As Master’s and PhD scholarships are of intrinsic value for a collaborative programme like APPEAR five scholarship holders wrote about the experiences during their studies in Austria. In addition two of the contributions for the publications have been published in the latest OeAD news.
Wossen Argaw Tegegn received a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Vienna in 2014. Wossen was a resident scholar (2011/12) at the School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe (NM) in USA. In 2003, she got her MPhil degree in English language and linguistics from the University of Trondheim, Norway. She has been a senior university Lecturer in Ethiopia. She was the founder of the Gender Equity Office at her home university and had long experience in gender issues in the higher education system. Her research interests are in teaching English as a foreign language, early grade literacy education, gender, and female empowerment with a special focus on higher education. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Humanities and Law at Arsi University, Ethiopia.