Grant applications and international projects
Paderborn University, Faculty of Cultural Studies Research Fund; PI: Thomas Allmer; project duration: 2024–present; project title: Digital Labour in Germany; total amount: €3,550 (acquisition, participation and management)
Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research; Allianz Nachhaltige Universitäten in Österreich; PI: Helga Kromp-Kolb, Hans Stötter and Reinhold Lang; project duration: 2019–2021; project title: UniNEtZ – Universitäten und nachhaltige Entwicklungsziele (participation)
British Economic and Social Research Council; New Investigator Grant; PI: Thomas Allmer; submission date: 10 July 2017; project duration: 24 months; project title: The Digital University: Academic Labour, Digital Media and Society; total amount: £298,710 (unsuccessful, panel score range: 5–6.9 – Good)
University of Edinburgh; Seedcorn Funding; PI: Thomas Allmer; project duration: 2016; project title: Dynamics, Forms and Transformations of Academic Practice; total amount: £1,050 (acquisition, participation and management)
EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020; European Cooperation in Science and Technology Action; PI: Ursula Huws; project duration: 2012–2016; project title: Dynamics of Virtual Work (participation)
Austrian Science Fund; Stand-Alone Project; PI: Christian Fuchs; project duration: 2010–2013; project title: Social Networking Sites in the Surveillance Society; total amount: €267,284 (participation)
EU Framework Programme FP7; European Cooperation in Science and Technology Action; PI: William Webster; project duration: 2009–2013; project title: Living in Surveillance Societies (participation)
Professional activities
Co-Editor of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2023–present
Co-Director of The Institute for a Global Sustainable Information Society, 2019–2024
Coordinator of Research Network 18 – Sociology of Communications and Media Research of the European Sociological Association, 2019–2024
Member of programme, organisation and review committees of various conferences, including: Uppsala University, Sweden; Vienna University of Technology, Austria; Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic; University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal; Polytechnic of Turin, Italy
Reviewer of books, journal articles and project proposals for various publishers, journals and scholarly organisations, including: Routledge, Polity Press, International Journal of Communication, Austrian Academy of Sciences, British Economic and Social Research Council