Siri Øyslebø Sørensen

About

Siri Øyslebø Sørensen is a professor of gender and diversity studies and the head of the Center for Gender Research at NTNU. She has an academic background in sociology, science and technology studies (STS), and gender studies. Her research concerns issues of gender, power, and inequality in organizations, politics, and contemporary culture.

Sørensen has extensive experience in researching equality and inclusion in academia and is currently leading the project KARMA – a tool for qualitative mapping of diversity, funded by the Research Council of Norway (2024-2026). She holds a part-time position (Professor II) at the University of Bergen, linked to the project GenderAct.

In BIAS: Mitigating Diversity Biases in the Labour Market, Sørensen is part of a team examining how the use of artificial intelligence in hiring processes influences inclusion and exclusion in the workforce.

Her research employs a diverse range of methods, including action research, qualitative interviews, micro-phenomenology, situational analysis, and discourse and narrative analysis.

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Research interests: In addition to my work in feminist organization studies, I am interested in exploring how gender norms intersect with other forms of inequality at both individual and societal levels.

Currently, I am developing research on marginalization and masculinities through a collaboration with Trondheim Municipality and local health and social welfare services. This project aims to prevent social exclusion among young men.

Editorial experience: I was the editor of Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning (2022-24), and served as book review editor for NORA – Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (2016-18). I was co-editor of Bodies, Symbols and Organizational Practice (Routledge, 2018) and a special issue of Gender, Work & Organization (2021).

I currently serve on the editorial board of Journal of Organizational Sociology.

Publications

2025

Lagesen, Vivian Anette; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2025) Strategic ambivalence: women professors’ navigation of academic career pathways. Gender and Education
Academic article
Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø; Amundsdotter, Eva. (2025) Motstand og meningsskaping: Kollektiv læring som mobilisering i arbeid for kjønnslikestilling. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning
Academic article
Dankertsen, Astri; Jegerstedt, Kari; Lotherington, Ann Therese; Lund, Rebecca Waters Boldsen; Myong, Lene; Shults, Lee Michael. (2025) Trussel mot kjønnsforskningen er en trussel mot demokratiske verdier.
Feature article

2024

Flikke, Julie Katrine; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2024) Language practices in the tension between scholarly prestige and institutional power: a study of negotiations between English and Norwegian at a university in Norway. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development (JMMD)
Academic article

2023

Suboticki, Ivana; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2023) Non-human policy worlds: an exploration of the Norwegian research and higher education policy. Critical Policy Studies
Academic article
Diallo, Oda-Kange Midtvåge; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø; Gullikstad, Berit; Osei-Kofi, Nana. (2023) Joining in black study: Knowledge creation and black feminist critique alongside African Norwegian youth. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral dissertation
Kirpichenko, Maria; Lie, Merete; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2023) Representing 'Russian surrogacy'. A conceptual exploration. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral dissertation

2022

Suboticki, Ivana; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2022) Mellom likestilling og kjønnsbalanse. Begrepsbruk og problemforståelser.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes. (2022) Should I stay or should I go? How early career researchers imagine the (im)possible future in academia.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2021

Lagesen, Vivian Anette; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø; Matsuda, Derek. (2021) Making it in academia: A study of career narratives of men and women professors in Norway and Japan.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Wickstrom, Alice; Lund, Rebecca; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø; Meriläinen, Susan; Vachhani, Sheena J.; Pullen, Alison. (2021) Feminist solidarity: Practices, politics, and possibilities. Gender, Work & Organization
Editorial

2020

Flikke, Julie Katrine; Gullikstad, Berit; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Lagesen, Vivian Anette; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2020) International diversity at NTNU - A qualitative study of the experiences of incoming researchers, management and administrative staff. NTNU Institutt for tverrfaglige kulturstudier NTNU Institutt for tverrfaglige kulturstudier
Report
Lagesen, Vivian Anette; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø; Sørensen, Knut Holtan; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes. (2020) Toolbox for gender balance.
Film
Vinge, Heidi; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2020) From Agri-Culture to Agri-Nature: New Allianced or Farmland Preservation in Norway.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2019

Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2019) "Lessons from Norway" - how gender quotas on corporate boards was transformed from unthinkable to exportable.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Bjartnes, Kristine Sommerset; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2019) Likestillingsproblemer i integreringspolitikken. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning
Academic article
Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø; Lagesen, Vivian Anette; Sørensen, Knut Holtan; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes. (2019) Kjønnsbalanse gjennom aksjonsforskning og lokal kunnskaping. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning
Academic article

