Dr. Tamara Ehs
Post-Doctoral Researcher,
IWK – Institut für Wissenschaft und Kunst
Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Vienna
Education & Academic Training
- Participant of Fast Track – Excellence and Leadership Competence for Academics, 2009–11
- Professional Training Programme by the Robert Bosch-Stiftung
- Dr. phil. in Political Science, 2002–2005 (with honours)
- University of Vienna and Sciences Po Lille
- Research stays in Switzerland (expert interviews, archival research)
- ESRC Oxford Spring School in Quantitative Methods for Social Research, 2005
- Course on Statistical Methods and Analytical Techniques
- LSE – London School of Economics and Political Science, 2004
- Course on Human Resource Management and Employment Relations
- Diploma in European Community Law, 2004
- Faculty of Law, University of Vienna
- Sciences Po Lille – European Summer School, 2003
- Courses on European Comparative Political Analysis
- First Certificate in Law, 2002
- University of Vienna
- M.Phil. (Hons) in Political Science, 1998–2002
- Minors: Communication Science
- University of Vienna
- European Forum Alpbach, 2002
- Seminars on Fundamentals of Law and Morality (Prof. Ingeborg Maus), Achieving Civil Society (Prof. John Keane)
- Summer School of the University of Vienna, 2001
- Courses on Legal and Institutional Framework of the European Union, European Security after the Cold War, Europe as a Cultural Space
Research Experience
- Visiting Research Fellow
- European Academy of Legal Theory, Brussels
- 10/2008 – 02/2009
- Project Manager & Principal investigator (Post-doc)
- Department of Political Science, University of Vienna
- Project: Hans Kelsen and Civic Education
- 09/2006 – 09/2007
- Research Associate (Pre-doc)
- Austrian Society for European Politics, Vienna
- Project: Trust in Institutions?
- Research stay in Skopje, Macedonia (FYROM)
- 03/2004 – 12/2005
- Research Assistant
- Ludwig Boltzmann-Institute of Human Rights, Vienna, and OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Warsaw
- Project: The Human Dimension of the OSCE. From Recommendation to Implementation
- 07 – 08/2000
Scholarly Service
- 05/2010 to present
- Committee Member of IWK – Institute for Science and Arts Vienna
- 05/2009 to present
- Reviewer for the Journal on International Constitutional Law
- 04/2009 to present
- Member of the Selection Commission for Postgraduate Scholarships by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research (BMWF)
- 12/2007 to present
- Member of the Steering Committee of NICLAS – New International Constitutional Law Approach-Summer School
- NICLAS was awarded the Austrian Lifelong Learning Award 2008
- 10/2007 to present
- Organisation of lectures and panel discussions for the
IWK – Institute for Science and Arts Vienna
- 07/2007 to present
- Referee for Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft (ZPol), Hamburg
- 05/2005 – 04/2009
- Analyst, Government Section of the Oxford Council on Good Governance
- 10/2004 – 06/2005
- Science Journalist (free lance), DieUniversitaet-online, Journal of the University of Vienna
- 01/2004 – 02/2004
- Scholarly Advisor, Austrian Cultural Forum (Austrian Embassy London, UK)
Memberships
- AUPSA – Austrian Political Science Association (ÖGPW)
- CEPSA – Central European Political Science Association
- EUSA – European Union Studies Association
- JFR – Junges Forum Rechtsphilosophie
- RICHIE – Réseau International de Jeunes Chercheurs en Histoire de l´Intégration Européenne
- WUJS – World Union of Jewish Studies
- Tamara Ehs, Austrian Parliament
- Speech on the occasion of the 90th Anniversary of the Austrian Constitution