Centre for Women's and Gender Research

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.

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Meet our researcher in training

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A fatter gender and sexuality research

SKOK’s new PhD candidate, Sunniva Árja Tobiasen, will research gender and sexuality norms and how expectations of sexuality and gender have a bodily dimension.

Seminar

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PhD relay: Gender perspectives in research

Centre for Women's and Gender Research (SKOK) invites all interested PhD candidates to a interdisciplinary seminar, 19 October 2023.

Essay

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Listening to Papenreye – the soundscape of an urban asylum camp

In this essay published by Global Research Programme on Inequality - GRIP, SKOK's postdoctoral fellow Kari Anne Drangsland focuses on the soundscape of urban asylum camps in Germany.

UiB strategy and diversity policy

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How does the University of Bergen facilitate diversity?

A vision of diversity is central to the work on the new UiB strategy, but what does diversity mean, and how does diversity policy translate into action?