Mag.a Dr.in phil.
Miriam Haselbacher
Postdoc Researcher
T +43 1 51581 - 3533
miriam.haselbacher(at)oeaw.ac.at
Biography
Miriam Haselbacher has been working as a post‐doctoral researcher at the Institute for Urban and Regional Research since January 2022. She studied International Development in Vienna (Mag.a) and completed her PhD in Political Science at the University of Vienna in April 2023. Her dissertation, titled “Rural Politics of Belonging: The Accommodation of Refugees in Small Localities,” explored the accommodation of refugees in small rural communities, with a particular focus on the role of local politics. From 2015 to 2021, she worked as a university assistant (prae-doc) at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna and was part of the research group INEX “The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion”. In 2018, she was a visiting researcher at the Malmö Institute for Migration Studies (MIM) at Malmö University in Sweden.
At the Institute for Urban and Regional Research, Miriam has contributed to the research projects YouBeOn – “Young Believers Online” and D.Rad – “DeRadicalisation in Europe and Beyond” . Both projects examined online and offline spaces, with YouBeOn focusing on the negotiation of belonging among religious youth and D.Rad analyzing (de)radicalization processes in digital and urban contexts. Currently, she is involved in the Horizon Europe project OppAttune and will lead the FWF-funded 1000 Ideas project “Ma(r)king Neighbourhoods: Integrating Art in Urban Research” starting in January 2025.
Research Areas
- Politics of Belonging
- Asylum and Integration Policies
- Austrian Politics
- (De)Radicalisation
- Urban and Rural Studies