Research projects
Research projects
Completed research projects of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies
The following research projects are an expression of the range of activities of the ZFG members and have therefore been developed in relative autonomy from one another. However, many are the result of joint discussions within the ZFG. They are organised according to the various research areas.
1. socialisation processes, gender and pedagogy
2. politics and gender - perspectives of transcultural research
3. cultural representations of gender
4. gender research in musicology
5. gender relations in higher education and science
6. gender studies and the natural sciences
1. socialisation processes, gender and pedagogy
Socialisation and identity formation processes
Project leader: Prof. Dr Karin Flaake
Socialisation and identity formation processes in pedagogical spaces and pedagogical design options
Head: Prof. Dr Heike Fleßner, Prof. Dr Astrid Kaiser
Gender and ethnic/cultural/national origin in the interactive everyday life of young people in open youth work and the role of educators
Head: Prof. Dr Heike Fleßner
2. politics and gender - perspectives of transcultural research
Gender constructions and violence. Ambivalences of modernity in the process of globalisation
Participants: Dr Lydia Potts, Prof. Dr Silke Wenk, Prof. Dr Ilse Dröge-Modelmog, Martina Kamp (MA)
European Research Forum on Whiteness and Gender
Project leader: Dr Eske Wollrad (ZFG)
Politics & Gender: A Transnational Research and Teaching Network
Head: Dr Lydia Potts
IMMIS - African Migration and Gender in Global Context - Implementing Migration Studies (EDULINK)
Head: Dr Lydia Potts, Jan Kühnemund
Migration, globalisation and gender
Participants: Dr Lydia Potts, Anika Walke, M.A.
3. cultural representations of gender
'Traditional costumes' in the museum and the formation of cultural memory
Participants: Prof. Dr Karen Ellwanger, Dr Andrea Hauser, Gerda Engelbracht, Laura Schibbe
ReSaVoir. Images in the field of tension between culture, politics and memory
Organisers: Angelika Bartl, Kerstin Brandes, Josch Hoenes, Patricia Mühr and Kea Wienand
Power, modernity and masculinity? Ambivalences of the men's suit
Participants: Prof. Dr Karen Ellwanger, Prof. Dr Silke Wenk, Lüder Tietz (coordination)
Staging gender in the space of the political
Head: Prof. Dr Karen Ellwanger, Prof. Dr Silke Wenk
Memory and Gender
Head: Prof. Dr Karen Ellwanger, Prof. Dr Silke Wenk
Visual and Gender Studies
Head: Prof. Dr Karen Ellwanger, Prof. Dr Silke Wenk
Intangible Cultures
4. musicological gender studies
Lexicon Music and Gender
Directed by: Prof. Dr Annette Kreutziger-Herr (HfM Cologne) and Prof. Dr Melanie Unseld
5. gender relations in higher education and science
Doctoral funding and gender - Empirical study on the significance of gender-specific selection processes in the funding of doctoral programmes at universities in Lower Saxony
Project leaders: Prof. Dr Karin Flaake, Prof. Dr Heike Fleßner
Status of women in the scientific discipline of mathematics
Project leaders: Prof. Dr Irene Pieper-Seier, Prof. Dr Karin Flaake
Studying with a child
Head: Prof. Dr Karin Flaake, Prof. Dr Heike Fleßner
Student assistants: Juliane Pegel, Petra Schmalz
6. gender studies and natural sciences
Women in the natural sciences - analyses of biographies
Head: Dr Luise Berthe-Corti, Prof. Dr Irene Pieper-Seier
Biotechnologies and the view of the human body
Head: PD. Dr Luise Berthe-Corti, Prof. Dr Ilse Dröge-Modelmog