Equality
Decentralised Equal Opportunities Officer of the Faculty of Social Work
A warm welcome! The Decentralised Equal Opportunities Officer at the FakS is your confidential point of contact for all questions relating to equality and equal opportunities. She advises prospective students, students and employees on topics such as reconciling study/work & care responsibilities or experiences of discrimination and sexual harassment. Find out more about the tasks, working principles and contact options here.
Tasks and offers
- Counselling & information for prospective students, students, employees:
- On gender and equality-specific topics (individual/structural)
- On the compatibility of studies/work and care responsibilities (family/care)
- In cases of sexual harassment, sexism, discrimination or violence
- In the event of challenges in everyday faculty life due to gender
- Involvement:
- In appointment procedures
- In committees (e.g. faculty council, study commission)
- Objective: To promote the actual realisation of equal opportunities for all genders and to reduce existing disadvantages.
Our working principles
- Confidentiality
- Duty of confidentiality
- Not bound by instructions
- Open ear & open door
- Cooperation with the Anti-Discrimination Office and the Equal Opportunities Office
Further contact points & cooperations
- Note: There are various contact points at Ostfalia. You decide for yourself who you would like to contact with which concerns.
- Anti-discrimination centre (Faculty of Social Work): Support for experienced/observed discrimination. [Insert link to the anti-discrimination office]
- Central Equal Opportunities Office (Ostfalia): Responsible for the entire university, information on equality, compatibility, promotion etc. [Insert link to the Equal Opportunities Office]
- Braunschweig Centre for Gender Studies: Information, offers, teaching on gender studies. [Insert link to BZfG]
Compatibility: study/work & care responsibilities
- Infrastructure for children (breastfeeding/changing rooms) [insert link]
- Flexible childcare centre "Die Grashüpfer" [insert link]
- Offers of the family-friendly university [insert link]
- Information from the Equal Opportunities Office on studying with a family [Link: www.ostfalia.de/familie]
Contact us
M.A. Simone Prager
Dezentrale Gleichstellungsbeauftragte, Faculty of Social Work
Building Am Exer 6, Room 28, Wolfenbüttel
Sprechzeiten: Di 09:00 – 09:30 (Vorlesungszeit) oder nach Vereinbarung
