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Girls'Day 2025

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3 April 2025

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3 April 2025

2:30 pm

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  • The development of the teaching and digitalisation strategy at Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences
    Prof. Dr Cordula Borbe and Kathleen Hahnemann (Department of Studies & Teaching) A participatory path to excellent teaching and innovative study programmes A comprehensive strategy process was carried out at Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences over the course of two years to set the course for the future of teaching. The teaching and digitalisation strategy developed pursues ambitious goals: The development of agile, diversity-sensitive study programmes [...]
  • Ageing in prison - an overview of the situation of older people in the German prison system
    by Dr Andrea Kenkmann Older people in prison are an extremely vulnerable group. In addition to the burden of imprisonment, they experience further challenges due to their age(s). Together with her co-authors Christian Ghanem (TH Nuremberg), Liane Meyer (DHBW Karlsruhe) and Sandra Verhülsdonk (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf), Andrea Kenkmann has systematically analysed the factors influencing the ageing processes of this group [...].
  • Symposium Toxic Masculinity - Interdisciplinary symposium on the critical examination of toxic images of masculinity
    Prof. Dr Petra Brzank, Prof. Dr Stefan Kunde-Siegel, Prof. Dr Sabrina Schramme The term "toxic masculinity" has been circulating in various academic and social discourses for at least a decade. It became popular in the context of the #MeToo movement or in connection with killing sprees, violence directed against women or a certain leadership style. The harmful effects of [...]