Assistant Professor Franziska Lessky, PhD

Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck
Institut für Psychosoziale Intervention und Kommunikationsforschung
Ágnes-Heller-Haus, Innrain 52 , A-6020 Innsbruck

Büro 07H010, 7. Stock

+43-512-507/44624

franziska.lessky@uibk.ac.at

Franziska Lessky is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Education at the University of Oxford, Assistant Professor at the University of Innsbruck, and Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies Vienna (IHS). She is passionate about educational pathways into, through and out of university, as well as careers in the graduate labour market and gender-related inequalities academia. Her teaching focuses on education, gender, social mobility, comparative education, qualitative and quantitative methodology as well as professionalization in higher education. Franziska has held positions as Guest professor at the Centre for Social Inequalities (CRIS) at Sciences Po in 2026 and as Adjunct Professor at the Australian Centre for Student Equity and Success (ACSES), based at Curtin University, Perth). She has received multiple awards, including the Stephan-Koren-Prize for excellent dissertations (Vienna University of Economics and Business). She is co-convenor of the Bourdieu Study Group of the British Sociological Association (BSA) and has served on the board of the German Society for Higher Education Research (GfHf). Furthermore, she is an Early Career Researcher Board Member of Higher Education Quarterly (HEQU) and a member of the Editorial Board of Journal for Higher Education Development.

Education

2023 – ongoing: Habilitation (Education, University of Innsbruck)
2015 – 2021: PhD (Social and Economic Sciences, WU Vienna) (summa cum laude)
2012 – 2015: MSc (Socioeconomics, WU Vienna) (passed with distinction)
2008 – 2012: BA (Development Studies, University of Vienna)

Work Experience

Since 2025: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Education, University of Oxford
Since 2023: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychosocial Intervention and Communication Studies, University of Innsbruck
Since 2023: Senior Fellow, Institute for Advances Studies Vienna (IHS)
2022 - 2023: Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Associate, Department of Psychosocial Intervention and Communication Studies, University of Innsbruck
2021-2022: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department for Higher Education Research, University for Continuing Education Krems
2021: Higher Education Consultant, Chamber of Labour Vienna
2015-2021: Research and Teaching Associate (prae doc), Education Sciences Group, Vienna University of Economics and Business

Resarch Visits

2026: Guest Professor and Visiting Fellow in Gender Studies, Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS), Siences Po
2025: Visiting Fellow, ACSES, Curtin University
2024: Visiting Scholar, Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS), Sciences Po
2024: Visiting Scholar, Charles Sturt University, University of Newcastle, Deakin University as part of the project „MpowerFiF – Empowering First-in-Family Students Transitioning into Graduate Employment“ (Early Stage Funding 2023)
2022: Visiting Researcher at Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institute of Education, Prof. Wernet
2021: Visiting Researcher at Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark
2020: Visiting Researcher at Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institute of Education, Prof. Wernet
2019: Visiting Researcher at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), Institute of Education, Prof. Thiersch
2018: Visiting Researcher at University of Wollongong (UOW), University of New South Wales (UNSW) und University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia

Awards

2024: Poster Prize, Annual Congress of the Austrian Society for Research and Development in Education (OeFEB)
2022: Stephan-Koren-Prize for excellent dissertations
2020: Award for Outstanding Research Achievements (WU Vienna)
2020: Award for Outstanding Research Achievements (WU Vienna)
2016: Dr. Maria-Schaumayer-Award for Master’s Thesis (Austrian Federal Reserve Bank [OeNB])

Grants

2025 - 2026: Gender Studies Visiting Faculty Programme 2025-2026, Sciences Po, Sum: € 4.000,-
2025 - 2026: Equitable Futures: Advancing Equity for Rural First-Generation University Learners in Australia and Austria, Network of Areas, University of Innsbruck, Sum: € 8.520,-
2024: ACSES Visiting Scholarship of Curtin University (Perth, Australia), Project: Does combining work and study ‘pay off’? Critically investigating graduate outcomes of students from equity groups, Sum: € 7.390,-
2023 - 2025: Early Stage Funding, Project: Empowering Fist-in-Family Students transitioning into Graduate Employment, Sum: 10.425€
2022: FWF-Grant for Stand-Alone Publications, Project: Study as a balancing act – Everyday life of working First-in-Family Students, project leader, Sum: 8.800€
2022: Austrian Chamber of Labour – Research fund, Project: The Situation of Early Career Scholars in Academia in Austria, project leader, Sum: 20.900€
2019: WU Research Group Meeting Grant, Sum: 2.700€
2018: WU High Potential Contact Weeks Grant, project leader, Sum: 3.000€
2018: WU Small Projects Grant (in cooperation with the higher education research group (HER) at the Institute of Applied Sciences (IHS), Vienna), project leader, Sum: 4.800€

