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Female scientists receive Georg Forster Prize
Image: University of Kassel/SoFi Göttingen - Klaus Peter Wittemann.Natalie Grimm receives the award for her dissertation "Statusacrobatics. Biographical processing patterns of status inconsistencies in the course of employment". The thesis was submitted in 2016 and supervised by Prof. Dr. Berthold Vogel. Grimm now works as a researcher at the Sociological Research Institute Göttingen (SoFi).
Also in 2016, Dr. Ellen Ehmke, now a social inequality analyst at Oxfam Germany, received her PhD. Her thesis, "Social Security Expansion in the South: From Welfare Regimes to Implementation. A Study of India and its National Rural Employment Guarantee Act" was devoted to India's welfare system and the situation of small farmers and seasonal workers in two states. It was supervised by Prof. Dr. Christoph Scherrer.
The prize is named after the natural scientist Georg Forster. Every two years since 1987, the University Society Kassel (UGK) has awarded the prize to outstanding scientific or artistic achievements at the University of Kassel. The prizes were presented by Sabine Anselmann-Seydler (UGK).
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Sebastian Mense
University of Kassel
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Tel.: +49 561 804-1961
E-mail: presse[at]uni-kassel[dot]de
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