Siri Øyslebø Sørensen
Siri Øyslebø Sørensen
Professor, head of Center for gender research
Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture Faculty of HumanitiesBackground and activities
Siri Øyslebø Sørensen is professor in gender and diversity studies, and head of Center for gender research. She has a background is in gender studies and social studies of science and technology (STS). Her work is interdisciplinary, and her research fields include organizational studies, policy studies, and cultural studies of media. In her work she pursues a deeper understanding of the sociocultural dynamics of exclusion/inclusion. She is particularly concerned with questions of how difference and sameness - categorizations and inequality - is produced and possibly changed. This interest requires a commitment to multidimensional, multi-level and multi-site empirical studies, investigating both structural, discursive, material and social dimensions.
Sørensen received her doctoral degree in 2013 based on a dissertation on the making of a policy reform introducing corporate board gender quotas in Norway. The article “Statsfeminismens møte med næringslivet” (“State feminism meets the corporate sector”), based on this study was awarded best article of the year by Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning in 2011. She has co-edited Bodies, Symbols and Organizational Practice (Routledge, 2018), and Reproduksjon, kjønn og likestilling i dagens Norge (Fagbokforlaget, 2016).
Sørensen has also studied gender and power in non-profit organizations, and is currently researching gender and diversity in academia.
Current teaching:
- KULT 3305 Teorier om kjønn, likhet og forskjell
- KULT8860 Tale, tekst og tolkning. Forskerkurs i kvalitativ metode
Ongoing projects:
- International diversity at NTNU (INTMANG) (NTNU, 2019)
- Understanding gender imbalances among university professors. The shaping and reshaping of epistemic living spaces (NFR, BALANSE 2019-2022)
- NORDICORE - Gender balance in academia, Nordic Centre of Excellence at Institute for Social Research (NordForsk)
- Norway-Japan: Bridging Research and Education in Gender Equality and Diversity (NRC, INTPART 2019-2022),
Previous projects:
- Gender equality from below - towards a gender balanced NTNU 2015 (2016-2018, NRC, BALANSE)
- Mirror, mirror on the wall, who´s most powerful of them all? Gender as a symbolic and social structure in organizations (2013-2016, as postdoctoral fellow)
- Frogs, fuel, finance or food? Cultures, values, ethics, arguments and justifications in the management of agricultural land (2013-2016, as researcher)
- Power and Privilege, Meaning and Management - Gender in the Boardroom (2007-2010, as PhD candidate)
Scientific, academic and artistic work
Displaying a selection of activities. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2019) Likestillingsproblemer i integreringspolitikken. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning. vol. 43 (3).
- (2019) Kjønnsbalanse gjennom aksjonsforskning og lokal kunnskaping. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning. vol. 43 (2).
- (2018) Materielle praksiser og erfaringer “kick back”. En sosiomateriell analyse av beretninger om utdanningsvalg. Nordic Studies in Science Education. vol. 14 (4).
- (2017) Quota women are threatening to men: Unveiling the (counter)stereotypization of beneficiaries of affirmative action policies. Swiss Journal of Psychology. vol. 76 (3).
- (2017) The Performativity of Choice: Postfeminist Perspectives on Work–Life Balance. Gender, Work & Organization. vol. 24 (3).
- (2014) Fortellinger om feminisme og motforestillinger mot statsfeminisme. En analyse av norske avistekster 2007-2011 :. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning. vol. 38 (3/4).
- (2014) Gender i Forsvaret. Fra teori til praksis. Anita Schølset (red.) 2014. Norsk Statsvitenskapelig Tidsskrift. vol. 30 (3).
- (2013) Technologies of Inclusion. Gender in the Information Society. Knut Holtan Sørensen, Wendy Faulkner & Els Rommes. Tapir Academic Press, 2011. Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies. vol. 1 (1).
- (2012) Feminism without Gender? Arguments for Gender Quotas on Corporate Boards in Norway. Comparative Social Research. vol. 29.
- (2011) Statsfeminismens møte med næringslivet : bakgrunnen og gjennombruddet for kjønnskvotering i bedriftsstyrer som politisk reform. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning.
- (2010) Cathrine Holst. Hva er feminisme. Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning.
- (2010) Douglas M. Branson: No seat at the table. How corporate governance and law keep women out of the boardroom. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning.
