PSY | Research Colloquium “Psychology of Social Inequality”

The research colloquium at the Faculty of Psychology aims to discuss issues of social inequality at the interface between individuals and society, based on invited lectures. The colloquium has a decidedly interdisciplinary focus and seeks to bring together (social) psychological considerations with various perspectives from the social and cultural sciences. The colloquium takes place twice per semester.

• When: 17 March 2026, 5 – 7 p.m.
• Where: SFU Vienna, Freudplatz 1, Lecture Hall 5001
• Language: English

Mark Joseph Connaughton – Ethnographic Explorations of Dignity in the Everyday Lives of Unemployed People

In this talk Mark Connaughton will present the INDIGMA project which his PhD is part of. INDIGMA investigates experiences of dignity of unemployed people living in peripheral cities in the USA, France and Denmark. Additionally, he will present empirical findings from the third paper of his doctoral thesis that looks at how unemployment tests the dignity of the unemployed not only in the institutional settings of the job centre or the welfare office, but also in the other intimate spheres of their lives, such as the home and community. This paper is still in progress, so any and all feedback is very welcome!

Mark Connaughton is PhD Fellow, at the Department of People and Technology, Roskilde University, Denmark and currently for an Erasmus exchange at SFU Vienna.

Contact: 

Ass.-Prof. Dr. Katharina Hametner
Sigmund Freud Private University Vienna
Faculty of Psychology
Institute for Qualitative Social Research
qualitative.methoden@sfu.ac.at