The Research Group Gender Studies supervises:
- MA theses and
- Dissertations.
If your idea for a topic and research question(s) overlaps with research foci of our research group, feel free to get in contact with us. Please read carefully the instructions and advice outlined in the Master’s Thesis Guidelines from the Institute of Sociology before contacting us regarding supervision for your MA Thesis.
Preference for supervision will be given to MA students who have completed at least one seminar or the research placement with Prof. Zippel before the start of the thesis.The research colloquium should be attended alongside the master thesis. Prof. Kathrin Zippel is available as a supervisor. Please note that research assistants and post-docs can only supervise master theses in exceptional circumstances.
Preferred research topics:
- Intersectional gender research in the areas of science and work
- Equality and diversity policies
- Institutional and comparative research approaches to gender inequalities in the US and Europe.
In addition, it is possible to ground the master thesis in the thematic context of ongoing research projects:
Dr. Matthias Schneider
- Gender and Diversity in the context of Higher Education, Internationalisation, Organizations, Consumption or Forced Migration
Dr. Daniel Schumann
- Sociological Perspectives on the European Universities Initiative
- Diversity and Internationalization in Higher Education in Germany, Europe and the Americas
- Discourse and Dispositif Analysis in Diversity Research and Sociology of Education
Further thematic focus areas can be found in the descriptions of our research projects and the list of publications of our team members.
Supervision requests
For requests of supervision for the master thesis, please contact the Research Group Gender Studies minimum 6 weeks in advance of the registration deadline. To do so, send the “Application form for Master Thesis Supervision” to the Research Group Gender Studies together with a short exposé of 1-2 pages, using this e-mail address: shk-gender-soz[@]polsoz.fu-berlin.de. Please describe in the exposé the overarching topic of your planned master thesis, your concrete research questions, your theoretical framework and methodology and provide at least 10 references to the relevant scholarly literature.
Further information as well as general support during the writing process can be found at the Writing Center of Studierendenwerk.