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INCONEX_Call for student assistants_October 2025.pdfCall for Applications: Student Assistants for the INCONEX Project
Call for Applications: Student Assistants for the INCONEX Project
We are seeking student assistants (BA or MA level) to join our team as soon as possible. The weekly working hours are 10 hours (potentially up to 20 hours). Very good German and/or Spanish language skills are a prerequisite. The initial contract is for 3 months with the possibility of extension.
More info in the official call document: here
Welcome to our new PhDs!
Welcome to our new PhDs!
We are very delighted to welcome two new PhD students, Anna-Lotta Dechow and Oscar Mendoza Hernandez, to the INCONEX Team! Starting October 1st, they will strengthen our team's efforts to understand the politics of absence.
Over the coming years, we will together investigate how citizens and interests become absent from democratic representation, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
We warmly welcome them and wish them a fantastic start in the project!
ECPR General Conference 2025: Project Team Shares First Results from the INCONEX Project
ECPR General Conference 2025: Project Team Shares First Results from the INCONEX Project
The project team presented first results at the recent European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference 2025 in Thessaloniki. Lucy Kinski and Clint Claessen presented two papers during the conference on conceptualizing representative absence and on using text-as-data methods to capture the presence and absence of social groups in parliamentary debates.
Read the full conference report here.
Lucy Kinski elected to the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
Lucy Kinski elected to the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
Lucy Kinski has been elected as one of eight new members of the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). She joins an interdisciplinary network of already established and award-winning researchers under the age of 40. The new members of the academy received their certificates of membership from Academy President Dr. Heinz Faßmann on 15 May 2025 (pictured).
More information: Wahl-Salzburgerin ist eines der acht neuen Mitglieder für „Junge Akademie“ | SN.at
Picture (c) ÖAW
Sie deckt die blinden Flecken der Politik auf - Salzburger Nachrichten, 8. März 2025
Sie deckt die blinden Flecken der Politik auf - Salzburger Nachrichten, 8. März 2025
Zum Weltfrauentag porträtieren die SN zwei erfolgreiche Salzburger Forscherinnen. Eine von ihnen ist EU-Expertin Lucy Kinski.
Read the full article by Stefan Veigl in Salzburger Nachrichten here. Image (c) Stefan Veigl | SN
Vier Frauen, vier Mal Exzellenz - Salzburger Nachrichten, 18. Oktober 2024
Vier Frauen, vier Mal Exzellenz - Salzburger Nachrichten, 18. Oktober 2024
„Im politischen Prozess werden bestimmte Gruppen repräsentiert, während andere bewusst oder unbewusst abwesend gemacht werden", erklärt Kinski. „Abwesenheit ist der Kern der aktuellen Krise moderner Demokratien“, betont sie. Hätten Bürgerinnen und Bürger das Gefühl, Parteien würden ihre Interessen nicht vertreten, sinke das Vertrauen in politische Institutionen und in die Demokratie.
Read the full article by Theresa Steffner in Salzburger Nachrichten here.
Lucy Kinski erhält „ERC Starting Grant“ für Spitzenforschung zur Politik der Abwesenheit
Lucy Kinski erhält „ERC Starting Grant“ für Spitzenforschung zur Politik der Abwesenheit
Die Politikwissenschaftlerin Dr. Lucy Kinski vom Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies (SCEUS) und Fachbereich Politikwissenschaft der Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg (PLUS) hat für ein innovatives Forschungsprojekt einen „ERC Starting Grant“ in der Höhe von 1,5 Millionen Euro für fünf Jahre erhalten.
Read the full article on the website of the Paris Lodron University Salzburg.
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