Welcome to the website "Gender Studies at Paderborn University as an interdisciplinary science". Gender studies does not stand alone, but combines disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches, thus creating a broad field of research. Researchers and teaching staff work together on socially relevant issues using different perspectives, methods and analyses from various academic fields, creating fruitful synergies in the process. The perspectives are drawn from the cultural sciences and humanities as well as from the natural sciences, technology and engineering.

In the "Centre for Gender Studies", Paderborn University's diverse research finds a common place for exchange. The Centre, which is part of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and is located in the Institute of Education Studies, serves to build networks and organises a variety of event formats on the topic of gender. In order to emphasise the implementation and academic consideration of gender as a category of analysis in teaching and research, Paderborn University has a total of four "network professorships" of the NRW Women's and Gender Studies Network. In addition, a large number of lecturers and researchers who are associated members of this network work together.

On this page you will find the various faculties and subject areas in which gender research is based at Paderborn University. The subpages are hyperlinked and summarise introductory information on the respective discipline with regard to gender studies. A short introduction presents the projects and research work, as well as the researchers themselves. There is also an overview of the teaching staff in the various subject areas. You can find out about their current projects, research interests and publications. Centres, institutions and projects related to gender studies as well as the university's degree programmes are also presented separately.