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Research news
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Won STK Prize for thesis about male victims of war
Antonella Wahl won the award for best master's thesis with a gender perspective for 2025. Her thesis looks at how international news media portray male victims of sexual violence in the war in Ukraine.
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Master prize winner looks at the role of gender in conductors' education
Hannah Howard Andresen (STK) has won the prize for the best master's thesis with a gender perspective submitted to the University of Oslo in 2024.
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New director at STK
Associate Professor Rebecca Lund has taken on the role of centre director from January 2025.
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Tove Pettersen receives «Distinguished Educator» title
Professor Tove Pettersen (STK) has been named as one of nine Distinguished Educators at UiO this year.
The Centre’s academic profile
STK conducts interdisciplinary humanities and social science research on gender. The Centre’s permanent academic staff have backgrounds in philosophy, political science, sociology, theology, psychology, media studies and literature; our PhD candidates and postdoctoral fellows come from a variety of social science and humanities disciplines.
- Emma Goldman's Anarchism and Feminism in a Scandinavian Context (STK 2018-2025)
- New sexualities - new vulnerabilities? (STK 2018-2026)
- Too drunk to fuck? – Exploring the boundaries between consensual and non-consensual sexual encounters under the influence of alcohol (STK 2019-2025)
- 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)
- (Re)imagining Medieval Icelandic Femininity in Victorian Britain (STK 2022-2026)
- EUROPA RISES: Masculine Subjects in the Aftermath of Terrorist Attacks (STK 2022-2026)
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Men in "Dirty Work": Necessity, Masculinities, and Social Class (STK 2024-2028)
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Critical Scholarship in the Corporate University: Epistemic Cultures at the Intersection of Standardisation and Polarisation (STK 2025-2029)
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The STK award
Each year, the Centre for Gender Research gives out an award for the best MA thesis with a gender perspective submitted to the University of Oslo.
Publications
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Article about Beatrice Helen Barmby Sep. 10, 2026 9:46 AM
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Care is not a Product. Care Ethics and Technology – Are They Compatible? Aug. 17, 2026 2:46 PM
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Gender, reason and education Aug. 17, 2026 2:46 PM