Mag.a

Ulli Mayer

Head
mayer-u(at)mdw.ac.at
phone: +43-1-71155-6073
room: B0249
During office: MO–TH

Ulli Mayer studied political science with a focus on gender studies and cultural studies in Vienna and Berlin. She is head of the GGD and teaches at the Institute for Cultural Management and Gender Studies (IKM)/mdw and the Institute for Culture and Media Management at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre (HfMT). In 2016, she initiated and led the course »kD_K Kritische Diversitätspraxis in Kunst und Kultur« at the Institute for Science and Art. Her queer-feminist, activist engagement led her to initiate the Pink Noise Camp in 2011 and to co-found the association pink noise. Association for the Promotion of Feminist Pop Cultural Activities.

Selected publications:

Mayer, Ulli/Ellmeier, Andrea/Müller, Gerda (Hg.) (2025): Üben und Ver_Üben. Diversität als diskriminierungskritische Praxis in Kunst, Kultur und Bildung. Diversity in Culture, Bielefeld: transcript, Open Access.

Mayer, Ulli (2025): »Rebel Grrrls. Empowerment im Kontext des pink noise Camp« in: Andrea Ellmeier/Doris Ingrisch/Claudia Walkensteiner-Preschl (Hg.), Wissen und Geschlecht in Musik, Theater und Film, Bd. 10, Wien Köln Weimar: Böhlau, S. 95-112.

Mayer, Ulrike (2020): »Der Ansatz ‚Kritischer Diversität‘ am Beispiel der Diversitätsstrategie der Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien« in: ZDfm – Zeitschrift für Diversitätsforschung und -management, 1-2020, S. 76-82.

BA MAS

Laura Eichenseer 

consultant for organizational agend
eichenseer(at)mdw.ac.at
phone: +43-1-71155-6071
room: B0247
During office: MO–FR

Laura Eichenseer is consultant for organizational agenda for the GGD and coordinator of the Master's programme in Cultural Management/IKM at the mdw. She studied theatre, film and media studies in Vienna and went on to graduate from the Institute for Cultural Management and Gender Studies with a thesis on »Equality in Art and Culture«. In 2025, she became a certified social justice and diversity trainer.

Responsibilities: Communication and organisational agendas, event coordination and project management

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Emma Maria Lakkala

Wissensvermittlung und Weiterbildung
lakkala(at)mdw.ac.at
phone: +43-1-71155-6072
room: B0247
During office: MO–WE

Emma Lakkala holds master’s degrees in Gender Studies (University of Vienna) and Cultural and Cognitive Linguistics (LMU Munich) and has been working at the GGD since July 2025, focusing on knowledge transfer and extended education. Born and raised in Finland, Emma began learning the violin at an early age, initially using the Suzuki method, and later expanded their musical experience to include piano as well as performing in various bands and orchestras. In addition to working at the mdw, Emma is currently training to become a certified sex educator at the Austrian Society for Sexual Sciences.

Responsibilities: Development and implementation of extended education programs on gender and diversity competence at the mdw, collaboration in the IN.TUNE Working Group “Belonging, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion”

Selected publications:

Beck, Celina/Lakkala, Emma (2025): »Rewriting Femininity: Tradwives, Visual Aesthetics of Class, and Politics of Remembrance« in: Femina Politica: Zeitschrift für feministische Politik-Wissenschaft, 1-2025, S. 64–77.

Hussein, Segal/Lakkala, Emma (2022): »An Intersectional Approach on Habitus Adaptations in Academic Writing: Understanding Black and People of Color, First-generation Students’ Experiences through Memory Work« in: Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Schreibforschung, Bd. 7, S. 5–27.
[Written in cooperation with Mỹ Anh Đinh, Mariam Malik, and Sefa Adzua.]

Lakkala, Emma (2022): »Review of: Salami, Minna: Sensuous Knowledge. A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone« in: Matthes/Seitz (2021), Ariadne Blog, Austrian National Library.

MMag.a MAS

Veronika Leiner

Coordinator Mentoring-Programms
leiner(at)mdw.ac.at
phone: +43-1-71155-7451
room: UHP16

Veronika Leiner is the coordinator of the mdw Mentoring Programms and Institutional Alliance Manager for the European Universities Alliance IN.TUNE. She studied German and Spanish Literature and Linguistics as well as Cultural and Media Management. She worked, among others, for the community radio station FRO 105.0 MHz and Eurozine – European Network of Cultural Journals and Netmagazine and has been active in the context of cultural and media politics.

Responsibilites: Coordination of the mdw Mentoring Programms

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Jenn Stoll

Consultant for gender and diversity issues
stoll(at)mdw.ac.at
phone: +43-1-71155-6070
room: B0259
During office: TU–FR

Jenn Stoll studied Sociology, Gender Studies, and Anthropology and earned a doctorate in Sociology on the topic of trans* parenthood. Research and teaching experience in Gender, Queer and Trans Studies as well as in the field of equal opportunities work. Since 2025, Jenn is a consultant for gender and diversity issues at the mdw.

Responsibilites: Design, planning, and implementation of gender and diversity-related measures, projects and events on topics such as gender and diversity competence in curricula and teaching, bias-reflective personnel selection in art and music universities and gender diversity

Selected publications:

Stoll, Jenn (im Erscheinen): becoming trans* parents: Konfigurationen von Repronormativität, Handlungsfähigkeit und reproduktiver Gerechtigkeit, Bielefeld: transcript, Open Access.

Stoll, Jenn (2025): »To be continued: Diversität als diskriminierungskritische Praxis« in: mdw-Webmagazin (Hg.), Wien.

Stoll, Jenn (2021): »Alles Körper, oder was? – Elternwerden als Konfiguration von Affektivität, Körperlichkeit und Repronormativität« in: Esto Mader et al. (Hg.): Trans* und Inter* Studien: Aktuelle Forschungsbeiträge aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum, Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, S. 151-173.