imaginaries of techno-scientific futures are part and parcel of contemporary research cultures, and influence how knowledge is produced and innovations are made.

Career:

Graduates of the Science - Technology - Society programme at University of Vienna are qualified for a career at the interface between science, technology and society in a variety of different contexts. They are well-prepared for an academic career in the context of Austrian and international PhD programmes and have excellent job opportunities in the following fields:

• research communication
• national and international research funding organisations, research policy and research management
• as well as companies and NGOs that work at the interface between science, technology and society