I’m an anthropologist working in postdoctoral researcher development at the University of Graz. I have a background in diversity and gender equality promotion, qualitative research, and my passion is involving various stakeholders for creating change in organizations. I’ve worked for equality offices at German and Austrian universities as well as at Verein für Männer- und Geschlechterthemen Steiermark (EU-projects in gender-reflective violence prevention). I have a Ph.D. (2014) and M.A. in Cultural Anthropology (2009), both from Graz University. I also studied at the University of Otago (Dept. of Anthropology, Gender and Sociology), New Zealand.
I’ve worked as a predoc and postdoc at Austrian universities from 2011 until 2016, as programme director and researcher. I still occasionally work as an adjunct lecturer. I am co-founder of Network Qualitative Research Graz. My favourite topics include: gender and migration studies, qualitative methodologies, sexualities, feminism.
Reading suggestions
- from my work in researcher development
Johanna Stadlbauer (2023): Reflecting on academic kindness, RCC Blog, December.
- from my time as a researcher
Andrea Ploder/Johanna Stadlbauer (2016): Strong Reflexivity and Its Critics: Responses to Autoethnography in the German-speaking Cultural and Social Sciences, In: Qualitative Inquiry 2016, Vol. 22(9) 753–765.