Jana Mikats

Jana Mikats worked from 05.2016 to 06.2021 as a research associate at the Department of Sociology in the research area "Sociology of Gender & Gender Studies".

She holds degrees in Sociology (BA 2011, MA 2014) and Fennistics (BA 2013) from the University of Vienna, she spent a study abroad semester at the University of Lappland/Finland. In her studies she specialized in family sociology, gender studies and qualitative research methods. Prior to joining the Department of Sociology at the University of Graz in May 2016, Jana worked as a research associate in Disability & Diversity Studies at Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, visiting researcher at the Family Research Center at the University of Jyväskylä/Finland, and a tutor at the Department of Sociology at the University of Vienna. Currently she is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the University of Vienna.

She received research scholarships from the University of Vienna (2013, 2018), scholarships for excellent academic performance (2011,2012,2014), an ERASMUS scholarship (2010), and a Leonardo da Vinci European Mobility Grant (2014).

Research and teaching interests:

· Sociology of Gender & Gender Studies

· Family and Childhood Studies

· Qualitative Methods

Books:

Creative Families: Gender and Technologies of Everyday Life, co-edited by Jana Mikats, Susanne Kink-Hampersberger, and Libora Oates-Indruchová, Palgrave Studies in Mediating Kinship, Representation, and Difference.

Projects:

Remote Mentoring für Mädchen beim Programmieren-Lernen mit Pocket Code, Netidee programme of the Internet Privatstiftung Austria (grant holder: Graz University of Technology). (2017-2018). Project homepage: https://www.netidee.at/remotementor
Dissertation: When Home Becomes a Workplace: Family Practices in the Context Home-Based Work