Assoz. Prof. Mag. Dr. Helga Fasching

Department of Education
Sensengasse 3a
3rd floor/ O3.11
1090 Vienna
AUSTRIA

Phone: +43 1 4277 46803
eFax: +43 1 4277 846803

E-Mail:
helga.fasching@univie.ac.at

Office hours: Tuesdays 12.00-13.00h or arranged per email helga.fasching@univie.ac.at

 

Homepage:
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/helga.fasching/index.html

 

Courses of current and past terms.

Leadership Roles and Functions

  • Vice Director of the Doctoral Program D-SPL 59 (Term 2024–2026)
  • Scientific Director of the Continuing Education Program "Psychotherapeutic Specialization: Systemic Psychotherapy / Systemic Family Therapy" (since 07/2023).
  • Head of the FWF Research Project "Cooperation for Inclusion in Educational Transitions" (P29291, duration: 01.10.2016 – 30.09.2021).
  • Member of the Board of Trustees of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF); Deputy Specialist Reviewer for the Humanities and Social Sciences, responsible for the subfields of Psychology and Educational Sciences (since 10/2020).
  • Vice Director of the Study Program at the Institute of Educational Science (SPL 19) (01.10.2016 – 30.09.2020).
  • Member of the advisory board and reviewer for the peer-reviewed journal VHN (Quarterly Journal for Special Education and Related Disciplines).
  • Member of the German Society for Educational Science (DGfE), Section for Special Education.
  • Member of the Austrian Society for Research and Development in Education (ÖFEB).
  • Member of the Austrian Working Group for Systemic Therapy and Systemic Studies (ÖAS).

 

 

Main Research:

  • Inclusive Education
  • Transition between school and work
  • Job related participation
  • Educational and vocational inequality research
  • Systemic counseling and therapy concepts
  • Qualitative research methods
  • Participative research

Research Topics:

  • Inclusive Transitions (from school – vocational training – employment of persons with different disabilities)
  • Research on collaborations between professionals and parents/their children (participative transition planning)
  • Intersectional research / research on inequality (disability, gender, migration)
  • Systemic concepts in educational, psychosocial and therapeutic field of work
  • Quality management and evaluation of innovative measures of vocational integration
  • Qualitative research methods (Reflecting teams, participative Research)

 

Board member of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF); Alternate reporter for the scientific discipline Humanities and Social Sciences specifically for Psychology and Educational Sciences.