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Rudolphina Roadtrip

This summer, the Rudolphina has eyes and ears around the world. Our "correspondents" report first-hand on research life far away from the University of Vienna as they delve into the archives of distant cities or travel to the rainforest and across oceans.
8. October 2025
Ocean diplomacy

Behind the closed doors of high sea negotiations

Armed with an innovative fieldwork method, the Environmental Politics Research Group at the University of Vienna travelled across Jamaica, New York, Nice and Geneva this summer to observe the multi-national negotiations shaping the fate of our oceans. Follow their journey as they use a hybrid, collective note-taking approach to capture behind-the-scenes talks in high-stakes ocean and environmental diplomacy.
17. September 2025
Rudolphina Roadtrip: Canada’s wilderness

From Vienna to Canada: Permafrost and hot springs

Why do field research in Canada? What drives researchers like us to dig in forests and peat bogs in all kinds of weather, armed with bear spray and mosquito repellent? Why do we put up with dirty fingernails and long hours in the pouring rain? And why go thousands of kilometres for this? Our travelogue has the answers.
4. September 2025
Guest article by
Ana Mijić
Rudolphina Roadtrip: Flight and identity

From Vienna to Chicago: Identity, war and migration

This time the Rudolphina Roadtrip takes us to Chicago. Ana Mijić studies how people who fled the Bosnian war as children or adolescents have (re)built their lives and identities – and compares their experiences with those of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian community in Vienna.
27. August 2025
Guest article by
Maria Teixeira Pinto
Rudolphina Roadtrip: Ocean voyage

From Vienna to the Atlantic Ocean: Tracing the deep sea's missing carbon

For this unusual leg of the Roadtrip, we join microbial oceanographer Gerhard Herndl and his team as they collect samples across the North Atlantic, from icy northern seas to the subtropical waters of the Azores. Their expedition set out to uncover one of the ocean’s great mysteries: where does the carbon that fuels life thousands of meters below the surface come from?
20. August 2025
Guest article by
Anna-Marie Kroupová
Rudolphina Roadtrip: Art behind the Iron Curtain

From Vienna to Prague: Between paper piles and the pitch

What kind of clues and real-life people is Anna-Marie Kroupová seeking in Prague's archives? And why does the football-loving art historian sometimes wish she could cheer in the reading room as loudly as in the stadium? She tells us in this latest instalment of the Rudolphina summer series.
30. July 2025
Guest article by
David Buchwinkler
Rudolphina Roadtrip: shrimp cultures in Malaysia

From Vienna to Malaysia: Analysing the Blue Revolution

For our Rudolphina Roadtrip, David Buchwinkler takes us to the aquacultures of Malaysia. The social scientist spent almost five months in Sabah, Malaysia's northernmost state, to analyse the ecological and social impact of shrimp farms established there in 2010.
16. July 2025
Rudolphina Roadtrip: Archives in Latvia

From Vienna to Riga: Detective work in Soviet archives

For this next stop on the Rudolphina Roadtrip, historian Daria Tashkinova reports from Riga. Between feverish sessions in the archives — scouring for clues about how the former Soviet Union built an empire by deploying its workforce across the Baltics — she still found time to fall for Latvia's venerable capital on the Baltic Sea.
18. March 2025
Guest article by
Sonia Kleindorfer
Rudolphina Roadtrip: Fieldwork at the Galápagos

The comeback of rare species: Floreana's ecological restoration

The Floreana Island Restoration Project currently is the largest and most ambitious restoration initiative in the Galápagos archipelago. Follow the exciting fieldwork of behavioural biologist Sonia Kleindorfer and her team as they monitor and protect the diverse wildlife of Floreana Island.
3. September 2024
Summer City Trip

"It smells of Vienna"

Let us follow our noses through the city: We talk to historian Julia Gebke and aerosol physicist Bernadett Weinzierl about the most emotional one of our senses, explore the iconic smells of the Ottakring district and take a deep breath at the Gürtel beltway, where the air is better than its reputation.
20. August 2024
Summer City Trip

The art of urban well-being

Urban greenery benefits our well-being in the city. But what about art in public space? To find the answer, we take a relaxing stroll with behavioural biologist Elisabeth Oberzaucher through her "urban laboratory".
24. July 2024
Summer City Trip

Ready for the heat island?

Record temperatures and tropical nights: Summer has arrived in Vienna. We join city experts from the University of Vienna to find out how the city is preparing for ‘urban heat islands’, who suffers the most from them and where you can cool off in Vienna.
9. July 2024
Summer City Trip

Discover Vienna with all your Senses

This summer has Rudolphina pack its rucksack. Join us as we roam Vienna together with our researchers and experience the essence of the city with open eyes and ears.
9. July 2024
Summer city trip

On a language tour through Vienna

On our first Vienna summer tour, we accompanied students as they explored the “linguistic landscape”, and compiled tips on how each of us can become a citizen scientist to experience the linguistic diversity right on our doorstep.