Research

Emma Goldman's Anarchism and Feminism in a Scandinavian Context (STK 2017-2021)
New sexualities - new vulnerabilities? (STK 2018-2022)
Too drunk to fuck? – Exploring the boundaries between consensual and non-consensual sexual encounters under the influence of alcohol (STK 2019-2023)
Frozen fertility: Elective Egg Banking among Norwegian Women (STK 2019-2023)
Epistemic injustice in academia: Class, Race and Gender in feminist knowledge production (STK 2019-2023)
Equality and Excellence in Sustainable Balance? (NFR 2020-2023)
Gender equality, diversity and societal security (NordForsk 2018-2021)

Future Research- and Organizational development in Natural sciences, Technology and Theology – FRONT2 (NFR 2019-2022)
EgFem – Egyptology, feminist theory and alternative worlds: Body/sex/gender in New Kingdom Egypt, and their affective environments (NFR 2020-2023)
ALCITfem – Activism and Its Moral and Cultural Foundations: Alternative Citizenship and Women’s Roles in Kurdistan and the Diaspora (EEA and Norway Grants 2021-2023)
The welfare closet: The history and politics of the male homosexual closet in the emerging Danish welfare state, c. 1900-1970 (STK 2021-2025)
EuroWARCHILD (ERC 2021-2026)

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Conference and new book look at gender equality within academia

What causes gender imbalance within academia, and how can we achieve greater gender equality within research and higher education? The newly published book Gender Equality in Academia – from Understanding to Change, which was launched at the FRONT Conference 2021, seeks to address precisely these questions.

Registration for the NORA Conference is now open

You can now register for the NORA Conference 2022, which will be taking place in Oslo on June 20th-22nd, with the theme "Tensions and Potentials in Nordic Feminist and Gender Research".

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What role do gender, equality and diversity play in the Nordic security forces?

The NordForsk-financed project Gender Equality, Diversity and Societal Security is coming to an end. This project has explored how increasing levels of diversity in the personnel of Nordic security forces relate to changing perceptions of trust and security in the Nordic countries.

You can now submit paper proposals to the NORA Conference

The NORA Conference 2022 will be taking place in Oslo with the theme "Tensions and Potentials in Nordic Feminist and Gender Research". You can now access the overview of accepted sessions, and submit paper proposals.

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.

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.

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.