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The cooperation between the TU Braunschweig, Ostfalia HaW and HBK Braunschweig in the Braunschweig Centre for Gender Studies (BZG), which has existed since 2003, is evidence of a productive interdisciplinary and cross-university collaboration in research and teaching.
Forms of partcipation
With the cooperation agreement of November 2022, three forms of participation are possible: voting or associate membership and support status The description of the forms of participation can be found here (DE).
Click here for the membership form (DE)
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Members of the Gender-Network
TU Braunschweig
Dr. Henriette Bertram, Institute for Building Climatology and Energy of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences
Gender and space, gender-sensitive feminist urban planning, reconciliation of care and employment Website (De)
Dr. Nicola Böhlke, Institute of Sport Science and Movement Pedagogy, Faculty of Humanities and Education
Diversity and inclusion in the context of sport and exercise, sport and gender, shame and transgression in physical education, pupils‘ perspectives in physical education, qualitative research methods. Website (De)
Katerina Brausmann, Department of Modern German Literature, Institute of German Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Education.
Feminist literary criticism, construction of gender and family in contemporary literature, narratives of gender and emotions in literature. Website (De)
Jan Büssers, Department of History of Pharmacy and Science, Institute of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Faculty of Life Sciences
Queer Studies, New Materialism(s), philosophy of technology, interdisciplinary gender research. Website
Bernadette Descharmes, Department of Ancient History, Institute of History, Faculty of Humanities and Education
Roman and Greek social and cultural history with a focus on close relationships, gender conceptions (especially male), physicality and emotions; history of science and university history (women in ancient studies). Website (De)
apl. Prof. Dr. Dietmar Elflein, Institute for Music and Music Education, Faculty of Humanities and Education
Popular music and gender, staging gender in musical frameworks, gender and (studio) technology, masculinity and music, gender in postcolonial contexts. Website (De)
Dr. Anne Geese, Department of Physics, Science Education, Faculty of Humanities and Education
Role models in the natural sciences, establishment of a girls‘ mentoring network in the field of aeronautical engineering as part of the SE2A Cluster of Excellence. Website (De)
Dr. Caroline Gröschner, Institute of Educational Sciences, Department of General Pedagogy,Faculty of Humanities and Education
Education and social inequality(ies), political education in childhood and adolescence, education and digitality, development and governance in the education system, gender equality. Website (De)
Anna-Sophie Haake, Department of Ancient History, Institute of History, Faculty of Humanities and Education
Women’s roles in Greek and Roman antiquity. Website (De)
Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Heinze, Department of Literary and Cultural Studies, Institute of English and American Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Education
Migration literature, film, cultural history, narratology. Website (De)
Esther Maria Heldt, Department of continuing Education and Media, Institute of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Education
Teaching diversity and equal opportunities in educational and professional fields (research seminar). Website
Dr. Florian Henk, Institute of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Education
Teaching on sex and gender in psychology, including gender identity and trans*, biological sex and inter*, sexual orientations and sexual development in childhood and adolescence. Website (De)
René_ Rain Hornstein, Department of Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy and Diagnostics, Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Life Sciences
trans*, inter* and non-binary gender, trans* allyship, internalized trans* oppression, LGBTIQ-affirmative psychotherapy, anti-discriminatory teaching, trans* inclusive universities. Zum Dissertationsprojekt. Website (De)
Prof. Dr. Daniela Hosser, Department of Developmental, Personality and Forensic Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Life Sciences.
Website
Prof. Dr. Kerstin Jergus, Institute of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Education
Theory and history of education, cultural studies research in education, cognitive politics, transformation and science studies, childhood, university, heterogeneity, parenthood, love, professionalisation, trauma. Website (De)
Dr. Stefanie John, Department of Literary and Cultural Studies, Institute of English and American Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Education
Poets from Great Britain/Ireland (18th-21st century), gender and nature, gender and literary form. Website
Prof. Dr. Christian Kehrt, Department of History of Science and Technology, Institute of History, Faculty of Humanities and Education
Military, technology, environment, aviation. Website (De)
Prof. Gabriele G. Kiefer, , Institute of Landscape Architecture, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences.
