Recent Publications (Selection)

• Hadler, Markus, Benjamin Roberts, Jarè Struwig, Jonas Edlund, Arvid Lindh, and Albin Neumayr. (eds.). 2025. Beliefs About Inequality Around the Globe: Results from the ISSP Social Inequality Survey. Routledge. Abingdon, Oxon, and New York. (Link)
• Penker, Matthias, Anja Eder, and Markus Hadler. 2025. “From Face-to-Face to Push-to-Web: Methodological Lessons from the Transition of the ‘Social Survey Austria.’” Survey Methods: Insights from the Field, November 10, 2025. surveyinsights.org. doi.org/10.13094/SMIF-2025-00012
• Fairbrother, Malcolm, Matthias Penker, and Markus Hadler. 2024. Trust, social movements, and the state. Journal of Trust Research, 14(2), 157–187. https://doi.org/10.1080/21515581.2024.2391385
• Telesiene, Audrone; Hadler, Markus. 2023. Dynamics and landscape of academic discourse on environmental attitudes and behaviors since the 1970s // Frontiers in sociology. ISSN 2297-7775. 2023, vol. 8, art. no. 1136972, p. 1-14. DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2023.1136972 (Link)
• Reiter-Haas, Markus, Klösch, Beate, Hadler, Markus, and Elisabeth Lex. 2023. Polarization of Opinions on COVID-19 Measures: Integrating Twitter and Survey Data. Social Science Computer Review, 41(5), 1811-1835. (Link)
• Hadler, Markus, David Bird, Beate Klösch, Stephan Schwarzinger, Markus Schweighart, Rebecca Wardana. 2022. “Surveying Climate-Relevant Behavior. Measurements, Obstacles, and Implications.” Palgrave-Macmillan. London and New York. (Link)

Research Grants

• "ISSP-SSÖ Surveys 2023-2026" funded by the Austrian Ministry of Science, 2023–2026. (more)
• "Developing Compassionate Workplaces in Europe for the digital and green work environment to protect employees’ mental and physical health and wellbeing" funded by Horizon Europe, 2023–2028. (more)
• "Digitize! Computational Social Sciences in der digitalen und sozialen Transformation" funded by the Austrian Ministry of Science, 2020–2024 (more)
• "Polarization in public opinion: Combining social surveys and big data analyses of Twitter" funded by Uni and TU Graz, 2020–2024 (more)
• "Die Messung C02 relevanter Umweltverhalten und anderer Umwelteinstellungen mittels Umfragen" funded by ÖNB, 2019–2021 (more)
• "Torero - Fueling a sustainable future" funded by the European Commission, 2019–2025 (more)
• "Das neue Österreichische Sozialwissenschaftliche Datenarchiv (AuSSDA)" (funded by the Austrian Ministry of Science, 2017–2021 (more)

Presentations, Media Reports, and Talks

• “Veränderung und Identität: Österreich im Kontext globaler Krisen und Transformationen,” ('Change and Identity: Austria in the Context of Global Crises and Transformations'), Keynote, students’ pre-congress of the Austrian Sociological Association, Graz, July 2025.
• “Shifting Environmental Attitudes: Insights from ISSP Data Across Three Decades,” ISSP Conference, Pula, Croatia, May 2025.
• “The ISSP environment and digital society surveys;” Green Café research seminar, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania, October 2023.
• "The ISSP environment surveys. The development of the 2020 module and first international results", LMU research seminar "Analytical Sociology", Munich, December 2022.
• Semi-Plenary Speaker, Conference of the European Sociological Association, "Quantitative Surveys Against the Climate and Health Crises of Today", Barcelona September 2021 (online).
• Report in newspaper “Salzburger Nachrichten“ on "Klimawandel: Wie soll ich als einzelner die Welt retten?" (Link)
• Report in newsletter "Presse Uni Graz" on "Der ökologische Fußabdruck" (Link)