Katharina Mojescik, Dr.
Department of Sociology, Room w-2.19
E-mail: Katharina.Mojescik[at]uibk.ac.at
Phone:+43 512 507-73412
Consultation hours: By appointment by e-mail, in presence or online
Katharina Mojescik holds a doctorate in sociology and has been a university assistant at the University of Innsbruck since 2021. After studying social sciences at the Ruhr University Bochum, she worked there as a research assistant at the Institute of Labour Studies (2012-2018). She then conducted research as a project assistant at the Junior Professorship for Qualitative Methods in the project "FLOAT (Forschendes Lernen aus Perspektive von Organisation und Akteuren)" (2017-2020) and at the Department of Educational Science in the joint project "Your Study - Eigensinnig Studieren im digitalen Zeitalter" (2018-2020). In 2019, she also completed a research stay at the University of British Columbia as part of her doctorate. She also coordinated the Research Area Media Worlds at TH Köln (2020 - 2021). She completed her doctorate in sociology at the Ruhr University Bochum in 2021. In her explorative dissertation, she investigated self-employment and entrepreneurial behaviour in the catering industry using the example of food trucks.
Mojescik, Katharina (2024): Solidaritätsbeziehungen im Wandel: Eine Analyse der Auswirkungen von Ortsunabhängigkeit am Beispiel digitaler Nomad*innen. In: AIS-Studien 17/1, S. 84 - 97.
Mojescik, Katharina (2023): Christine Thiel, New Work. Der mobile Alltag Digitaler Nomaden zwischen Hype und Selbstverwirklichung, Frankfurt ; New York: Campus Verlag, 2021. In: Bayerisches Jahrbuch für Volkskunde 2023, S. 183 - 185.
Mojescik, Katharina; Tillmann, Angela (2022): Forschungsorganisation an Hochschulen für angewandte Wissenschaften. In: Schütz, K; Hofhues, S: Doing Research – Wissenschaftspraktiken zwischen Positionierung und Suchanfrage. Bielefeld: Transcript., ISBN 978-3-8376-5632-9 , S. 82 - 89.
Mojescik, Katharina (2021): Selbstständigkeit in der Gastronomie. Eine arbeitssoziologische Untersuchung unternehmerischen Handelns am Beispiel von Foodtrucker*innen. Springer VS, Wiesbaden.
Pflüger, Jessica; Mojescik, Katharina (online first): Governance of academic teaching: Why universities introduce funding programs for teaching and why academic teachers participate. In: Teaching in Higher Education.
Richter, Caroline; Mojescik, Katharina (Hg.) (2020): Qualitative Sekundäranalysen. Springer VS, Wiesbaden.
Mojescik, Katharina; Pflüger, Jessica; Scheytt, Carla; Schmohr, Martina (2020): Lehrende sind Forschende. Die Lehrpraxis des ‘Forschenden Lernens’ organisationssoziologisch betrachtet. In: Die Hochschullehre, 14. DOI: 10.3278/HSL2014W.
Mojescik, Katharina; Pflüger, Jessica; Richter, Caroline; Scheytt, Carla (2020): Forschendes Lernen an der RUB – Erfahrungen, Chancen, Herausforderungen und Entwicklungspotenziale aus der Sicht von Lehrenden (S.79-88). In: Straub J., Plontke S., Ruppel P., Frey B., Mehrabi F., Ricken J. (Hg.), Forschendes Lernen an Universitäten. Springer VS, Wiesbaden.
Mojescik, Katharina; Engemann, Mario; Limpinsel, Inga; Lewandowski, Kira, Aßmann, Sandra (2020): „Manche wissen halt einfach echt nicht, wie Studieren funktioniert, hat man das Gefühl” – Kontextuelle Dimensionen und Orientierungen studentischen Medienhandelns (S. 65-86). In: S. Hofhues et al. (Hg.): Studierende – Medien - Universität: Einblicke in studentische Medienwelten. Waxmann Verlag, Münster.
Mojescik, Katharina; Pensel, Sabrina; Schick, Sarah; Engemann, Mario (2020): Einbindung Studierender bei der Erforschung studentischen Medienhandelns (S. 171-180). In: S. Hofhues et al. (Hg.): Studierende – Medien - Universität: Einblicke in studentische Medienwelten. Waxmann Verlag, Münster.
Pensel, Sabrina; Mojescik, Katharina; Aksoy, Filiz; Engemann, Mario; Lewandowski, Kira (2020): Die Erforschung studentischen Medienhandelns mit der dokumentarischen Methode. Forschungsleitende Grundannahmen und forschungspraktische Umsetzung (S. 153-164). In: S. Hofhues et al. (Hg.): Studierende – Medien - Universität: Einblicke in studentische Medienwelten. Waxmann Verlag, Münster.
Mojescik, Katharina; Pflüger, Jessica; Richter, Caroline (2019): Ökonomisierung universitärer Lehre? Befunde zur universitären Transformation am Beispiel des Forschenden Lernens. In: N. Burzan (Hg.), Komplexe Dynamiken globaler und lokaler Entwicklungen. Verhandlungen des 39. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Göttingen 2018.
Mojescik, Katharina (2019): The Impact of Seed Laws on Agricultural Biodiversity. In: M. McWilliams (Hg.): Seeds. Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2018.
Mojescik, Katharina (2017): Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von Feedbackinstrumenten in Lehre und Studium. In: Neues Handbuch Hochschullehre. Berlin: DUZ Verlags- und Medienhaus. Ausgabe 81, S. 109-127.
In her research, Katharina Mojescik is currently looking at the changing trends in gainful employment with a focus on new forms of self-employment and entrepreneurship at the interface between the sociology of work, economics and organisation.
Current research project:
Employment trajectories of digital nomads. The interactions of digitalised gainful employment and mobility (01.01.2023 - 31.12.2023, funded by the Early Stage Funding of the UIBK)
Gainful employment has become more mobile and digitalised due to the coronavirus pandemic. In the course of this digitalisation push, the social type of so-called digital nomads is gaining social and political relevance. Digital nomads are people who are able to perform their gainful employment completely digitally and remotely and combine this with their private desire for mobility by temporarily working and living in attractive tourist locations with suitable infrastructure. While digital nomads were previously a marginal phenomenon, especially among freelancers in the IT sector, this work and lifestyle is becoming more popular among employees. Forecasts indicate that almost a quarter of the labour force in North America and Europe will be working remotely in the coming years. This project focuses on the various forms of digitalised gainful employment (dependent employment, self-employment, gig work) in order to find out how mobility is embedded in the employment histories of digital nomads and how the digitalised working day is reconciled with expectations of mobility. To date, the academic discourse has been limited to the lifestyle of digital nomads, while digitalised gainful employment has been underexposed. This qualitative research project uses problem-centred interviews with digital nomads and field research to explore the interrelationships between digitalisation and mobility in gainful employment.
Current and past courses can be found in the course catalogue of the University of Innsbruck