Thomas Schubatzky
Assistant Professor (Didactics of Physics)
Institute for Didactics, Faculty of Teacher Education
Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics
Research
Focal points
- Subject-related learning processes and learning prerequisites in the field of climate change/climate physics
- Professionalisation research among (prospective) teachers on digitalisation in physics lessons
- Inoculation theory as an approach to developing "fake news resilience" in science lessons
Current projects
- CCCI-422: Development of a "Climate Change Concept Inventory"
- DiKoLePDigital competences of student teachers in physics
- EPo-EKo: Electricity teaching with potential and electricity teaching with contexts
- ENGAGINGTeaching Critical Thinking on Climate Change (Erasmus+)
- ProQ-STEAM: Professionalisation in the STEAM cross-entry programme - specialist examiners for science, technology and art
Publications and lectures
Teaching
- Subject didactics seminar: Secondary level 2
- Subject-specific didactic literature
- Basics of specialised didactics
- Methods and instruments of subject-specific didactics research
- New media and textbooks
- Preconcepts and models in physics lessons
- Seminar with Bachelor's thesis
- PhD seminar in didactics: natural sciences
- Supervision of final theses at the University of Innsbruck
Administration
- Guest editor of the teachers' magazine "PlusLucis"
- Reviewer for the Approval Commission for Textbooks (Natural Sciences, BMBWF)
- Head of the maths and science department
- Head of the school laboratory "Wissenschaftswerkstatt West"
- Reviewer for various journals and conferences
Memberships
- Association for the Promotion of Physical and Chemical Education (VFPC/Plus Lucis)
- Society for Didactics of Chemistry and Physics (GDCP)
- European Science Education Research Association (ESERA)
- International Research Group on Physics Education (GIREP)
Awards and honours
- Best presentation at the GIREP-EPEC conference 2023 in Kosice
- Viktor-Obendrauf Prize for the best doctorate in the Doctoral Programme in Didactics at the University of Graz 2021
- Step-In Scholarship at the Habilitation Forum for Didactics and Teaching Research 2020
- Junior Fellow of the Kolleg Didaktik:digital of the Joachim Herz Foundation 2020-2022
Curriculum Vitae
| CV | Thomas Schubatzky |
|---|---|
| since 03/2023 | Head of the maths and natural sciences department |
| since 08/2022 | Assistant Professor of Didactics of Physics, Institute of Didactics, Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Innsbruck |
| 03/2021-07/2022 | University Assistant PostDoc, Department of Physics Education, University of Graz |
| 09/2020-02/2021 | Scholarship holder, habilitation forum for specialised didactics and teaching research |
| 01/2020-01/2022 | Junior Fellow Kolleg Didaktik:digital, Joachim Herz Foundation |
| 04/2020 | Doctorate in Physics Education (PhD), University of Graz |
| 09/2017-08/2020 | University Assistant PraeDoc, Department of Physics Education, University of Graz |
| 09/2016-09/2017 | Teaching internship at BRG Keplerstrasse Graz |
| 06/2016 | Degree in teaching physics and mathematics (Mag. rer. nat.), University of Graz |