Katharina Koller, BSc BA MSc
Section: Technology and Knowledge
Function: Researcher
Contact:
- Phone: ++43-1-495 04 42 / 77
- Fax: ++43-1-495 04 42 / 40
- Email: kkoller@zsi.at
Publications:
- Mini Data Sprints for data validity and climate conversations (2024)
- Zukunft Hochschule „Kooperationen.Räume.Perspektiven“ (2024) (Primary Author)
- Co-designing pilot games with citizens and policy stakeholders to increase climate action (2024)
- Social Innovation as Valuation and Outcome Category of SNSF-funded Research (2023-03-21) (Primary Author)
- Evaluating Participatory Video as a Tool for Digital Learning (2023) (Primary Author)
- Identifying bias in self-reported pro-environmental behavior (2023) (Primary Author)
- Forschungsvielfalt: Bessere Rahmenbedingungen gewünscht! (2023) (Primary Author)
- Ergebnisse der Evaluierung zum Förderprogramm "Social Crowdfunding" (2022)
- Report on the Situation of Young Adults not in Employment, Education, or Training (2022)
Work and research focus:
Katharina Koller is a social scientist with a background in Psychology (BSc and MSc) as well as Political Science (BA). Currently, she is also enrolled as a doctoral student at the University of Vienna working on game-based approaches to understanding and promoting public engagement with climate change in the context of the ZSI project GREAT (funded by Horizon Europe).
Katharina’s main research interests lie in environmental social science and climate change engagement, social inclusion, and methodology and statistics. Since joining ZSI in August 2021, she has additionally been working on social innovation in academia, impact evaluation, and OPEN RRI using quantitative, qualitative, and participatory methods.
Running and completed projects:
- GREAT - Games Realising Effective and Affective Transformation (in societal and cultural domains) (2023)
- PATTERN - Piloting open and responsible Activities and Trainings Towards the Enhancement of Researchers Networks (2023, project leader)
- NEVERMORE - New Enabling Visions and tools for End-useRs and stakeholders thanks to a common MOdeling fRamework towards a climatE neutral and resilient society (2022)
- Befragung unter den Unterstützer:innen der Initiative: Forschungsvielfalt (2022)
- Kooperationen öffentlicher Universitäten und Fachhochschulen (2022)
- Lost Millennials - Lost Millennials - Transnational research network for the evaluation of initiatives targeting 25+ NEETs (2021)
- Evaluation: Pflege und Betreuung für Kinder mit komplexen Erkrankungen (2021)
- Assessment of the "Social Crowdfunding" pilot (2021)
- SIVOCS - Social Innovation as Valuation and Outcome Category of SNSF Funded Research (2021)
- Climatubers - Climatubers - Influencers for Change (2021)
- TAAFE - Towards an Alpine Age - Friendly Environment (2019)
- Danube Chance 2.0 - Embracing failure to facilitate second-chance entrepreneurship in the Danube region (2018)
Other Publications:
Find Katharina on Researchgate and ORCID.
Participation at events:
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Transforming Climate Policy Engagement with Role-Playing Games
- Online
26. 09. 2024 - 27. 09. 2024 -
Game on: Exploring Game-Based Tools for Citizen Engagement in Climate Research and Policy
03. 04. 2024 - 06. 04. 2024 -
Game-based research for climate change: Presentation at the APA Division 34 conference
- Online
19. 10. 2023 - 20. 10. 2023 -
Modelling behavioral change for analysing degrowth pathways in Integrated Assessment Models
29. 08. 2023 - 02. 09. 2023 -
Forschungsvielfalt
- The Social Hub, Auditorium, Nordbahnstraße 47, 1020 Wien
20. 06. 2023 - 20. 06. 2023 -
Presenting the Participatory Video method at the 2023 Sustainability Psychology conference
- Online
22. 02. 2023 - 22. 02. 2023 -
Early Career Research Conference
- Sozialforschungsstelle Dortmund
21. 09. 2022 - 23. 09. 2022
Education and career:
2021 - today: Researcher at Centre for Social Innovation
2020 - 2021: Research Assistant at the University of Amsterdam
2020 - 2021: Research Intern at the department of Social Psychology at the University of Amsterdam
2019 - 2021: Events Team member at the Student Initiative for Open Science
2019 - 2021: MSc Research Master's Psychology at the University of Amsterdam
2019 - 2021: Self-employed Academic Consultant
2017 - 2019: Research Assistant at Institut für Jugendkulturforschung
2015 - 2019: BA Political Science at the University of Vienna
2015 - 2017: Research Assistant for qualitative and quantitative methods at Sigmund Freud University
2014 - 2017: BSc Psychology at Sigmund Freud University Vienna
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