Areas of expertise

Student Politics in Higher Education
Social Dimension and Student Equity in Higher Education
Educational Transitions
Student Success and Graduate Employability
Student Engagement and Community Engagement in Higher Education
Careers and Precarity in Academia

Current Research Projects

Does higher education politicise today’s students?(University of Oxford, University of Manchester, Durham University)
Equitable Futures: Advancing Equity for Rural First-Generation University Learners in Australia and Austria (in collaboration with Charles Sturt University)
Desirability and Careers in Academia (in collaboration with INCHER-Kassel, University for Continuing Education Krems and University of Toronto)
Working Experience and Labour Market Outcomes of First-in-Family Graduates (in collaboration with the Institute of Advanced Studies Vienna, IHS)

Equitable Futures: Advancing Equity for Rural First-Generation University Learners in Australia and Austria (principal investigator), funded by the University of Innsbruck (Network of Areas) (2025-2026)
MpowerFiF – Empowering Fist-in-Family Students transitioning into Graduate Employment (principal investigator), funded by the University of Innsbruck (2023-2024)
Job Satisfaction and Precarity in the Academic Profession. Secondary data analysis based on APIKS (principal investigator), funded by the Chamber of Labour Vienna (2022)
Continuing Education and COVID-19. Experiences of students, graduates and academics (2022-2024)
The Academic Profession in the Knowledge-Based Society– APIKS Austria (2021-2023)
Steering Higher Education for Community Engagement (SHEFCE), funded by the EU (2021-2023)
International Examples of innovative Higher Education Concepts (IBIS), funded by the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (2021)
Learning Hubs: Build Self-Directed Learners in Innovative Learning Environments, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (2017-2020)
Managing study and work – Exploring students’ experiences and analysing factors of study success (project leader), project partner: Higher Education Research at Institute of Advanced Studies Vienna (IHS) (2018-2019)
Developing lifelong learners through Individualized Learning, funded by the Chamber of Labour Vienna (2016-2017)

Google Scholar

ORCID

Journal Publications (peer-review)

Lessky, F., & Schiffecker, S. (2026). Academic identity crafting: How early-career women researchers in the United States and Austria form their professional identities. Research in Comparative and International Education, https://doi.org/10.1177/17454999261417858

Lessky, F., & Dollinger, M. (2025). An international comparison of graduate outcome survey instruments: a critical reflection. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360080X.2025.2491884

Lessky, F. (2025). Educational inequality and equitable transformation: Combining Bourdieu’s relational theory and the ‘conduct of everyday life’ concept to illuminate underrepresented students’ experiences and success in higher education. Österreichische Zeitschrift Für Soziologie, 50(1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11614-025-00611-8

Lessky, F., & Binder, D. (2025). Does Combining Work and Study ‘Pay Off’? Investigating Intersectional Effects of Term‐Time Employment, First‐Generation Status and Gender on Graduate Outcomes. Higher Education Quarterly, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.70046

Lessky, F. (2024). First-in-Family students’ roots and routes into higher education: Familial dynamics as drivers for breaking intergenerational cycles of educational attainment. European Educational Research Journal.https://doi.org/10.1177/14749041241310058

Geppert, Corinna; Lessky, Franziska; Keser Aschenberger, Filiz (2024): Drawing on Student Voices to Enhance (Online) Teaching in Academic Continuing Education. In: Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung 19/2, S. 41 - 62. http://dx.doi.org/10.21240/zfhe/19-2/03

Lessky, Franziska; Nairz, Erna; Wurzer, Marcus. 2022. Social selectivity and gender-segregation across fields of study: comparative evidence from Austria. International Journal of Comparative Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/00207152221099171

