Programmes and networks

Here we list the programmes and networks that are based at, or have connections to the Centre for Gender Research

Programmes

Gender Mainstreaming

The Centre for Gender Research partners with the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) in a 5-year programme led by Eduardo Mondelane University (EMU), Mozambique, on Gender Mainstreaming: Developing Competencies in Higher Education for Gender Equality, Peace-building and Gender-Sensitive Research Coordinators.

The programme started in January 2018. It includes training MA and PhD students from EMU in Gender Research, supporting the development of gender sensitive policies and training gender equality ambassadors at EMU.

Networks

MotherNet

MotherNet is a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952366. It involves Vilnius University (Lithuania), Uppsala University, and Maynooth University (Ireland).

The overall goal of the MotherNet project is to connect researchers from the VU Thinking Motherhood group with experts from the two partner universities and their research networks to stimulate innovative, cross-disciplinary, and policy-relevant research on motherhood in Europe.

Heritage Transformations

The network Heritage Transformations (funded by CIRCUS 2022-2023) consists of researchers from different disciplines interested in the transformations of cultural heritage, material/intangible, natural/cultural, human/non-human, analogue/digital and beyond. The purpose of this network is to create greater dialogue between researchers, research groups and institutions and to promote interdisciplinary discussions.

The network explores transformations of cultural heritage from different theoretical and methodological perspectives. entral to the discussions is the tension between preservation and change, as well as discussion of what cultural heritage is, and could be, if removed from assumed moral duty of care and conservation. In exploring transformations of heritage we make enquiries into connections and disconnections between people, pasts and future and acknowledge that cultural heritage is always political, and involves struggles connected to gender, race, ethnicity, functionality, sexuality and/or religion etc.

For more information, please contact the network coordinator, Cecilia Rodéhn.

Transforming Games: Behavior, Identity, Culture, and Community (TAG)

The research network TAG gathers researchers from Game Design, Gender Studies, and Psychology to examine the relationship between games, gender, sexuality, mental health, and prosocial and antisocial behavior in communities surrounding games, play behavior, and game artifacts themselves. Of particular interest is the way games can be designed and played to maximize their potential for beneficial transformative impacts such as personal and social change. Members of the network are collaborating to create a platform for interdisciplinary communication based on their research and they organize events such as lectures, panels, and seminars. They also organize practice-based game design workshops in the form of game jams.

For more information, please contact the network coordinator, Sarah Bowman.

The Nordic Human-Animal Studies Network (Nordic HAS)

Nordic HAS is a network intended for discussions and exchange of information regarding conferences, seminars and other academic events within the multidisciplinary area of human-animal studies, and to facilitate research cooperation among its participants.

For more information, please contact the network coordinator, Jacob Bull.

Swedish Network for Family and Kinship Studies

The Swedish Network for Family and Kinship Studies gathers around 70 members working within the field of family and/or kinship studies. The network was funded by Forte 2016-2018.

For more information, please contact the network coordinator, Helena Wahlström Henriksson.

Previously active programmes and networks

NORDWIT

NORDWIT was a Nordic Centre of Excellence, established in 2017 and funded by NordForsk. It is concerned with women’s careers in technology-driven research and innovation in and outside of academe.

Three core research teams located at Uppsala University, Tampere University, and the Western Norway Research Institute focused on four pillars of research:

Women’s technology-driven careers in rural regions
Research-intensive science and innovation areas
eHealth
Digital humanities

NORDWIT also collaborated with 24 external partners located in Sweden, Norway, Finland, USA and Canada.

Coordinator: Gabriele Griffin
Funded by Nordforsk

Nature as Culture

The network Nature as Culture: The (Re)production of Common Sense (NaC) aimed to investigate and discuss how the concepts of nature and culture figure and are articulated in various disciplinary contexts, as well as how these concepts, frequently through being taken as common sense, feature in establishing truth claims within different scientific cultural formations.

This CIRCUS-funded interdisciplinary network was coordinated by Professor Ulrika Dahl and consisted of 13 researchers from 5 faculties.

Programme of Excellence: GenNa

In 2006 the Centre for Gender Research, toghether with the Umeå Centre for Gender Studies, received shared funding of 60 milion SEK from the Swedish Research Council in order to, for a five year period, work to strengthen gender research and establish ourselves internationally.

The international research programme GenNa: Nature/Culture Boundaries and Transgressive Encounters was led by Prof Margaretha Fahlgren and coordinated oriignally by Tora Holmberg, and later Anita Hussénius.

The Programme of Excellence ran until 2012, but many of the strong research groups, interesting projects and international collaborations that were established during this time are still active at the Centre for Gender Research.