Promoting Diversity and Gender Equality within the Berlin University Alliance (BUA): Reflections and Policy Recommendations

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https://doi.org/10.17169/ogj.2026.476

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Diversity, Gender, Inclusion, University

Abstract

This essay contains a policy memo with recommendations on promoting diversity and gender equality within the Berlin University Alliance and its partner universities. The essay also includes a reflection on how, why, and for whom this policy memo was produced, as well as a larger reflection on the need to archive institutional (in)action on diversity, gender equality, and related topics.

Author Biographies

Sarah Bellows-Blakely, Freie Universität Berlin

Dr. Sarah Bellows-Blakely is a historian at Freie Universität Berlin. She is head of the junior research group, “Fixing the System: Analyses in the Context of the History of Science” at the Margherita von Brentano Center for Gender Studies. She is also a lecturer in the Global History MA Program.

Mirjam Fischer, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Prof. Dr. Mirjam Fischer (she/her) is a sociologist and currently holds a visiting professorship in Gender Studies at the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies at Humboldt University in Berlin. There, she leads the research project “Fix the knowledge: Multiple barriers on the way to academic excellence”. Her research focuses, on the one hand, on sexual and gender inequalities in families, social networks, and the labor market, and, on the other hand, on academic careers, exclusion from knowledge production, and academic freedom of speech.

Aline Oloff, Technische Universität Berlin

Dr. Aline Oloff (she/her) leads the research group “Fix the Institution!” at the Center for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies at the Technical University of Berlin (2024–2026). The group’s research focuses on the organizational conditions and prerequisites for anti-discrimination work and diversity policies at universities, with a particular emphasis on the knowledge bases and perspectives that inform the formulation of university anti-discrimination and diversity programs.

Since March 2026, Aline Oloff is the managing director of the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies at Humboldt University in Berlin.

Pichit Buspavanich, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Dr. med. Pichit Buspavanich (Pronomen: er/ihm) ist seit 2021 Facharzt für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie. Er leitet eine Nachwuchsforschungsgruppe zum Thema Diversity und Gender in der Medizin an der Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.  Der Schwerpunkt seiner klinischen Arbeit liegt auf der medizinischen Versorgung von von trans- und genderdiversen-Personen unter Einbeziehung innovativer Konzepte der Gruppendynamik und digitaler Interventionen. Pichit schloss sein Medizinstudium an der Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin im Jahr 2013 ab. Er schloss seine Facharztausbildung an der Medizinischen Universität Brandenburg ab und kehrte 2019 an die Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin zurück.

Title page listing Sarah Bellow-Blakeley, Aline Oloff, Pichit Buspavanich, Mirjam Fischer, Celine Vallender (ed.) and the title 'Institutionalizing Gender and Diversity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Policy Memo' on a pink background with wavy lines.

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2026-10-29

How to Cite

Bellows-Blakely, S., Fischer, M., Oloff, A., & Buspavanich, P. (2026). Promoting Diversity and Gender Equality within the Berlin University Alliance (BUA): Reflections and Policy Recommendations. Open Gender Journal, (4). https://doi.org/10.17169/ogj.2026.476

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No. 4 (2026): Institutionalizing Gender and Diversity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

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