Lessky, Franziska; Unger, Martin. 2022. Working long hours while studying: a higher risk for First-in-Family students and students of particular fields of study?. European Journal of Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/21568235.2022.2047084

Posch, Katharina; Thaler, Bianca; Lessky, Franziska. 2021. Einflussfaktoren auf Studienerfolg: Heterogene Effekte nach Studienfachgruppe? Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung. 16 (4), 143–162. https://doi.org/10.3217/zfhe-16-04/08

Lessky, Franziska; Nairz-Wirth, Erna; Feldmann, Klaus. 2021. Informational capital and the transition to university: First‐in‐family students' experiences in Austrian higher education. European Journal of Education. 56 (1), 27-40. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejed.12437

Nairz-Wirth, Erna; O‘Shea, Sarah; Lessky, Franziska. 2021. Higher education access, participation and progression: Inequalities of opportunity. European Journal of Education. 56 (1), 3-8. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejed.12441

Heiser, Jan Christoph; Lessky, Franziska; Weiß, Sabine. 2021. Seamless Learning in einem bildungswissenschaftlichen Master-Seminar: Konzept und Umsetzung. Ludwigsburger Beiträge Zur Medienpädagogik. 21, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.21240/lbzm/21/09

Book Chapters

Schiffecker, S., Lessky, F., & Geppert, C. (2026). Gender Dimensions of Precarity in the Academic Job Market - A Comparative View of the United States and Austria. In J. McNaughtan & A. W. Wiseman (Eds.), The Emerald Handbook on International Higher Education: Navigating Workforce and Leadership Changes in a Digital Age (pp. 179–202). Emerald Publishing Limited. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83549-788-320251012

Lessky, F. (2025). „Wer entscheidet sich schon gern bewusst gegen die Familie?“: Passungsprozesse und familiale Distanzerfahrungen von First-in-Family-Studierenden. In E. Nairz-Wirth, K. Ledermüller, S. Weiß, B. Thaler, F. Lessky, M. Unger, & M. Fellner (Eds.), Transition and Transformation in Higher Education (pp. 283–302). Waxmann Verlag GmbH. https://doi.org/10.31244/9783830999867

Lessky, Franziska (2024): Qualifikation und Karriere der Wissenschaft. In: Geppert, Corianna; Paulits, Attila; Campbell, David; Reisky, Florian; Lessky, Franziska: Die akademische Profession in Österreich. Eine Analyse der APIKS-Austria-Erhebung. Münster - New York - München - Berlin: Waxmann, ISBN 978-3-8309-4609-0, S. 133 - 149. http://dx.doi.org/10.31244/9783830996095

Lessky, Franziska; Freudhofmayer, Sabine; Fellner, Magdalena; Resch, Katharina (2024): Student civic engagement practices from an equity perspective: case studies from Austrian universities. In: Stone, Cathy; O`Shea, Sarah: Research Handbook on Student Engagement in Higher Education. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, ISBN 9781035314287, S. 302 - 315. http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781035314294

Geppert, Corinna; Lessky, Franziska (2023): Innovation and Student Equity in Higher Education. In: Carayannis, Elias; Grigoroudis, Evangelos; Campbell, David; Katsikas, Sokratis: The Elgar Companion to Digital Transformation, Artificial Intelligence and Innovation in the Economy, Society and Democracy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar., S. 329 - 347.

Thaler, Bianca; Lessky, Franziska; Weiß, Sabine; Stransky-Can, Kajetan; Fellner, Magdalena; Freudhofmayer, Sabine; Bartok, Larissa; Petrik, Flora (2023): Junge Hochschulforschung (JuHoFo) in Österreich. Eine Case Study über Wege in die Hochschulforschung, den Dissertationsprozess und Zukunftsvorstellungen von jungen Hochschulforschenden. In: Pausits, Attila; Fellner, Magdalena; Gornik, Elke; Ledermüller, Karl; Thaler, Bianca: Uncertainty in Higher Education. Hochschulen in einer von Volatilität geprägten Welt. Münster - New York - München - Berlin: Waxmann (= Studienreihe Hochschulforschung Österreich, 4)., S. 149 - 166.

