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Sofia Strid

Title: Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences

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Phone: +46 19 303442

Room: F3254

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Gender Studies

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About Sofia Strid

Sofia Strid is Associate Professor in Gender Studies at Örebro University, from April 2022 she also holds a position as Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Gothenburg University. She has previously held positions as lecturer and researcher in Gender Studies, Policy Research, Political Science, Sociology and Women's Studies in Austria, Belgium, Sweden and the UK. Her research profile is international, multi-disciplinary and collaborative, with many European multi-partner project and collaborations. She has more than 100 publications and 100 conference presentations.

Research

Sofia Strid's research interests are oriented towards the social and political sciences and can be summarised as: 1) feminist and social theory; 2) politics and policy, mobilisation, activism and opposition; 3) gendered and intersectional perspectives on sustainability; and 4) feminist violence studies, in online/offline contexts. She applies both qualitative and quantitative methods.

Sofia Strid co-directs the three-university GEXcel International Collegium for Advanced Transdisciplinary Gender Studies with Senior Professor Liisa Husu, and chairs two research strands within the field Gender, Violence & Society. Sofia Strid also directs the Centre for Violence Studies, together with Dr Susanne Strand, Associate Professor in Criminology, and leads the research group Feminist Violence Studies.

Sofia Strid's research is funded by e.g. the European Commission, the European Parliament, the European Institute for Gender Equality, the Swedish Research Council and FORTE.

Some ongoing projects

UniSAFE: Gender-based Violence and Institutional Responses: Building a Knowledge-base and Operational Tools to make Universities and Research Organisations Safe (funded by the EU H2020 2021-2024). In UniSAFE, a nine EU-partner team and national researchers, all in all some 50 multidisciplinary researchers and innovators, investigate gender-based violence and sexual harassment in higher education in Europe. The data include policies and legal frameworks in the EU27 and three associated countries, and in research performing organisations in 15 memeber statews, a prevalence study (n=40,000) in 15 member states, and 16 in-depth case studies of organisational responses and infrastructures in 15 member states.
RESISTIRÉ: Responding to Outbreaks through Co-creative Inclusive Equality Strategies (funded by the EU Horizon 2020 2021-2024). RESISTIRÉ, and its 11-partner EU-team, contributes to the reduction of gendered and intersectional inequalities arising from COVID-19 policy responses and creates innovative operational tools to address inequalities. It is designed to achieve its results through multi-disciplinary research insights, cross-sectoral co-creation, solution development and a wide dissemination strategy. The project will provide in-depth knowledge and understanding of existing problems, as well as current and future priorities and solutions.
Violence Regimes: Theorising and Explaining Variations in the Production of Violence in Welfare State Regimes (Funded by VR 2018-2021). In Violence regimes, a transnational team of senior multi-disciplinary researchers analyse, theorise, and explain how violence is produced and conceptualized in European welfare states. We analyse the ontology of violence, develop a new typology of violence, compare welfare regimes with violence regimes, and investigate the so-called Nordic paradox.
Between Romance and Sexual Commerce: Sugar Dating and the renegotiation of the boundaries between economy and intimacy (Funded by FORTE 2019-2022). In Sugardating, we investigate the commodification of sexuality and intimacy via the proliferation of Swedish sugar dating sites from a gender perspective. The material consists mainly of interviews (n=23) and surveys (n=100) with men and women who have experiences of sugar dating.
Honour-Based Violence and Oppression in Metropolitan Sweden: A Qualitative and Quantitative Study (Funded by Stockholm stad, Göteborg stad & Malmö stad 2017-2019, ORU 2020-2021). In this study, a team of junior and senior multi-disciplinary researchers examine the expressions, prevalence and mechanisms of honour-related violence in Sweden, from an intersectional persective. The material consists of interviews (n=239) and questionnaires (n=6002).

Teaching

Sofia Strid designs and delivers courses, lectures and supervision on all levels. She also develops and delivers workshops on gender equality, gender mainstreaming and gender-based violence for university staff, practitioners, and policymakers, for example within the EU Gender Equality Academy.

She currently supervises three PhD students with backgrounds in Gender Studies, Political Science and Media and Communication. Sofia Strid particularly welcomes research students and post docs with an interest in feminist violence studies, opposition against feminism, and gendered and intersectional perspectives on sustainability and the EU Green Deal.