Website (De)
Thomas Kronschläger, Department of Didactics of German Language and Literature, Institute of German Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Education
Gender in language and literature, literature teaching in the anthropocene, Gender Studies in literature teaching, gender and canon, Queer Studies. Website (De)
Dr. Dominik Merdes, Department of History of Pharmacy, Faculty of Life Sciences
Drug histories and drug materialisations, history of tropical medicine, feminist critique of scientific knowledge grids, postcolonial perspectives on the history of pharmacy and science. Website
Sabrina Saase, Department of Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy and Diagnostics, Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Life Sciences – PhD in cooperation with SFU Berlin
Intersectionality, privilege awareness, intersectional-sensitive psychotherapeutic and pedagogical skills, education, diversity, anti-discrimination, agency, self-positioning/self-revelation (location of self), belonging, intersectional/queer/gender research methods, network theories, lesbian & trans* lifestyles and resistance strategies in the former GDR. Website (De)
Prof. Dr. Tatjana Schneider, Institute of History and Theory of Architecture and the City, Faculty of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences
Feminist Spatial Practices (architecture, art, design, etc). Website
Prof. Dr. Barbara Thies, Institute for Educational Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Education
Diversity management, stigmatization and discrimination, sex and gender education. Website
Anja Trittelvitz, PhD student, Faculty 6, Humanities and Educational Sciences
Gender Studies, Sociology of Health and Medicine (STS), Food Studies, Feminist Philosophy, Human-Animal Studies. Website (De) & Website (De)
Prof. Dr. Eckart Voigts, Department of Literary and Cultural Studies, Institute of English and American Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Education
Participatory Culture. Website
Prof. Dr. Bettina Wahrig, Institute of History of Pharmacy, Faculty of Life Sciences
History of science, history of pharmaceuticals, history of obstetrics, metaphorology, precarious substances, materialities of the in/between with methods of gender and postcolonial studies, biological sex, race/class/gender. Website
Prof. Dr. Ingeborg Wender, Institute for Educational Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Education
Analysis and development of the category sex/gender, career orientation under gender aspects, mental disorders in the focus of gender. Website (De)
Dr. Okka Zimmermann, Department of Analysis of Social Structures and Methods of Empirical Social Research, Instute of Social Sciences, Faculty of Carl-Friedrich-Gauß Professor (DE) of Social Work at the International University of Applied Sciences IU
Reconciliation of family and working life , family sociology, work / family life courses, Familiensoziologie, work / family life courses. Website (De)
Associated Members
Prof. Dr. Corinna Bath, Visiting Professor (DE) at the Department for Media, Knowledge and Communication (imwk) at the University of Augsburg; formerly working group Gender, Technology and Mobility, Institute of Flight Guidance, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (cooperative professorship of the TU and Ostfalia based at the TU)
Gender research in mechanical engineering and computer science, science and technology research (Gender and TechnoScience), de-/gendering of technical artifacts, feminist theory and epistemology, inter- and transdisciplinarity gtm-Website
Dr. Carolin Bohn, freelance author and literary scholar; formerly Institute of German Studies, Department of Modern German Literature
Gender- and diversity-sensitive aesthetics and poetry lectureships
Dr. Sandra Buchmüller, Visiting Professor (DE) at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Power Engineering at the Technical University of Dresden; formerly working group Gender, Technology and Mobility, Institute of Flight Guidance, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Gender/ Queer/ Diversity Studies, Science and Technology Studies, feminist science and technology research, participatory technology development, critical design research. gtm-Website
Dr. rer. nat. Smillo Ebeling, research associate in the research project „Thinking Diversity with Animals. Anthropomorphic patterns of interpretation and ideas of diversity among young people“ at Bielefeld University; formerly working group Gender, Technology and Mobility, Institute of Flight Guidance, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Gender in MINT, feminist science research. Bielefeld University website (De); gtm-Website (De)
Dr. Eike-Christian Heine, research associate at the Bundeswehr University Munich, formerly Department of History of Science and Technology, Institute of History, Faculty of Humanities and Education
Teaching on gender in the history of science and technology, working bodies, female research journeys in the Ottoman Empire. TUM-Website (De)
Dr. Katharina Losch, Lecturer, Department of History of Science and Technology, Institute of History
