Brown-bag lunch from INCHER-Kassel: Gender-sensitive science and university research - a research program

The presentation will briefly outline the central subject areas, theoretical approaches and methods of science studies, higher education research, women's and gender studies and the higher education branch of the latter in a systematic comparative manner in order to highlight the connectivity of the research program of gender-sensitive science and higher education research and to explain, using various examples, what scientific potential and knowledge gains can be expected if certain reception barriers are lifted. At the same time, the specific benefits of mixed methods for gender-sensitive science and higher education research will be explained, which lie, among other things, in being able to better (grasp) the macro-meso-micro link empirically in order to depict the duality of structure and action, to illustrate its consequences and to make interdependencies visible. The presentation of the research areas relevant to the research programme should in principle be expanded to include organizational research, as organizations are omnipresent in the academic system. They regulate examinations, certifications, employment relationships, status passages, etc. and provide infrastructure and resources. In this way, they influence the way in which science can be conducted and who conducts it. However, since higher education research and (higher education-related) women's and gender studies identify 'organization' as a central topic area, which is dealt with in detail in the above-mentioned description of the areas, it is not necessary to outline organizational research as a fourth or fifth research area. However, the discussion of the research programme should focus on the effectiveness of organizations and thus the sociological meso-level in order to reflect on suitable organizational sociological approaches for the research programme of gender-sensitive science and higher education research.

Professor Dr. Bettina Langfeldt, FB 05, University of Kassel

This event is expected to take place exclusively online - as a ZOOM conference. If a hybrid event (online and presence) is possible, this will be communicated in good time.

Dial-in information for Zoom participation via koch@incher.uni-kassel.de