Research centres and groups

Center for Integration Research (Zfl)
The new centre will investigate the requirements concerning language, culture and social practice for a successful integration as a task for the entire society. It aims at understanding the mode of action of these three parameters regarding an integration, and at deriving specific instruments such as research-based integration courses, certificates of political education and intercultural education studies with the help of the findings obtained. The centre is part of the TU Dresden School of Humanities and Social Sciences. As an interdisciplinary institution, it pools ongoing and planned research projects.

Center for Demography and Diversity (CDD)
The competence centre makes scientifically substantiated contributions to manage the challenges that arise from the demographic development and the increasing social diversity. It has arisen from the Zentrum Demographischer Wandel (Centre for Demographic Change, ZDW). It is a long-term operating and interdisciplinary competence centre of TU Dresden with a strong practical orientation.

Gendered University
The research project (“Gendered University“) investigated the social processes at TU Dresden, which constantly reproduce an under-representation of women in top-level positions within the social field of sciences. It is financed from the budget of the Institutional Strategy. In this project, recommendations regarding, i.a. the overcoming of structural barriers for women at TU Dresden were elaborated.

GenderConceptGroup (GCG)
Professors of the TU Dresden School of Humanities and Social Sciences who, in their respective discipline, focus on gender research or gender studies have joined together to the GenderConceptGroup. The pooling of research in the GenderConceptGroup is justified on the basis of the self-conception of gender research, which has been taking an interdisciplinary approach since its beginnings, due to the objective of studying the complex meaning of the category gender in all areas of life.

Chairs

Chair of Education with Focus on Inclusive Education
The tasks of the Chair of Education with Focus on Inclusive Education are in teaching and research in the area of inclusion and education. Particular focuses are currently on early childhood education and inclusion, inclusive schooling (school development processes and teaching development regarding the relationships with heterogeneous groups) and intersectionality – link between disability – gender – socioeconomic discrimination – culture/migration/ethnicity. The teaching offers also deal with various focuses in this field of topic (e.g. developing inclusive teaching for use in practice !, Inclusive didactics, free (i?) entry – how can cultural participation be made available for everyone?)
Person of contact: Professorin Langner

Chair of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
The tasks of the Chair of Human-Computer Interaction comprise teaching and research in the field of accessible IT solutions. In research, the following projects are conducted among others: the project “Analysis, Improvement and Sustainability of the Accessibility of the Saxon Learning Platform OPAL”, the project “Mobility – Accessible Pedestrian Navigation in Public Buildings” and the project “Digital Libraries for Readers with Special Needs”. The lectures organised by the chair deal e.g. with accessible literature generation.
Person of contact: Professor Weber

Chair of Social and Health Care Buildings and Design
The Chair of Social and Health Care Buildings and Design deals with teaching and research in accessible architecture. Current research projects focus on topics regarding human-architecture-technology, interaction for demographic sustainability as well as accessibility and the implementation of technical support systems. The offered lectures deal e.g. with the activated architecture for people with dementia and the accessible design of buildings.
Person of contact: Professorin Marquardt

Chair of Micro-Sociology
The research focus of Professor Karl Lenz is on the sociology of personal relations. His central aim is to counteract the neglect of marriages in family research and establish a couple research that goes far beyond marriage. Professor Lenz is engaged in gender research and was head of the project “Choice of study programmes by women and men at Saxon universities”.
Person of contact: Professor Lenz