M.A. Lisa Marie Bläsing

Lisa Marie Bläsing is a PhD candidate at the University of Kassel. They graduated from the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena in Social Theory (MA) as well as Sociology and Biological Sciences (BA). After graduating they worked as a research employee in the project "Gender in STEM" (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover). Their research interests are gender and diversity studies as well as technology and science studies. Particularly, they are interested in the social construction of sex/gender and gender (role) stereotypes in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). At the University of Kassel they are pursuing their research within the UPdATE project, where they mainly focus on the relations between computer sciences and gender. Their research revolves around shared knowledge about CS - for example visible in perceptions of the field and related actors - and the construction of CS as a male, white and western discipline.