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.
Single Parents in Swedish Media
The project explores how the concept of the “lone parent” gains meaning in Sweden in the twenty-first century.
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.
Gender, Hybrid Identities, and Exoskeletons: 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.
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.
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.
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.
Reproductive Decision-Making in Times of Climate Change
The aim of the research project is to analyze how family-building is discussed in relation to global issues like climate change and sustainability, in the media and by civil society actors.
