University of Akron - Ohio/U.S.
Fulbright Scholar/Ph.D. Canditate Sociology
since Fall 2007
 

Universitá di Bologna – Bertinoro, Italy
Summer School in Visual Sociology
June 2006  

University of Graz, Austria
Doctorate studies in Sociology
March 2004 - March 2006

University of Graz, Austria
Mag.rer.soc.oec, Sociology and Gender Studies.
Interests: Sociology of work, sociology of gender, qualitative research methods
Thesis (political) Sociology: Profession  Labour Unionist – Between Peers and Pikes
October 1998 - November 2002

Academy for Social Work, Graz - Austria
Academy for Social Work; Thesis: Antenatal Consultation in case of Marihuana Abuse,
September 1993 - July 1996

University of Graz, Austria
Studies in Psychology
September 1992 – September 1993

Department of Sociology, University of Graz: Management, Research and Teaching        April 2004 – June 2007,
Project management, research, financial and other reporting within 6^th European Framework Program: Anovasofie, Analysing and Overcoming the Sociological Fragmentation in Europe, Design and teaching of research laboratories: “Profession Sociologist” (wt2005/st2006, together with Christian Fleck and Markus Schweiger) and “Occupations, Professions and Gender” (wt2006/st2007, together with Angelika Wetterer, Prof. of Sociology and Gender Studies)

Research project financed by the Austrian Ministry of Science
July 2003 - December 2005,
Design of research proposal, research and reporting: "Gendersensitive Governance in the Field of Transport" - together with Cosima Pilz

City Council of Graz: Independent Women Representative / Equal Opportunities Officer
May 2002 to March 2004,  
Social work for women - counselling, Chairwoman of "Frauenrat" (board of 70 women organizations including women of all political parties), political and public relations, networking

Mafalda, association for encouragement of girls and young women in non-traditonal professions
May 1998 to May 2002,
European project development manager, conception of educational measures and course organization, individual and group-trainings for girls and women, workshops for specialists

Women's Documentation- and Projectcenter
May 1997 to September 1997,
Conception of measures, qualification coaching for jobless women; construction and conception of the feministic cultural journal dokumenta, event management, public relations        

pro mente - center for work training
September 1996 to May 1997,
Coordination of "biological food express", Work-training-project with psychological handicapped persons

Student jobs
1990 to 1994
Care for migrants and seniors, cultural initiatives 

Review Article on "Das Gruppendiskussionsverfahren in der Forschungspraxis" by Ralf Bohnsack, Frankfurt in Forum Qualitative Sozialfoschung Volume 8, No. 3, Art. 12 – September 2007
 

Mythos Lord Jim Loge. 2006. with Andreas Unterweger. in Sexy Mythos. Selbst und Fremdbilder von Künstler/innen // Ideas and Images of Artists. NGBK (ed).ISBN: 3-938515-01-5
 

Gendersensitive Governance in the field of transport: Researching women from the street, European Spatial Research and Policy, Vol 13, 2006, Nr. 1
 

Interviews mit Wahlösterreicherinnen (2004) in Bettina Behr, Ilse Wieser (Hrsg.) WOMENT! Eine Würdigung der Grazer FrauenStadtGeschichte. Dokumentation und Lesebuch. Innsbruck:Studienverlag
 

Sex in the City - Gendermanifestierungen im öffentlichen urbanen Raum (2004) in Gudrun Salmhofer (Hrsg.) Sexismus- Übergriffe im Alltag, Innsbruck:Studienverlag
 

"Gendersensitive Governance in the Field of Transport", Austrian Ministry of Science;
NODE - New Orientations for Democracy in Europe, 2003-2005, together with Cosima Pilz

 

Pending: Virtual Library of Sociology in Europe, Translational Research Program, FWF Austrian Science Fund

TIMESPAN Travelling Ideas and Migration of European Social Science Professionals Across Nations, Marie Curie Actions - Research Training Network, European Commission

"Professor's Wifes", FWF Austrian Science Fund, 2005-2006, together with Christian Fleck, Katja Hartl, Sandra Ernst-Kaiser.

 

since 2006 Women's Documentation and Project-Centre
2005-2007 Programmforum Forum Stadtpark
2006 Editorial Board of 'Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie'
2006-2007 KIG! Kultur in Graz
1994 to 1997, Women's Documentation, Research and Education Center

 

German (native), English (fluent), Italian (general knowledge), Spanish (basic knowledge)

 

Burma – Myanmar, December 2002 – January 2003
Mexico-Belize-Honduras-Costa Rica-Colombia, October 1997 – January 1998
Practical studies in a Swiss therapy center for drug addicts, March 1995 – July 1995