Books
- (2018) Bodies, Symbols and Organizational Practice. The Gendered Dynamics of Power. Routledge. 2018. ISBN 978-1-138-23370-6. Routledge Research in Gender and Society.
- (2016) Reproduksjon, kjønn og likestilling i dagens Norge. Fagbokforlaget. 2016. ISBN 978-82-450-1921-6.
Part of book/report
- (2019) "Lessons from Norway" - how gender quotas on corporate boards was transformed from unthinkable to exportable. Nordic Gender Equality Policy in a Europeanisation Perspective.
- (2018) Preface. Bodies, Symbols and Organizational Practice. The Gendered Dynamics of Power..
- (2018) Transdisciplinary interventions. Bodies, Symbols and Organizational Practice. The Gendered Dynamics of Power..
- (2018) Women to the rescue? Gender, power and idealism in the third sector. Bodies, Symbols and Organizational Practice. The Gendered Dynamics of Power..
- (2016) Feministiske perspektiver på reproduksjon. Reproduksjon, kjønn og likestilling i dagens Norge.
- (2016) Likestilt reproduksjon?. Reproduksjon, kjønn og likestilling i dagens Norge.
- (2016) Reproduksjon i dagens Norge. Reproduksjon, kjønn og likestilling i dagens Norge.
- (2016) Karrierekvinne og mor: Et kulturanalytisk blikk på kombinasjonslivets balansekrav. Reproduksjon, kjønn og likestilling i dagens Norge.
- (2015) When meritocracy opposes quota policy: how education and policy strength impact opinions about affirmative action. Gender and Social Hierarchies. Perspectives from social psychology.
- (2015) Blå feminisme - feminisme for næringslivet?. Kjønn og næringsliv i Norge.
- (2013) Gender-balanced corporate boards. Getting Women on to Corporate Boards: A snowball starting in Norway.
Report/dissertation
- (2020) International diversity at NTNU - A qualitative study of the experiences of incoming researchers, management and administrative staff. 2020.
- (2018) "Verktøykasse" for bedre kjønnsbalanse. En håndbok for instituttledere som vil bedre kjønnsbalanse blant vitenskapelig ansatte. 2018.
- (2016) En ujevn utvikling. Kjønnsbalansen i vitenskapelige stillinger ved NTNU 2004-2014. 2016.
- (2013) Likestilling uten kjønn? En studie av hvordan kjønnskvotering til bedriftsstyrer ble montert som politisk reform. 2013. ISBN 978-82-471-4635-4.
- (2005) Girlpower = Maskulinitetskrise. Kulturanalyse av forhandlinger om maskulinitet i jenteblader. 2005.
Others
- (2018) Ny leder for kjønnsforskningen i Trondheim. kjonnsforskning.no [Internett]. 2018-04-24.
- (2018) Articulating alternatives - the role of feminist organization studies. Gender, Work & Organization conference 2018 . Maquairie University; Sydney. 2018-06-13 - 2018-06-16.
- (2018) Speil, speil på veggen der - hvem er mektigst i landet her? Resultater fra forskningsprosjektet Mirror, mirror - who´s most powerful of them all?.
- (2018) Should I stay, or should I go? How early career researchers imagine the (im)possible future in academia. Researchers night . Akademinet for yngre forskere; Trondheim. 2018-09-28 - 2018-09-28.
- (2017) Fra ord til handling? Om instituttledernes rolle i arbeidet for å skape kjønnsbalanse i akademia. Akademisk kjønnskultur i endring? . UiO ved STK og FRONT/MatNat; Blindern. 2017-05-03 - 2017-05-03.
- (2017) Managing gender balance. How heads of departments deals with challenges of equal opportunities. 4S Annual Meeting 2017 . Society for Social Studies of Science; Boston. 2017-08-29 - 2017-09-02.
- (2017) Researching for getting published - methodological malnutrition?. After method in organization studies . Mälardalen universitet; 2017-09-27 - 2017-09-29.
- (2017) Should I stay, or should I go? How young researchers imagine the (im)possible future in academia. 4S Annual Meeting 2017 . Society for Social Studies of Science; Boston. 2017-08-29 - 2017-09-02.
- (2016) Excenteraften: Kvotering - virker det egentlig?. Excenteraften i Biblioteket . Studentersamfundet Trondheim; Studentersamfundet Trondheim. 2016-11-01 - 2016-11-01.
