Gwen Göltl
VID/ÖAW
About
Gwen Göltl joined the Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) in 2024 as a PhD candidate at the University of Vienna. She is working on the project “Same-Sex Families in Austria” as part of the Family and Labour Market research group led by Caroline Berghammer. Gwen attained a Master’s degree in Sociology at the Department of Sociology, University of Vienna and was previously part of the research project “Couples’ division of work during COVID-19 lockdown in Austria" from 2022 to 2024. The primary focus of her current work at VID is to explore same-sex families in Austria, utilizing newly available register data to provide fresh insights into the lives of same-sex couples, both with and without children. She gained funding for this research through the DOC Fellowship Programme of the ÖAW.
Areas of Expertise
- Fertility and families
- Same- and different-sex families
- Paid and unpaid labour of parents
- Covid-19, work and well-being in families
Contact
Affiliation: VID/ÖAW
The Wittgenstein Centre aspires to be a world leader in the advancement of demographic methods and their application to the analysis of human capital and population dynamics. In assessing the effects of these forces on long-term human well-being, we combine scientific excellence in a multidisciplinary context with relevance to a global audience. It is a collaboration among the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the University of Vienna.