Gitschthaler, Marie; Lessky, Franziska; Nairz-Wirth, Erna. 2020. Selbstgesteuertes Lernen als Weg zur Stärkung von Partizipation und zur Verringerung von Dropout. In: Gerhartz-Reiter, Sabine; Reisenauer, Cathrin (Hrsg.): Partizipation und Schule: Perspektiven auf Teilhabe und Mitbestimmung von Kindern und Jugendlichen. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 271-290.

Monograph and Editorial

Lessky, F., & Romito, M. (2025). First-Generation Students in the post-pandemic university: Centring students’ experiences in moving towards a more inclusive higher education. European Educational Research Journal, 24(6), 691–695. https://doi.org/10.1177/14749041251386588

Nairz-Wirth, E., Ledermüller, K., Weiß, S., Thaler, B., Lessky, F., Unger, M., & Fellner, M. (Eds.). (2025). Transition and Transformation in Higher Education. Waxmann Verlag GmbH. https://doi.org/10.31244/9783830999867

Geppert, Corianna; Paulits, Attila; Campbell, David; Reisky, Florian; Lessky, Franziska (2024): Die akademische Profession in Österreich. Eine Analyse der APIKS-Austria-Erhebung. Münster - New York - München - Berlin: Waxmann. ISBN 978-3-8309-4609-0. http://dx.doi.org/10.31244/9783830996095

Lessky, Franziska; Karieva, Malika; Fellner, Magdalena; Pausits, Attila (2023): Politische Empfehlungen zur Stärkung des gesellschaftlichen Engagements an Hochschulen. Nationale und sektorenübergreifende Empfehlungen für das österreichische Hochschulsystem.

Lessky, Franziska. 2023. Studium als Balanceakt. Lebensführung von erwerbstätigen First-in-Family Studierenden. Reihe „Rekonstruktive Bildungsforschung“. Wiesbaden: Springer. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-40359-1

Lessky, Franziska; Geppert, Corinna; Campbell, David F. J.; Pausits, Attila. 2022. Die Situation von (Nachwuchs-)Wissenschafter:innen an österreichischen Hochschulen. Ergebnisse einer Sonderauswertung der APIKS-Austria-Befragung. Studie im Auftrag der Arbeiterkammer. Schriftenreihe Weiterbildung und lebensbegleitendes Lernen, Krems (Edition Donau-Universität Krems). https://doi.org/10.48341/g28b-x777

Pausits, Attila; Geppert, Corinna; Lessky, Franziska; Campbell, David. 2022. Internationale Beispiele innovativer Hochschulkonzepte, Darstellung von Konzepten zu Lehre, Curriculum und Studienzulassung/Studierendenrekrutierung. Schriftenreihe Weiterbildung und lebensbegleitendes Lernen, Krems: Edition Donau-Universität Krems.

Research Reports

Fellner, Magdalena; Lessky, Franziska; Pausits, Attila. 2021. Community Engagement at the University for Continuing Education Krems. Results of TEFCE Toolbox Implementation. Krems: University for Continuing Education Krems.

Nairz-Wirth, Erna; Feldmann, Klaus; Lessky, Franziska; Weiß, Sabine. 2020. „Lernbüro“ nach Rasfeld Evaluierung eines Schulversuchs. Bericht zur dritten Erhebungswelle unterstützt vom Verband der Technologinnen und Technologen. Wien: Abteilung für Bildungswissenschaft der Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien.

Lessky, Franziska. 2019. Eine empirische Studie zu studentischen Lebensarrangements von erwerbstätigen First-in-Family Studierenden. Abschlussbericht. Projekt gefördert im Rahmen der Kleinprojekte von WU-Assistent*innen und durchgeführt in Kooperation mit der Hochschulforschungsgruppe (HER) des Instituts für Höhere Studien (IHS). Wien: Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien.

Nairz-Wirth, Erna; Gitschthaler, Marie; Lessky, Franziska; Feldmann, Klaus. 2018. „Lernbüro nach Rasfeld“ Evaluierung eines Schulversuchs. Endbericht einer vergleichenden Fallstudie im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Forschung, zusätzlich unterstützt vom Verband der Technologinnen und Technologen. Wien: Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien.

