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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.

Want to know what's happening at SKOK? Meet our staff, see an overview of our events here, follow us on Bluesky, Facebook and Twitter, and send us an e-mail if you want to be on our mailing list.

PhD and master course
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Sex and politics in a global perspective

In spring 2025, SKOK, LawTransform and Skeivforsk will organize a cross-disciplinary, combined master and PhD course about the dynamics between sex and politics in a global perspective.

Boklansering
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Jan 21

FAT. Fuck the shame!

Centre for Women's and Gender Research at the University of Bergen invites you to a conversation between PhD candidate Sunniva Árja Tobiasen and author of the book TJUKK. Føkk skammen! (FAT. Fuck the shame!), Marit Røste.

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.

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?