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Faculty of Social Sciences

As of January 2022, the Paris Lodron University Salzburg (PLUS) has six faculties. This academic structural reform also saw the emergence of two independent faculties from the former Faculty of Cultural and Social Sciences: The Faculty of Social Sciences and the Faculty of Humanities.

The Faculty of Social Sciences includes the departments of Educational Research, History, Communication Studies, Philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities, Political Science, and Sociology and Human Geography.

The faculty facilitates central social developments and problems from a scientific and critical perspective, focusing on topics such as Europe/the EU, democracy/democratisation, digitalisation, migration and social sustainability.

Dean: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Martin Knoll

“The faculty’s thematically broad and multidisciplinary research is committed to empirical approaches, whereby quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods are applied. Faculty members are committed to the expansion of the Digital Humanities and are active in interdisciplinary focal points, the University’s research centres or in internationally high-ranking collaborative research projects (e.g. ERC project Trade Power),” says Dean Martin Knoll.

Courses offered are based on the main areas of research. Another focus of the teaching profile is the Teacher Training Programme.

Facts & Figures

Research and teaching staff:                          181.7 employees

Professorships and equivalents:                     53.6

Programme/student uptake:                           3,960

Locations:

                                • Faculty of Social Sciences, Rudolfskai 42 (Departments of History, Communication Studies, Political Science, Sociology and Human Geography)
                                • Unipark (Faculty Office, Department of Educational Research)
                                • City Centre/Wallistrakt (Department of Philosophy at the GW)
                                • Campus Freisaal (Human Geography)

 

(Data and figures are based on the winter semester 2021/22.)


Link to the Faculty: www.plus.ac.at/gesellschaftswissenschaftliche-fakultaet/?lang=en

 

GW Fakultät | Rudolfskai 42

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Martin Knoll

Dean

Paris Lodron University Salzburg | Faculty of Social Sciences

Rudolfskai 42 | A-5020 Salzburg

Tel: +43 662 8044 8001

Email to Univ.-Prof. Dr. Martin Knoll

Photo: © Kay Müller