Irina Gewinner

Leibniz Universität Hannover · Institute of Sociology

This paper examines the phenomenon of influencers with a special focus on the tourism industry. The question arises whether self-portrayal within a gender-stereotypical framework correlates positively with success and the number of followers. To this end, the profiles of twelve tourism influencers and their posted content in the first half of 2023...

Die Coronapandemie stellt Hochschulen vor bisher ungeahnte Herausforderungen. Digitalisierung und Online-Lehre bestimmen das Bild, während Campus und Seminarräume verwaisen. Welche Auswirkungen haben diese Veränderungen auf Studierende und Lehrende? Werden Diskriminierung und Exklusion durch digitale Lehre verstärkt oder gemindert? Und wie können H...

The essay is addressed to practitioners in research management and from academic leadership. It describes which measures can contribute to creating an inclusive climate for research teams and preventing and effectively dealing with discrimination. The practical recommendations consider the policy and organizational levels, as well as the individual...

This article provides an overview of the steps required to implement a cross-national survey of higher education students. Discussing the challenges and potential errors involved when drawing upon a total survey error framework, it provides examples based on insights into the EUROSTUDENT project. The article thus highlights aspects to be considered...

Die Autoethnografie ermöglicht eine systematische Reflexion der eigenen Lehre und der eigenen Lehrpraktiken; vor allem durch die Bewusstmachung der Verschränkung von Struktur und Lehrperson (vgl. Reed-Danahay 2021). An ethnografische Ansätze (vgl. Breidenstein et al. 2020) anschließend, geht es bei der autoethnografischen Beforschung der Lehre daru...

Defining gender in tourism marketing and business studies is not easy, due to the obvious divergence between research and practice. How gender should be understood provokes disagreement among academics and practitioners. This entry will provide an overview of definitions developed from current research and practice, and recommend an inclusive view...

Der Beitrag geht der Frage nach, welchen Herausforderungen Lehrende durch die digitale Lehre im ersten Corona-Semester 2020 begegnet sind und welche Strategien sie für deren Bewältigung gewählt haben. Als Datengrundlage dienen dazu sechs autoethnographische Stories, entstanden im Projekt AEDiL. Diese haben sich als wertvolles Material erwiesen, um...

Based on the classic models developed by Spady and Tinto on the link between social and academic integration and dropout, we propose a refined model to explain dropout intentions – relating to dropout from higher education (HE) and dropout from a specific study programme – that more strongly emphasises individual background characteristics (e.g. ge...

Luxemburg hat im Mai 2019 erstmals am internationalen Projekt ,Eurostudent‘, das Studien- und Lebensbedingungen der Studierenden in Europa untersucht, teilgenommen. Hierzu wurden flächendeckend Befragungen von Studierenden an luxemburgischen Hochschuleinrichtungen durchgeführt.

Although a number of policies tackling educational inequalities have been introduced in recent decades in Europe, educational inequalities exist to a varying extent both in different sub- and supranational contexts. In this article, we address the link between social and educational policies with respect to educational inequalities. Educational pol...

This report represents a data documentation of the 1st wave of the trend study 'Coping Strategies with Covid-19' (CoStra). CoStra stands out due to its specific focus on the three main topics of interest: 1) family dynamics and division of household chores and childcare (attitudes, concrete tasks distribution within couples, and satisfaction with f...

Equal opportunities for men and women are seen by policymakers as a desirable societal goal. Nevertheless, the proportion of women scientists is lower than that of men, and women are less represented in decision-making positions in German science. Using a comparative cultural approach, this essay analyses how German and Russian-speaking women scien...

In March 2020, a group of higher education professionals and researchers launched a collaboration in an autoethnographic research project. Their aim: to collect, discuss and jointly reflect upon their experiences during the time of the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic in Germany. This chapter introduces the context of the project and offers ins...

Hochschullehre im Corona-Semester 2020: 15 Autor:innen aus diversen Hochschulkontexten und Fächern veröffentlichen in diesem Buch ihre kollaborativ entstandenen autoethnographischen Stories zu Lehr-, Lern- und Arbeitspraktiken sowie Strukturen. Auf Basis autoethnographischer Dokumentation, Reflexion und Analyse entstand so ein unverstellter Blick a...

This study deals with meanings of economic insecurity for post-Soviet migrant women in Germany, Italy, and Spain, elaborating on its cultural underpinnings. Drawing upon several data sources, including interviews, observation, and online data, as well as judicial material, this study addresses the ways women from the former Soviet Union experience...

