2023

A new network will bring together researchers working on topics relating to men and masculinities. The network's first meeting will be on the 28th of November. 

Each year, the Centre for Gender Research awards a prize for the best master's thesis with a gender perspective submitted to the University of Oslo. The deadline for nominating candidates for this year's prize is 31 December.

Are you interested in the connections between sustainability and gender? In the Spring semester, you will be able to take a new course: KFL2055 Gender, Race, Class and Sustainability. The course is part of the University of Oslo’s Sustainability Certificate.

Are you interested in pursuing a career in gender research? You can now apply for a position as a doctoral researcher at the Centre for Gender Research. The application deadline is October 15th. 

Doctoral researcher Auksė Beatričė Katarskytė’s reading of a forgotten play shows how the Victorians used Old Norse literature to explore questions relating to gender and relationships.

Kristin Engh Førde will receive grants from the Fritt Ord Foundation and the Norwegian Non-Fiction Writers and Translators Association  to write a popular science book about egg freezing. The book will be based on her postdoctoral project, Frozen fertility: Elective Egg Banking among Norwegian Women.

What do fictional representations of “bad” children tell us about cultural investments in the child more generally? Anna Young’s dissertation traces the motif of the murderous child in British and American literature.

Norway should lead the way in efforts to help Ukrainian children born of war, according to an op-ed written by EuroWARCHILD researchers. 

The newly published survey "Studiebarometeret" yields largely positive results for the study programmes at the Centre for Gender Research. 

Sandra Hansen (TF) has won the prize for the best MA thesis with a gender perspective submitted at the University of Oslo in 2022.