Andrea was born in Germany and worked as an art director and photographer in publishing houses in Cologne and Düsseldorf before moving to London, where she studied Photography and Fine Art at Central St Martins between 2002 and 2005. Following the completion of her MA course she started to teach and exhibit her work. She has shown her photography work in group and solo exhibitions in the UK and internationally. She won a doctoral studentship award by the British Arts & Humanities Research Council in 2012.
As a teacher and mentor she has since worked with several hundred students and has supported many students to complete their degrees, often over several years and throughout their studies or in the run-up to their final submissions. She has been a student herself four times and her tutors know that she was sometimes an excellent student and on other occasions a student who did not seem to progress, all of which has informed her mentoring and coaching work. She is now mentoring and coaching students, staff, researchers and professionals in and outside her field. She also works with extraordinary people outside of the educational context, many of whom have become friends.
Dr Andrea Muendelein
Student mentor at the University of the Arts London since 2014
(Camberwell College of Art, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion)
Student mentor with UMO, University Mentoring Organisation since 2020
(Goldsmiths University, King’s College London, Courtauld Institute of Art)
Study skills tutor with UMO, University Mentoring Organisation since 2022
(Open University, University of East Anglia, Courtauld Institute of Art)
Short course tutor in Photography at the LCC, University of the Arts London (2018–24)
Teaching experience in Further and Higher Education,
Blake College, City of Westminster College, Stanmore College (2008, 2006–12, 2009–12)
Mentor and practitioner for youth groups age 15–17 with NCS
(National Citizens Service, The Challenge (2014–18)
PhD Fine Art Photography, MA Fine Art Distinction, PG Cert Photography from
Central St Martins, University of the Arts London (2003, 2005, 2019)
PGCE post-compulsory education, Institute of Education London (2009)
Arts & Humanities Research Council Doctoral Studentship Award (2012)
Associate Fellow with the Higher Education Academy (2019)
ASD Mentor, qualifications: ‘Understanding Autism’ and ‘Working with autistic people in Higher Education’
(National Autistic Society, 2016; National Association of Disability Practitioners, 2021)
Specialist Mental Health Mentor, Accreditation with UMHAN, the University Mental Health Advisor Network (2016)
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