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Guest researcher profile: Miriam Mei-Lin Liu
2023-05-30
Miriam Mei-Lin Liu is a Professor of Social Work, based in SooChow University, Taiwan. Her work centres on sexual violence and child sexual abuse/exploitation. During May-June 2023, Miriam Mei-Lin Liu is a visiting researcher at the Centre for Gender... -
Ensamstående, singel- eller soloförälder? Ny bok undersöker skildringar av ensamstående föräldraskap
2023-05-26
I boken Enförälderfamiljer: Om ensamstående föräldrar, singelföräldrar och soloföräldrar synliggörs de många betydelser och nyanser, vanligheter och ovanligheter, värden och känslor som ryms i erfarenheter av att vara ensamstående förälder. Boken und... -
Forskarfilm om användningen av fotodokumentation i förskolan
2023-05-26
Catarina Wahlgren disputerade med avhandlingen En bild säger mer än tusen ord: Barns perspektiv, positioner och påverkansmöjligheter i förskolans dokumentationspraktik den 31 mars 2023. Nu finns en film (cirka 5 minuter) där hon kortfattat berättar o... -
Talkshow med genusforskare på Uppsala stadsteater
2023-04-21
Uppsala stadsteater arrangerar en talkshow med flera olika forskare, bland annat inom genusvetenskap, ledd av dragqueen-artisten Nutella, känd från duon Grace & Nutella. ... -
Research support granted for project on doctoral education and student motivation in low-income countries
2023-04-17
Gabriele Griffin, professor of gender studies at the Centre for Gender Research, has received research support from the Democracy and Higher Education programme for the project "Democracy, Doctoral Education and Student Motivation in Low-Income Count... -
New book about motherhood and mothering in litterature
2023-04-17
A new open access volume, Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing, offers original essays on how motherhood and mothering are represented in contemporary fiction and life writing across several national contexts. It demonst... -
Ny avhandling om barns perspektiv, positioner och påverkansmöjligheter i förskolans fotodokumentation
2023-03-28
Hur framställs barn i förskolans fotodokumentation? Det är frågan som Catarina Wahlgren ställer i sin alldeles färska avhandling En bild säger mer än tusen ord: Barns perspektiv, positioner och påverkansmöjligheter i förskolans dokumentationspraktik.... -
Jack Halberstam visits the Centre
2023-03-13
Professor Jack Halberstam was awarded the 2022 Kerstin Hesselgren visiting professorship by the Swedish Research Council, to spend time in Sweden, mainly at Lund University. However, for a week, 13-17 March 2023, the Centre for Gender Research had th... -
Guest researcher profile: Rakel Eklund
2023-03-08
Rakel Eklund is a researcher at the Department for Women's and Children's Health at Uppsala University working on support interventions for families dealing with grief. During spring 2023 she is a part time guest researcher at the Centre for Gender R... -
New book on queer kinship in the Baltic region and beyond
2023-02-24
From the intersection of queer studies, area studies and critical kinship studies, this groundbreaking collection explores queer (non-heterosexual) family practices and kinship formations from converging perspectives and in a range of geopolitical se... -
Boksläpp för Pirak Sikkus "Árbbehárpo - Arvstrådarna"
2023-02-03
Katerina Pira Sikkus Ábbehárpo – Arvstrådarna är ett resultat av många års arbete, bland annat vid Centrum, där hon bedrev det VR-finansierade, konstnärliga projektet "Att ge mig mitt perspektiv". ... -
Ulrika Dahl is new Open forum editor of the EJWS
2023-01-16
After many years as associate editor, Ulrika Dahl continues on as Open forum editor for The European Journal of Women’s Studies. ... -
Graduate schools are granted funding from the Swedish Research Council
2022-12-12
The Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University has, in collaboration with Stockholm University and Södertörn University, been granted funding from the Swedish Research Council for the Graduate School "Gender humanities and digital cultures". The ... -
Visiting researcher profile: Varpu Alasuutari
2022-11-28
Varpu Alasuutari is a visiting researcher at the Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, from September to November 2022. ... -
Jenny Björklund om moderskap, skönlitteratur och att vara en feministisk professor
2022-11-15
Jenny Björklund blev professor i genusvetenskap redan förra året, men det är först den 18 november i år som hon installeras som professor enligt universitetets ceremoniella tradition. Innan dess, på onsdag den 16 november, kan man höra hennes install... -
Genusforskarskolan vid Umeå universitet besöker Centrum
2022-11-11
Doktorander och handledare från Genusforskarskolan vid Umeå universitet besökte Centrum för genusvetenskap i Uppsala 9-11 november. Under besöket presenterade doktorander från både Umeå och Uppsala sina avhandlingsprojekt. ... -
