Reach higher, reach beyond. 2024
Mentoring-programme for artists at the mdw who aspire to a university career (women, inter* and non-binary persons)
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Gabriele Bargehr, born 1964 in Dornbirn, has been a self-employed counsellor since 1998 and co-founder and managing director of the Institut Im Kontext www.imkontext.at in Vienna since 2001. Focal points: Strategies and vision of an organisational culture that is critical of discrimination. Multi-perspective reflections on the historical and effective constructions of structures of power and domination.
The Institute Im Kontext is located within the traditions of systemic organisational development consulting, critical social research, gender, queer and cultural studies. We combine system-theoretical models of thought with the respective structures and definitions of goals.
Thinking, acting and being always take place in a specific socio-political context. This dynamic is co-determined by gender and age norms, religious and ideological affiliation, racist attribution, disability, heteronormativity, classism (including educational status), personal life history and work experiences, among other things. In our life and work contexts, it is important to us to do work that is critical of discrimination, to take a stand and to take action. Our main areas of thought and work are to be seen in the context of cooperation models, transculturality, gender democracy and reflexive forms of representation.
Mag.a Aliette Dörflinger worked for many years in applied social and economic research and conducted research in a non-university research context on the topics of gender, cultural and creative industries, innovation, entrepreneurship and regional development. She then switched to the NPO sector to accompany an organisational development project in cultural management. Most recently, she developed and implemented a funding programme for inter- and trans-disciplinary research (#ConnectingMinds) at the FWF Austrian Science Fund. Since 2013 she has been working part-time and since 2020 full-time as a freelance process facilitator / consultant / coach / trainer / moderator. She develops and implements evidence-based strategy processes, accompanies participatory processes and new innovative projects. In the university sector, she currently supports the mdw and TU Wien with coaching programmes for graduates and early career researchers. She is also an external lecturer at universities of applied sciences and a lecturer on the cultural management course at Kupf OÖ and the ‘Kulturelle Bildung vor Ort’ course at Kultur.Region NÖ.
Mag.a Ulrike Mayer is a diversity manager and member of the Equal Opportunities, Gender Studies and Diversity staff at the mdw. She is also the founder and owner of ‘conzeptum - Diversity Development in Art, Culture and Education’, a cultural worker and cultural mediator (steirischer herbst, Wiener Festwochen, etc.). In 2016-2017, she initiated and led the continuing education programme ‘Critical Diversity Practice in Art and Culture’ at the Institute for Science and Art. From 2011-2017 she was chairwoman of the association ‘pink noise. Verein zur Förderung feministisch popkultureller Aktivitäten’ and co-founded the pink noise Girls Rock Camp in Lower Austria. Studied political science with a focus on gender studies and cultural studies in Vienna and Berlin, thesis on ‘Standing in the Way of Control. A governmental analysis of control-societal forms of music censorship using the example of the caesura 9/11.
Michaela Rosen is an actress and has taught at leading universities in the USA, Germany, Austria and Australia for many years alongside her artistic work. She has co-edited several academic publications on Vienna as a film location. For many years she was a member of the selection committee of the Austrian Film Institute and spokesperson for Austrian filmmakers. Michaela Rosen conducts workshops and seminars focussing on live communication at numerous institutions in Austria and abroad. With the help of carefully selected, practical exercises and methods from theatre and film practice, communicative skills and the ability to present content in public are significantly promoted and strengthened. Since 2017 teaching position for ‘Communicative Sciences’ at the Institute for Musicology and Interpretation Research / mdw. www.beyond-acting.at
VRin MMMag.a, Dr.in Barbara Strack-Hanisch completed all of her instrumental and instrumental pedagogy studies in saxophone and flute with honours and received her doctorate from the mdw University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in 2007. She has been working in the field of saxophone classical music since 2008, habilitated in 2012 and was appointed professor of saxophone at the mdw in 2018. Barbara Strack-Hanisch is a frequent substitute in the orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Nö. Tonkünstler and in the stage orchestra of the Vienna State Opera. She is a member of various chamber music ensembles, since 1999 tenor saxophonist of the Danubia Saxophone Quartet Vienna with several CD recordings, and lecturer at several saxophone courses in Austria and abroad. She has also won prizes at several festivals and was awarded the mdw University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna Honour Award in 2004. In addition, she has held the position of director of the Leonard Bernstein Institute since November 2015, is currently chairwoman of the StuKo Instrumental, spokeswoman for the curia in the Senate and digitisation officer in teaching at the mdw.
Coaches 2024
Gabriele Bargehr, born 1964 in Dornbirn, has been a self-employed counsellor since 1998 and co-founder and managing director of the Institut Im Kontext www.imkontext.at in Vienna since 2001. Focal points: Strategies and vision of an organisational culture that is critical of discrimination. Multi-perspective reflections on the historical and effective constructions of structures of power and domination.
The Institute Im Kontext is located within the traditions of systemic organisational development consulting, critical social research, gender, queer and cultural studies. We combine system-theoretical models of thought with the respective structures and definitions of goals.
Thinking, acting and being always take place in a specific socio-political context. This dynamic is co-determined by gender and age norms, religious and ideological affiliation, racist attribution, disability, heteronormativity, classism (including educational status), personal life history and work experiences, among other things. In our life and work contexts, it is important to us to do work that is critical of discrimination, to take a stand and to take action. Our main areas of thought and work are to be seen in the context of cooperation models, transculturality, gender democracy and reflexive forms of representation.
Dr.in Meike Lauggas works as a science coach, trainer and lecturer throughout the German-speaking world. She completed her doctorate in medical and gender history at the University of Vienna and then moved into public administration (Municipal Department 57 of the City of Vienna). Here she was able to put numerous projects in the field of gender and diversity competence into practice. After completing a university course in counselling sciences (Sigmund Freud Private University), she professionalised herself in the fields of coaching, supervision and organisational consulting. Her work focuses on advising people working in academia (goal orientation, career development, skills enhancement) and university management (managers, personnel planning, support programmes). www.meikelauggas.at
Dr.in Susanne Lummerding holds a postdoctoral qualification in art and media studies, is a certified coach and supervisor (ÖAGG, ÖVS) and a systemic organisational consultant (SVZ Berlin).
As a freelance consultant and co-creator of further education programmes for employees and managers at international universities, she supports clients from the fields of science and cultural production in decision-making and change processes, on the topics of teaching/research/supervision, shaping leadership tasks, cooperation and team building, conflict and power dynamics, gender_diversity, anti-discrimination/criticism of discrimination, communication, feedback and critical competence, career paths, life-scope balance, etc. www.lummerding.at
Mag.a Ute Riedler ist Kommunikationstrainierin und Coach, Universitätsrätin a.D. (KUG Graz) und Lektorin.
Nach langjähriger Tätigkeit als Hörfunk- und Fernsehjournalistin hat sie sich auf die strategische Beratung von WissenschafterInnen spezialisiert. Ihr Tätigkeitsbereich erstreckt sich von Karriereplanung über Präsentationstrainings, der Vermittlung von Verhandlungskompetenz, Bewerbungs- und Berufungstrainings bis zur wissenschaftsspezifischen Öffentlichkeitsarbeit und dem Training von Führungskräften.
Schwerpunkte: Strategische Karriereplanung, Bewerbungs- und Berufungsverfahren, Führungskräftetraining, Verhandlungskompetenz und Präsentationstechnik, Work-Life-Balance u. Time Management im Wissenschaftsbetrieb. www.uteriedler.at