NIKK's Research Projects

On-going and planned projects

Gendered Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: The Impact of Contemporary Women's Movements (FEMCIT

What role have women’s movements played in transforming European societies and European culture since the 1970′s? FEMCIT explores the relationship between the changing forms and practices of gendered citizenship in a multicultural Europe, and the demands and practices which have emerged from contemporary women’s movements. We are studying how different and changing notions and practices of citizenship relate to gender issues and we explore their implications for policies. NIKK/Solveig Bergman is responsible for Work Package 2: Social citizenship: The impact of gender-based organising and claim making on child care and parental-leave policies in a multicultural Europe.

The Nordic Research School 2004-2008

The Nordic research School in Interdisciplinary Gender Research is a co-operation between more than 30 universities in the Nordic and Baltic countries.

Finished

Youth, Gender and Pornography in the Nordic Countries

A two-year project to map out the effects of pornography on Nordic youths perceptions of gender. The project is financed by the Nordic countries and the Nordic Council of Ministers and is administered by NIKK – Nordic Institute for Women and Gender Studies.

Gender Equality in the Nordic Countries
- between rhetoric and practice

The project has a discursive approach and focuses on how documents and talk, on political arenas and on several societal levels, portray gender equality and gender as different kinds of "problem."

Gender, Science and Psychology in the Nordic Countries
- a call to disciplinary reflexivity

In focus for the project was the peculiar contexts for psychology as "gender producer" formed by the Nordic countries with their long-standing tradition of comparatively progressive gender equality politics in most areas of society.

Living for Tomorrow

Youth, sexual health and the cultural landscapes of gender and sexuality in Nordic/Baltic/N.W. Russian times of transition - An HIV/AIDS era initiative

Statistics on Gender Equality in the Nordic Countries
A survey of the status 2002

A pilot project on the implementation of gender statististics in the Nordic countries.