Since the 1990s, the “Women in STEM” (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) agenda has been a central part of gender equality strategies in science, education, and business. This special issue will bring together theoretical, empirical, and practice-oriented contributions that critically examine existing neoliberal frameworks regarding excellence, funding, and utilization, and explore institutional and knowledge-policy alternatives.

Call for papers is open, please submit your abstract by 28 June 2026 

This special issue focuses on the connection between processes of change in scientific practice on the one hand and socio-ecological transformation processes on the other. Among other things, it asks how science can become sustainable in a transformative sense with regard to its own practical, institutional, and epistemological prerequisites, as well as its modes of work, knowledge, and social relations.

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