Reach higher, reach beyond.
Mentoring programme for pre- and postdocs at the mdw
(women, inter* and non-binary persons)

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Members of the Jury

The jury selected nine participants for the programme:

Dr.in Andrea Ellmeier, Chair
Univ.-Prof.in Dr.in Evelyn Annuß
Mag.a Julia Fent
ao.Univ.-Prof.in Dr.in Ursula Hemetek
Mag.a Therese Kaufmann, MA
Mag.a Ulli Mayer (split vote with Andrea Ellmeier)

 

Trainers

Mag.a Aliette Dörflinger has for many years worked in the field of applied social & economic research and conducted research, in a non-university research context, on the topics of gender, the cultural and creative industry, innovation, entrepreneurship and regional development in business research. She subsequently switched to the NPO area to assist with an organisation development project in culture management. Most recently, she developed and realised a support programme for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research (#ConnectingMinds) at the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Since 2013, she has worked part-time and, since 2020, full-time as a freelance facilitator / counsellor / coach / trainer / moderator. She develops and implements evidence-based strategic processes, and facilitates participatory processes and new, innovative projects. At the university level, she currently supports the mdw and Vienna University of Technology with coaching offers for graduates and young, up-and-coming academics and scientists. She is also an external lecturer at universities of applied sciences and on the course in Culture Management run by Kupf OÖ (Cultural Platform Upper Austria) and the course “Kulturelle Bildung vor Ort” (“Cultural education in situ”) run by Kultur.Region NÖ (Cultural Region Lower Austria). (Photo: Bernadette Reiter)

 

Dr Lisa Horvath, psychologist, university & organisational counsellor.
10 years’ international research into equality issues; coach for senior university administrators and staff, lecturer, trainer and conceptual planner for university career programmes for academics.
Member of GenderWerkstätte (“GenderWorkshop”), GMEI (Gender Mainstreaming Experts International) and hochschulberatung.at, a university advisory service.
(Photo: Lisa Horvath)
drlisahorvath.at

 

Ute Riedler is a communication trainer and coach, university board member ret. (University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz) and lecturer.
After many years as a radio and television journalist, she became a specialist in the strategic counselling of academics. Her field of activity ranges from career planning to presentation training, teaching negotiation skills, job application and appeals training, all the way to discipline-specific public relations work and training senior administrators.
Key focuses: strategic career planning, job application and appeal procedures, training senior administrators, negotiation skills and presentation technique, work-life balance and time management in academic life. 
(Photo: Ute Riedler)
www.uteriedler.at 

 

Michaela Rosen is an actor, and she has also taught for many years at leading universities in the USA (Harvard), Germany, Austria (mdw – Max Reinhardt Seminar) and Australia (VCA), and has, since 2016, been working as an instructor in “Communicative Competence, Status Games, and Empathy” at the mdw. Her coaching focuses include communicative competency, personality development and leadership; “adroit creation” – processes of change (personal and organisational); and status games and empathy. She has been training and coaching leaders (above all in the field of the arts and culture) since 2002 and is a passionate supporter of female executives. She provides support in preparing hearings, presentations, applications, etc. (for professorships, scholarly presentations and leadership posts). Carefully selected practical exercises and methods taken from the actual practice of theatre and film, along with the special effects of the performing arts on human beings, significantly enhance communicative competencies and key qualifications such as resilience, expressive power, empathy and natural authority, while also cultivating an understanding of effective leadership competencies. (Photo: Suzy Stöckl)
www.beyond-acting.at

 

Academic coaches

 

Dr Meike Lauggas works as an academic coach, trainer and lecturer throughout the German-speaking world. She received her PhD with a thesis on the History of Medicine and Gender at the University of Vienna, and subsequently moved to the public administration field (Municipal Department MA 57 of the City of Vienna), where she was able to put into practice numerous projects in the field of gender and diversity competence.
After completing a university course in Counselling Sciences (Sigmund Freud University, Vienna), she turned professional in the fields of coaching, supervision and organisational consulting.
The key focuses of her work are the counselling of people working in science and academia (goal orientation, shaping career paths, competency enhancement) and university administrations (senior administrators, personnel planning, funding programmes).
(Photo: Meike Lauggas)
www.meikelauggas.at

 

Dr Susanne Lummerding, as an Art and Media Studies Scholar, Certified Coach and Supervisor, (ÖAGG, ÖVS) and Certified Organisational Consultant (SVZ Berlin), provides academic coaching for faculty and (post-)graduates, management and boards, as well as coaching for creative professionals.
She supports her clients in making decisions and shaping changes, working on topics such as teaching/research/supervision, transformational leadership, cooperation and team building, conflict and power dynamics, gender-diversity, anti-discrimination, communication and critique skills, shaping career paths, life-scope balance, etc.
(Photo: Susanne Lummerding)
www.lummerding.at

 

Ute Riedler is a communication trainer and coach, university board member ret. (University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz) and lecturer.
After many years as a radio and television journalist, she became a specialist in the strategic counselling of academics. Her field of activity ranges from career planning to presentation training, teaching negotiation skills, job application and appeals training, all the way to discipline-specific public relations work and training senior administrators.
Key focuses: strategic career planning, job application and appeal procedures, training senior administrators, negotiation skills and presentation technique, work-life balance and time management in academic life. 
(Photo: Ute Riedler)
www.uteriedler.at