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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.

Want to know what's happening at SKOK? Meet our staff, see an overview of our events here, follow us on Bluesky & Facebook and send us an e-mail if you want to be on our mailing list.

Course
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Gender, Sexuality and Fatness (KVIK206)

In spring 2026, the theme for KVIK206 Gender and Sexuality in a Global Context will be “Gender, Sexuality and Fatness”.

Inclusive feminism
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No feminism without trans people

SKOK and 24 other Norwegian/Nordic feminist organizations, political parties, and academic communities have issued a consensus statement in support of an inclusive feminism – and called for confronting transphobia.
Meet our researcher in training
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What's care got to do with it?

SKOK’s new postdoctoral fellow, Riikka Prattes, will investigate caring masculinities in the context of youth climate activism.

Podcast
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Rowan Maddox about autism and trans

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.
Research communication
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A travel letter - in solidarity from London

Centre for Women's and Gender Research PhD, Sunniva Árja Tobiasen, has been on a research stay at the University of Westminster in London. Below is their travel letter.