Dr. Lena Tichy
Profile
Dr. Lena Tichy Community Managerin
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Address
Berner Fachhochschule
Office of the Vice-President Teaching
Virtuelle Akademie
Falkenplatz 16
3012 Bern
Activities
Responsibilities
Developing and supporting communities within the Virtual Academy
Focus areas
Digital Skills
OER
Diversity
CV
Biography
- I am a journalist by training: Between 2007 - 2020, I wrote for various print media (including "WOZ die Wochenzeitung", "Berner Zeitung", "Berner Kulturagenda", "Berner Landbote"). In 2014, I led project management workshops for young people for the national children's and youth promotion organisation Infoklick.ch, and in 2015 I managed an exhibition on the federal elections for the Politforum Käfigturm. During my Ph.D-studies in New Zealand, I got involved with an association called Write Where You Are and taught a weekly creative writing course in a correctional facility in Wellington. As part of this commitment I helped organise "Prison Voices" in 2018, a public reading in a correctional facility in cooperation with the New Zealand Festival of the Arts. I began working at BFH in 2021 as a scientific collaborator at the International Relations Office. Since May 2022 I am part of the Virtual Academy as Community Manager.
Education
- 2016-2019 Ph.D in Creative Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
- 2011-2012 MSc in Equality Studies at the School of Social Justice, University College Dublin, Ireland
- 2007-2011 B.A. in Philosophy at the University of Bern, Switzerland
Language skills and intercultural knowledge
Language skills
- German - Native or bilingual proficiency
- English - Native or bilingual proficiency
- French - Limited working proficiency
Intercultural knowledge
- Ireland
- New Zealand
- United Kingdom