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Externally funded research projects

Images in exile. Gender and representation among Syrian Kurdish women in Norway (MSCA-IF 2017-2019)
Gender equality, diversity and societal security (NordForsk 2018-2021)
Likestilling og eksellens i bærekraftig balanse? Kjønn, kjærlighet og kunnskapsbegjær i det kompetitive universitetet (NFR 2019-2022)
Future Research- and Organizational development in Natural sciences, Technology and Theology – FRONT2 (NFR 2019-2022)

Strategic research areas

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UiO:Nordic

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C-REX – Center for Research on Extremism

Best Master's thesis with gender perspective at UiO

Sadik Qaka, from the Department of Sociology and Social Geography, won the STK award for 2019 with the master's thesis The Place of Muslim Warriors, The Place of Muslim Men: The Foreign Fighter Phenomenon as a Masculinity Performance.

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New book on Feminist Methodology

Research based on Institutional Ethnography is one of several focus areas at the Centre for Gender Research this year. The book Institutional Ethnography in the Nordic Region is part of a larger focus on feminist knowledge production and methodology, through book launch seminar, a PhD-course, two ongoing research projects and conference sessions.

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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.

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New MA course from spring 2020!

KFL4070 – Feminist ethics

In this course feminist ethical theories will be applied when discussing concrete cases concerning reproductive autonomy, private and professional care-work, and social, global and environmental injustice.

Among the Editors’ Picks in Organization

Passion, care, and eros in the gendered neoliberal university

Rebecca Lund and Janne Tienari’s article ‘Passion, care, and eros in the gendered neoliberal university’ (2019) was recently selected among the Editors’ Picks of articles on Feminism and Organization, published in the journal Organization over the last 20 years.