Gender and Diversity in the context of technical fields of work and migration, interdisciplinary research
Katharina Mann, Institute for International Relations, Institute of Social Sciences, Carl-Friedrich-Gauß-Faculty
Website (De)
Prof. Dr. Regina Toepfer, Chair of German Philology, Older Department of the Institute of German Philology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Würzburg; formerly Institute of German Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Education
Gender-related aspects in medieval and early modern German literature, in particular discourses and narratives of childlessness, concepts of masculinity, gender and writing, intersectionality and dis/ability. Website (De)
Supporters
Dina Al-Kharabsheh, Department of Physics and Physics Didactics, Institute for Didactics of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Education
Establishment of a girls‘ mentoring network in the field of aeronautical engineering as part of the SE²A Cluster of Excellence. Website (De)
Prof. Dr. André Fleißner, Institute of Genetics, Faculty of Life Sciences
Teaching project „Science. Facts. Context“ together with the working group Gender, Technology and Mobility. Website
Dr. Sabrina Schenk, Institute of Educational Sciences, Department of General Educational Sciences
Website
Ulrike Wrobel, Equal Opportunities Officer at the TU Braunschweig
Website
Ostfalia HaW
Dr. Nadine Anumba, Faculty of Transport, Sports, Tourism and Media, Salzgitter
Diversity, discrimination, racism, images/prejudices/stereotypes, culture, sexuality, intercultural and anti-racist training. Website (De)
Prof. Dr. Christine Baur, Faculty of Social Work, Wolfenbüttel
Intercultural education, migration and gender, international school social work. Website
Dr. Katharina Bingel, Institute for Tourism and Regional Research, Faculty of Transport, Sports and Tourism, Salzgitter
Gender and diversity-oriented urban development/planning, network research, in-/exclusivity of spaces. Website
Prof. Dr. Ariane Brenssell, Faculty of Social Work, Wolfenbüttel
Critical psychology, everyday life and neoliberal hegemony, care economy, psychosocial work and contextualized trauma work, international and political contexts of social work, hegemony-theoretical analyses, subject science research/participatory research. Website
Prof. Dr. Sabine Brombach, Faculty of Social Work, Wolfenbüttel
Gender and social work, women in leadership positions, gender and counseling. Website
Jessica Eckhardt, Faculty of Social Work, Wolfenbüttel
Website
Franziska Homuth, Faculty of Social Work, Wolfenbüttel
Identity politics (race, class, gender) and intersectionaloverlaps ; gender and religious ethics in social work, history of social work. Website
Prof. Dr. Andreas Jain, Centre for Social Innovation and Institute for Tourism and Regional Research, Faculty of Transport, Sports and Tourism, Salzgitter
Gender-sensitive planning, participation processes. Website
Prof. Dr. Sandra Verena Müller, Faculty of Social Work, Wolfenbüttel
Website
Associated Members
Prof. Dr. Corinna Bath, see TU Braunschweig
Prof. Dr. Anke Neuber, Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts, FK V: Diaconia, Health and Social Affairs; Department of Social Work; formerly: Faculty of Social Work, Wolfenbüttel
Deviance, social problems and social control, penal system research, sociology of violence, social inequality and precarisation, methods and methodologies of qualitative social research. Website
Prof. Dr. Brigitte Wotha, Kiel University of Applied Sciences, Institute of Civil Engineering
Urban and regional development, sustainable mobility, sociology-ecological transformation. Website
Supporters
Daniela Kock, Equal Opportunities Officer at the Ostfalia HaW
Website
Julia Weiß, Central Equal Opportunities Officer of the Ostfalia HaW
Website
HBK Braunschweig
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Bergermann, Institute for Media Studies
Gender and media, gender in the history of knowledge, gender and postcolonial studies. Website
Sophie Bothe, Performing Arts student at the Institute for Performative Practice, Art and Education
Gender roles, roles in the family context, feminism; founding member of the feminist performance collective rio.rot. Website
Prof. Dr. Victoria von Flemming, Art History of the Early Modern Period, Institute of art science
Construction of gender in the early modern period. Website
Prof. Dr. Heike Klippel, Institute for Media Studies
Feminist film theory, poison motif in film, film and everyday life. Website
Anna Maria Niemann, Institute of art science Studies
Construction of gender in early modern art, negotiations of female creativity between motherhood and art production. Website
Prof. Dr. Rolf Nohr, Institute for Media Studies
Website
Franziska Wagner, Institute for Media Studies
Queer Theory, Gender Media Studies. Website
Associated Members
Tim Glaser, formerly Institute for Media Studies
Sexism in Gaming Culture, Game Communities and Games; Connection between Gender / Queer Studies and Game Studies. Website
Supporters
Margaux J. Erdmann, Equal Opportunities Officer of the HBK Braunschweig (represented by Dr. Anna Shkonda)
Website