Center for Women's and Gender Research carries out tasks aimed at strengthening gender perspectives in research and education across UiT, contributing to the visibility of these activities, and increasing the recruitment of students and researchers. Our staff come from various academic disciplines and have interests in diverse topics within the field of gender research. We collaborate with a range of environments locally, nationally, and internationally.

Mandate

The Center for Women's and Gender Research shall:

• Strengthen and develop theoretical, methodological, and empirical women's and gender research.
• Develop and offer teaching in women's and gender research.
• Promote and disseminate UiT's women's and gender research locally, nationally, and internationally.
• Assist institutional and faculty leadership on issues related to gender balance.Promote equal, diverse, and inclusive societies through collaboration with other societal actors.
• Participate in the realization of UiT's sustainability initiatives and commit to promoting and incorporating the UN's Sustainable Development Goals in its activities.

Research networks

• Arctic Modernities
• Citizenship & dementia international research network
• ConGender Research Group at UiT
• FemArc seminar series
• Feminist Philosophy Research Group at UiT
• Gender and mobility
• Narrating the High North
• MAGIC - Multimodality, Art, and Gender in Interdisciplinary Communication
• International Research Network on Artful Dementia (IRNAD)
• On the Move
• Umeå centrum för genusstudier (UCGS), Umeå Universitet

Resources

• Kilden kunnskapssenter for kjønnsperspektiver og kjønnsbalanse i forskning – her finner du informasjon om fagressurser, sentre, miljøer og nettverk.
• Komité for kjønnsbalanse og mangfold i forskning (Kif)
• Nasjonalt kontaktmøte for kvinne- og kjønnsforskning
• Forening for kjønnsforskning i Norge
• Nasjonal forskerskole i kjønnsforskning
• Likestillingssenteret KUN
• Senter for tverrfaglig kjønnsforskning, UiO
• Senter for kvinne- og kjønnsforskning, UiB
• Senter for kjønnsforskning, NTNU
• Senter for kjønnsstudier, UiS
• Senter for likestilling, UiA