About GinF

360° – Gender in Research (GinF) is a collaborative project between the Hamburg Research Academy (HRA) and the Zentrum Gender & Diversity (ZGD), which is funded for a period of five years as part of the BMFTR line of funding "Gender Aspects in Focus" (GiB). 

The aim of the project is to integrate gender-differentiating perspectives systematically into research at Hamburg's universities, in all subjects and disciplines. The focus is on promoting excellent research that benefits all people - regardless of gender and other diversity characteristics. Blind spots and biases in research can cause significant problems and have serious consequences for parts of the population. This has recently been demonstrated, for example, by studies on heart attack research. Research shows, that women are more likely to be underdiagnosed and undertreated in this area, leading to higher mortality rates. 

GinF cooperates with all departments, disciplines, institutes, and service and transfer facilities in Hamburg's higher education landscape to establish long-term structures, continuously raise awareness in academic cultures and to promote cultural and methodological change in the design of research questions. 

We aim to attract researchers and research units to explore and integrate gender factors through our low-treshold offers, always tailored to your needs and explicitly subject-specific. Please feel free to contact us at any time, even on short notice, to obtain further information or discuss ideas or requirements with us: ginf"AT"uni-hamburg.de

 

A collaboration between the Zentrum Gender & Diversity and the Hamburg Research Academy

GinF is creating synergies that are unique nationwide, between two interdisciplinary university institutions, the ZGD and the HRA, which have proven expertise in gender studies and science management. These synergies enable the project to have an impact across the entire scientific community throughout the federal state of Hamburg,  offering its services to all members of the ten partner universities and their cooperating research institutions. Since their founding, ZGD and HRA have been working across universities and disciplines, contributing extensive experience in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary cooperation and making interdisciplinarity an integral feature of the GinF-project. Resources and competencies can be brought together here in a complementary manner, anchoring the 360° measures structurally.