Doctoral education at SKOK

The Center for Women's and Gender Research (SKOK) is a multidisciplinary research center with doctoral candidates tied to different PhD programs and research schools at the University of Bergen.

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SKOK offers courses that can be integrated into the educational part of your doctoral program.

At the center, we organize PhD courses for our own PhD candidates, as well as other candidates at UiB and at associated universities and research facilities in Norway and abroad. See an overview of previous PhD courses under Related content below.

We also offer courses through the National Research School in Gender Research. All courses at SKOK are open to participants from other research centers, institutions, and facilities.

We also hold seminars for master and PhD students working with gender-related topics through our annual master and PhD "relays".

Participants at these seminars receive counselling from SKOK's experienced researchers and staff. Additionally, the PhD candidates at SKOK have founded a separate cluster for all candidates at UiB who focus on gender.

Foundational Questions in Gender and Sexuality Research

The PhD candidates at SKOK participate in the research group Foundational Questions in Gender and Sexuality Research, with the academic staff at the center, and with other researchers working on gender-related issues.

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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.

Contested childhood in the context of migration

Law, practice, lived experience

Gender, Justice and Environmental Crises

Feminist perspectives on gender and justice in times of environmental crises.

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Feminist Visions for Justice in Times of Environmental Crises

This PhD course, organized by InterGender and SKOK, explores feminist visions for environmental justice and offers a framework for thinking about the intersections between feminist theory and environmental justice.

Technologies are Us: Feminist Perspectives on Posthuman Futures

A three day intensive course on feminist thinking about technological development.

PhD course: Gender, sexuality and geopolitical divisions: Colonial formations, travelling concepts and politics of tolerance

SKOK is pleased to welcome PhD-students to our PhD-course in Bergen, in September 2017.

Migration, trafficking and sex work

While most students at UiB have finished their exams and gone home for the summer, a new group of students are swarming the campus.

Climate Imaginaries: Feminist and Queer Perspectives on Thinking Climate Change

The course “Climate Imaginaries: Feminist and Queer Perspectives on Thinking Climate Change” offers an interdisciplinary investigation of how we imagine climate change in contemporary times.

Meet our reseachers in training

Below, we present the researchers in training at SKOK and their ongoing work.

Foundational Questions in Gender and Sexuality Research

This is an interdisciplinary and interfaculty research group for academic staff at the University of Bergen with an interest in the fundamental issues within gender and sexuality research.

Master relay

Each spring, the Center for Women's and Gender Research (SKOK) organizes a master relay for master students with a gender perspective - empirical or theoretic - in their thesis.

PhD relay

SKOK's annual PhD seminar for candidates who include gender perspectives in their dissertations.

Bergen Summer Research School

Every summer, we welcome 100 PhD students from around the world. Apply by 15 February to spend two weeks with some of the best research groups in Bergen to address some of the most pressing global challenges of our time.

InterGender

InterGender offers a large scale research training programme meeting the needs of PhD students in different phases of their training.

National Research School in Gender Research

The National Research School in Gender Research is for students who aim to use gender perspectives and theories in their PhD work.

21.11.2024