Centre for Women's and Gender Research

Centre for Women's and Gender Research (SKOK) is a multidisciplinary research center that aims to strengthen the critical diversity, sexuality and gender research at the University of Bergen.

Our core activites are research, dissemination and education.

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SKOK's 25th anniversary symposium

A rainbow reflected in water - the text SKOK is 25! and Join the celebration 26 and 27 May 2025 on pink and blue backgrounds

Symposium: Gender research in troubled times

What is the status for gender, sexuality and diversity research today? Where should we head in the future?

Podcast

In this podcast episode of Trans Norge, Rowan Maddox talks to Luca Dalen Espseth about their PhD thesis that they defended at SKOK in 2024.

Panel conversation

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Trump, anti-gender politics and academic freedom

This panel conversation is open to everyone and is part of "Sex and politics in a global perspective", a combined seminar series, PhD and master course organised by SKOK, LawTransform and SkeivForsk.

PhD and master course

Sex and politics in a global perspective

In spring 2025, SKOK, LawTransform and Skeivforsk will organize a cross-disciplinary, combined master and PhD course about the dynamics between sex and politics in a global perspective.

Meet our researcher in training

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A fatter gender and sexuality research

SKOK鈥檚 new PhD candidate, Sunniva 脕rja Tobiasen, will research gender and sexuality norms and how expectations of sexuality and gender have a bodily dimension.