Our research concerns itself with the following topics and questions:

• Gender Studies as a critical ontology of the present

• Academic research as gender research

• Academic research as the institutional site of the production of knowledge

• Gender-appropriate disciplinary culture, as well as in professional, institutional and socialization research especially about the technological and engineering sciences

• Gender Policies

Research Tasks at ZIFG:

• Analysis of the formation of gender relations in the field of tension between technology, culture, research and society
• Examination of the construction of gender and gendered order, as well as their relevance for the construction and order of societies and (academic) knowledge

Further information on the Research Profile of the Center