Research projects at the Centre for Gender Research
On this page you get an overview of the ongoing research projects at the Centre for Gender Research. Click on each project to find out more about it, including contact information to the researchers involved.
Completed projects are listed here
Downshifting in Sweden: Care, Freedom and Equality?
This project focuses on people in Sweden who have changed lifestyles towards reduced work-time and consumption, usually called “downshifting” and “voluntary simplicity”, and how this practice might be gendered.
Understanding Digitally Mediated Information Seeking Practices for Self-Managed Abortions
A project that explores the conceptualisation, design, and strategic development of social media platforms and websites aimed at promoting safe and self-managed abortions (SMA) in India.
Reproductive Decision-Making in Egg and Embryo Donation in Sweden
The project explores decision-making, power and autonomy within assisted reproduction with donated eggs and embryos.
To Enhance or Not to Enhance: Gender, Hybrid Identities, and Exoskeletons in the Armed Forces
This project explores how gender and embodiment are manifested in and through exoskeletons in the military sector.
Scandinavian Border Crossings: Race and Nation in Queer Assisted Reproduction
This collaborative and multi-sited ethnographic project studies how online media is intertwined in people’s lives, and in particular in reproduction and kinship.
From Psychiatric Hospital to Condominium – Urban Development and Cultural Heritage
This project explores the cultural imaginaries of mental (ill-)health and the role they play in the 'doing' of cultural heritage of psychiatric hospitals.
Nordic Feminism – Colonial Past and Present
This project explores how coloniality operates in the archive of Nordic feminism, specifically in relation to how different complicated/complex knowledge claims are articulated, and how they emerge.
Queer Reading Video Games
This project examines queer orientations in previous scholarly literature on video games, as well as aims to work out a theoretical framework and a methodology for reading games, by trying out different strategies on Dark Souls and Bloodborne.
Enacting (In)Fertilities: Non-Biomedical Technologies and Medical Pluralism in Sweden
This project focuses on non-biomedical methods for enhancing fertility or treating infertility.
How Does Matter Matter? Gendered, Emotional and Material Entanglements in Student-Teacher-Material Learning
The project explores gender, emotions, materials and teaching in experimental environments.
Parasites, Patriarchy and Pig Farming: Examining the Socioecological Causes, Consequences and Futures of Taenia Solium Infection in Uganda
This project explores the gender structures within socioecological systems that lead to the endemicity of T. solium in smallholder pig farming communities in Uganda.
Queer Waiting in Literature and Film
This project poses if the question if waiting, a universal human activity and an unavoidable aspect of life, can be understood as a queer cultural phenomenon. The project introduces “queer waiting,” a concept that is defined as waiting that is both awkward and unusual, and interwoven with non-normative sexuality and gender.
Reproductive Decision-Making in Times of Climate Change
The aim of the research project is to analyse how family-building is discussed in relation to global issues like climate change and sustainability, in the media and by civil society actors.
Gender, the Nation and Democracy in the Swedish Far Right
This project explores the Swedish far right in the context of a wider phenomena often referred to as a transnational anti-gender movement.
An Ethnographic Exploration of Anti-Genderism
The aim of this project is to analyse anti-genderism as ideas, collective identities, communities of belonging and political projects in the Nordic region.
Single Parents in Swedish Media
The project explores how the concept of the “lone parent” gains meaning in Sweden in the twenty-first century.
To break with T: Discontinuities of Transition, Trans Masculinities and Trans Temporalities
This project explores how the discontinuation of testosterone shapes the construction of transmasculine identities and temporalities in various contexts, including trans YouTube vlogs, community-created zines, and individual experiences.
Super-Extra-Mega-Ultra-Races: Participation in Extreme Sports Races as a Cultural Phenomenon
The project explores, from a gender and instersectional perspective, participation in extreme sports races as a cultural phenomenon in Sweden, as well as the conditions for this participation - both for individual women and men in the races and for society at large.
Beyond the Mental Fringes of Mourning in the Celestial Sphere of the Mind: Studies of Mental Empowerment
An artistic research project about regaining the power to define oneself, to recall one's name and area and write oneself into the landscape.
