Research

Bad Seeds: Children, Gender, and Violence in the British and American Novel, 1954-2003 (STK 2015-2019)
Emma Goldmans anarkisme og feminisme i skandinavisk kontekst (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)

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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)
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)

Visiting scholar at STK?

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Sadik Qaka won the STK award for best master's thesis with a gender perspective, submitted at the University of Oslo in 2019.

Strategic research areas

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UiO:Nordic

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C-REX – Center for Research on Extremism

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.

Returns to STK with new Front-project

Lotta K. Snickare was recently appointed as researcher on the project Front 2 - Future Research and Organizational Development in Natural Sciences, Technology and Theology (2019-2022).

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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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The generational shift in gender research continues with Øystein Gullvåg Holter as emeritus

Through a long career, his research has focused on working life and family, gender and gender equality research, and economic theory and historical sociology. He has extensive experience with collaboration in the field of gender equality policy, both in Norway and beyond, but also with labor organizations and business. Holter continues as a researcher, among others on the field of gender balance in academia, and is currently developing the 'Janus model' to explain what he describes as accumulated disadvantages for women.

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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The new face of Simone de Beauvoir Studies

The relaunch of Simone de Beauvoir Studies at Brill Publisher is a milestone for Beauvoir studies, and comes at a time when the interest in Beauvoir is greater than ever, says Professor Tove Pettersen, former president (2016-2019) of The International Simone de Beauvoir Society - the international research network behind the publication of the journal.

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Increased focus on feminist knowledge production and 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.

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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.

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. Deadline for nomination is December 31.

03 Aug.

(POSTPONED) PhD course: Institutional Ethnography

Gaustadalléen 30D: Møterom 420

04 Aug.

(POSTPONED) PhD course: Institutional Ethnography

Gaustadalléen 30D: Møterom 420

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Publications

Embodied truths and authentic selves: The constitution of evidence and credibility in rape cases June 25, 2020 8:51 AM
The Legible Rape Victim: How Disciplinary Discourses in the Legal System Create a New Victim Identity May 27, 2020 11:06 AM
Gender and war: Bosnian psychologists dealing with conflict related sexual violence during and after war Apr. 15, 2020 3:09 PM

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