Team

Cornelia Schadler (she/her or they/them) – Principal Investigator

Cornelia Schadler is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Education at the University of Vienna.

For more information see https://homepage.univie.ac.at/cornelia.schadler/

         

Nathalie Köbli (she/her) – Researcher

Nathalie Ann Köbli is a PhD student and researcher at the Department of Education at the University of Vienna, as well as a student of conceptual art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In her dissertation she is employing New Materialist theory to research habitus transformation of students with non-academic backgrounds. Her Master´s thesis discussed the role of transcripts within qualitative research from a New Materialist perspective. Her artistic work deals with questions of subjectivity in the light of family histories and material surroundings, including performance art, photography, and rhizomusic. Also, she is a hairdresser´s assistant, ex- fitness trainer and actress with a love for Hungarian food and epic fantasy books.

Luisa Leisenheimer (she/her) – Researcher

Luisa Leisenheimer is a researcher at the Department of Education at the University of Vienna. In her Master’s she studied International Development where she focused on issues of climate policy, global production networks of natural resources and the political economy of development. In her former job as project and teaching assistant at the Department of International Development she had the opportunity to gain first experience in project work and qualitative research, conducting interviews with different actors in Europe and Latin America, investigating the role of mineral prices for a socio-ecological transformation. By becoming a team member of the Research Project “Entangled Publications” she will now focus on New Materialist perspectives and global inequality as well as power asymmetries in the field of academic publishing.

Mira Achter (no pronoun) – Research Assistant

Mira Achter studies sociology at the University of Vienna. From 2021-2022 they were part of the project Performing Gender in View of the Outbreak within which they inquired into reification of gender related norms through research. 2019 they finished their bachelor’s degree in sociology with a thesis on the use of the term “Migrationshintergrund” in educational sciences and it’s consequences in academia and everyday life.

Teresa Kucera (she/her) – Researcher (Teresa is currently on parental leave)

Teresa Kucera is a PHD researcher at the department of education. She studied Sociology and worked as a teaching assistant at the Department of Sociology, where she had the opportunity to gain first experiences in Academia. While she also had jobs in the fields of Education and Psychotherapy, she taught with Cornelia Schadler at the Department of Gender Studies and Sociology. Her research fields are paradigms of social science and gender studies as well as social inequality.