Claudia Herbst

Claudia HERBST
Research Assistant and Ph.D. Fellow

Paris Lodron University of Salzburg / Department of Sociology and Human Geography / Devision of Sociology
Rudolfskai 42, A-5020 Salzburg

Tel.: +43 (0)662-8044-4116
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Claudia Herbst (she/her) is a research assistant and doctoral candidate at the Devision of Sociology at the University of Salzburg since October 2024, where she completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Sociology. She works in the field of empirical social structure analysis. Her master’s thesis deals with the topic “The Desire to have children in times of global uncertainties: on the influence of fears about the future on reproductive attitudes”. She was able to develop her skills in empirical social research as a student assistant at the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences and at the University of Salzburg. Most recently, she worked on the Science-to-Public Report of the Austrian “Generations and Gender Survey” and was a project collaborator in the youth study “Arbeits- und Lebensbedingungen junger Menschen in Salzburg”, which was developed in cooperation with the Salzburg chamber of labor (AKS). Since 2023 she has been part of the ÖGS section on family research.

Main areas of research:

  • Population sociology (especially fertility)
  • Social structure analysis
  • Social inequality
  • Youth research and intergenerational relations
  • Quantitative social research

Science-to-Public-Report of the Austrian Generations and Gender Survey:  https://www.ggp-austria.at/
Member of the ÖGS Section Council “Family Research”:  https://oegs.ac.at/familienforschung/

Publications:  PURE

Presentations:

  • „Ausgewählte Beiträge zur soziologischen Familien- und Gesundheitsforschung auf Basis von Daten des österreichischen Generations- & Gender Programme (GGP)“ (04/2024), University of Salzburg.
  • “Klimapolitischer Gebärstreik und reproduktive Einstellungen in Zeiten der Klimakrise” (11/2022). Kick-off event of the ÖGS Family Research Section (“Family Research in Austria: Past, Present, Future”), University of Vienna.