Home

Image may contain: Person, Smile, Chin, Jaw, Sleeve.

MA student Kelly Fisher accepted into the WIIS Next Generation Symposium

STK MA student Kelly Fisher has been accepted into the 2021 cohort of the Women In International Security’s Gender, Peace & Security Next Generation Symposium.

New course at STK:

KFL4055 Gender and Society

In the autumn of 2021, STK will offer a new MA course, KFL4055 Gender and Society, which will examine how gendered inequalities, practices, and subjectivities are reproduced, both in the individual and in society as a whole.

New course at STK:

KFL4065 Gender, Peace and Conflict

In the autumn of 2021, STK will offer a new MA course, KFL4065 Gender, Peace and Conflict, which aims to explore how research in different scholarly fields analyzes and explains peace and conflict from the optics of gender.

The NORA Conference 2022 is welcoming session proposals

The NORA Conference 2022 will be taking place in Oslo with the theme "Tensions and Potentials in Nordic Feminist and Gender Research". The deadline for submitting session proposals is fast approaching.

The Fritt Ord Foundation Gives Grant to Book Project

Tone Brekke and Sunniva Serigstad (STK) have received funding from the Fritt Ord Foundation for their book project on the history of gender research in Norway.

Nominate candidates for

STK's award for best master's thesis

Supervisors and examiners are invited to nominate candidates for STK's award for best master's thesis / professional study with a gender perspective, submitted at the University of Oslo. The deadline for nomination is December 31.

New Book Project on the History of Norwegian Gender Studies

Tone Brekke and Sunniva Serigstad at STK have started work on a new book that will provide new insights into the development of gender research as a discipline in Norway between 1975 and 2010.

Image may contain: Collage, Community, Art, Event.

Challenging representations of Syrian Kurdish women in Scandinavia

Wendelmoet Hamelink recently completed her Marie Skłodowska-Curie funded Postdoctoral project IMEX – Images in Exile. Gender and representation among Syrian Kurdish women in Scandinavia, hosted by the Centre for Gender Research, University of Oslo.

Completed dissertation

Solveig Laugerud

Solveig Laugerud recently completed her dissertation The Legible Rape Victim: How the Disiplinary Discourses Create a New Victim Identity, and among others explore how victims become objects of knowledge in legal proceedings and how victims in these processes create themselves as credible victims.

Image may contain: Face, People, Facial expression, Head, Team.

PRIDE – International solidarity: Stronger together

Are you wondering why we celebrate Pride? STK has collected a handful of texts from UiO-researchers, and other relevant partners, that we hope can provide some insight into the research being conducted on Pride related topics.

Image may contain: Asphalt, Lane, Transport, Mode of transport, Road.

PhD-course

Institutional Ethnography

This PhD-course gives an introduction to Institutional Ethnography (IE), explore core concepts of IE, and engage with methodological tools and procedures for exploring organised social interaction.

Would you like to be a Visiting scholar at STK?

The Centre for Gender Research welcomes Visiting Scholars from other academic institutions, nationally and internationally. We will provide an office space, access to IT-facilities, good and safe-data storage facilities, full access to the University of Oslo library, and the chance to be an active and integrated part of the Centre while here.

Application deadline: March 15.

Studies

Study programmes

Courses

Find courses

Find staff and students

Coronavirus: Updated information

Research