Registration of the Topic and Supervision

Step 1: Selection of Topic and Supervisor at the Department

Twice per year (March, October), the programme coordinator offers a matchmaking between supervisors and students to assure the ideal allocation of supervisors to student topics. Information about this is sent out in the given months via e-mail.

 

 

 

 

Once you have received this information, please send the following details within the given timeframe to: master.demography@univie.ac.at

  1. first abstract of your intended thesis (max. 150 words),
  2. your main research question,
  3. names of two preferred supervisors (1st choice, 2nd choice) from the list provided.

Within three weeks, you will be informed if your topic is accepted, and which supervisor will take over the supervision.

These supervisors are currently available for new thesis projects:

Eva Beaujouan Fertility and family, late fertility, reproduction
Qi Cui Mathematical modelling, formal demography, fertility, and mortality
Paola Di Giulio Demographic Challenges in Health, Ageing, Family and Fertility Trends
Marc Luy Population ageing, life expectancy, healthy life years
Michaela Potancokova International migration, internal migration, contribution of migrants to population dynamics, demographic change in migrant populations, human capital and migration
Erich Striessnig The macro-economic returns to education, carbon footprint of childbearing, intergenerational transmission of environmental attitudes, (grand-)parenthood and "generativity", population projections, European identity under the Demographic Metabolism, education-specific assortative mating
Dilek Yildiz integrating multiple data sources using Bayesian statistics (migration, fertility, or mortality), Machine Learning models for demographic research, predicting/estimating characteristics of migrants (internal or international), building migrant composition scenarios for future

Step 2: Meeting with the Supervisor and Writing of the Master Thesis Exposé

Once your topic has been accepted by a supervisor, you will have to arrange a meeting with your supervisor to discuss the intended research questions and to sign the form "Notification of Master Thesis Topic and Supervisor". 

The topic of the master thesis and the research questions need to be formulated in a way that the master's thesis can be completed within 6 months.

Please find the guidelines for writing an exposé here.

Step 3: Approval of Topic and Supervisor by the SSC

Please submit the following documents master.demography@univie.ac.at within the given timeframe:

  1. exposé
  2. signed copy of the form "Notification of Master Thesis Topic and Supervisor", signed by you and your supervisor.
  3. signed copy of the form "Regulations Relating to Good Scientific Practice".

Once the StudiesServiceCentre (SSC) sends the approval of the topic and the supervisor, you can officially start writing your master’s thesis. Currently, according to study law, there is no deadline for submitting the thesis within a specific timeframe, but we strongly recommend sticking to 6 months.