Collaborations and service

Sofia Strid is active in well-established European wide networks and collaborations, many of which have developed from her work with the European Women's Lobby (2006-2007), as Research Associate in the EU 6th framework funded QUING: Quality in Gender+ Equality Policy in Europe, and from her participation in the UNESCO Chair in Gender Research Group.

She is the Chair of the Nordic Association for Feminist Research and Gender Studies, the board of NORA; the Chair of SO9: Gender-Based Violence Section of the ECPG of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR); a member of the EU COST Action on Femicide; and the European Representative in the International Sociological Association (ISA) RC32: Women and Society.

Sofia Strid is an elected representative on the Faculty Board for Humanities and Social Sciences at Örebro University, the Örebro University representative in the Regional Administrative County's Resource Group on Violence against Women; an organising member of the annual National Gender Dialogue with gender researchers and Members of Parliament, and a founding member of the Regional Gender Dialogue with gender researchers adn practicioners working with gender issues.

Active projects

Completed projects

Research teams

Publications

Articles in journals

Strid, S. , Schrodi, C. & Cibin, R. (2022). Better stories for a gender equal and fairer social recovery from outbreaks: learnings from the RESISTIRÉ project. Gender and Development, 30 (1-2), 265-281.
Gunnarsson, L. & Strid, S. (2022). Chemistry or service? Sugar daddies’ (re)quest for mutuality within the confines of commercial exchange. Journal of Sex Research, 59 (3), 309-320.
Hearn, J. , Strid, S. , Humbert, A. L. , Balkmar, D. & Delaunay, M. (2022). From gender regimes to violence regimes: Re-thinking the position of violence. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society, 29 (2), 682-705.
Gunnarsson, L. & Strid, S. (2022). Varieties of Sugar Dating in Sweden: Content, Compensation, Motivations. Social problems.
Hearn, J. , Strid, S. , Humbert, A. L. & Balkmar, D. (2022). Violence Regimes: A Useful Concept for Social Politics, Social Analysis, and Social Theory. Theory and society, 51 (4), 565-594.
Bruno, L. & Strid, S. (2021). Hoppet i mobilisering och arbete. Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, 41 (4), 130-133.
Strid, S. , Baianstovu, R. Í. & Enelo, J. (2021). Inequalities, isolation, and intersectionality: A quantitative study of honour-based violence among girls and boys in metropolitan Sweden. Women's Studies: International Forum, 88.
Strid, S. , Humbert, A. L. , Hearn, J. & Balkmar, D. (2021). States of violence: Exploring welfare state regimes as violence regimes by developing a violence regimes index. Journal of European Social Policy, 31 (3), 321-336.
Humbert, A. L. , Strid, S. , Hearn, J. & Balkmar, D. (2021). Undoing the ‘Nordic Paradox': Factors affecting rates of disclosed violence against women across the EU. PLOS ONE, 16 (5).
Strid, S. (2020). Betydelser av könsstympning hos migrerade minoriteter i Sverige [Meanings of female genital mutilation among migrant minorities in Sweden]: En feministisk våldsforskningsanalys [A feminist violence studies analysis]. Sociologisk forskning, 57 (2), 141-163.