The Socio-Economic Impact (SEI) project focuses on data collection to support research on the short- and medium-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and related (de)confinement measures in Luxembourg on individuals and their households in terms of work and living conditions, daily activities and mobility, and (not directly COVID-19 related) health...

While cross-cultural studies on travellers from different contexts have burgeoned in recent decades, analysis of tourists from similar cultural environments has been scarce. This is particularly true for the two strands of research investigating tourist and customer behaviour of Muslim and non-Muslim people travelling to Muslim countries. Studies o...

Der Beitrag thematisiert individuelle geschlechtsstereotypische Einstellungen, die in der Kultur einer jeden Gesellschaft tief verankert sind. Diese Auffassungen können als Erklärung einer geschlechtsspezifischen Studienfachwahl, die in Deutschland persistent ist, herangezogen werden. Der Beitrag erweitert die bisherige Forschung auf eine breitere...

Drawing upon original interviews and online discussions data on Russian-speaking migrant women in Germany, this study addresses career pathways of healthcare workers into recognition of qualifications and the professional resocialisation of female health workers. It particularly focuses on women who obtained qualifications in healthcare sector in t...

This is a CfP for a workshop on Work-Life Balance in Crisis Times and Beyond. In the recent years, many industrialised countries formulated their gender equality policies, aiming at reconciling employment and private duties of parents and carers by accentuating accessible and affordable care services to reduce "disincentives for women to work more...

This is a call soliciting for survey participation on societal impact of COVID-19 lockdown in various regions of the world. It particularly investigates coping strategies with lockdown, work-life balance and individual attitudes. http://covid-19-coping.uni.lu/

University of Luxembourg and Leibniz Universität Hannover are conducting a survey on "Coping strategies with COVID-19: Societal Impact" (http://covid-19-coping.uni.lu/) - please consider participating and win one of 10 food delivery vouchers in the amount of 30 EUR each!

PURPOSE This article represents a unique and original piece of research on full professors in global hospitality and tourism academia. Aimed at revisiting academic leadership, this study identifies its components and gains insight into the so far understudied dimensions of diversity in academic contexts worldwide. DESIGN The study examines the ca...

This report provides the results of a student survey conducted at Leibniz Universität Hannover at the end of 2018. The research team from the Institute of Sociology aimed at analyzing young people's study and career choices based on gender ideologies and gender stereotypes as a basis for explanation. Overall, the following topics were examined in m...

This article problematizes gender norms, sexuality and post-socialist individual cultural legacy by focusing on attitudes towards gendered sexual initiation and related family formation in migrant Russian-speaking women in Germany. It represents the results of a study that investigates whether and how norms of sexual maturity, adulthood and sexual...

Since the 1930s, a peculiar ‘working mother’ gender contract was dominant in the Soviet Union formally empowering women. The pressing expectation of this contract and a necessity to combine motherhood, housework and employment led to the image of the near superwoman who ‘has it all’. This paper examines whether highly-skilled Russian-speaking femal...

This report and data documentation provides a description of the survey, including specially developed survey instruments, and a representation of every variable. They explore career choices of higher education students giving special attention to the culturally rooted mechanisms of gender segregation and gender (a)typical career choices. The quest...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address notions and practices relating to work–life balance for native German scholars and researchers who have migrated from the former Soviet Union (FSU). Issues will be explored from a cultural perspective, identifying culturally based interpretations of work–life balance. Design/methodology/approach Fore...

Purpose of the study: The field of Gender Studies in Germany demonstrates a rather heterogeneous culture due to its unclear status in relation to other disciplines, while its scope varies from diversity management to critical feminism. Career origins, paths and options for new generations of researchers in this field have to date been only minimall...

This chapter investigates inequality in academia in relation to the gendered nature of early career academics’ participation in conferences in Russia by looking at the application process; who applies; and, crucially, who is chosen to attend and present their work. Gewinner argues that scholarly discussion on inequality and discrimination in academ...

Purpose - There exist a number of approaches that attempt to explain the occupational choices of youth from different perspectives. The social cognitive theory and the self-efficacy approach, to name the most influential, emphasize the centrality of cognitive abilities of individuals in making a career choice, and look at professional orientation p...

Whereas Europe currently pursues reform and transformation of academia in the context of New Public Management, Russia seeks to regulate the processes of modernization of the latter one, thus addressing its excellence and effectiveness. In both cases, the processes underlying social change in academia impact on female scholars’ occupational advance...

In the USSR, media in general and print magazines, in particular, have been designed to create views, patterns of behavior, cultural norms and practices of consumption. Thus, in Soviet Russia, propaganda stereotypes of the new Soviet women throughout decades maintained the image of an "emancipated" woman, i.e. an employed woman with other duties li...