Nairz-Wirth, Erna; Lessky, Franziska; Fraisl, Melanie. 2017. Evaluierung der modularen Oberstufe am Gymnasium Draschestraße. Ergebnisse einer vergleichenden Fallstudie. Studie im Auftrag der Arbeiterkammer Wien. Wien: Abteilung Bildungswissenschaft, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien.

Nairz-Wirth, Erna; Gitschthaler, Marie; Lessky, Franziska; Feldmann, Klaus. 2017. Evaluationsstudie zum Schulversuch Lernbüro nach Rasfeld. Schüler/innen zentrierte Lehr- und Lernformen: Auswirkungen auf selbstgesteuertes Lernen, Selbstwirksamkeit, Bildungs- und Berufserwartungen und Schulabbruch unter Berücksichtigung des geschlechterspezifischen und sozioökonomischen Einflusses. 2. Zwischenbericht. Wien: Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien.

Nairz-Wirth, Erna; Feldmann, Klaus; Gitschthaler, Marie; Lessky, Franziska. 2016. Evaluationsstudie zum Schulversuch Lernbüro nach Rasfeld. Schüler/innen zentrierte Lehr- und Lernformen: Auswirkungen auf selbstgesteuertes Lernen, Selbstwirksamkeit, Bildungs- und Berufserwartungen und Schulabbruch unter Berücksichtigung des geschlechterspezifischen und sozioökonomischen Einflusses. 1. Zwischenbericht. Wien: Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien.

Mandl, Sylvia; Lessky, Franziska; Chiari, Sybille; Völler, Sonja. 2015. Klimawandel & Kommunikation. Online-Befragung von Jugendlichen. Ergebnisse aus Arbeitspaket 3 des Projektes AUTreach. Wien: Österreichisches Institut für Nachhaltige Entwicklung.

Lessky, Franziska; Seiderer, Annika; Wimmer, Bianca; Winkler, Birgit. 2014. Mobilitätstypen in der Centrope-Region. Einflüsse sozioökonomischer und personenspezifischer Merkmalskombinationen auf die Ausprägung spezifischer Einstellungen zu Mobilität. Wien: Forschungs- und Beratungsstelle Arbeitswelt (FORBA) und Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (WU).

Media (selected)

Lessky, Franziska; Dollinger, Mollie; Crawford, Nicole (2025): Balancing study with work: exploring the 'payoff' for students.Needed Now in Learning and Teaching.

Lessky, Franziska; Dollinger, Mollie: Reimagining Graduate Success: Why our metrics matter. Future Campus, 27.05.2025.

Lessky, Franziska (2024): Die Ersten an der Uni. zukunft forschung - Magazin für Wissenschaft und Forschung der Universität Innsbruck.

Lessky, Franziska; Katharina, Resch. 2022. To tackle inequality, look closer at student experiences.University World News, 26.03.2022.

Lessky, Franziska. 2021. Studienerfolg und Erwerbstätigkeit dürfen kein Widerspruch sein!. A&W Blog, 08.06.2021.

Invited Talks (selected)

Lessky, Franziska: Unpacking persistence of first-generation students at universities in Australia, Austria, Ireland and the UK. University of Oxford, Oxford, 20.01.2026.

Lessky, Franziska: Educational inequality and equitable transformation. American Educational Research Association (AERA), 29.08.2025.

Lessky, Franziska: First-in-Family students combining work and study: Does it ‘pay off’? University of Vienna, Wien, 20.08.2025.

Lessky, Franziska: Good job or bad job? The impact of term-time employment in equity students' persistence and success in higher education. Curtin University, Perth, 12.06.2025.

Lessky, Franziska: Access to and Retention in Higher Education: Illuminating First-in-Family Students' Experiences at University. Durham University, Durham, 05.02.2025.

Lessky, Franziska: Roots and routes into higher education: Exploring familial dynamics and how they shape First-in-Family students’ pathways to university. Newcastle University, Newcastle, 27.02.2024.

Conference Presentations (selected)

Lessky, Franziska: Educational inequality and equitable transformation: Illuminating First-in-Family students' pathways to higher education. Psychosocial Dynamics of Habitus: Stasis, Conflict and Change (Workshop), Södertörn, 10.12.2025.

