Publications and Releases

The study Motivation for Pursuing a Doctorate, based on a survey of students from the Faculties of Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, examines what motivates graduates in their career paths and what guidance they need for decision-making. Authors: Johanna Johannsen and Martha Herbold.

Female professors have a say: Female and male professors in self-administration at universities in Lower Saxony – access, motivations, and participation.
Authors: Johanna Johannsen and Helga Gotzmann in cooperation with Eva Barlösius

The diverse circumstances of students require targeted attention. The task of universities in ensuring equal opportunities and educational equity is to examine the composition of the student body and whether any disadvantages exist. The use of varied teaching and learning approaches plays a major role in this process. With growing heterogeneity and social differentiation, as well as the effects of demographic change, the number of traditional students is expected to decline. This means making efforts to engage groups that have been underrepresented at universities so far, such as so-called non-traditional students.
Autor: Dr. Isabel Sievers

Survey conducted within the framework of diversity management on selected aspects of diversity from the CHE Quest Student Survey 2014/2015. Autor: Joana Rieck

Report on the attitudes of students at Leibniz University towards group-focused enmity and anti-discrimination measures. The pilot study evaluates the 2015 postcard campaign ‘Are you still condemning or are you already living?’ ("Verurteilst Du noch oder lebst Du schon") conducted by the Communications and Marketing Department among first-year students at Leibniz University.
Authors: Helga Gotzmann and Mathias Bös

In 2014, Leibniz University Hannover successfully applied for the second time to the Federal and State Programme for Female Professors. The new equality concept developed for this purpose, ‘Offensive Gender & Diversity 2020’, includes the following priorities:

• Establishment of a tenure track programme to increase the proportion of female professors to a total of 30 per cent
• Initiative to increase the proportion of women in management bodies
• Continuation, implementation and further development of the diversity management system established in 2013

Results from the 2011 benchmarking network of universities in Lower Saxony.
Authors: LNHF - Landeskonferenz Niedersächsischer Hochschulfrauenbeauftragter (LNHF): Antje Bahnik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen; Nele Bastian, Universität Vechta; Anne Dudeck, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg; Birgit Fritzen, Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover; Renate Gehrke, Ostfalia Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften; Helga Gotzmann, Leibniz Universität Hannover; Dr. Edit Kirsch-Auwärter, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen; Maren Neuling, Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover

Diversität und Sport - Intersektionale Perspektiven der sportwissenschaftlichen Geschlechter- und Diversitätsforschung

This anthology presents current empirical research findings to illustrate the diversity of practices and research approaches
in sports science gender and diversity research. The anthology is divided into four overarching chapters (Diversity & Sport, Race, Class, Gender), each of which presents works that focus on
one or more lines of difference in their interactions and in different contexts of sport.
The anthology is aimed at (sports) scientists at all qualification levels and from all (sub)disciplines, (sports) teachers at all school levels, multipliers and practitioners. The anthology is aimed at (sports) scientists at all qualification levels and from all (sub)disciplines, (sports) teachers at all school levels, and multipliers in organised popular and elite sports.

Authors: Prof. Dr. Sandra Günter & Annika Schwark

With contributions from: 
Sophia Aalders | Katrin Albert | Fabienne Bartsch | Angelika Julia Bensch | Birgit Braumüller | Ulrike Burrmann | Maike Dernbach |Agnes Elling | Sandra Günter | Ilse Hartmann-Tews | Tobias Menzel | Tina Nobis | Birgit Palzkill | Julia Perlinger | Bettina Rulofs | Alisa Schafferschik | Heidi Scheffel | Corinna Schmechel | Tim Schlunski | Annika Schwark | Ole Todzi

Handbook on Gender and Security

The Handbook on Gender and Security presents a comprehensive overview of the connections between gender and (in)security in international relations. Authors from various disciplines showcase their innovative research, illustrating how past and recent developments have shaped our understandings of this relationship.

Contributors adopt novel theoretical approaches and empirical methods to explore the effects and dynamics of security threats. They highlight the significant diversity in definitions of both gender and security, introducing refined ways of understanding the connection between the two, focusing on topics including war, violence, climate change, pandemics, and criminal networks, as well as feminist action. The Handbook identifies fruitful avenues for future research in the field, surveying gender-related security policy at the international, national and regional levels.

The Handbook on Gender and Security is an essential resource for students and scholars of International Relations, Security Studies, and Gender Politics. It is also a vital read for policy-makers seeking to understand the significant impact of gender on experiences of and vulnerabilities to security threats.

Edward Elgar Publishing

Authors: Jutta Joachim, Annica Kronsell, Natalia Dalmer

Trans*Personen - Zwischen gewollter und ungewollter (Un-)Sichtbarkeit - Zwischen direkter und indirekter Diskriminierung

The book deals with the effects of symbolic violence in the lives of trans* people, which are discussed primarily in relation to their transition processes. In 2016, as part of a research project, guided interviews were conducted with 14 trans* people about their experiences of discrimination. The results, which were obtained through secondary analysis using computer-assisted qualitative content analysis, reveal a strong ambivalence towards the (in)visibility of trans* people, their perception of their own discrimination, and the pressure to pathologise themselves as part of the transition process. In particular, the respondents' views on their own gender performance and that of other trans* individuals, as well as their reactions to society's treatment of trans* individuals, reveal how deeply transphobia is rooted in society. Despite some critical engagement with the issue, transphobic patterns pervade individuals in an internalised way.

Springer VS Verlag

Authors: Robin Ivy Osterkamp & Friederike Wünsch

Refugee migration, social participation and education

The recent migration and refugee movements present Germany with new challenges. Refugee and forced migration are growing fields of research, with a focus on educational processes. How can the inclusion of refugees be supported? What are their educational opportunities and experiences in our country?
From the series: Education in Global Society, ISBN 978-3-95558-202-9  

The editors:

• Isabel Sievers, Dr., Diversity Management Officer at Leibniz University Hannover, long-standing member of the diversitAS (Diversity – Migration – Education), book publications, editor of the series Education in Global Society.
• Florian Grawan,  research assistant at the diversitAS (Diversity – Migration – Education) and project collaborator in the joint project ‘Cultural Heritage as a Resource?’ at Leibniz University Hannover.

The perspective of committed students: An accompanying study to the Leibniz Workshop for Language Promotion and Participation in the Context of Forced Migration at Leibniz University Hannover. 

Authors: Isabel Sievers und Janna Hauschild

Gender Diversity in the Boardroom: European perspectives on increasing female representation.
Authors: Heike Mensi-Klarbach, Patricia Gabaldon und Cathrine Seierstad: Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Dealing with diversity at universities
Isabel Sievers (2017), In: Vasiliy Kovalev/ Valeriy Karpov/ Steffi Robak (Hrsg.) (2017): Interkulturelle Kommunikation im globalen Bildungsraum. Anchor Academic Publishing, Hamburg.  

How do female scientists in mechanical engineering interpret their success?
Eva Barlösius, Grit Fisser (2017): Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung, Volume 18, No. 1, Art. 1  

STEM wins over female students
Sandra Augustin-Dittmann, Helga Gotzmann (Hrsg.) (2015): MINT gewinnt Schülerinnen. Erfolgsfaktoren von Schülerinnen-Projekten in MINT, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2015
ISBN: 9783658031091