The Department of Education is delighted to welcome two new professors:
Learn more about their research work:
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Tobias Buchner
Professorship in Inclusive Education and Disability Studies at the Centre for Teacher Education and the Faculty of Philosophy and Education
My Research:
"My research is influenced by the social model of disability, according to which disability is not a medical category but a socially constructed one. Following this understanding, which originates from disability studies, my research focuses on the barriers to participation that exist for children and young people with disabilities in schools – and how these barriers can be broken down.
In my current studies, I am investigating how digital technologies can contribute to making education systems more inclusive – in Austria, Asian countries and the USA. The knowledge gained from this research is being incorporated into the "Inclusive Digital Education Lab", which I am privileged to be setting up at the University of Vienna."
Univ.-Prof. Roger Frie, PhD PhD
Professorship in Psychoanalysis and Education
My Research:
"My research bridges psychology and the humanities, and reflects my training in each field. I am concerned with the way in which we are unconsciously shaped by social forces, and how this impacts memory and responsibility in the aftermath of genocide and racial violence. My scholarship revolves around a series of questions: How do perpetrators and their descendants remember the crimes that were committed? Can the silence and silencing at work in perpetrator societies be broken? How do we learn to listen for voices that remain unheard and work toward progressive political change?
Drawing on the tradition of social psychoanalysis, I suggest that the well-being of the individual and the well-being of society are inherently related. I emphasize the centrality of social forces in human experience and elaborate the place of culture and society in contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice."
