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.

>> Read more about SKOK here.

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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?

PhD and master course

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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’s new PhD candidate, Sunniva Árja Tobiasen, will research gender and sexuality norms and how expectations of sexuality and gender have a bodily dimension.

UiB strategy and diversity policy

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How does the University of Bergen facilitate diversity?

A vision of diversity is central to the work on the new UiB strategy, but what does diversity mean, and how does diversity policy translate into action?