- (2016) The uneven development: diversities in the gender balance among university professors. 9th European Conference on Gender Equality and Research ; Paris. 2016-09-12 - 2016-09-14.
- (2016) Engaging or dis-engaging: How heads of departments approach gender balance issues. 4S/EASST conference ; Barcelona. 2016-08-31 - 2016-09-03.
- (2016) Farmland as non-renewable resource: Environmentalist strategies resisting marketization. Sustainable and Just Rural Transitions: Connections and Complexities, ISRA Congress 2016 . Ryerson University; Toronto. 2016-08-10 - 2016-08-14.
- (2016) Publication patterns - Gender gap or local practises?. 4S EASST conference 2016 . 4S EASST; Barcelona. 2016-08-31 - 2016-09-03.
- (2016) Likestillingstvang? Om kjønnskvotering som virkemiddel. Excenteraften . Studentersamfundet; 2016-11-01 - 2016-11-01.
- (2016) Kjønnsbalanse ved NTNU - hva kan gjøres?. Seminar om likestilling og rekruttering, NTNU . HR/ personal NTNU; 2016-10-21 - 2016-10-21.
- (2016) Exploring academic publications patterns: the role of organizational context and local practices. 9th Biennal conference Gender, Work and Organization . University of Keele; Keele, UK. 2016-06-28 - 2016-07-02.
- (2015) Blåfeminisme. NEON konferansen 2015 . NEON - Nettverk for organisasjonsforskning i Norge; 2015-11-26 - 2015-11-27.
- (2015) Booking ut av balanse?. Paneldebatt, Trondheim Calling 2015 . Feminalen; Dokkhuset. 2015-01-31 - 2015-01-31.
- (2015) "Farmland is nature". The construction of farmland protection as environmental policy. NESS 2015 ; 2015-06-09 - 2015-06-11.
- (2015) Feminisme i media. En analyse av motstand mot statsfeminisme. Forskerstafett, 8. mars programmet . Institutt for tverrfaglige kulturstudier, NTNU; Trondheim. 2015-03-05 - 2015-03-05.
- (2015) Gender Equality in Scandinavia - Politics and Culture. Nordic Center at Fudan University, 20th Anniversary conference . The Nordic Center at Fudan University; Fudan University, Shanghai. 2015-10-21 - 2015-10-22.
- (2015) Gender equality from below - Towards a gender balanced NTNU?. Sustaining gender balance in research and innovation . The 'Gender Equality Implementation in Research Institutions; Vilnius. 2015-01-15 - 2015-01-16.
- (2015) Kjønn, kompetanse og nettverk - debatt om kjønn i musikkbransjen:"utdanning eller street smart". Feminalen 2015 . Feminalen; Rockheim, Trondheim. 2015-11-14 - 2015-11-15.
- (2015) Maskulinitet i endring. Hva forventes av dagens mann?. Høstdialogene Havstein . Sverresborg menighetsråd; 2015-11-18 - 2015-11-18.
- (2015) Metodisk mangfold i organisasjonsforskningen - hvilke muligheter har vi?. NEON PhD dag . NEON - Nettverk for organisasjonsforskning i Norge; 2015-11-25 - 2015-11-25.
- (2015) The differences that “choice” make. Women, careers and post feminism. The Gendered Dynamics of Power workshop . Birkbeck University and Mirror Mirror, NTNU; 2015-03-25 - 2015-03-25.
- (2015) Virkemidler for kjønnsbalanse. Balansekunstseminar på By:Larm . Balansekunstnettverket; Oslo. 2015-03-06 - 2015-03-06.
- (2014) How gender and strength of affirmative action policy contribute to feminization of policy's beneficiaries. 22nd International congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology . the Association for Developing Cross-Cultural Psychology; Reims. 2014-06-15 - 2014-06-19.
- (2014) Forskningens samfunnsansvar - ikke et spørsmål om nytte. SAMKUL programseminar . SAMKUL; Trondheim. 2014-11-04 - 2014-11-04.
- (2014) Gender quotas - potentials and concerns in policy making. Workshop: Lasting change for gender balance . NIAS (Netherlands Institute for adv study in the hum/sam); Wassenaar. 2014-02-26 - 2014-02-27.
- (2014) Gendering - degendering: feminist perspectives on gender as practice. Teoretiske posisjoner i norsk kjønnsforskning . Den nasjonale forskerskolen for kjønnsforskning; 2014-12-02 - 2014-12-05.