Research topics & projects

The research of the OIF takes up a variety of topics and focal points in order to map and discuss the diverse forms of life and family with their different actors from a family science perspective.
 

Research topics and a selection of projects

• Family policy & measures
• Work-Life Balance
• Parenthood & the desire to have children
• Family relations & practices
• Child & youth welfare
• Divorce & separation
• Early childhood education & care
• Domestic violence & violence in close relationships
• Migration

Research formats

• Evaluation & impact analyses
  (e.g. Evaluation of the childcare benefit, family court assistance service, parental education, parental part-time work, impact assessment of the feral family policy measures)
• Social reporting
  (e.g. Youth and Family reports, Parenting support in Austria)
• International projects
  (e.g. DigiGen, EU-Familyplatform, GGP, European Observatory on the social situation, demography and family)