Kick-off event

The Health in Society Research Network introduced itself:

  • Thursday, 5 June 2025, 17:00 
  • WUK Projektraum, Währinger Straße 59, 1090 Wien

The event was barrier-free accessible via the Severingasse entrance and was held in English.

This was our kick-off event

Programme

Moderation: Veronika Siegl, Senior Scientist of the research network

 

17:00 

Greetings
Manuela Baccarini, Vice Rector of the University of Vienna

The Health in Society Research Network
Janina Kehr and Robert Böhm, Co-Directors of the research network

Science Slam
with members of the research network:

  • Laura König, Department of Clinical and Health Psychology: Participating in studies could improve your life – and that's not always a good thing
  • Sonja Kunz, Department of Occupational, Economic, and Social Psychology: Healthy eating sucks! Or does it?
  • Harald Schöny, Department of Analytical Chemistry: The secrets of your body. How your metabolism reacts to life's demands
  • Karl Stöger, Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law: No hospital beds for the neighbours?

 

18:00 Uhr

Free choice of programme items & stations:

  • Installationen Art & Science/Third Mission by members of the research network:
    • Kathrin Karsay, Department of Communication: Health Influencers on Social Media
    • Janina Kehr, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology: Imploding Dialysis
    • Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Department of English and American Studies: Living with Invisible Illness
    • Veronika Siegl, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology: Ten Months. Surrogacy in Russia
  • Serious Game The Health Race
  • Age Simulation with the Wiener Gesundheitsverbund/Campus Leopoldstadt
  • Networking with snacks and drinks