Gender Innovations in the Social Sciences and the Humanities: Organisations and Teaching in Focus
Gender research, with gender as its central category of knowledge, was primarily initiated by women and is predominantly pursued by them. Based on this assumption, the ‘Gender Innovations’ project understands it as an achievement in scientific innovation by women and their contribution to scientific excellence.
Using the example of the subjects of political science, sociology, economics, history and philosophy, the project examines the extent to which women’s contributions and their scientific achievements and potential are taken into account in connection with gender as a topic and category of knowledge in the social sciences and the humanities, and the recognition they receive for this.
The project involves two empirical studies, the results of which are then combined:
• Case studies on women’s scientific organisations within the examined subjects, for example in the form of specific working groups or sections, serve to explore how women and gender as a topic and category of knowledge contribute to the institutional, organisational and epistemic development of social sciences and humanities as well as professional associations.
• Selected social science and humanities textbooks and introductory books on the respective subjects are analysed to determine whether and how gender-related scientific achievements (including corresponding research findings by women) have found their way into the respective academic canon and are being taught to students in higher education.
Embedded in the research programme of the situational analysis, various social science research methods are used in the project, including document analysis and guided expert interviews. The empirical material consists of documents, interviews and selected textbooks and introductory books. The data is evaluated using quantitative and qualitative content analysis.
The project ‘Gender Innovations in the Social Sciences and the Humanities: Organisations and Teaching in Focus (Gender Innovations)’ is promoted with funds from 2023 to 2027 by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) under the reference number 01FP22078.
Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Heike Kahlert, Chair of Sociology/Social Inequality and Gender at Ruhr University Bochum
Further information: www.gender-innovationen.de
Contact: info@gender-innovationen.de
© Heike Kahlert