Centre for Gender, Power and Diversity

We conduct interdisciplinary problem-oriented gender studies within a diversity perspective. The research centre is a meeting place for students, researchers and practitioners who are interested in interdisciplinary problem-oriented gender studies. The activities of the centre are open to all interested stakeholders, internally at Roskilde University as well as externally. We offer courses in gender theory as well as supervision and other teaching activities that include gender and diversity perspectives.

Four purposes

To offer a community for gender and diversity researchers at RUC in which to discuss and qualify our research and research applications as well as develop new courses and other teaching activities.
To host open activities and evens concerning current gender issues at which we present RUC-based research and engage in dialogue with relevant external research environments as well as with a wide array of stakeholders.
To create a meeting place for students who are interested in gender and diversity, offering those students opportunities for dialogue with researchers and teachers as well as the possibility to present their own projects.
To promote equality and diversity – at RUC, in the Danish context and internationally.

Your options

As a researcher and teacher at RUC, you can present your research or participate in collegial discussions at our monthly Gender Lunch. We also offer support for seminars and workshops at which you can present your research or invite researchers form other universities. You can participate in discussions pertaining to teaching and learning from the perspectives of gender and diversity, and you can become involved in course development.

As a student at RUC, you can present your gender and/or diversity related project work and receive feedback. You have the opportunity to talk to your teachers in a smaller forum and to strengthen your network – within academia and beyond.

As a practitioners, student or researcher who is not at RUC, you can participate in all our public events and contact individual researchers for potential collaboration and knowledge sharing.

Contact

Head of centre

Lise Lotte Hansen, associate professor, liselh@ruc.dk

Steering group

Lise Lotte Hansen, associate professor, liselh@ruc.dk

Rashmi Singla, assosiate professor, rashmi@ruc.dk

Sine Nørholm Just, professor, sinenjust@ruc.dk

Reseachers

Reseachers at Centre for Gender, Power and Diversity
The Centre for Gender, Power And Diversity takes part in a number of research projects. An example is:

Nordic Network: A care crisis in the women-friendly welfare states?
The Nordic Network on Care Crisis (NNCC) supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers through NIKK has run between 2017-2020. The network was an interdisciplinary collaborationwith participation of economists, political scientists, and sociologists. In the context of the network, a series of seminars for a group of experts has been facilitated, also including a PhD workshop.

A list of all projects is available at the Roskilde University Reseach Portal

Publications

A feeling of racialized and gendered differentiation
Padovan-Özdemir, M. & Krøjer, J., 2024.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference abstract for conference › Research › peer-review
Affekt
Staunæs, D., Hvenegård-Lassen, K. & Bissenbakker, M., 2024, Performative vendinger: Introduktion til nyere feministisk teori. Staunæs, D., Brøgger, K. & Hvenegård-Lassen, K. (eds.). København: Nyt fra Samfundsvidenskaberne, p. 161-176 15 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
A history of invisibility: The case of long-term care in Norway
Christensen, K. & Wærness, K., 2024, The Political Economy of Care: Welfare state capitalism, universalism, and social reproduction. Fagertun, A., Vike, H. & Haukelien, H. (eds.). Universitetsforlaget, p. 137-159
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review