Strid, S. & Axelsson, T. (2020). Involving men: The multiple meanings of female genital mutilation in a minority migrant context. NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 28 (4), 287-301.
Strid, S. (2020). Jämställdhet under angrepp: En feministisk analys av våldsamt motstånd online. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning, 44 (4), 269-284.
Axelsson, T. & Strid, S. (2020). Minority migrant men's attitudes toward female genital mutilation: Developing strategies to engage men. Health Care for Women International, 41 (6), 709-726.
Öhman, M. , Mulinari, D. & Strid, S. (2020). Sveriges genusforskarförbund uppmärksammar urfolksperspektiv och urfolksrättigheter. Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, 41 (1-2), 177-181.
Saeidzadeh, Z. & Strid, S. (2020). Trans* Politics and the Feminist Project: Revisiting the Politics of Recognition to Resolve Impasses. Politics and Governance, 8 (3), 312-320.
Strid, S. & Meier-Arendt, D. (2020). Våld som system: Våld, maskulinitet och förändring. Socialmedicinsk Tidskrift, 97 (2), 235-247.
Bruno, L. & Strid, S. (2019). Reproduktiva rättigheter: för vem?. Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, 40 (3-4), 166-170.
Strid, S. , de los Reyes, P. , Martinsson, L. , Holgersson, C. , Joelsson, T. , Lundgren, S. & Ericsson, M. (2016). Dags att mobilisera. Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, 37 (1), 184-185.
Strid, S. & Grip, L. (2016). Heterogena enheter. Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, 37 (3), 2-6.
Hearn, J. , Strid, S. , Husu, L. & Verloo, M. (2016). Interrogating violence against women and state violence policy: Gendered intersectionalities and the quality of policy in The Netherlands, Sweden and the UK. Current Sociology, 64 (4), 551-567.
Strid, S. & Åberg, M. (2015). Feministiskt vetenskapande och kollektiv kraft. Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, 36 (1-2), 3-6.
Strid, S. & Magnus, Å. (2015). Genusforskningens utmaningar. Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, 36 (3), 3-6.
Åberg, M. , Strid, S. & Holth, L. (2014). Genusvetenskapliga gränser. Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, 35 (1), 3-5.
Strid, S. & Åberg, M. (2014). Kris!: Introduktion till tema kris. Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, 35 (4).
Strid, S. , Åberg, M. & Holth, L. (2014). Våld som postdisciplinärt forskningsfält. Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, 35 (2-3), 2-8.
Strid, S. , Walby, S. & Armstrong, J. (2013). Intersectionality and Multiple Inequalities: Visibility in British Policy on Violence Against Women. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society, 20 (4), 558-581.
Strid, S. , Walby, S. & Armstrong, J. E. (2012). Intersectionality and the quality of the gender equality architecture. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society, 19 (4), 446-481.
Walby, S. , Armstrong, J. E. & Strid, S. (2012). Intersectionality: multiple inequalities in social theory. Sociology, 46 (2), 224-240.
Armstrong, J. , Walby, S. & Strid, S. (2009). The gendered division of labour: how can we assess the quality of employment and care policy from a gender equality perspective?. Benefits: a Journal of Social Security Research, Policy And Practice, 17 (3), 263-275.

