The previous departments of Sociology, Social Geography and Economic Geography have formed a joint department as part of the restructuring at the PLUS. This cross-faculty restructuring did not produce an obvious combination, but one that proved to be even more interesting.

The article “Decolonising Quantitative Methods Pedagogy: Teaching Contemporary Politics to Challenge Hierarchies from Data” by Dr Nadine Zwiener-Collins and her three co-authors has won the Jacqui Briggs Award for the best paper in the ‘Teaching and Learning’ section of the journal Politics.

A comprehensive structural reform at the Paris Lodron University Salzburg (PLUS) came into force at the beginning of 2022. The PLUS now consists of six faculties. The Faculty of Natural and Life Sciences has been given a new name, as it used to be called the Faculty of Natural Sciences.