Women's Representatives at the OTH Regensburg

The Women's Representatives (representatives for equal opportunity in science and art) ensure that female scientists, artists, female teaching staff and students are not disadvantaged. They are obliged to maintain confidentiality, are not bound by instructions and support the universities in the performance of their duties in accordance with para. 1 (Art. 22 HIG). Accordingly, the universities promote the actual implementation of equal rights for all genders and take this into account as a guiding principle.

The tasks include:

  • Contact person for academic staff and students
  • Promoting and safeguarding the interests of female academics, lecturers and students
  • Representation of women's interests in university committees
  • Motivating girls and young women to pursue STEM degrees and technical professions
  • Contact point for scholarships
  • Coaching female academics with the career goal of becoming a professor at a university of applied sciences
  • Participation in all measures that enable better compatibility of studies/career with family - for all genders
  • Support and promotion of women-specific topics in teaching and practice

Women in science

Women are clearly underrepresented in science. They make up just over half of students and more than 45% of doctoral students are female (2022). However, the proportion of women in professorships is only at 27% (2021). At universities of applied sciences and in Bavaria specifically, the numbers are even lower: At Bavarian universities of applied sciences, the proportion of female professors in 2021 was at 22.6%, at the OTH Regensburg at 21.0%.

Consequently, to the OTH Regensburg it is important to encourage more women to pursue an academic career. The Bavarian Higher Education Innovation Act (HIG) also calls for an increase in the proportion of women in all subject groups and on all levels where women are underrepresented. This is to be done on the basis of the cascade model. The cascade model pursues raising the proportion of women to the proportion of women at the qualification level below. The proportion of female students would therefore be decisive for the proportion of female doctorates, while the proportion of female professors would be determined by the proportion of female doctorates.

The Women's Representatives support the university management in this task with various programmes.

The State Conference of Women's Representatives and Equal Opportunities Officers at Bavarian Universities (LaKoF) brings together the Women's Representatives and Equal Opportunities Officers at Bavarian universities. The aim of LaKoF Bayern is to promote equal opportunities in the academic system.

With the programmes BayernMentoring - doctoral scholarships - qualification programme "rein-in-die-hörsäle", LaKoF Bayern/HAW has established three pillars for female career advancement in order to support women sustainably and effectively on their way to an academic career.


Contact persons

University Women's Representative (Representative for Equal Opportunities for Women in Science and Art)

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Birgit Scheuerer

Galgenbergstr. 30, Room D202

Phone: 0941 943-9729

frauenbeauftragte@oth-regensburg.de

Consultation hours by appointment

 

 

Prof. Dr. Nina Leffers  (deputy)

Galgenbergstr. 30, Room D202

Phone: 0941 943-9729

frauenbeauftragte@oth-regensburg.de

Consultation hours by appointment

Women's Representatives at the Faculties


Faculty of Applied Natural Sciences and Cultural Studies

Ulrike de Ponte

Prof. Dr. Julia Hartmann (deputy)

 

Faculty of Social and Health Care Sciences

Prof. Dr. Clarissa Rudolph

Prof. Dr. Martina Ortner(deputy)

 

Faculty of Architecture

Prof. Dr. Waleska Leifeld

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Birgit Scheuerer (deputy)

 

Faculty of Civil Engineering

Prof. Dr. Ursula Albertin-Hummel

Faculty of Business Studies

Prof. Dr. Nina Leffers

 

Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology

Prof. Dr. Susanne Hipp

Prof. Dr. Heiko Unold (deputy)

 

Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics

Dr. Gabriela Tapken

Dr. Doris Augustin (deputy)

 

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Prof. Dr. Ulrike Phleps

Dr. Karin Herzog (deputy)