Diversity Activities
Workshops
Workshops
Recognise boundaries, defend boundaries
Safety is a crucial concern for FLINTA individuals, who often face experiences in both public and private spaces that impact their safety, including physical safety and self-confidence. Coach Renée Grothkopf (she/her, white, queer, able-bodied) brings her expertise in Muay Thai and extensive practical experience as a former bouncer to offer FLINTA individuals the opportunity to build self-confidence through practical self-defense techniques and situational role plays rooted in queer community self-defense knowledge.
Rules of the game in academia
On the path to a scientific career, knowledge must be acquired that is not explicitly communicated anywhere and for which there are no sources to be looked up. Exclusion mechanisms are often subliminal. Understanding decision making in the systemic and organizational context and the unwritten rules of micropolitical action can promote one's own strategic competence – also under the aspect of diversity.
Navigating the shark tank. Power games and micropolitical competence in academia
Some processes involving power games are perceived as unproductive, frustrating or even annoying. However, experience also tells us that difficult situations can be mastered by analyzing the dynamics of key situations and of the players‘ interests involved, by skillful communication and, generally, by a power-conscious approach.
How to be proactive: mental training for your personal and professional success
Women in academia face particular challenges in the course of their careers. On the one hand, there is the high pressure to perform, lots of expectations and the hierarchical structures at universities. In addition women have to struggle more with self-criticism and their demand for perfection than their male colleagues. How do we manage to motivate ourselves again in such situations, to make new plans and to implement them? Methods of mental strengthening and coaching can be a simple start to regaining our sovereignty after setbacks or in difficult circumstances.
How to perform confidently and communicate effectively
In the study and doctoral phases, it is very important to make progress, especially in terms of qualifications, diligence and performance. This applies to men and women alike. But later, when it comes to making a career - whether at university or in a company - this is not enough anymore. Now it's about becoming visible - and most men are more successful in this field than women are. They communicate in a fundamentally different way.
THE WRITING ACADEMIC Coaching Program
One Day. One Text.
This day marks a powerful kickstart for your upcoming text project. One day. One text. offers a structured workday, guiding you to start from scratch and complete a text (be it a journal article, a book chapter, a research proposal, or a lecture) in just one day.
Flow Writing Day
Let's dedicate an entire day to effective writing! Flow-Writing Day is an excellent opportunity to advance your writing project, regardless of its current state (rough version, first draft, final version), and in any language.
In cooperation with Pro Exzellenzia
Together with Pro Exzellenzia, a program that has been successfully preparing women for management positions for over ten years, we offer a range of workshops especially for women.
Excellent science and gender equality
Science thrives on diversity, exchange, and changing perspectives. At the same time, structural inequalities and barriers persist in the academic world. The underrepresentation of women in professorships and leadership positions has long been an issue at universities. This is currently being discussed under the hashtags #ichbinhanna and #ichbinreyhan, also in the context of multiple discrimination.
Good negotiations are half the battle – negotiation strategies in the academic world
There are numerous negotiation situations in an academic career – whether as a research assistant, doctoral candidate, in the post-doc phase, when acquiring third-party funding or when taking up a professorship. But these situations aren’t always as clear-cut as when negotiating for a professorship. So what are the concrete negotiation situations? How much leeway is there? And what tips and tricks can help you go into negotiations confidently and well prepared? We’ve invited experts who will give you the answers to these questions.
Coach me! Career booster for female scientists
Career paths in science are associated with special challenges. Female scientists are in a constant state of tension between independent research and dependent temporary employment, publication and performance pressure, the acquisition of third-party funding and teaching obligations. For many young female scientists, talking about the challenges and problems of everyday professional life still carries a stigma. Yet coaching can be an important tool for reflecting on everyday work issues and questions of professional positioning, finding one's own role in the science system, sharpening one's own profile, and pursuing one's own career path in a goal-oriented manner.
Women in science – from inequalities to leadership?
Movie PICTURE A SCIENTIST
Picture a Scientist chronicles the groundswell of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists. Biologist Nancy Hopkins, chemist Raychelle Burks, and geologist Jane Willenbring lead viewers on a journey deep into their own experiences in the sciences, ranging from brutal harassment to years of subtle slights. Along the way, from cramped laboratories to spectacular field stations, we encounter scientific luminaries - including social scientists, neuroscientists, and psychologists - who provide new perspectives on how to make science itself more diverse, equitable, and open to all.
