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Completed Research Projects

Strengthening Higher Education Capacities in Palestine for Gender Equality | SHE_GE

A Partnership between Palestine and Austria

Following an invitation by the Islamic University Gaza (IUG), the Department of Sociology at the University of Graz (Uni Graz) began Academic Partnership with the overall objective to enhance women’s empowerment and gender equality in Gaza. The objective will be achieved through educational, research and institutional capacity development, aiming at the establishment of Women’s & Gender Studies Centre at IUG. The Centre will provide a knowledge and material resource base to create pre-conditions for an MA programme in Women’s & Gender Studies and to mediate outreach to the non-university community.

Key project activities include:

> Staff development by means of a one-year online postgraduate module in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies for IUG students and faculty. The IUG participants will meet Uni Graz students in a virtual classroom.

> Curriculum development, including

  • a) MA courses in Women’s and Gender Studies at IUG;
  • b) an English and Arabic-language reference library;
  • c) a reform of the IUG course “Human Rights”.

> Research cooperation on “Mirror MA theses”. Students from IUG and Uni Graz will work parallel to each other on similar topics, but with different approaches and disciplinary backgrounds.

> Establishment of a Women’s and Gender Studies Centre as a resource hub for the university and extra-university communities.

> Community outreach focused on capacity building. The Centre will include higher education actors and women’s organizations in Gaza in its activities and offer training modules.

> Public lectures at IUG and Uni Graz aimed at women’s groups, higher education institutions, government administration and the general public.

The project is funded by APPEAR, a Programme of the Austrian Development Cooperation.

Coordinating Institution: Islamic University Gaza, Department of Psychology (Prof. Sanaa Aboudagga)

Partner Institution: University of Graz, Department of Sociology (Prof. Libora Oates-Indruchová)

Project Duration: 12 June 2017 – 11 June 2020

Contact:

sdagga@iugaza.edu.ps

libora.oates-indruchova@uni-graz.at

www.appear.at

LINK to the project (University of Graz)

LINK to the project (APPEAR)

 

RemoteMentor. Remote Mentoring For Girls to Learn Coding with Pocket Code

The Sociology of Gender unit at the Department of Sociology is a partner in the “RemoteMentor” project led by TU Graz. The project aims to support girls in stimulating their interest in game coding by providing individual online mentoring.

The mentoring extension for the app Pocket Code aims to offer beginners immediate online help by advanced users. A gamified matchmaking system and a two-way screen-sharing option will be integrated into the app and facilitate online code sharing between the mentee and the mentor. The project aims to encourage girls to join the Pocket Code online community as active users and stimulate their continued participation by providing individual mentoring.

The University of Graz will conduct a gender evaluation of the mentoring process and study the relationship between mentor’s gender and the girls’ satisfaction with their progress in coding.

Funding: netidee (Austrian Internet Foundation).

Team: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Libora Oates-Indruchová, Jana Mikats, MA 

TU Graz: Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn Wolfgang Slany (overall project manager)

Project duration: December 2017-December 2018

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After Bologna? Gender studies in the "entrepreneurial university". A study in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

Research grant: FWF

Project duration: 01.04.2012 – 30.9.2014

Principal investigators: Angelika Wetterer

Staff: Gerlinde Malli, Susanne Sackl, Elisabeth Zehetner

The current reorganisation of the universities to "entrepreneurial universities" comprises a fundamental reconstruction of internal university structures and external relations as well as changes in scientific knowledge and its production. It is this knowledge that the project "Gender studies in the 'entrepreneurial university'" focuses on. In 1997 these new Gender Studies were established as degree courses at universities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland – at the same time the so called Bologna Process was initiated. One assumption in the project is that during the implementation process of the Gender Studies programmes path-depended, local negotiated "institutional hybrids" (Münch 2009) are generated that link the requirements of the Bologna Process with the objectives of the Gender Studies. In qualitative, actor centered, and comparative case studies on the implementation process of the degree courses the project explores (1) what kind of knowledge, topics, questions, theories, methods, and fields of application the curricula of the Gender Studies programmes contain and thus represent the relevant scientific Gender Knowledge, (2) which processes of negotiation the implementation of Gender Studies programmes precede and accompany on site (3) what kind of actors in these processes participate, and (4) in which ways the reformative imperative of the entrepreneurial university and the Bologna Process is reflected in the current way of teaching in Gender Studies degree courses.

 

International Research Group "Entrepreneurial Universities and Gender Change"

Research Grant: Trinational D-A-CH-research grant from DFG, FWF und SNF

Duration: 01.04.2012 – 30.02.2015

Speakers: Sabine Hark, Johanna Hofbauer

Participants: Ilse Costas (Uni Göttingen), Sabine Hark (TU Berlin), Johanna Hofbauer (WU Wien), Heike Kahlert (LMU München), Julia Nentwich (Uni St. Gallen), Birgit Sauer (Uni Wien), Angelika Wetterer (KFU Graz) 

The European scientific landscape is in a state of flux in which universities have to re-establish themselves. These restructuring processes have far-reaching consequences for the university, the employment of scientific and non scientific staff and the production of scientific knowledge. The job situation of women and men, the knowledge production of gender and the institutionalization of gender research, as well as the gender politics at universities are affected. The International Research Group »Entrepreneurial Universities and Gender Change« analyzes these developments in an international comparative perspective (Germany – Austria – Switzerland).

In the fields of work, organization and knowledge, the projects focus on reorganization and ask, on the one hand, to what extent these fields experience an input which is related to gender, and on the other, how work, organization, and knowledge are influenced by gender. 

 

Work-Life-Balance in Science (WLB-KFU)

Research Grant: Rektorat der Universität Graz

Project duration: 01.112012 – 31.12.2013

Principal investigator: Tanja Paulitz

Staff: Melanie Goisauf (since april 2013), Susanne Kink (until april 2013), Sarah Zapusek

This qualitative project focuses on the embeddedness of work-life-balance on the structural and symbolic level (orientations and values in science), as well as the level of epistemic and social practice. Which general orientations, expectations of availability, and strategies of mobility or uncertainties do academics have in mind and how can they reconcile them with other areas of their life? Which barriers have to be overcome? Which (good) resolutions will be found? The aim of the project is to analyze how different ideas of science and different scientific work practices influence the work-life-balance of academics.

The qualitative project is incorporate in the focus program of the “WLB-KFU” under the direction of Barbara Hey, Coordination Centre for Women’s Studies, Gender Research and Equal Opportunities for Women. Due to the incorporation of academics into the focus program, a university specific concept for work-life balance will be developed.

 

Contact

Sociology of Gender

Univ.-Prof. Dr.habil. PhD

Libora Oates-Indruchová

Institut für Soziologie

Phone:+43 316 380 - 7086

Contact

Office

BA.

Eva Krasser

Phone:+43 316 380 - 3540

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