Elif Gül, BA MSc

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University of Vienna
Department of Education
Sensengasse 3a / Room 02.07
A-1090 Vienna

Phone: +43 1 4277 46718

E-Mail: elif.guel@univie.ac.at

Elif Gül, BA MSc

Since September 2021, Elif Gül has held the predoctoral position in Gender Studies at the Department of Education under the supervision of Prof. Sabine Grenz. Her dissertation project, situated at the intersection of Science and Technology Studies and Gender Studies, examines obstetric violence in Austrian hospitals and takes the form of a praxeography—that is, an ethnographic qualitative analysis of care practices within the hospital. The theoretical framework draws on material-semiotic approaches that help illuminate the network of violence.

Since July 2025, Elif has been a guest researcher with a Marietta Blau stipend at Humboldt University in Berlin. In April 2024, she was a visiting scholar at the University of Basel, and from September 2023 to April 2024 she was a project member in the Elisabeth List Fellowship at the University of Graz, working on the project “Reproductive Justice in the Context of Queer and Trans* Reproduction with Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART).”

In 2016, she completed her degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna, followed by a Master’s in Gender, Sexuality, and Society at the University of Amsterdam. Her master's thesis offers a social-scientific exploration of side effects of modern contraceptives, the mechanisms that legitimize them, and the ambivalent lived realities of users. Shortly thereafter, she began studying Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna and is writing about the (non-)production of contraceptives in relation to constructions of masculinity.

After her studies, Elif Gül worked as a research associate in the area of gender and diversity at the Austrian Society for Environment and Technology.

Elif Gül is also a sexuality educator and works with various Austrian organizations, engaging with children, adolescents, teachers, parents, and people with refugee experience.

Research Areas

  • Reproductive Justice
  • Birth Justice
  • Sexualities and Bodies
  • Feminist Science and Technology Studies
  • Contraceptives and femininity/Masculinity

Other Activities

Presentations at Conferences:

  • A praxiography of obstetric violence. Health care professionals' practices and perspectives. | Birthing, Mothering and Othering, University of Lausanne | 23.10.2025
  • Panel 39: Obstetric Violence, Care, and Technologies | with Rodante van der Waal | Medical Antrhopology Conference 2025 | University of Vienna | 19.09.2025
  • Mapping Power, violence, and abuse: Material Semiotics as a tool to map violence in medically assisted childbirth | STS HUB, Berlin 2025 | 13.03.2025
  • Reproduktive Gerechtigkeit für Alle? Verhütung für Menschen mit Spermien | ÖGGF Tagung | Universität Graz | 19.09.2024
  • Responsible ejaculations: thermal contraception for people producing sperm | EASTT/4S| University of Amsterdam | 17.07.2024
  • Reproductive Justice in the Context of Queer and Trans Reproduction | mit Doris Leibetseder & Caroline Hammer | University of Graz | 22.02.2024
  • The material-semiotics of violence during childbirth. An ethnography in Austrian hospitals. | Commoning Birth, Humboldt University Berlin | 30.06.2023
  • Birth justice and violence during childbirth. | 2nd International Gender for Excellence in Research Conference | 11.06.2023

Teaching

  • Birth Justice: On Obstetric Care, Violence, and Technologies: 240007 SE Seminar Individuelle Schwerpunktsetzung I (2024W)
  • Reproductive Justice, Care, and Technologies: 240118 SE Seminar Individuelle Schwerpunktsetzung I (2023S)
  • Exploring Sexuality/ies: 240005 SE Seminar Individuelle Schwerpunktsetzung II (2022W)

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EUCalculator: trade-offs and pathways towards sustainable and low-carbon European Societies: Lifestyle module documentation. Gül, Elif (Author); Waibel, Gina (Author); Costa, Luis (Author) et al.. 2019.

Publications: Electronic/multimedia output › Web publication

Yes she can: Stille Reserve Frauen – wie das Arbeitskräftepotenzialausschöpfen: Studie im Auftrag des BMDW. Gül, Elif (Author); Hausner, Beatrix (Author); Waibel, Gina (Author). 2019. Wien.

Publications: Electronic/multimedia output › Web publication

Between sexual freedom and restraint: a sociologicalstudy on the adverse effects of modern contraceptives. Master thesis. . / Gül, Elif.
Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press. 2017Masterarbeit / Master thesis.

Publications: Other publication › Other

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