Lessky, Franziska

Article in Academic Journal

Petrik, Flora; Lessky, FranziskaORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4075-5080; Weiß, Sabine; Bartok, Larissa and Fellner, Magdalena (2026) Finding their way: becoming a researcher in higher education studies. Higher Education Research & Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2026.2634267

Lessky, FranziskaORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4075-5080; Patfield, Sally and O'Shea, Sarah (2026) “We’ve got a bit of a family mantra that you don’t give up”: A cross-national study of first-in-family students’ persistence at university. Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-026-01636-y

Lessky, FranziskaORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4075-5080 and Schiffecker, Sarah (2026) Academic identity crafting: How early-career women researchers in the United States and Austria form their professional identities. Research in Comparative and International Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/17454999261417858

Lessky, FranziskaORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4075-5080 and Dollinger, Mollie (2025) An international comparison of graduate outcome survey instruments: a critical reflection. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 47 (6), pp. 707-728. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360080X.2025.2491884

Lessky, Franziska and Binder, DavidORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-2985 (2025) Does Combining Work and Study ‘Pay Off’? Investigating Intersectional Effects of Term-Time Employment, First-Generation Status and Gender on Graduate Outcomes. Higher Education Quarterly, 79 (3). https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.70046

Lessky, FranziskaORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4075-5080 (2024) First-in-Family students’ roots and routes into higher education: Familial dynamics as drivers for breaking intergenerational cycles of educational attainment. European Educational Research Journal, 24 (6), pp. 797-819. https://doi.org/10.1177/14749041241310058

Lessky, Franziska and Unger, MartinORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-1563-6560 (2023) Working long hours while studying: a higher risk for First-in-Family students and students of particular fields of study? European Journal of Higher Education, pp. 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/21568235.2022.2047084

Posch, Katharina; Thaler, BiancaORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7749-0464 and Lessky, Franziska (2021) Einflussfaktoren auf Studienerfolg: Heterogene Effekte nach Studienfachgruppe? Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung, 16 (4), pp. 143-162. https://doi.org/10.3217/zfhe-16-04/08

Monograph

Nairz-Wirth, Erna; Ledermüller, Karl; Weiss, Sabine; Thaler, BiancaORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7749-0464; Lessky, FranziskaORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4075-5080; Unger, MartinORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-1563-6560 and Fellner, Magdalena, eds. (2025) Transition and Transformation in Higher Education. Studienreihe Hochschulforschung Österreich, 6. Münster: Waxmann Verlag. 310 p.

Book Contribution

Thaler, BiancaORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7749-0464; Lessky, Franziska; Weiß, Sabine; Stransky-Can, Kajetan; Fellner, Magdalena; Freudhofmayer, Sabine; Bartok, Larissa and Petrik, Flora (2023) Junge Hochschulforschung (JuHoFo) in Österreich. Eine Case Study über Wege in die Hochschulforschung, den Dissertationsprozess und Zukunftsvorstellungen von jungen Hochschulforschenden. In: Pausits, Attila; Fellner, Magdalena; Gornik, Elke; Ledermüller, Karl and Thaler, BiancaORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7749-0464, (eds.) Uncertainty in Higher Education Hochschulen in einer von Volatilität geprägten Welt. Studienreihe Hochschulforschung Österreich, 4. Münster: Waxmann, pp. 149-166.