2018

Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø; Sørensen, Knut Holtan; Lagesen, Vivian Anette; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes. (2018) "Verktøykasse" for bedre kjønnsbalanse. En håndbok for instituttledere som vil bedre kjønnsbalanse blant vitenskapelig ansatte. KULT, NTNU KULT, NTNU
Report
Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2018) Maktens kjønnede dynamikk. sosiologen.no
Popular scientific article
Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2018) Women to the rescue? Gender, power and idealism in the third sector.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Bolsø, Agnes; Svendsen, Stine Helena Bang; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2018) Bodies, Symbols and Organizational Practice. The Gendered Dynamics of Power. Routledge Routledge
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
Bolsø, Agnes; Svendsen, Stine Helena Bang; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2018) Transdisciplinary interventions.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Bolsø, Agnes; Svendsen, Stine Helena Bang; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2018) Preface.
Introduction
Løken, Marianne; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2018) Materielle praksiser og erfaringer “kick back”. En sosiomateriell analyse av beretninger om utdanningsvalg. Nordic Studies in Science Education (NorDiNa)
Academic article

2017

Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2017) The Performativity of Choice: Postfeminist Perspectives on Work–Life Balance. Gender, Work & Organization
Academic article
Faniko, Klea; Burckhardt, Till; Sarrasin, Oriane; Lorenzi-Cioldi, F.; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø; Iacoviello, Vincenzo. (2017) Quota women are threatening to men: Unveiling the (counter)stereotypization of beneficiaries of affirmative action policies. Swiss Journal of Psychology
Academic article

2016

Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Ravn, Malin Noem; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2016) Feministiske perspektiver på reproduksjon.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Ravn, Malin Noem; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2016) Likestilt reproduksjon?.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Ravn, Malin Noem; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2016) Reproduksjon i dagens Norge.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Ravn, Malin Noem; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2016) Reproduksjon, kjønn og likestilling i dagens Norge. Fagbokforlaget Fagbokforlaget
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
Sørensen, Knut Holtan; Lagesen, Vivian Anette; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2016) En ujevn utvikling. Kjønnsbalansen i vitenskapelige stillinger ved NTNU 2004-2014. Institutt for tverrfaglige kulturstudier, NTNU Institutt for tverrfaglige kulturstudier, NTNU
Report
Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2016) Karrierekvinne og mor: Et kulturanalytisk blikk på kombinasjonslivets balansekrav.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2015

Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2015) Blå feminisme - feminisme for næringslivet?.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Faniko, Klea; Fabio, Lorenzi-Cioldi; Ghisletta, Paolo; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø; Manushi, Erjona; Shalsi, Fiorela. (2015) When meritocracy opposes quota policy: how education and policy strength impact opinions about affirmative action.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2014

Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2014) Fortellinger om feminisme og motforestillinger mot statsfeminisme. En analyse av norske avistekster 2007-2011 :. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning
Academic article
Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2014) Gender i Forsvaret. Fra teori til praksis. Anita Schølset (red.) 2014. Norsk statsvitenskapelig tidsskrift
Book review

2013

Bolsø, Agnes; Bjørkhaug, Hilde; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2013) Gender-balanced corporate boards.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø; Sørensen, Knut H.; Lagesen, Vivian Anette. (2013) Likestilling uten kjønn?: En studie av hvordan kjønnskvotering til bedriftsstyrer ble montert som politisk reform. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181 (2013:255)
Doctoral dissertation
Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (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
Book review

2012

Bjørkhaug, Hilde; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2012) Feminism without Gender? Arguments for Gender Quotas on Corporate Boards in Norway. Comparative Social Research
Academic article

2011

Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2011) Statsfeminismens møte med næringslivet : bakgrunnen og gjennombruddet for kjønnskvotering i bedriftsstyrer som politisk reform. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning
Academic article

Journal publications

Lagesen, Vivian Anette; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2025) Strategic ambivalence: women professors’ navigation of academic career pathways. Gender and Education
Academic article
Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø; Amundsdotter, Eva. (2025) Motstand og meningsskaping: Kollektiv læring som mobilisering i arbeid for kjønnslikestilling. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning
Academic article
Dankertsen, Astri; Jegerstedt, Kari; Lotherington, Ann Therese; Lund, Rebecca Waters Boldsen; Myong, Lene; Shults, Lee Michael. (2025) Trussel mot kjønnsforskningen er en trussel mot demokratiske verdier.
Feature article
Flikke, Julie Katrine; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2024) Language practices in the tension between scholarly prestige and institutional power: a study of negotiations between English and Norwegian at a university in Norway. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development (JMMD)
Academic article
Suboticki, Ivana; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2023) Non-human policy worlds: an exploration of the Norwegian research and higher education policy. Critical Policy Studies
Academic article
Wickstrom, Alice; Lund, Rebecca; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø; Meriläinen, Susan; Vachhani, Sheena J.; Pullen, Alison. (2021) Feminist solidarity: Practices, politics, and possibilities. Gender, Work & Organization
Editorial
Bjartnes, Kristine Sommerset; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2019) Likestillingsproblemer i integreringspolitikken. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning
Academic article
Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø; Lagesen, Vivian Anette; Sørensen, Knut Holtan; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes. (2019) Kjønnsbalanse gjennom aksjonsforskning og lokal kunnskaping. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning
Academic article
Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2018) Maktens kjønnede dynamikk. sosiologen.no
Popular scientific article
Løken, Marianne; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2018) Materielle praksiser og erfaringer “kick back”. En sosiomateriell analyse av beretninger om utdanningsvalg. Nordic Studies in Science Education (NorDiNa)
Academic article
Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2017) The Performativity of Choice: Postfeminist Perspectives on Work–Life Balance. Gender, Work & Organization
Academic article
Faniko, Klea; Burckhardt, Till; Sarrasin, Oriane; Lorenzi-Cioldi, F.; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø; Iacoviello, Vincenzo. (2017) Quota women are threatening to men: Unveiling the (counter)stereotypization of beneficiaries of affirmative action policies. Swiss Journal of Psychology
Academic article
Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2014) Fortellinger om feminisme og motforestillinger mot statsfeminisme. En analyse av norske avistekster 2007-2011 :. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning
Academic article
Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2014) Gender i Forsvaret. Fra teori til praksis. Anita Schølset (red.) 2014. Norsk statsvitenskapelig tidsskrift
Book review
Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (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
Book review
Bjørkhaug, Hilde; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2012) Feminism without Gender? Arguments for Gender Quotas on Corporate Boards in Norway. Comparative Social Research
Academic article
Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2011) Statsfeminismens møte med næringslivet : bakgrunnen og gjennombruddet for kjønnskvotering i bedriftsstyrer som politisk reform. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning
Academic article