Movie THE LEADERSHIP
The world is crying out for a new model of leadership, but what is it? One woman
thinks she has the answer. Australian CEO and leadership expert, Fabian Dattner, leads an international group of 76 female scientists on an Antarctic voyage designed to transform them "into the sort of leaders they want to be."Her hope is that once these women are primed to lead in science, they will be able to make meaningful change around the world. But on board, as the women's deeply personal stories of workplace gender biases and more are revealed, Dattner's own leadership style and philosophy is severely tested. Set against the planet’s last untouched wilderness, THE LEADERSHIP delivers an unexpected and original reflection on what it takes to be a good leader, while unearthing the systemic obstacles to women’s advancement in science and beyond.
Movie Ant/Arctic Women
For centuries, numerous cultures held onto the assumption that polar research and exploration were male-only domains. Anyone interested in the history of our planet knows the names of the great explorers – Amundsen, Shackleton, or Scott. Among Polish polar explorers it’s Arctowski, Dobrowolski, and Siedlecki that became famous. Meanwhile, women were also engaged in polar research; they were pioneers in many fields and thus hold an important place in the story. In recent years, women have been at the forefront of the world’s leading polar research organizations; they run stations and led many field teams and major international expeditions.
The film “Ant/Arctic Women” shows untold stories of Polish female pioneers of polar research in the Arctic and Antarctic. Among them are expedition leaders and researchers with great achievements who have flourished in a male-dominated environment.
Girls' Day
Held once a year, Girls’ Day is intended to motivate girls and women to pursue technical and scientific professions. The CLICCS School of integrated Climate and Earth Systeme Sciences (SICCS) participates annually in the event.
How do you become a climate researcher?
The event is jointly organized by the Cluster of Excellence CLICCS and the Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability CEN at Universität Hamburg.
At CEN, researchers from such disparate disciplines as e.g. meteorology and peace research are working to find out how we humans can adapt to climate change and what our future will look like.
On Girls’ Day, a member of Universität Hamburg’s Cluster of Excellence CLICCS will tell you who is actually conducting climate research. Afterwards, an expert from the Cluster will share some insights into her work and tell you what she actually does as a climate researcher.
Finally, a tour of the wind tunnel at Universität Hamburg’s Department of Earth Sciences awaits you. There you will have the opportunity to observe and feel wind currents firsthand.
Unconscios Bias
Unconscious Bias Training is a program designed to raise awareness and address the implicit biases that individuals may hold, often unconsciously, toward certain groups of people. These biases can subtly influence decisions, interactions, and perceptions, and can be a barrier to promoting diversity and equality in the workplace. Our Unconscious Bias training plays a key role in raising awareness, promoting diversity, and ensuring equal opportunity for all. This training is open to all who wish to participate and promotes awareness of hidden biases that include gender, race, and age.
Diversity Days
The Diversity Days take place once a year at Universität Hamburg: during this time, the goals are to highlight and celebrate diversity at the university, and to address the opportunities and challenges of a diverse university across member groups.
In addition, there is a varied program of events ranging from lectures and workshops to discussions, film evenings and campus tours that deal with numerous dimensions of diversity at the university. We participate in the Diversity Days via several panels.
International Arrivals – Presentation and Podium Discussion
Internationalization forms an integral part of Universität Hamburg’s profile. Every year, it welcomes new researchers from all over the globe, who all face similar questions: What do I need to know in terms of legal regulations and my rights? Where can I find support at the university? How can I get in touch with other internationals, and what are the general networking options? How can I best get settled into the German academic system?
The panel “International Arrivals” will address these and other questions. Staff from Human Resources will give short presentations on the relevant legal requirements, and on supporting infrastructures available on campus. The audience will have the chance to ask questions. A subsequent podium discussion will complement the introductory talks. Three scholars and researchers from different academic backgrounds and status groups will share their experiences as internationals at Universität Hamburg. By providing a forum for incoming researchers, the podium hopes to facilitate a productive exchange on both the potentials and pitfalls – and to generate input on how to further optimize the acclimation process for international researchers.
Critical Whiteness in the Working Context – Workshop
In this workshop, we will look at the scope for action that a white position offers for critiquing racism in the context of our work. We will address difficulties and challenges as well as opportunities and possibilities. Interested parties from all fields are welcome: being able to compare different work contexts and their respective possibilities will enrich our exchange.
Speakers: Institut für diskriminierungskritische Bildung
Unisex Toilets
Since January 2021 we have had unisex toilets at the School of Integrated Climate and Earth System Sciences (SICSS) at Grindelberg 5+7. By taking this step, we wanted to make a statement against discrimination. Those who feel they are neither clearly male nor female shouldn’t have to choose; our restrooms are for everyone. There is also a practical side effect: since everyone can use the same toilets, queues are less likely to form at events. We intend to install further unisex toilets in the future.