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Centre for Women's and Gender Research (SKOK) is a multidisciplinary research center that aims to strengthen the critical diversity, sexuality and gender research at the University of Bergen.

Our core activites are research, dissemination and education.

>> Read more about SKOK here.

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Student report: Academic freedom for gender and queer studies in decline

University of Bergen students brought important message about academic freedom to international conference.

Research network
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The Water and Care Network

The Water and Care Network serves as a hub for interdisciplinary feminist, decolonial, and Indigenous scholarship on water.
Public lecture
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Re-membering the Hydrocommons: Water, Care, and Deep Time Pedagogies from the Global South

This public lecture with Aaniyah Martin explores water as a site of relational care, memory, and justice within the context of South Africa’s hydrocommons.
Workshop
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Workshop on Hydro-rugging: Stitching Care Across Water Bodies

This participatory workshop led by South African scholar Aaniyah Martin invites attendees into the practice of hydro-rugging - a collective, slow, and embodied method of stitching stories of water, memory, and care.
Research communication
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A travel letter - in solidarity from London

Centre for Women's and Gender Research PhD, Sunniva Árja Tobiasen, has been on a research stay at the University of Westminster in London. Below is their travel letter.