CRC 1439 - RESIST

Gender & Diversity

Gender equality and diversity

RESIST intends to promote diversity at all levels and ensure that no one is discriminated against based on age, gender, or origin. Specifically, we want to...

  • …increase the rate of women in science on all career levels. We support female scientists and help to avoid gender-specific obstacles on the way towards a professorship. Based on the structures already available (Gleichstellung an der UDE, Antidiscrimination Office) we take own measures and efforts to promote female scientists.
  • …provide a family friendly working environment that supports parents in the CRC to combine family and scientific career (support by UDE family service).
  • …improve the conditions of foreign researchers e.g. by supporting with administrative tasks to promote their scientific career and to have a fair and open working environment (further information by UDE international office).

Specific measures

  • Workshop to train researchers in fair quality management and gender mainstreaming.
  • Workshops and role-models to encourage women to follow an academic career.
  • Detect diversity-related issues in the RESIST-team.
  • Complementary measures to promote the academic success of female scientists, support caregivers and provide parental support for scientists with children in addition to the offers by the UDE family service.
    • offer student helpers to relieve scientists from routine tasks funded by RESIST.
    • offer support for childcare during RESIST events supported the UDE family service.
  • Mentoring programmes, management training, and individual coaching for female scientists and family caregivers.
  • Avoid discrimination due to gender, origin, age or other factors by implementing a Diversity-Guideline in RESIST.
  • Provide support by an independent ombudsperson.
  • Ensure accessibility for all participants at RESIST workshops and meetings.
  • Consider holidays from other religions for planning of meetings.
  • Career workshops with presentations of successful female scientists employed in research and the business world.
  • Alumni will give insights into their experience in achieving their first career steps.
  • The RESIST diversity board composed of PIs, post-docs and doctoral researchers will guide and evaluate the measures taken.
  • Conduct a survey among RESIST members in every funding phase to locate specific problems.


Workshops and other measures

2026

  • Building Bridges in Science Workshop

2025

  • Building Bridges in Science Workshop
  • Workshop Gender competent recruiting / Gender-kompetent Auswahlverfahren gestalten for PIs (Nathalie Bieler)

2024

  • Professorial Appointment Training for Female (Post)doctoral Researchers Workshop (Dr. Sabine Blackmore)

2023

  • Workshop Inequalities in science careers and what we can do about it (Dr. Heather Hofmeister)
  • Workshop Sexual harassment, discrimination and violence in the university context / Sexualisierte Belästigung, Diskriminierung und Gewalt (SBDG) im Hochschulkontext (Dr. Sabine Blackmore)
  • Workshop Gender equality (for doctoral researchers) (Dr. Sabine Blackmore)

2022

  • Workshop Gender equality (for doctoral researchers) (Dr. Sabine Blackmore)
  • Survey for CRC members to reveal diversity-related problems

2021

  • Workshop Gender competent recruiting / Gender-kompetent Auswahlverfahren gestalten for PIs (Dr. Stephanie Sera)