Myriam Gaitsch is a postdoctoral researcher and project collaborator in the FWF project “New Economy of Compassion and Affective Statehood: Volunteer Work in the Context of Food Banks and Social Supermarkets in Austria” (together with Brigitte Bargetz, Markus Griesser and Jessica Gassier) at the Department of Sociology and Empirical Social Research at the Vienna University of Economics and Business since 2025.

Research interests

• Labor market and social policy

• Digitalization and gender

• Feminist organizational research

• Statehood and emotions

Work, gender, and social inequality. She is currently focusing on affective methodologies and the emotional and affective dimensions of statehood, resistance, and volunteer work.
 

Short Biography

Before joining WU, Myriam Gaitsch worked at the University of Vienna (Department of Political Science). She is also currently a senior scientist at the Research and Advisory Center for the Working World (FORBA). She received her doctorate in 2022 from the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna. Prior to that, she studied social work, social policy, and religious studies at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and subsequently completed a master's degree in political science at the University of Geneva (Switzerland). Her teaching and research focus on processes of (welfare) state transformation, changes in work and gender regimes, digitalization, the humanization of work, and gender and social inequality. Her current research particularly explores affective methodologies as well as the emotional and affective dimensions of statehood, resistance, and volunteer work.

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