Articles, book reviews

Strid, S. (2009). Anna van der Vleuten: The price of gender equality: member states and governance in the European Union. Feminist Theory, 10 (1), 136-138.

Books

Walby, S. , Towers, J. , Balderston, S. , Corradi, C. , Francis, B. , Heiskanen, M. , Helweg-Larsen, K. , Mergaert, L. & et al. (2017). The concept and measurement of violence against women and men. Bristol: Policy Press.
Mergaert, L. , Arnaut, C. , Exterkate, M. , O'Brien, S. , Strid, S. , Leye, E. , Johansen, E. , Novak, F. & et al. (2015). Estimation of girls at risk of female genital mutilation in the European Union (1ed.). Vilnius: European Institute for Gender Equality.
Strid, S. (2015). Gendered Interests in the EU: The European Women's Lobby and the Organisation and Representation of Women's Interests. Saarbrücken: GlobeEdit.
Walby, S. , Olive, P. , Towers, J. , Francis, B. , Strid, S. , Krizsan, A. , Lombardo, E. , May-Chahal, C. & et al. (2015). Stopping rape: towards a comprehensive policy. Bristol: Policy Press.

Chapters in books

Strid, S. & Hearn, J. (2022). Violence and patriarchy. In: Lester Kurtz, Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict. Cambridge, MA: Academic Press.
Strid, S. (2020). Gender Equality Policy. In: Daniel Silander and Mats Öhlén, Sweden and the European Union: an assessment of the influence of EU-membership on eleven policy areas in Sweden (pp. 159-182). Stockholm: Santérus Academic Press Sweden.
Strid, S. , Hearn, J. , Balkmar, D. & Morley, L. (2020). Introduction: Does knowledge have a gender?. In: Sofia Strid, Dag Balkmar, Jeff Hearn, Lousie Morley, Does Knowledge Have a Gender? A Festschrift for Liisa Husu on Gender, Science and Academia (pp. 12-18). Örebro: Örebro University.
Strid, S. & Verloo, M. (2019). Intersectional Complexities in Gender-Based Violence Politics. In: Elizabeth Evans, Eléonore Lépinard, Intersectionality in Feminist and Queer Movements: Confronting Privileges. London & New York: Routledge.
Strid, S. (2018). Patriarchy Fights Back: Violent Opposition to Gender Equality in Online Contexts. In: Mieke Verloo, Varieties of Opposition to Gender Equality in Europe. London: Routledge.
Gottzén, L. & Strid, S. (2018). Sweden: Femicide Across Europe. In: Shalva Weil, Consuela Corradi and Marcekine Naudi, Femicide Across Europe: Theory, Research and Prevention. Bristol: Policy Press.
Strid, S. (2016). Jämställdhetspolitikens europeisering: Från likabehandling till intersektionell jämställdhet. In: Silander, Daniel och Öhlén, Mats, Svensk politik och EU: Hur svensk politik har förändrats av medlemskapet i EU. Stockholm: Santérus Förlag.
Strid, S. (2016). Promoting Inclusion to Prevent Gender-Based Violence in Football: Football For All. In: Lut Mergaert, Catarina Arnaut, Tine Vertommen and Melanie Lang, Study on gender-based violence in sport: Final report (pp. 69-72). Luxembourg: European Commission.
Strid, S. (2013). #talkaboutit: talking about consent and coercion, Sweden. In: Sylvia Walby, Overview of the worldwide best practices for rape prevention and for assisting women victims of rape (pp. 171-173). Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.
Walby, S. , Armstrong, J. E. & Strid, S. (2012). Developing measures of multiple forms of sexual violence and their contested treatment in the criminal justice system. In: Jennifer Brown, Sandra L. Walklate, Handbook on sexual violence (pp. 90-113). London & New York: Routledge.
Strid, S. (2011). Even feminists fall in love. In: Sofia Strid and Anna G. Jónasdóttir, GEXcel work in progress report, Vol. 9: Proceedings from GEXcel theme 10: Love in our time - a question for feminism: conference of workshops 2-4 December 2010 (pp. 51-52). Örebro: Örebro University.
Jónasdóttir, A. G. & Strid, S. (2011). Introduction. In: Sofia Strid, Anna G. Jónasdóttir, GEXcel work in progress report volume IX: Proceedings from GEXcel theme 10: Love in our time - a question for feminism. Conference of Workshops 2-4 December 2010 (pp. 17-19). Örebro and Linköping: Örebro University and Linköping University.
Strid, S. & Jónasdottir, A. G. (2010). Introduction. In: Sofia Strid and Anna G. Jónasdóttir, GEXcel work in progress report. Vol. 8: Proceedings from GEXcel theme 10: Love in our time – a question for feminism: spring 2010 (pp. 17-19). Örebro: Örebro University.
Strid, S. (2008). Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water. In: Kathleen B. Jones, Gunnel Karlsson, Gender and the interests of love: essays in honour of Anna G. Jónasdóttir. Örebro: Örebro universitet.

Collections (editor)

Strid, S. (ed.) , Balkmar, D. (ed.) , Hearn, J. (ed.) & Morley, L. (ed.) (2020). Does Knowledge Have a Gender? A Festschrift for Liisa Husu on Gender, Science and Academia. Örebro: Örebro University (CFS report series 26).
Strid, S. (ed.) & Åberg, M. (ed.) (2015). Tidskrift för genusvetenskap: Temanummer: Feministiskt skapande och kollektiv kraft. Karlstad: Föreningen tidskrift för genusvetenskap (Tidskrift för genusvetenskap 36:1-2).
Strid, S. (ed.) & Åberg, M. (ed.) (2015). Tidskrift för genusvetenskap: Temanummer: Genusforskningens utmaningar. Karlstad: Föreningen tidskrift för genusvetenskap (Tidskrift för genusvetenskap 36:3).
Strid, S. (ed.) & Åberg, M. (ed.) (2014). Tidskrift för genusvetenskap: Tema våld. Karlstad: Föreningen Tidskrift för genusvetenskap (Tidskrift för genusvetenskap 35:2-3).