Section: Work and Equal Opportunities

Function: Researcher

Contact:

• Phone: ++43-1-495 04 42 / 77
• Fax: ++43-1-495 04 42 / 40
• Email: kkoller@zsi.at

Publications:

• Social Innovation as Valuation and Outcome Category of SNSF-funded Research (2023-03-21) (Primary Author)
• Identifying bias in self-reported pro-environmental behavior (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 ist seit Juli 2021 wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Bereich "Arbeit und Chancengleichheit" am ZSI. Sie hat einen MSc in Psychologie von der Universität Amsterdam und einen BA in Politikwissenschaft von der Universität Wien. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte konzentrieren sich auf Inklusions- und Exklusionsprozesse, sozialwissenschaftliche Umwelt- und Klimaforschung, sowie quantitative Methoden und Fragebogenkonstruktion. Sie ist geübt in qualitativen und quantitativen Methoden, mit einem besonderen Fokus auf experimentelle Forschungsdesigns. Zudem ist sie aktiv in der Open Science Bewegung.

Katharina Koller holds an MSc in Psychology from the University of Amsterdam and a BA in Political Science from the University of Vienna. She joined ZSI in July 2021 at the department of “Work and Equal Opportunities”. Her research focuses on processes of social exclusion and inclusion, environmental social science, as well as quantitative methods and scale validation. She is experienced in both qualitative and quantitative methods with a focus on experimental designs. She is also involved in the Open Science movement.

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)
• 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 me on Researchgate and ORCID. 

Participation at events:

• 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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