Team leader

Dr.ⁱⁿ Brigitte Römmer-Nossek 
Dr. Brigitte Römmer-Nossek is head of the Student Research and Peer Learning team at the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) at the University of Vienna. As a cognitive scientist and university didactician, she is concerned with competence acquisition from the perspective of students, teachers and curriculum developers. She is particularly interested in research-based learning, the academic socialisation of students, the role and design of physical and digital spaces, and the potential of interdisciplinarity. As a lecturer, she is currently involved in the master's programme MEi:CogSci as well as in the extension curriculum "Akademische Schreibkompetenz entwickeln, vermitteln und beforschen – Ausbildung von Schreibmentor*innen" ("Developing, teaching and researching academic writing competence - training writing mentors"); she was significantly involved in the conception and curriculum development of both projects. She began her studies in English and Political Science in Vienna and Manchester before studying her self-developed studium irregulare "Brain and Cognitive Sciences". After a period in non-university research and software development, she moved to the University of Vienna in 2004. She is an expert and trainer in scientific writing and has a PhD on scientific writing as a cognitive process and the relationship between writing development and epistemological development.

Areas of responsibility at CTL: Team leader for Student Research and Peer Learning - offers for students (writing mentoring, writing assistance programme, writing workshops); STEOP mentoring.

E-Mail: brigitte.roemmer-nossek@univie.ac.at
T: +43-1-4277-12053

Klara Dreo, MA is an applied linguist and writing didactician who joined the Student Research and Peer Learning team in 2019. Prior to that, she has supported students in workshops and one-on-one consultations as a writing mentor and writing assistant at CTL since 2015 and participated in the collaborative development of support formats. She continues to develop DaF/DaZ didactics for the demands of academic writing and ensures that multilingualism is considered in all offerings. In the EC "Developing, Teaching, and Researching Academic Writing Competence - Training Writing Mentors*", she has been a lecturer and co-coordinator since 2018. Her focus areas and interests include university writing didactics, writing competencies, and multilingualism.

Responsibilities at CTL: Coordination and further development of the Qualification offers for student multiplier (in German: Qualifizierungsangebote studentischer Multiplikator*innen, QuaM!), conception and implementation of measures for teaching and learning development in the field of academic writing and working in BA studies, especially for students with a first language other than German, monitoring of faculty projects on scientific writing, coordination of the writing marathons, co-coordination of the writing mentoring program, design of the public appearance of the work area, social media as well as visual design.

E-Mail: klara.dreo@univie.ac.at
T: +43-1-4277-12074

Marcela Hubert, BA joined CTL in October 2021 as a project associate in the Student Research and Peer Learning team. Previously, she was a writing mentor and writing assistant at CTL in 2016-2021. Since 2019, she teaches scientific writing in English at FHWien of WKW and FH Salzburg. She studied Transcultural Communication as well as Translation with a focus on Conference Interpreting at the University of Vienna and Newcastle University in England. Her areas of focus and interest include academic work and writing in English, study (dis)satisfaction and progress, learning and study strategies.

Responsibilities at CTL: Project work on learning analytics in cooperation with the Exams and student assessment team, further development and coordination of a data-supported peer counseling service for students in a pilot phase with accompanying research, conception and implementation of qualification offers for student multipliers.

E-Mail: marcela.hubert@univie.ac.at
T: +43-1-4277-12083

Mag. Eva Kuntschner MSc.
Eva Kuntschner is an Americanist, writing coach and consultant, and supervisor/coach (ÖVS). She has supervised the writing mentoring program at CTL since 2013. Since 2010, she has taught academic writing in German and English at Austrian universities and universities of applied sciences. She completed her graduate studies in English/American Studies in Graz and Minneapolis/Minnesota (USA), and her training as a writing coach at writers' studio Vienna. Since 2016, she has also been working as a supervisor/coach for teachers and students in the university sector.

Responsibilities at CTL: Coordination of the writing mentoring program and supervision of writing mentors, supervision and workshops for teachers and student multipliers on writing skills and role clarity.

E-Mail: eva.kuntschner@univie.ac.at
T: +43-1-4277-12058

Frano Petar Rismondo, MA
Frano Petar Rismondo joined in 2021 the Student Research and Peer Learning team. Prior to that, he was a writing mentor and writing assistant at CTL from 2015 to 2021. He is a political scientist by training and a writing instructor with many transdisciplinary interests, of which he would like to highlight phenomenology.

Responsibilities at CTL: digiUR project collaborator (EU-dUR), coordination as well as collaboration in the conception and development of the Student Research Hub, conception and implementation of workshops for student multipliers and teachers on topics related to learning, scholarly reading, writing, working, and research, coordination of MOOCs of the Student Research and Peer Learning team, coordination and supervision of the StEOP Mentoring Program.

E-Mail: frano.rismondo@univie.ac.at
T: +43-1-4277-120 85

Erika Unterpertinger, MA, comparatist and writing scholar, joined the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) at the University of Vienna in 2019 as a member of the Student Research and Peer Learning team. Her main focus is on teaching and learning development in the field of scientific work in master studies and basic training for tutors. Since summer semester 2020, she has been a lecturer in the extension curriculum "Developing, Teaching and Researching Academic Writing Competence - Training of Writing Mentors" and since summer semester 2021, she has been a lecturer for academic work in the master's program Studium Generale of the PostGraduate Center of the University of Vienna. Previously, she worked as a writing mentor and writing assistant from 2015 to 2019 and gained insight into the challenges students encounter when writing their theses. Therefore, her dissertation focuses on the question of how student epistemological processes are formed and how they can be supported in a (writing-)didactic way.

Responsibilities at CTL: Conception and implementation of measures for teaching and learning development in the area of academic writing and working in master's studies, supervision of faculty projects on academic writing, operational coordination of the writing assistance program, evaluation of the area of academic writing, coordination and publication of "zisch: zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre schreibforschung".

E-Mail: erika.unterpertinger@univie.ac.at
T: +43-1-4277-12073