Katrin Fliegenschnee
Info
Research Group: Demography of Austria
Job Title: Research Scientist
Phone: +43 1 515 81 7710
Fax: +43 1 515 81 7730
E-mail: katrin.fliegenschnee@oeaw.ac.at
Education
- Studies in Sociology and Communication Studies, University of Vienna, Austria (2002)
- International Max Planck Research School for Demography, Rostock, Germany (2004/05)
Professional Career
- Since Mai 2003: research scientist at the Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Since 2008: teaching at the University of Vienna: Qualitative Methods: Grounded Theory
Research Interests
- Demography of Austria:
- Development of the church in Austria, and Vienna
- Family Formation:
- Postponement of fertility
- The decision to have a child
- Dynamics of social networks
- Migration:
- Migration of Iranians toward Austria
- Turkish and Bosnian migration in Austria
- Mortality:
- The gender gap in life expectancy
- Methodology:
- Qualitative methods
- Triangulating qualitative vs. quantitative Methods
Projects
- Analysis of the present and future situation of the church in Austria and Switzerland and Canada.
- Religion and believes of Muslim female immigrants
- What are the reasons of postponement of fertility and how does the social network influence this decision?
- FEMAGE EU-Project: Needs for Female Immigrants and their Integration in Ageing Societies. was within the “Sixth Framework Programme of the EU”
- “The Gender Gap in Life Expectancy: a Methodological Triangulation for Europe with Special Emphasis on Austria”, financed by FWF
- Triangulating qualitative and quantitative data on the issue of fertility
Selected Publications
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Buber, I. and K. Fliegenschnee (2011) Are you Ready for a Child? A Methodological Triangulation on Fertility Intentions in Austria. VID Working Paper 3/2011.
- Fliegenschnee, Katrin, Anne Goujon and Wolfgang Lutz. 2004. Neue demographische Szenarien zur Zukunft der Evangelischen Kirche in Österreich. (New demographic scenarios about the future of the protestant church in Austria.) VID Working Papers 01/2004, Vienna: Vienna Institute of Demography.
- Goujon, Anne, Vegard Skirbekk, Katrin Fliegenschnee and Pawel Strzelecki. 2007. “New times, old beliefs: Projecting the future size of religions in Austria.” Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, pp. 237 – 270.
- Fliegenschnee, K. There are simply always enough good reasons against having a child! Fears and worries about motherhood among childless, highly educated Austrian women. In: Rehberg, Karl Siegbert (Hg.): Die Natur der Gesellschaft. Verhandlungsband des 33. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie 2006 in Kassel. Frankfurt/M.: Campus. (CD-ROM).
- Julia Czarnowski & Katrin Fliegenschnee. 2009. An Interdisciplinary Approach to Complexity: Migratory Decisions of Iranians in Vienna, Forum Qualitative Social Research, Volume 10, No. 3, Art. 9.
- Flandorfer, Priska and Katrin Fliegenschnee (2010): Education and health. Theoretical considerations based on a qualitative Grounded Theory study. Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2010, pp. 237-261.
- Flandorfer, Priska and Katrin Fliegenschnee (forthcoming): The gender gap in life expectancy in Austria. Theoretical considerations based on a qualitative Grounded Theory study. Journal of Public Health.
Presentations
- Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Demographie, Potsdam, March 2005. „Die Kosten von Kindern und Fertilität: Ein Vergleich zwischen Deutschland und den U.S.A.“
- European Population Conference, Liverpool, June 2006. “Children should be a part of my life, but I don’t know how to manage it.”
- Political Demography: Ethnic, National and Religious Dimensions, London, September 2006. “New Times, Old Beliefs: Projecting the Future Size of Religions in Austria.”
- 33. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Kassel, October 2006. “There are simply always many good reasons against having a child! Fears and worries about motherhood among childless, highly educated Austrian women.”
- European Population Conference. September 2010, Vienna,
- “I can live my religion just as well at home” dimensions of religiosity of female Muslims: a qualitative analysis. together with Caroline Berghammer
Poster presentations
- Workshop on the Anthropological Demography of Europe, Rostock, September 2005, “A Qualitative fertility study in Austria. Why do people postpone their fertility wishes and how does the social network influence this decision?”
- Conference on Postponement of Childbearing in Europe, Vienna, December 2005, “Why do people postpone their fertility wishes and how does the social network influence this decision? Qualitative fertility study in Vienna.”
- Population Association of America Annual Meeting New York, March 2007, The Future Religious Landscape of Austria† and Switzerland, Anne Goujon, Vegard Skirbekk, Katrin Fliegenschnee,
- Population Association of America Annual Meeting New York, March 2007, Foreign but at home: Migration and integration of Turkish and Bosnian women in Vienna, Fliegenschnee Katrin, Silvia Dallinger, Caroline Berghammer
- Conference of Social Exclusion and the New Demographic Portrait of Europe, Budapest, September 2007. “There are simply always enough good reasons against a child!” Fears and worries about parenthood among childless, highly educated Austrian women and men.
- Conference of Social Exclusion and the New Demographic Portrait of Europe, Budapest, September 2007. “Fertility as a multistate process and the role of rational vs. emotional arguments. “ together with, Engelhardt-Wölfler, Henriette, Fürkranz-Prskawetz, Alexia.
- From Intentions to Behaviour: Reproductive Decision-Making in a Macro-Micro Perspective. Vienna, December 2010. “Intention or No Intention: That is the Question! Considerations about the Term "Intention" based on Qualitative Data about Fertility Behaviour.”
Membership
- EAPS: European Association for Population Studies
- PAA: Population Association of America