Dr. Jennifer Dahmen-Adkins

Senior Researcher, , RWTH Aachen University

Vita

Jennifer Dahmen-Adkins is a senior researcher at the Chair of Technology and Organisation at the Institute of Sociology, RWTH Aachen University. Her research focusses on gender and intersectionality research as well as higher education and organisational research with a strong theory-practice link.

Recently, she was responsible for the process monitoring and evaluation of two H2020 projects of the EU Commission dealing with the institutionalisation of gender equality plans in science and research institutions. In addition, Jennifer Dahmen-Adkins has been appointed as the German representative to the Management Committee of the COST Action VOICES - Making Young Researchers' Voices Heard for Gender Equality.

Research and Practice projects (selection)

Publications (selection)

Dahmen-Adkins, Jennifer & Wolffram, Andrea (Hg.)(2024): Wissenschaftskarrieren und Gender Bias. Chancengerechtigkeit an Hochschulen zwischen formellen Vorgaben und informellen Einflüssen. Verlag Barbara Budrich, Opladen. 

Dahmen-Adkins, Jennifer & Peterson, Helen (2024): Benefits of reflection-based monitoring in action research projects. Sage Journal for Action Research. 

Dahmen-Adkins, Jennifer & Thaler, Anita (Hg.) (2022). Customised CHANGE. Co-producing Gender Equality Knowledge in Science and Research. doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/9XPR2

Dahmen-Adkins, Jennifer & Peterson, Helen (2021). Micro Change Agents for Gender Equality: Transforming European Research Performing Organizations. Front. Sociol. 6:741886. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2021.741886

Wolffram, Andrea, Dahmen-Adkins, Jennifer, Dorgeist, Matthias, Göttgens, Anne & Rieger, Ronja & Astrid Schulz (2020). Netzwerke und Networking in der Postdocphase technischer Disziplinen - Eine Handreichung für die Praxis. Transferprodukt des Projekts „Gender Bias in den Karriereverläufen von Frauen in den Ingenieurwissenschaften und der Informationstechnik durch informelle Förderbeziehungen und Netzwerke (GenderNetz)“

Dahmen-Adkins, Jennifer & Thaler, Anita (Hg.) (2017): Soziale Geschlechtergerechtigkeit in Wissenschaft und Forschung. Barbara Budrich Verlag, Opladen. 

Keywords

social sciences, gender, STEM, organisational culture, young people, education, higher education, organsiation, media, sociology,women's and gender studies, gender equality in higher education, structural change in science and research.

Casegroup

Social Sciences