Visiting researcher profile: Susana Borràs Pentinat
2022-10-28
In Ocotber 2022 we had the privilige of welcoming Susana Borràs Pentinat, Associate Professor of International Public Law and International Relations in the Department of Public Law at the Rovira i Virgili University (Spain), as a visiting reserarche... -
Queer political activism, past and present - film viewing and discussion
2022-10-21
Ulrika Dahl, professor of gender studies at the Centre for Gender Research, takes part in a discussion on queer activism's past and present, following a viewing of the film Queer Moving History. ... -
Researchers from the Centre presenting at the g22 conference
2022-10-21
The 5th national conference for gender research, Shaping Hopeful Futures in Times of Uncertainty, is organised by Karlstad University, 26-28 October, and several researchers from the Centre are participating as presenters, panelists and moderators. T... -
Forskare om synen på barnfrihet
2022-10-19
Jenny Björklund, professor i genusvetenskap, och Maja Bodin, forskare i reproduktiv hälsa, pratar om synen på barnfrihet i DN (12 okt 2022). ... -
The vulnerability of surrogate mothers in a global market
2022-10-11
A new dissertation on surrogacy highlights Thai women's experiences of having acted as surrogate mothers. The dissertation shows the women's vulnerability in a global surrogacy industry, but also provides a more nuanced picture of what makes women se... -
New book on gender inequalities in tech-driven research and innovation
2022-09-27
Putting the spotlight on the lived experiences of women working in tech-driven research and innovation areas in the Nordic countries, this new volume explores why, despite numerous programmes, women continue to constitute a minority in these sectors.... -
Ny distanskurs: Genus, sexualiteter och kroppar
2022-09-09
Från och med vårterminen 2023 erbjuder vi kursen Genus, sexualiteter och kroppar 7,5hp som distanskurs på halvfart. Hur kan vi se på kroppar och sexualiteter? Vad står trans för och vad innebär kroppsnormativitet? Dessa frågor och mycket annat diskut... -
Multispecies intersectionality - Andrea Petitt on how power intersects within and across species
2022-09-02
Researcher Andrea Petitt takes part in a conversation about multispecies intersectionality theory. ... -
Who becomes a biologist? New thesis on norms and identity-building in higher education biology
2022-05-17
In Sweden and many other European countries, the number of women in higher biology education at bachelor's level is around 60-70%. When you reach professor’s level, however, the number has dropped to around 30%. What is happening on the way? Why does... -
New thesis on women in biological research careers in Mozambique
2022-05-11
In a new study on women in biological research careers in Mozambique, Juvêncio Manuel Nota looks at two public universities in order to explore what obstacles women experience in their biology career trajectories. Through qualitative interviews with ... -
New book review editors for lambda nordica
2022-05-06
Front cover of lambda nordica, vol. 26:4-1 (2021) SKEV As of 2022 Marie Dalby, Matilda Lindgren and Sara Salminen – all active at the Centre for Gender Research – are the new book review editors for the peer-reviewed, open access academic jou... -
Staff profile: Öznur Karakas
2022-04-20
Öznur Karakaş is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Gender Research working on a project where she is analysing gender dynamics in the national Swedish e-science platform eSSENCE. Öznur has a background in philosophy and earned her PhD at Un... -
Academics from Mozambique visit the Centre
2022-04-05
Between 12 and 19 March 2022 the Centre for Gender Research had a visit from a delegation of Mozambican academics from the University Eduardo Mondelane (UEM) in Maputo. ... -
From physics teacher education to engineering education - new project for Johanna Larsson
2022-02-11
Johanna Larsson, previous PhD student at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Centre for Gender Research, starts a new postdoc position at Chalmers University of Technology. ... -
Guest researcher profile: Ingvill Stuvøy
2022-02-03
Ingvill Stuvøy is a sociologist and gender scholar, based in Trondheim, Norway, and visiting Uppsala this Spring semester. She is currently working on developing a project on the marketization of reproduction in Norway. ... -
Guest researcher profile: Whitney Johnson
2022-02-03
Whitney Johnson is a guest researcher from Chicago, USA. Her research is within the field of gender, technology and auditory culture, and she will be based at the Centre for Gender Research January-March 2022. ... -
Nätverk om kulturarv beviljas stöd från CIRCUS
2021-12-10
Nätverket Heritage Transformations beviljades nyligen stöd för en tvåårsperiod av Centre for Integrated Research on Culture and Science (CIRCUS). Nätverket leds av Cecilia Rodéhn, docent i kulturvård vid Centrum för genusvetenskap. ... -