O’Shea, Sarah; Lessky, Franziska; Patfield, Sally: Challenging the discourse: The importance of ‘mantras’ for persisting first in family students. SRHE International Conference 2025 - Compassion, collegiality and communities in higher education: challenging the discourse, Nottingham, 03.12.2025.

Scheid, Claudia; Lessky, Franziska: Bildungstheoretisch ausgewertete Analysen von Studierendeninterviews im Kontext von Bildungsaufstieg und dahinterliegenden Bildungsorientierungen. Fachtagung "Bildungsprozessen auf der Spur: Welche Beitrag kann die Erziehungswissenschaft zur Hochschulforschung leisten?, Innsbruck, 22.11.2025.

Lessky, Franziska: Combining Bourdieu’s relational theory and the ‘conduct of everyday life’ concept to illuminate university students' experiences. BSA Bourdieu Study Group Mid Term International Conference, Wien, 03.09.2025.

Lessky, Franziska: Combining Work and Study – Does it ‘pay off’? HERDSA 2025 Annual Conference, Boorloo, 10.07.2025.

Lessky, Franziska: “We’ve got a bit of a family mantra that you don’t give up”: First-in-Family students’ mantras and persistence at university. Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Conference 2024, Sydney, 02.12.2024.

Lessky, Franziska: Student civic engagement practices from an equity perspective – Case studies from Austrian universities. EPHEA Conference 2024, Auckland, 19.11.2024.

Götze, Nicolai; Lessky, Franziska; Bär, Sullyvan; Pausits, Attila; Schneijderberg, Christian: Excellence at the cost of equity? A comparative study of social selectivity in academic careers. Academy after knowledge society and the future of academic profession, Lapland, 26.10.2024.

Lessky, Franziska: Investigating Equity Students’ Experiences of Term-Time Employment and Critically Reflecting Upon Its Implications for Future WIL. The Australian Collaborative Education Network Conference (ACEN) 2024, Sydney, 22.10.2024.

Lessky, Franziska; Binder, David: Bonus or Burden: Investigating effects of combining work and study on graduate outcomes. HoFoNa-Tag 2024 im Rahmen der 19. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Hochschulforschung (GfHf), Hagen, 24.09.2024.

Lessky, Franziska; Jefferson, Alison; Geppert, Corinna; Götze, Nicolai: Exploring the Impact of the Research-Teaching Nexus on Academics' Job Satisfaction: A Comparative Study in Canada, Germany and Austria. The Annual Canadian Sociological Association (CSA) Conference, 2. Virtual session, 19.06.2024 (Online).

Lessky, Franziska: Roots and Routes into Higher Education: Exploring Familial Dynamics and How They Shape First-in-Family Students' Perceptions of University. The Annual Canadian Sociological Association (CSA) Conference 2024, 1. Virtual sessions, 07.06.2024 (Online).

Lessky, Franziska: Working with Bourdieu and Beyond to Explore First-in-Family Students’ Perceptions of University in Austria. 3. International Conference of the journal “Scuola Democratica”, Cagliari, 06.06.2024.

Lessky, Franziska: Roots and routes into higher education: Exploring familial dynamics and how they shape First-in-Family students’ pathways to university. Newcastle University, Newcastle, 27.02.2024.

Keser-Aschenberger, Filiz Co-AutorInnen: Geppert, Corinna; Lessky, Franziska: How should Teaching in a Post-Pandemic University look like? Students' perceptions on online-teaching in Academic Continuing Education. The European Higher Education Society (EAIR) Forum, Linz, 05.09.2023.

Lessky, Franziska Co-AutorInnen: Götze, Nicolai; Jefferson, Alison Elisabeth; Geppert, Corinna; Schneijderberg, Christian: The desirability of an academic career – a cross-country comparison. Conference Academic Profession in a Knowledge Society (APIKS), Krems, 02.09.2023.

Lessky, Franziska Co-AutorInnen: Fellner, Magdalena; Freudhofmayer, Sabine; Resch, Katharina: Student Engagement Practices from a Student Equity Perspective – Case Studies from Austria. ECER 2023 EERA, Glasgow, 24.08.2023.

Lessky, Franziska: Term-time Employment and Student Retention - First-in-Family Students’ Perceptions of Going to University and Working While Studying. ECER 2023 EERA, Glasgow, 22.08.2023.

