Section: Work and Equal Opportunities

Function: Researcher

Contact:

• Phone: ++43-1-495 04 42 / 63
• Fax: ++43-1-495 04 42 / 40
• Email: wolter@zsi.at

Work and research focus:

Stella Wolter studied Political Science (BA) and Cultural and Social Anthropology (BA) at the University of Vienna. In April 2021, she completed her Master's degree in "Cultural differences and transnational processes" at the University of Vienna with the thesis "Waiting, liminality and precarity: the experiences of asylum-seeking children in Austria". During her studies, she completed internships at the German Institute for Global Area Studies in Hamburg and the Goethe Institute Tawain. From 2019 she worked as a scientific project staff (prae doc) and coordinator in the EU-H2020 project "MiCREATE - migrant children and communities in a transforming Europe" at the University of Vienna under the supervision of Prof. Birgit Sauer. Besides, she also worked as a lecturer at the University of Vienna. Since 2022 she works as a research associate at the Center for Social Innovation (ZSI) and is a project evaluator at the social innovation award "SozialMarie". Stella Wolter publishes in peer-reviewed journals (e.g. Wiley, Taylor & Francis) and holds workshops on diversity, integration and migration (clients include OeAD, CESIE). Her current research topics include processes of inclusion and exclusion, intersectionality, migration, social innovations, social policy, statehood, collective identity, and qualitative empirical social research. She has skills in conducting interviews and focus groups, policy analysis, ethnography, surveys, evaluations, and workshops, and in using an art-based and child-centered approach.

Running and completed projects:

• FOR FREIGHT - Flexible, multi-mOdal and Robust FREIGHt Transport (2022)
• WeLaR - Welfare systems and labour market policies for economic and social resilience in Europe (2022)
• MSCAdvocacy - International Advocacy for the Strategic Alignment of MSCA Cooperation Mechanisms in Key Partner Countries and Regions (2022)
• Lost Millennials - Lost Millennials - Transnational research network for the evaluation of initiatives targeting 25+ NEETs (2021)
• Evaluation der Projekte des AK-Digitalisierungsfonds (2021)
• TAAFE - Towards an Alpine Age - Friendly Environment (2019)

Other Publications:

Wolter, S., Tatzber, R., Sauer, B. (2022). Waiting in the Austrian asylum system: The well-being of asylum-seeking children in a phase of liminality. Children & Society, 00, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12630

Dursun, A., Wolter, S., Liepold, M., Buschmann, D., Sauer, B. (forthcoming). Contested Integration: Hegemony Projects in the Field of Education in Austria. Taylor & Francis.

Cakir, A., Wolter, S., Liepold, M., Sauer, B. (2020). Intersectional contestations – the meaning of integration of ‚migrant‘ pupils in Austrian school. Koper, Annales. (https://zdjp.si/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/ASHS_30-2020-4_CAKIR.pdf)

Wolter, S., Liepold, M., Tatzber, R. (2022). Schulen als multikultureller Lebensraum: Ein Lehrerhandbuch. Micreate Project. Vienna, University of Vienna. (https://micreate.eu/wp-content/img/German%20manual%20for%20teachers%20OFFICIAL%2021.6.2022.pdf)

Wolter, S., Liepold, M., Tatzber, R. (2021). Case Study Report: Migrant Children in Transition (Micreate Project Report). (https://www.micreate.eu/wp-content/img/pdf/D8.1_SK.pdf)

Wolter, S., Liepold, M., Tatzber, R. (2021). National Report on Qualitative Research – Long Term Resident Migrant Children – Austria (Micreate Project Report).

Wolter, S., Liepold, M., Tatzber, R. (2021). National Survey Analysis – Newly Arrived Migrant Children, Long Term Resident Migrant Children, Local Children – Austria (Micreate Project Report). 

Cakir, A., Wolter, S., Liepold, M. (2020). National Report on Educational Community and School System: Austria (Micreate Project Report).

Dursun, A., Wolter, S., Liepold, M., Buschmann, D., Sauer, B. (2019). Snapshot of Good Practices for Integration of Migrant Children – Austria (Micreate Project Report). 

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