Guest Professorship Gender & Diversity

Dr. Sina Lautenschläger was a guest professor for gender and diversity in the Department of Linguistics at ‘Deutsches Seminar’ (German Seminar) at Leibniz Universität Hannover from 2023-2024.

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Dr. Sina Lautenschläger is a linguist and specialises in culturally oriented linguistics. From 2016 to 2021, she worked as a lecturer for special tasks at the University of Kassel, where she completed her doctorate in 2016 on the topic of “Geschlechtsspezifische Körper- und Rollenbilder. Eine korpuslinguistische Untersuchung” (Gender-specific body and role images. A corpus linguistic study) for her doctorate. During this time, she worked for four years as the Women's and Equal Opportunities Officer for the Department of German Studies. Since 2022, she has been a mentor in the network “Mentoring Hessen. Frauen in Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft” (Mentoring Hesse. Women in Science and Business).

After working as an external lecturer (Summer semester 2018) and lecturer for special tasks (Summer semester 2019) at the University of Vechta, she worked from 2021 to 2023 as a research assistant on the project “Zwischen Elfenbeinturm und rauer See - zum precarären Verhältnis zwischen Wissenschaft und Politik und seiner Mediatisierung am Beispiel der ‘Corona-Krise’” (Between the ivory tower and rough seas - on the precarious relationship between science and politics and its mediatisation using the example of the 'corona crisis') at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg. While her research here focused on external science communication in politicised contexts, which was primarily analysed in terms of interactional and conversational linguistics, she otherwise conducts research within text/discourse linguistics on the topics of (gender) stereotypes and language criticism (political correctness, feminist linguistics, gender linguistics), internet linguistics and, in particular, silence in messenger communication (habilitation project).

Some publications in which she considers the connection between language, language use, silence and gender specificity are the following:

• 2018: Geschlechtsspezifische Körper- und Rollenbilder. Eine korpuslinguistische Untersuchung. Berlin/Boston, de Gruyter.
• 2020: Von Rabenmüttern und geldverdienenden Supermännern – Stereotype im Sprachgebrauch. In: Muttersprache 1/2020, Vol. 130, pp. 34-46.
• 2020: „Das ist ein Hotel und alle Nutten müssen auschecken.“ Eine framesemantische Analyse von Edgar Wassers Bad Boy (2014). In: Höllein, Dagobert/Lehnert, Nils/Woitkowski, Felix (eds.): Rap –Text – Analyse. Deutscher Rap seit 2000. 20 Einzeltextanalysen. Bielefeld, transcript, pp. 149-160.
• 2021: „Jetzt sind die Fotzen wieder da!“ – ‚Konservatismen‘ und deren Bruch? Eine genderlinguistische Betrachtung. In: Busch, Nicolai/Süß, Heidi (eds.): Rap. Politisch. Rechts? Ästhetische Konservatismen im Deutschrap. Weinheim, Beltz Juventa, pp. 77-95.
• 2021: Willst du gelten, mach dich selten: Tabu und Schweigen in interpersonalen Beziehungen. In: Kuck, Kristin (eds.): Tabu-Diskurse. Aptum. Zeitschrift für Sprachkritik und Sprachkultur, 02/2021, pp. 212-229.
• 2023 (submitted): Ich bin (k)eine Quotenfrau! Stereotype und Stigma-Management. Erscheint in: Geschlechtergerechte Sprache, series: Thema Deutsch. Hildesheim and others, Olms.
• 2024 (i. prep.): Erkämpfte Liebe und programmierte Frauen. Geschlechtsspezifische Ratschläge zur Flirt- und Courtship-Kommunikation. Erscheint in: Klug, Nina-Maria/Lautenschläger, Sina (eds.): True Love. Sprache(n) der Liebe in Text und Gespräch. Reihe Europäische Studien zur Textlinguistik. Tübingen, Narr Attempto Francke.

Dr. Linda Supik was a guest professor for gender and diversity at the Center for Inclusive Citizenship (CINC) at Leibniz University Hannover from 2019-2020.

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Dr. phil. Linda Supik is a sociologist. Previous academic positions in teaching and research include the Universities of Münster, Frankfurt am Main, Helmuth Schmidt University in Hamburg, Osnabrück, the Institute of Education University of London, the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, KWI Essen and the Catholic University of Applied Sciences NRW. For many years, she has been researching social diversity in immigration countries and post-migrant societies and how this is represented in official statistics and social science survey research, as well as discrimination and anti-discrimination and equality policies, intersectionality, racism and gender. More important publications are:

• Measuring Ethnicity - Matters of Classification and Statistical Representation. 2019 with Riem Spielhaus (eds.) Special Issue Ethnicities, Vol 19, No 3, June 2019.
• Erhebung von Antidiskriminierungsdaten in Deutschland. Bestandsaufnahme und Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten von Wiederholungsbefragungen. Expertise für die Antidiskriminierungsstelle des Bundes. (2018) with Vera Egenberger with Anne-Luise Baumann.
• Statistik und Diskriminierung. In: Handbuch Diskriminierung (2017) Edited by Albert Scherr, Aladin El-Mafaalani and Emine Gökcen Yüksel, VS-Verlag Wiesbaden.
• Evaluation des Allgemeinen Gleichbehandlungsgesetzes (2016); (together with S. Berghahn, V. Egenberger, M. Klapp, A. Klose, D. Liebscher, and A. Tischbirek)
• Statistik und Rassismus - Das Dilemma der Erfassung von Ethnizität. Campus (2014).
• Dezentrierte Positionierung. Stuart Halls Konzept der Identitätspolitiken (2005).
   

