About research at the Centre for Women's and Gender Research
The Centre has an active gender, sexuality and diversity research environment that fosters interdisciplinarity. Critical thinking and research in these areas are of utmost importance both to understand our past and fundamental changes in our present.
What the research means
Questions pertaining to gender, sexuality and diversity are central to governance and democracy globally and sits at the core of how we understand ourselves and others, both historically and in the present.
Through our research, we contribute to a deeper understanding of societal challenges and foundational questions in gender, sexuality and diversity research.
What we research
The research at SKOK is mainly directed towards theory development and fundamental research, but also includes empirical and applied scientific research.
Our research staff and associated researchers have backgrounds from different areas and disciplines, first and foremost from the humanities and social sciences.
Here are some examples of what we research:
- Equality and discrimination
- Feminism/feminist theory
- Migration
- Diversity/multiculturalism
- Sexuality/queer theory
- Queer history
- Postmodern fiction
- Politics/political theory
- Postcolonialism
- Psychoanalysis
- Caring masculinity in climate activism
- Gender, sexuality and fatness
- Security and resilience
Overview of all scientific staff and affiliates, research groups and projects at the Centre.
International cooperation
SKOK participates in international research networks, externally funded proposals with international partners and cooperation about gender research and teaching. The Centre is a member of the Nordic network InterGender (external link)via the Norwegian National Research School in Gender Research (external link).
The last years, SKOK has hosted young researchers from Norway, Myanmar/Thailand and South Africa through the NOREC- (external link)funded project Youth Exchange against Anti-Rights, coordinated by SAIH (external link), the solidarity organization for academics and students in Norway.
Do you want to cooperate with us?
- Would you like to take a PhD at the Centre? Read about the doctoral education at the Faculty of Humanities.
- Contact the interrim Head of Centre for scientific cooperation or questions
- Participate in the interdisciplinary and interfaculty research group Foundational Questions in Gender and Sexuality research. This research group is open for everyone with gender perspectives in their research at the University of Bergen.
- Join the network Water and Care if you're interested interdisciplinary feminist, decolonial, and Indigenous scholarship on water.
- Get in touch to get invites to events, seminars, PhD relays and PhD courses organized by SKOK: Contact Centre for Women's and Gender Research.
- Find academic staff at the Centre and read more about their research
Publications and doctoral theses
Contact us about our research
- Kari Jegerstedt, interrim Head of Centre and Associate professor
kari.jegerstedt@uib.no - General inquires about our research: post.skok@uib.no