New Year’s Celebrations

Are you interested in learning more about some anglophone New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day celebrations? Start off on the right foot, and check out our most recent post on Facebook to discover some of the cultural practices that take place in the UK, Ireland, and the US around January 1st!

Christmas around the English-speaking world

Christkind, Santa Claus, or Father Christmas?

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Game Studies and Engineering: Studying in an enthusiastic and balanced teaching environment

When he started to study, all he thought of were career prospects not personal interest. Fortunately, Benjamin Hanußek soon realised that it takes more than that and so, the German switched his studies from Economic Psychology to Archaeology. Gladly, because there he found out about his true passion: working intellectually with games. He specialised on ancient Egyptian board games, attended conferences and published articles on that topic. Now, to find out about what has changed since the 3rd millennium BCE, he is studying Game Studies and Engineering in Klagenfurt.

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Linguistischer Blick auf Fragen im Coaching

Fragen sind von zentraler Bedeutung in helfenden Berufen. Ein neues Projekt unter dem Titel „Questioning Sequences in Executive Coaching“ analysiert Fragepraktiken im systemisch-lösungsorientierten berufsbezogenen Coaching. Das Forschungsteam unter der Leitung von Eva-Maria Graf, das in Österreich, Deutschland und in der Schweiz arbeitet, wird unter anderem vom österreichischen Wissenschaftsfonds FWF finanziert.

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