Gender Innovations
in the Social Sciences and Humanities:
Focus on Organisations and Teaching

BMFTR-funded project under the Chair of Sociology/Social Inequality and Gender at the Ruhr University Bochum

Overview

Based on the assumption that gender research, with gender as its central category of knowledge, was and continues to be primarily initiated by women, this field of knowledge is understood as a innovative scientific achievement by women and a contribution by women to scientific excellence.

Taking the disciplines of sociology, political science, economics, history and philosophy as examples, the project looks at to what extent the contributions of women and their scientific achievements and potential with regard to gender as a topic and category of knowledge are taken into account in the social sciences and humanities and what recognition they have received thus far.

The central questions of the project are:

  • How do women and gender as a topic and category of knowledge contribute to the institutional and organisational development of the disciplines of social sciences and humanities and scientific associations?
  • How are gender-related scientific achievements (including women’s respective research results) integrated into the social sciences and humanities canon and communicated in teaching through academic textbooks and introductory literature?
  • How can the women’s scientific achievements and potential be made more visible and structurally embedded in a more sustainable way, with special regard to the scientific-innovation potential of gender as a topic and category of knowledge in the social sciences and humanities?

The research project ‘Gender Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanities: Focus on Organisations and Teaching’ is promoted with funds from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research from 2023 to 2027 under the reference number 01FP22078.

It is conducted under the Chair of Sociology/Social Inequality and Gender at the Ruhr University Bochum.

The project ‘Gender Innovations’ cooperates with the Meta-Network meta-IFiF (Metavorhaben meta-IFiF), which creates a network for all projects funded under BMFTR guidelines ‘Focus on Innovative Women’, and with the ‘Verbundprojekt Bildersturm: Frauen in der Philosophie sichtbar machen und neue Vorbilder etablieren (Joint project Iconoclasm: Making Women in Philosophy Visible and Establishing New Role Models)’.