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Jana George and Falk Bornmüller present the information podcast on aspects of sex and gender in research. (in German)
·Podcast "Mensch im Blick"
An informative podcast on aspects of sex and gender and research
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In each episode, we invite a researcher to explain why gender plays a crucial role in their research.
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Do you have any suggestions for interesting podcast topics, or would you like to be a guest on our podcast yourself? If so, please get in touch: gib@uni-jena.de
Episode 9 – Keeping an eye on moles. Why AI models need the right perspective
Niklas Penzel is a PhD student at the chair of Digital Image Processing at the University of Jena and is a member of the Computer Vision Group Jena.
In this episode, he explains what AI models are, how they learn in general, and why they can reach ‘incorrect’ conclusions even though the input data is ‘correct’. This is because such ‘bias’ always depends on the specific question being asked.
Episode 8 - Leadership from the Sidelines: The Scope for Female Characters in Literature
Dr Malena Ratzke is a research fellow at the Institute of German Literary Studies at the University of Jena and specialises in medieval literature. She views literature as an imaginary space in which various courses of action can be explored. In this context, her focus centres on women who, whilst not ‘heroines’, appear in the texts as ‘supporting’ characters and exert their influence in revealing ways. (in German)
Episode 7 – Four Circles, or Role Models in Mathematics
Dr Julchen Brieger is a mathematics education specialist at Chemnitz University of Technology. In our interview, she tells us how she developed an interest in Mathematics quite late on in her school years, which role models influenced her, why Mathematics is not a culture-free space, and why she focuses her research on queer mathematicians. (in German)
Episode 6 – Of Mice and Men. A glimpse into a medical laboratory
Dr Ngoc Dong Nhi Vo and Jonas Ihle are conducting research into ageing kidneys and diabetic kidney disease at Jena University Hospital (JUH) under the supervision of PD Dr Ivonne Löffler. In this interview, they discuss the challenges they face in their basic research in the laboratory, why sex|gender is taken into account in their research, how important teamwork is, and what they particularly enjoy about their work. (in German)
Episode 5 – How the average masks the effect. Age-related diabetes and the contrasting effects of proteins on male and female kidneys
Ivonne Löffler is a biologist who has completed her habilitation and works at the Nephrology Research Laboratory at Jena University Hospital (JUH). In her basic research into kidney disease, she works with mice and discovered by chance that her experiments, when conducted separately on male and female test animals, yielded surprising results. (in German)
Episode 4 – Research on an equal footing. Why we all need to get involved
Anita Thaler holds a PhD in science and technology studies and works at the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Technology, Work and Culture in Graz. We talk to Anita about why diversity must be taken into account right from the research process onwards, and why developing knowledge collaboratively yields more sustainable results. (in German)
Episode 3 – ‘I am good, whole and beautiful’. A look at feminist and queer theologies
Prof. Sarah Jäger is a junior lecturer in Systematic Theology and Ethics at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. Her research focuses, amongst other things, on the church’s discourse on sex work. In this episode, we discover why it is worthwhile to reflect on masculinity, femininity and the space in between when examining theological categories such as grace and sin. (in German)
Episode 2 – ‘Mumbling is macho’. What speech science reveals about human beings
In their research in the Speech Studies and Phonetics subject area|field, Prof. Melanie Weirich and Prof. Adrian Simpson from the University of Jena are investigating how people speak from a variety of perspectives. We already know from everyday experience that there are audible differences between the way men and women speak. But are these differences biological in nature, or do they reflect learned behaviour? Melanie Weirich and Adrian Simpson have arrived at some surprising findings through their research into children’s voices. (in German)
Episode 1 – Why women suffer from inflammation more often and men suffer more severely from the common cold
Prof. Oliver Werz conducts research into inflammatory processes in the human body in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Jena. As early as 2005, he was able to prove that there are key gender differences between men and women.
We speak to Oliver Werz about, amongst other things, why the development of medicines that would have been specifically effective in women was discontinued, what ‘men’s cold’ is really all about, and why vaccines work better in women. (in German)