After successful completion of the course, students are able to...

name the connections between human diversity, sustainability and technology development. They know theoretical concepts of sustainable, diversity-appropriate technology development and practical examples. Students should thus be able to provide well-founded answers to current research funding requirements in research proposals in order to increase their chances of receiving funding.

We address the following questions in this seminar:

• What did sustainable diversity-oriented research and development mean?

• What does this mean in research practice?

• What contribution can transdisciplinary and transformative research approaches make here?

• What practical examples are there that can provide inspiration for one's own research?

• What do I have to bear in mind in this regard in terms of research proposals/project concepts?
  
  

Elaboration of the topic along research examples and underlying research concepts; processing of scientific specialist texts from diversity, science and technology research; work on own research and development topics in individual and small group settings; discussions in plenary; research, short, guided written papers.

For orientation and introduction to the content:

Astrid Biele Mefebue, Elena Buck and Yvonne Franke (2018): Editorial on the thematic section Diversity and Transdisciplinarity. ZDfm 3 (2), 127-140: Online: https://www.budrich-journals.de/index.php/zdfm/article/view/32663

"This course may be taken as an elective course for the Gender and Diversity Competency Supplemental Certificate. More information about the certificate can be found here."

With the certificate Gender and Diversity Competence, graduates prove their competence in the consideration of gender and diversity aspects.

Prerequisite for the issuance of the certificate is the completion of courses from the following list in the amount of at least 16 ECTS.

Three courses amounting to 7 ECTS must be completed; for the remaining 9 ECTS, all courses from the list "Optional Courses" can be chosen.

List of courses can be found here.

The course is designed as an examination and is assessed along an individual literature reflection (25 points), a research task (group work - 30 points) and a short presentation of results (individual work - 45 points). All performances must be completed for a positive degree. Further information in the preliminary discussion.

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