CFS - Center for Feminist Social Studies
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Research domains
- Humanities-Social sciences
Areas of research
- Civil society
- Intersectionality
- Equality policy
- Female organisations and Organisation of Women
- Gender Based Violence
- Love studies
- Social movements
- Violence
The Center for Feminist Social Studies is a multidisciplinary research and doctoral studies environment, comprised of twenty senior researchers and five doctoral students who work within a research program framework entitled "Gender, Society and Change". The center has a number of affiliated scholars from other universities in Sweden and foreign universities.
Participants, from the fields of Sociology, Social Work, Political Science, History, Musicology, Pedagogy and Gender Studies, are engaged in various research projects, which are linked to the Center's research program.
The Center for Feminist Social Studies offers doctoral level courses. A research seminar functions on the one hand as a forum in which research projects are presented and discussed, and on the other hand as an essential component in the doctoral student tutoring process.
CFS cooperates closely with Linköping university's Tema Genus and Karlstad university's Centre for Gender Studies in GEXcel International Collegium for Advanced Transdisciplinary Gender Studies.
Researchers
- Daniel Alsarve
- Kjerstin Andersson Bruck
- Tobias Axelsson
- Dag Balkmar
- Anne-Charlott Callerstig
- Izabela Dahl
- Sam de Boise
- Sara Frödén
- Felicia Garcia
- Lena Gunnarsson
- Jeff Hearn
- Liisa Husu
- Maria Jansson
- Evelina Johansson Wilén
- Anna Jonasdottir
- Anna-Karin Larsson
- Ann-Sofie Lennqvist-Linden
- Helen Peterson
- Zara Saeidzadeh
- Sofia Strid
- Rukaya Al Zayani, PhD student
- Ida-Maria Börjesson, PhD student
- Maria Darwish, PhD student
- Amund Hoffart, PhD student
- Jennie Tiderman-Österberg, PhD student
Research projects
Active projects
- ACCTING: Advancing behavioural change through an inclusive green deal (2021-2025)
- Alternative knowledge claims about the risks of copper IUDs and HPV vaccine in the social media era
- Conceptualizing intersectionality
- Engaging South African and Finnish youth towards new traditions of non-violence, equality and social well-being
- Enhancing the Quality of Policy Through Intersectional Analysis? Intersectionality, Multiple Inequalities and the Case of Gender-based Violence (2012-2017)
- FATIMA: Preventing Honour Related Violence by Education and Dialogue Through Immigrant NGO:s (2015-2018)
- Female Homosociality in Female Networks
- Femicide Across Europe (2015-2023)
- Feminist Theories on Intersectionality, Transversal Dialogues and New Synergies
- FEMITURES: Feminist Politics and the (Re)structuring of European Equality Architectures (2015-2020)
- Gender and the Financial Crisis (2009-2011)
- Gender Based Violence in Sports (2015-2017)
- Gender dynamics of East-West research mobility
- Gender mainstreaming and innovation in public services
- Gender paradoxes in academic and scientific organisations
- GenPORT
- GERIQ: Feminist Politics and Gender Equality Policy: The Representation of Interests and Inequalities (2015-2020)
- Involuntarily Celibate Men: Gender and Vulnerability in Times of Precarious Love
- Physical and Legal Security and the Criminal Justice System (2009-2011)
- QUING: The Quality of Gender + Equality Policy (2006-2011)
- RESISTIRÉ: Responding to outbreaks through co-creative inclusive equality strategies (2021-2024)
- The Commodification of Motherhood: An Integrated Feminist Social Research Perspective on Mediatisation and Mediation of Mothering in an Era of Consumerism
- The Making of Political Women.
- The politics, expressions and prevalence of violence against trans* people in the EU (2020-2022)
- The Strength of Feminist Civil Society Organisations in the EU 27 (2010-2013)
- The Voices of Women
- Theorising Men and Masculinities
- Transnationalisations of Men and Masculinities
- Trucks for all: Developing norm-critical innovation at Volvo
- UniSAFE: Gender-based violence and institutional responses: Building a knowledge base and operational tools to make universities and research organisations safe (2021-2024)
- Violence against Trans* Women within Family and Work in Sweden: A Qualitative Analysis of Socio-Legal Status
- VRVR: Regimes of Violence: Theorising and Explaining Variations in the Production of Violence in Welfare State Regimes (2018-2021)
Completed projects
- "Our day is nice." Meeting places for fathers on parental leave
- A Cross Cultural Exploration of Gendered Music Practices in the UK and Sweden
- Coaching boys into men. A project on sports, gender equality and masculinity
- Female Genital Mutilation: Girls at Risk in the EU
- Feminist Musical Engagements. The Struggle Against Gender Inequalities in Music-Making Practices
- Gender diversity, research and innovation
- Gender mainstreaming in preschool
- Gender Talk Gender Spaces
- GenSET - Building institutional capacity for action on gender dimension in science
- Transsexuality in Iran: Socio-legal studies of policies and practices
- Worldwide Best Practices for Rape Prevention and for Assisting Women Victims of Rape