Maria Weber Grant for Prof. Renate Hartwig

Prof. Renate Hartwig, PhD, has recently been awarded the Maria Weber Grant of the Hans Böckler Foundation. She has held the Junior Professorship in Development Economics - GIGA at the Faculty of Business and Economics at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen since 2019. The junior professorship was established jointly with the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies (Leibniz Institute for Global and Area Studies) in Hamburg.

The grant enables outstanding academics to apply for a temporary partial replacement for up to twelve months, taking over parts of the teaching responsibilities in order to free up time for research.

Missing Women & Angry Young Men
Prof. Hartwig will establish and expand the new research topic "Missing Women & Angry Young Men: Exploring the Roots and Remedies to Conflict in Gender-Imbalanced Societies".

At the core of the project is the question of whether and how conflicts arise in societies with an unequal ratio of women and men of marriageable age. In China, for example, there are currently more men than women of marriageable age due to the one-child policy. Studies show that this situation is accompanied by an increase in the crime rate in China.

"In Germany, too, and specifically in East Germany, we see this male predominance, which is also associated with crime here, especially hate crimes. In my project, I want to understand where these connections come from, what consequences they have and how to counter the negative consequences," Renate Hartwig explains.

Her teaching will be represented in the winter semester 2023 and summer semester 2024. After the end of the substitute period, Prof. Hartwig will give the so-called Maria Weber Lecture on her research results in the summer semester of 2024 in Göttingen.

Maria Weber Grant
The Maria Weber Grant supports excellent young researchers in one of the most important phases of their academic career and gives them opportunities for a lasting career in academia. The funding of stable employment relationships is also intended to secure good academic teaching.

The researchers funded by the grant applied with interesting research content and were able to convince with the high quality and charisma of their work. Junior professors who apply for the grant must also have already undergone a positive interim evaluation. In addition, the Hans Böckler Foundation conducts a peer review process. Renate Hartwig is one of three award winners in 2023.