Equal Opportunities & Diversity

Equal Opportunities

Gender equality and the compatibility of family and work are key functions for all institutions involved in the CRC, supported by sustainable policy measures. The CRC is committed to gender equality and family–friendly working conditions on all levels of employment and seeks to advance these central issues of concern. This includes measures aiming to increase the number of women in the sciences on all levels of qualification including senior posts, as well as creating family-friendly environments to ensure the compatibility of a scientific career and family life and responsibilities.

The following measures for the promotion of women and the reconciliation of scientific careers and family life are offered:

  • Individual coaching for early-career women scientists
  • Workshops on professional voice and speech training and other demand-oriented workshops for women researchers working on their doctoral thesis or postdoctoral dissertation
  • Annual consultations on career planning and progress for all project members
  • Customised solutions for child care during off-hours or in the context of meetings, conferences and workshops organized by the CRC
  • Parent-child room located on the premises of the CRC

 

Contact person for questions regarding the equal opportunity program of the SFB 1265: Dr. Nina Elsemann

Activities so far:

  • June 2023: Breathing, voice and speech training workshop for female doctoral students
  • April 2023: Workshop: “Creating Inclusive Workplaces: Discrimination and Bias at Work”
  • November 2022: Empowered. Postdoc & Graduate Workshop
  • December 2022: Workshop & Individual Coaching ” Breath, Voice and Speech for Women”
  • 10 November 2021 and 17 November 2021: Workshop “Doctorate – and then? Profiling for the job market”
  • 28.01.2020: Group coaching “Self-positioning and career planning”.
  • 2020/21: Female Scientist Empowerment (individual online coaching).
  • 05/06 November 2019
    Group coaching for young female scientists
  • July 10, 2019
    “Fireside Evening (without fireplace)”: Internal meeting of the female scientists of the CRC 1265
  • May 20/21, 2019
    Individual coaching for female junior scientists II
  • December 05/10, 2018
    Individual coaching for junior female scientists I
  • November 26/27, 2018
    Voice and speech training for young female scientists

Diversity

The CRC 1265 strives to promote careers in the context of diversity –in terms of equal opportunities, as an inclusion policy, and as an approach to equity. We see the creation of a respectful, non-discriminatory and inclusive work environment as a shared responsibility. In addition, CRC-internal events and trainings on diversity-sensitive organizational development and science facilitate a concrete engagement with the implications of various social dimensions of discrimination for our actions and research. The CRC also strives to offer different forms of participation and co-determination (e.g. ad-hoc groups, mentoring formats, elected representation). Since 2023, a cross-status group has been working on an expanded diversity policy in a collaborative and ongoing process to further strengthen the CRC’s structures and procedures around the principles of non-discrimination, inclusion, and equity.

The CRC addresses issues of diversity and plurality not only at the organizational level, but also in terms of research practices, content, and theory. Therefore, we regularly organize events that aim to decenter research perspectives and multiply our points of observation. These events also provide a platform for intensive dialogue and exchange with researchers from different research contexts.

Past events (excerpt):

  • Plenary session: Intersectionality, diversity and inclusion strategies in the CRC, July 6, 2023
  • Jamie Hakim: „Safer Space and Queer Nightlife. The politics of vulnerability and control in ‘post-neoliberal’ London“, June 2, 2023
  • Plenary session: The Dialectics of Digital Communication and Physical Place in “Safer Spaces”, January 12, 2023
  • International Conference: “My city is a battleground: Intersectionality and Urban Violence”, October 20/21, 2022
  • Monika Wohlrab-Sahr: “Multiple Secularities or: Approaching cross-cultural and cross-epoch comparisons in a globally entangled world”, July 7, 2022
  • Noa K. Ha: Race, Racism and Critical Whiteness, May 12, 2022
  • Maureen Maisha Auma: “Berlin mehrheimisch. Rassismuskritische (Wissens-) Räume postmigrantisch, dekolonial und anerkennungsstrategisch zusammengedacht”, December 16, 2021