Helena Wahlström Henriksson medverkar i en interaktiv helkväll om julen
2021-12-02
Helena Wahlström Henriksson, professor i genusvetenskap, föreläser om vad familj och jul med familjen kan betyda, som en del av den interaktiva helkvällen Julen vid Norrlandsoperan. ... -
Jenny Björklund blir professor i genusvetenskap
2021-11-26
Grattis till Jenny Björklund som nyligen har blivit befordrad till professor i genusvetenskap! ... -
Guest researcher profile: Emilie Moberg
2021-11-19
From 1 September and six months onwards Emilie Moberg works as a guest researcher at the Centre for Gender Research. Her current research is focused on children's bodily, affective and knowledge-producing encounters with more-than-human species in ea... -
Guest researcher profile: Jami Weinstein
2021-11-15
This autumn Jami Weinstein joins the Centre for Gender Research as a guest researcher working on a project called "Epigenetics and the Animal-Human Interface". ... -
New project on how experimental practices shape learning processes receives funding
2021-11-12
A new project on how experimental practices in the natural sciences shape learning processes has received funding from the Swedish Research Council (VR). ... -
New postdoc position for Katerina Günter
2021-11-11
Congratulations to Katerina Günter, PhD student in gender studies at the Centre for Gender Research, who has accepted a postdoctoral position at San Fransisco State University. Starting in the summer of 2022, shortly after her thesis defence, she wil... -
Nicole Ovesen defends her thesis on violence and help-seeking in lesbian and queer relationships
2021-09-09
On 10 September Nicole Ovesen from the Centre for Gender Research defended her thesis, Intimate Partner Violence and Help-Seeking in Lesbian and Queer Relationships: Challenging Recognition. ... -
Close Relations: Family, Kinship and Beyond
2021-08-31
The most recent book in the Crossroads of Knowledge book series, Close Relations: Family, Kinship and Beyond, explores close relations from several different perspectives. The anthology offers chapters on a wide range of topics within the field of fa... -
Därför lämnar romaners mammor sin familj
2021-07-19
Mammor som lämnar sin familj är inte ett nytt tema i skönlitteratur. Men anledningen till att de bryter upp har förändrats. Det handlar inte längre om bristande jämställdhet och vilja att arbeta utan mer om att känna sig kvävd av kärnfamiljen, av bar... -
Fittskrift – en antologi om fittor
2021-07-02
Nu lanseras en bok om fittor för att göra det mindre pinsamt att prata om just fittor och öka kunskapen om fittors anatomi, sexuella funktion och roll i samhället. Medverkar gör bland andra Renita Sörensdotter, lektor i genusvetenskap vid Centrum för... -
Johanna Larsson defends her thesis on trainee teacher identities in the discourses of physics teacher education
2021-05-24
On 4 June 2021 Johanna Larsson, PhD student at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Centre for Gender Research, defends her PhD thesis 'Trainee teacher identities in the discourses of physics teacher education: Going against the flow of u... -
Researchers from the Centre on Nordic gender equality
2021-05-21
Jenny Björklund and Gabriele Griffin from the Centre for Gender Research, are quoted in an article in UK-based political and cultural magazine New Statesman. ... -
Symposium: Gender Studies in the Time of a Global Pandemic
2021-04-21
On April 29-30 2021, the European Journal of Women's Studies hosts a virtual symposium on the theme of Gender Studies in the Time of a Global Pandemic: Key Themes, Critical Issues, Challenges & Opportunities. Registration is free and open to the publ... -
A new research project about Queering assisted reproduction
2021-02-10
In February Professor Ulrika Dahl at the Centre for Gender Research, together with Professor Rikke Andreassen at Roskilde University will start their new research project entitled ”Scandinavian Border Crossings: Race and Nation in Queer Assisted Repr... -
Villkor för kvinnors motionsidrottande
2021-01-07
Karin S. Lindelöf, docent i genusvetenskap, medverkar i ett gästinlägg på bloggen Baking babies om "Villkor för kvinnors motionsidrottande – genusperspektiv på fysisk aktivitet" ... -
Feminisms in the Nordic Region
2020-12-10
Ulrika Dahl, Professor of Gender Studies at the Centre for Gender Research, contributes in a new anthology that explores neoliberalism, nationalism and decolonial critique in the Nordic region. ... -
Normbrytande överlevare i zombieapokalypsen
2020-10-02
Hur konstrueras ledarskap, hjälteideal och mellanmänskliga relationer bland överlevare i zombiefilmer? Renita Sörensdotter, queerfeministisk forskare och universitetslektor, undersöker normer i en populärvetenskaplig zombieantologi. ...
Last modified: 2023-03-03