Lessky, Franziska; Bartok, Larissa; Petrik, Flora; Weiß, Sabine; Fellner, Magdalena; Thaler, Bianca; Stransky-Can, Kajetan; Freudhofmayer, Sabine: Becoming a researcher in higher education studies: Exploring the Pathways of Early Career Researchers in Austria. 4. Konferenz des Netzwerks Hochschulforschung Österreich Transition and Transformation in Higher Education, Wien, 06.07.2023.

Jefferson, Alison E.; Geppert, Corinna; Lessky, Franziska: Understanding Precarity Through the Lens of the Privileged: Professorial Perceptions of Academic Career. AERA Annual Meeting 2023, Chicago, 14.04.2023.

Lessky, Franziska. 2022. Studienerfolg von First-in-Family Studierenden im Kontext familialer Beziehungsstrukturen. 17. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Hochschulforschung (GfHf), Wien, 15.09.2022.

Geppert, Corinna; Lessky, Franziska; Pausits, Attila; Reisky, Florian. 2022. Research at University Colleges of Teacher Education, EAIR Forum, Malta, 06.09.2022.

Lessky, Franziska; Geppert, Corinna. 2022. University Colleges for Teacher Education - The Long Way from a Teacher Training Centre to a Research Centre, European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Yerevan (Armenia), 24.08.2022.

Lessky, Franziska; Bär, Sullyvan; Götze, Nicolai; Pausits, Attila; Reisky, Florian; Schneijderberg, Christian. 2022. Who participates where? Stratification in higher education and social and gender-related inequalities in the academic profession – Comparative Evidence from Germany and Austria. APIKS Conference, Aveiro (Portugal)

Lessky, Franziska. 2021. Students' experiences during the pandemic - Empirical evidence from Austria. SRHE International Research Conference, 10.12.2021.

Lessky, Franziska. 2021. Übergänge von First-in-Family Studierenden an die Universität. HOFO-Konferenz, Uncertainty in Higher Education: Hochschulen in einer von Volatilität geprägten Welt, 19.10.2021.

Lessky, Franziska, Nairz-Wirth, Erna, Wurzer, Marcus. 2021. Gender and socio-economic segregation across teacher training programs – comparative evidence from Austria. CIES Conference (Comparative & International Education Society), Seattle/online, Vereinigte Staaten/USA, 25.04.-02.05.

Lessky, Franziska. 2020. Reconstructing everyday life of First-in-Family university students by applying a hermeneutical approach. EARLI SIG Conference (European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction; SIG 17 - Methods in Learning Research), Vienna, Austria, 08.09.-10.09.

Lessky, Franziska; Nairz-Wirth, Erna; Wurzer, Marcus. 2020. Social and Gender-related Inequalities Manifested in Choice of Fields of Study. A Comparative Perspective on Teacher Training Programs. European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Glasgow, UK, 24.08.-28.08 (Conference canceled).

Lessky, Franziska; Unger, Martin. 2019. Being the first in the family attending university and working term-time – Do these characteristics make you a student at risk? European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Hamburg, Germany, 02.09.-06.09.

Nairz-Wirth, Erna; Lessky, Franziska. 2019. Self-Regulated Learning - Disengagement and Dropping-Out. Symposium "Contributing to Better Learning Opportunities and a Better School Environment: Research into students’ school alienation and disengagement". European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Hamburg, Germany, 02.09.-06.09.

Lessky, Franziska. 2018. How to succeed against the odds? Study-work-balances of first-in-family students. European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Bolzano, Italy, 03.09.-07.09.

Lessky, Franziska. 2018. Negotiating everyday life as a student: Exploring how First-in-Family students arrange study, employment and other life-domains. CHERII seminar (Centre of Higher Education Research, Innovation and Impact), University of Wollongong, Australia, 27.07.

Lessky, Franziska. 2018. Study-work-balances of First-in-Family students in Austria. Poster presented at STARS Conference 2018 (Students Transitions Achievement Retention & Success), Auckland, New Zealand, 08.07.-11.07.