Artistic productions

Lagesen, Vivian Anette; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø; Sørensen, Knut Holtan; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes. (2020) Toolbox for gender balance.
Film

Books

Bolsø, Agnes; Svendsen, Stine Helena Bang; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2018) Bodies, Symbols and Organizational Practice. The Gendered Dynamics of Power. Routledge Routledge
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
Ravn, Malin Noem; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2016) Reproduksjon, kjønn og likestilling i dagens Norge. Fagbokforlaget Fagbokforlaget
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings

Part of book/report

Suboticki, Ivana; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2022) Mellom likestilling og kjønnsbalanse. Begrepsbruk og problemforståelser.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes. (2022) Should I stay or should I go? How early career researchers imagine the (im)possible future in academia.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Lagesen, Vivian Anette; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø; Matsuda, Derek. (2021) Making it in academia: A study of career narratives of men and women professors in Norway and Japan.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Vinge, Heidi; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2020) From Agri-Culture to Agri-Nature: New Allianced or Farmland Preservation in Norway.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2019) "Lessons from Norway" - how gender quotas on corporate boards was transformed from unthinkable to exportable.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2018) Women to the rescue? Gender, power and idealism in the third sector.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Bolsø, Agnes; Svendsen, Stine Helena Bang; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2018) Transdisciplinary interventions.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Bolsø, Agnes; Svendsen, Stine Helena Bang; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2018) Preface.
Introduction
Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Ravn, Malin Noem; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2016) Feministiske perspektiver på reproduksjon.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Ravn, Malin Noem; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2016) Likestilt reproduksjon?.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Ravn, Malin Noem; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2016) Reproduksjon i dagens Norge.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2016) Karrierekvinne og mor: Et kulturanalytisk blikk på kombinasjonslivets balansekrav.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2015) Blå feminisme - feminisme for næringslivet?.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Faniko, Klea; Fabio, Lorenzi-Cioldi; Ghisletta, Paolo; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø; Manushi, Erjona; Shalsi, Fiorela. (2015) When meritocracy opposes quota policy: how education and policy strength impact opinions about affirmative action.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Bolsø, Agnes; Bjørkhaug, Hilde; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2013) Gender-balanced corporate boards.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Report

Diallo, Oda-Kange Midtvåge; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø; Gullikstad, Berit; Osei-Kofi, Nana. (2023) Joining in black study: Knowledge creation and black feminist critique alongside African Norwegian youth. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral dissertation
Kirpichenko, Maria; Lie, Merete; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2023) Representing 'Russian surrogacy'. A conceptual exploration. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral dissertation
Flikke, Julie Katrine; Gullikstad, Berit; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Lagesen, Vivian Anette; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2020) International diversity at NTNU - A qualitative study of the experiences of incoming researchers, management and administrative staff. NTNU Institutt for tverrfaglige kulturstudier NTNU Institutt for tverrfaglige kulturstudier
Report
Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø; Sørensen, Knut Holtan; Lagesen, Vivian Anette; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes. (2018) "Verktøykasse" for bedre kjønnsbalanse. En håndbok for instituttledere som vil bedre kjønnsbalanse blant vitenskapelig ansatte. KULT, NTNU KULT, NTNU
Report
Sørensen, Knut Holtan; Lagesen, Vivian Anette; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2016) En ujevn utvikling. Kjønnsbalansen i vitenskapelige stillinger ved NTNU 2004-2014. Institutt for tverrfaglige kulturstudier, NTNU Institutt for tverrfaglige kulturstudier, NTNU
Report
Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø; Sørensen, Knut H.; Lagesen, Vivian Anette. (2013) Likestilling uten kjønn?: En studie av hvordan kjønnskvotering til bedriftsstyrer ble montert som politisk reform. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181 (2013:255)
Doctoral dissertation

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