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The STK award

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Sunniva Rivedal won the STK award for the best MA thesis with a gender perspective submitted to the University of Oslo in 2020. 

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Strategic research areas

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UiO:Nordic

 

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C-REX – Center for Research on Extremism

Research news

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New lecture series: Perspectives on Love

Love is of enormous importance in our lives, and also one of the central themes in the history of Western thought. STK's new digital lecture series, Perspectives on Love, will explore different understandings of the concept of love.

STK award goes to MA thesis on maternal embodiment

Sunniva Rivedal’s master's thesis shows how the body plays a central role in maternal experiences of caring for young children.

New Director at STK

Inger Skjelsbæk is the new director of the Centre for Gender Research from January 2021. 

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ERC Grant Goes to Researcher at STK

Professor Inger Skjelsbæk has been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council for a project that seeks to understand the needs and rights of children born of war.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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