The Research Group Gender Studies supervises bachelor's theses, master's theses, and dissertations. If you have an idea for a topic or a question that fits the content of our research area, you are welcome to contact us. 

At this time, Prof. Kathrin Zippel is available as supervisor. Research assistants and postdocs can only supervise master theses on a case-by-case basis.

Before your thesis project can be considered, it is required that you complete at least one seminar or a research internship offered by the Research Group Gender Studies, and/or the research colloquium should be attended while writing your master's thesis.

Preferred subject areas:

• Gender, science, and work 

• Equality and diversity policies 

• Institutional and comparative approaches to gender inequalities in the U.S. and Europe

Theses can also be linked to ongoing research projects, including the following focus areas:

Dr. Matthias Schneider

• Gender and diversity in higher education and internationalization

• Gender and diversity in organizations

• Gender and diversity in consumption

• Gender and diversity in contexts of asylum and migration

Dr. Daniel Schumann

• Sociological perspectives on the European Universities Initiative

• Diversity and internationalization in higher education in Germany, the EU, and the Americas

• Discourse and dispositif analysis at the intersection of diversity studies and the sociology of education

For further subject areas, please consult the research group’s research projects and the publication lists of the staff members.

Supervision requests

If you would like to write your thesis or dissertation under the supervision of the research group, please contact the group at least 6 weeks prior to the official application deadline. For this purpose, please send the form "Application form for a thesis" and a short exposé (1-2 pages) to gender-soz@fu-berlin.de. The exposé should include a brief description of the topic and your ideas, your research question(s), methods and material. The application form is available for download in the Downloads section of this page.

When preparing your thesis, please follow the guidelines of the Institute on how to write a thesis. 

For general support and advice on the academic writing process, please contact the Counselling center located at the Studierendenwerk.

In the Downloads section of this page, you will also find a template for the statutory declaration of originality, which you will need to hand in together with the finished thesis.