Courses in the winter semester 2019/20 and in the summer semester 2020 on the topics:

• Gender diversity and sexuality in society, school and teaching
• The goal of a discrimination-free school: Equal rights and educational opportunities for all?!
• Intersectionality and citizenship in the post-migrant society: introduction to the concept of intersectionality
• Discrimination and how to measure it. Practical research exercises in inclusive survey research and educational statistics
• Gender, Race and Sexuality in Postcolonial Theory

Dr. Nicola Oswald was a guest professor for gender and diversity at the Institute of Mathematics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Leibniz University Hannover in the winter semester 2017/2018.

Here: Lecture by Prof. Nicola Oswald “Der Mathematikerin - Über die Macht weicher Einflussfaktoren auf die Karrierewege von Wissenschaftlerinnen“ from 12 December 2017 as part of the expert discussion of the Hochschulbüro für ChancenVielfalt.

Current contact details

University of Wuppertal I Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

oswald@uni-wuppertal.de | http://www2.math.uni-wuppertal.de/~oswald

Biographical key points

• Winter Semester 2017/18 – Summer semester 2018 guest professor (W3), Focus: Gender and Diversity in mathematics, University Hannover, Department  Didactics of Mathematics
• Summer Semester 2017 Substitute professor (W3), replacing Professor Dr. Klaus Volkert, History and Didactics of Mathematics research group, University of Wuppertal, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
• August - October 2016 Academic guest at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich
• since November 2015 Member of the editorial board of ‘Mathematische Semesterberichte’
• since May 2015 Post-doc position with Prof. Dr. Klaus Volkert in the History and Didactics of Mathematics research group, University of Wuppertal, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
• November 2014 PhD in number theory with Prof. Dr. Jörn Steuding, University of Würzburg, Institute of Mathematics, Chair of Function Theory
• January 2012 - June 2016 Course development, maintenance and support of online courses, Network Organisation, Virtual University of Bavaria
• May 2011 - April 2015 Research assistant, University of Würzburg, Institute of Mathematics, Chair of Function Theory, Number Theory research group
• Winter Semester 2006/07 – Summer Semester 2011 Double degree programme in Mathematics (Diploma) and Computer Science (Teaching Qualification Gymnasium), University of Würzburg
• Winter Semester 2008/09 – Summer Semester 2009 Studies in Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Caen, France
• Winter Semester 2005/06 – Summer Semester 2006 Studies in Audiovisual Media, Technische Fachhochschule Berlin

Dr. Heike Mensi-Klarbach was a guest professor for gender and diversity at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Labour Studies at the Faculty of Economics and Management from October 2015 to September 2017.

Contact details

Vienna University of Economics and Business I Institute for Gender and Diversity in Organizations

heike.mensi-klarbachwu.ac.at

https://www.wu.ac.at/diversity/team/mensiklarbach

Project as part of the visiting professorship:

The field of diversity management (Bourdieu, 2000) is constituted on the one hand by the discursive construction of diversity and diversity management, and on the other hand by the concrete handling of diversity, i.e. the practice of diversity management (Tatli, 2011). With regard to the discursive construction of the field, it is on the one hand about the definition of diversity and how to deal with it, and on the other hand about the legitimisation of diversity management, which can be legally, morally or economically based. Of course, mixed variants in the justification of diversity management are also possible, which can be found in some large companies in particular. Legitimisation significantly influences the design of practical implementation and therefore the type of measures implemented, the allocation of resources and, last but not least, the sustainability of implementation (Dass & Parker, 2002; Kelly & Dobbin, 1996).

In her research work, Heike Mensi-Klarbach deals with this very constitution of the field and the implementation of diversity management in the public sector. Specifically, she analyses this using the example of the city of Malmö, which has been pursuing a diversity strategy for public administration for years. In particular, the question arises as to who the driving and hindering actors are, how diversity management is integrated into work processes and what this means for any resistance or the sustainability of implementation. The case study of the City of Malmö will be analysed and evaluated as part of the visiting professorship and the knowledge gained from it will be made fruitful for other contexts, such as Leibniz University Hannover. In particular, this will enable a reflective approach to diversity and a strategic approach to the implementation of diversity management.

