Clara Holzinger is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Social Research at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business. She currently leads the ESPRIT project “A comparative analysis of language regimes in NPOs” funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).  The research project investigates how multilingualism is handled in public institutions and non-profit organisations in Vienna.Before joining WU Vienna, Clara was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna and a visiting research fellow at the University of Bath (UK). She has held teaching positions at the University of Vienna, the Technical University of Vienna, the Diplomatic Academy Vienna, the Postgraduate Centre of the University of Vienna, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and Webster Vienna Private University. She is an elected member of the section councils “Migration and Racism Research” and “Social Inequalities” of the Austrian Sociological Association.

Clara holds a PhD in Social Sciences (2023) from the University of Vienna. Her PhD thesis on street-level bureaucracy in the context of societal multilingualism received the Theodor Körner Prize and the Danubius Young Scientist Award. Clara studied Sociology, German as a foreign and second language, and History at the University of Vienna, Sorbonne-Paris IV (France), Universitat de Barcelona (Spain), and the University of Sydney (Australia).

Her main areas of research include migration, societal multilingualism, street-level bureaucracy, work/labour, linguicism, racism, and multilingual qualitative methods.

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