Organising of conferences and workshops

Groder, Michaela; Lessky, Franziska; Münte, Peter; Scheid, Claudia: Organisation, Fachtagung "Bildungsprozessen auf der Spur: Welche Beitrag kann die Erziehungswissenschaft zur Hochschulforschung leisten?, Innsbruck, Österreich, 21.11.2025 - 22.11.2025.
Lessky, Franziska; Petrik, Flora; Wöhrer, Veronika: Organising and Scientific Committee, BSA Bourdieu Study Group Mid Term International Conference, Wien, Österreich, 03.09.2025 - 05.09.2025.
Lessky, Franziska; Petrik, Flora; Ingram Nicola: Convenors Panel “Understanding the nuances of first-generation students’ experiences from a Bourdieusian Perspective – Challenges and Opportunities”, 3. International Conference of the journal “Scuola Democratica”, Cagliari, Italy, 03.06.2024 - 06.06.2024.
Lessky, Franziska; Peksen, Sude; Lüchtefeld, Laura: Organisation, HoFoNa-Tag 2024 im Rahmen der 19. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Hochschulforschung (GfHf), Hagen, Deutschland, 23.09.2024 - 25.09.2024.
Woltran, Flora; Weinzettl, Claudia; Wicker, Larissa; Lessky, Franziska: Organisation, Pre-Conference der Emerging Researcher der ÖFEB 2024, Wien, Österreich, 24.09.2024.
Nairz, Erna; Ledermüller, Karl; Lessky, Franziska; Thaler, Bianca; Weiss, Sabine; Unger, Martin: Organisation, 4. Konferenz des Netzwerks Hochschulforschung Österreich Transition and Transformation in Higher Education, Wien, Österreich, 06.07.2023 - 07.07.2023.
Röwert, Ronny; Peksen, Sude; Driesen, Cornelia; Lessky, Franziska: Organisation, HoFoNa-Tag 2023 des Hochschulforschungsnachwuchs im Rahmen der Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Hochschulforschung (GfHf, Osnabrück, Deutschland, 13.09.2023
2023: Member of the Programm-Committee – PreConference of Emerging Scholars of the Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Hochschulforschung (GfHf)
2022 - 2023: Member of the Programme-Committee – Annual Conference of the Austrian Higher Education Research Network (AHERN)
2022: Member of the Programm-Committee – PreConference of Emerging Scholars of the Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Hochschulforschung (GfHf)
2022: Member of the Programm-Committee – PreConference of Emerging Scholars of the Austrian Association for Research and Development in Education (OeFEB)
2022: Member of the Organising-Committee – Symposium at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Network 28 (Sociologies of Education)
2018: Member of the Organising-Committee – Symposium at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Network 22 (Higher Education)
2018: Workshop-Leader – Expert conference "The New Student: Flexible Learning Paths and Future Learning Environments" (Austrian Presidency of the Council of the EU)

Past and Present Memberships in Scientific Organisations

Co-Convenor of the Bourdieu Study Group. British Sociological Association, 01.01.2024 lfd.
Vorstandsmitglied. Gesellschaft für Hochschulforschung, 01.10.2023 lfd.
Mitglied des wissenschaftlichen Beirats. Schreibzentrum der Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, 01.01.2023 lfd.
Kooptiertes Mitglied (Emerging Researchers). Österreichische Gesellschaft für Forschung und Entwicklung im Bildungswesen (ÖFEB), Linz, 01.10.2021 lfd
American Educational Research Association (AERA)
German Sociological Association (DGS) – Section “Bildung und Erziehung”
Austrian Sociological Association (ÖeGS) – Section “Bildungssoziologie”
Early Career Researchers of AHREN (JuHoFo)
Gesellschaft für Hochschulforschung (GfHf)
Netzwerk Hochschulforschungsnachwuchs (HoFoNa)
Early Career Higher Education Researchers (ECHER)
European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)
European Educational Research Association (EERA)
European Higher Education Society (EAIR)
Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE)
Austrian Association for Research and Development in Education (OeFEB)
Emerging Researcher of OeFEB (ER-OeFEB)

Reviewer

International Journal of Comparative Sociology
European Journal of Higher Education
Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie (ÖZS)
Student Success Journal
Critical Studies in Education
Studies in Higher Education
Sozialer Sinn
Journal for Higher Education Development (ZFHE)
European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Network 22 (Higher Education)
SRHE Annual Research Conference

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