Dr. phil. Andrea Wolffram was guest professor for gender and diversity at the Institute of Sociology and at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and the Faculty of Arts from October 2014 to September 2016.

Contact details

Chair of Sociology with a Focus on Technical and Organizational Sociology

awolffram@soziologie.rwth-aachen.de

Webseite der RWTH Aachen Prof.in Wolffram

Curriculum vitae and academic activities

• since 10/2016: Senior Researcher at the Chair of Sociology of Technology and Organisation, RWTH Aachen University
• 10/2014-09/2016: Visiting Professor with a focus on Gender and Diversity - Profession and Gender at Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institute of Sociology and Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
• 2008-09/2014: Deputy Head of the Rectorate Staff Unit ‘Integration Team - Human Resources, Gender and Diversity Management’ at RWTH Aachen University
• 2003-2007: Research assistant in the ‘Arbeit-Gender-Technik’ working group, TU Hamburg-Harburg
• 2002: Research assistant at the ‘Technology and Gender in Applied Sciences’ competence centre, Furtwangen University of Applied Sciences
• 2002: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Kompetenzzentrum „Technology and Gender inApplied Sciences“, FH Furtwangen
• 2002: Doctorate at the TU Braunschweig, dissertation: ‘Belastungsempfinden und Bewältigung sozialer Studiensituationen von Ingenieurstudentinnen’
• 2000-2001: Research assistant at the Institute for Educational Psychology, TU Braunschweig
• 1998-1999: Research assistant at the Department of Social Work, FH Ostfriesland
• 191990-1996: Studied sociology, political science and education at the Universities of Regensburg and Hannover (degree: M.A.)Academic activities
• since 11/2016: Member of the doctoral committee, Faculty of Philosophy at RWTH Aachen University
• since 2009: Reviewer for the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research in the ‘Sparkling Science’ and ‘FemTech’ programmes

Dr. Armgard von Reden was a guest professor for gender and diversity at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from October 2012 to September 2013.

In the 2012 / 2013 academic year, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science expanded its focus on gender and diversity research and teaching to include the aspect of intercultural competence. Technical and economic developments require students of electrical engineering, computer science and information technology in particular to prepare for a professional life in which international cooperation is the norm rather than the exception. Economic developments such as globalisation in general, as well as process and technical developments in particular (such as the processes of a globally integrated company with uniform applications worldwide), new business models such as cloud computing, but also the importance of social networks for the economy, mean that intercultural competence, diversity and gender competence are becoming important so-called ‘transferable soft skills’, the knowledge and mastery of which can make a significant contribution to research, innovation and corporate success.

Thematic focus of the gender and diversity guest professorship

Based on selected topics with a high practical relevance and numerous practical exercises, the students of electrical engineering, computer science and information technology were able to evaluate the theoretical and practical knowledge that helps them to apply intercultural as well as diversity and gender competence for their education and future work practice, and to optimise their methods and content. Furthermore, elements were developed to strengthen the image of Leibniz University Hannover as gender and diversity-friendly beyond the visiting professorship. These included, for example, projects that the students carry out as seminar work (also with the university administration), such as the expansion of the homepages to include Web 2.0 elements for the area of gender and diversity. Furthermore, Leibniz Universität Hannover already has numerous co-operations with industry in Hannover and Lower Saxony in the field of research. These co-operations can be extended to the topic of gender and diversity, so that a long-term partnership can be established that goes beyond the visiting professorship.

Prof. Dr. Markus Prechtl was guest professor for gender and diversity at the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Leibniz Universität Hannover from October 2011 to September 2012.

Contact details

TU Darmstadt Department of Chemistry – Didactics Chemieprechtl@chemie.tu-darmstadt.de

Webseite TU Darmstadt Prof. Prechtl

Research focus

The spectrum of perspectives and ways of thinking about the situation of girls/women and boys/men in science education is quite broad. In my research focus, I supplement the difference-theoretical approach, which is mostly biologically based or psychologically orientated, with the theoretical construct ‘Doing Gender’, i.e. with a sociological or social constructivist perspective that explicitly focuses on mechanisms of gender differentiation (link). The following questions are posed from this point of view:

• How do generalised role models and gender-typical perspectives spontaneously become activated time and again in scientific training and work areas? What part do sector-specific methods and media play in this, which sometimes convey ‘images’ of femininity and masculinity?

• What significance does the emphasis on the categories ‘male’ and “female” in scientific discourse and in communication situations (e.g. in teaching, in everyday working life, in research practice) have for the construction and maintenance of a masculine image of science and science subjects (‘male domain’, ‘boys' subject’)? Which symbols of the specialised sciences contribute to the perpetuation of this image? What possibilities exist for the perception and processing of gender stereotypes?

• How can available knowledge from gender research be integrated into everyday educational activities (forms of individual support and internal differentiation, practical approaches to health education, dealing with media, etc.)? Which intervention approaches should be incorporated into science education?