The Dissertation Award for Research on Migration is awarded for a doctoral thesis project that has been submitted and accepted for supervision at an Austrian university but is yet to be completed and examines refugeeism and migration, the integration of migrants or societal transformation as a result of migration. Submissions are welcome from all fields of the social sciences, humanities and jurisprudence and legal theory.

Doctoral/PhD studies may not have begun more than three years before the date of submission.

Applicants do not have to hold Austrian citizenship.

Selection Procedure

Prize winners are decided by an awards committee of the Division of Humanities and the Social Sciences of the OeAW on the basis of international peer review.

Application Documents

• Tabular CV
• Exposé of doctoral thesis project (3,000–5,000 words including bibliography)
• Confirmation of acceptance for supervision and letter of recommendation from doctoral supervisor
• Abstract (300–500 words)

Applications may be submitted in German OR English.