Siri Øyslebø Sørensen
Siri Øyslebø Sørensen
Professor, head of Center for gender research
Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture Faculty of HumanitiesBackground and activities
I am professor in gender and diversity studies, and head of Center for gender research. I am also professor II at the University in Bergen, associated with the project GenderAct.
My educational background is in sociology, gender studies and social studies of science and technology (STS). I work interdiciplinary and my research fields include organizational studies, policy studies, and cultural studies of media. I have conducted empirical studies of the making of gender equality policies, gender and power in non-profit organizations, and I am currently researching gender and diversity in academia.
Throughout my work I pursue an enhanced understanding of the sociocultural dynamics of exclusion/inclusion. I am particularly concerned with questions of how difference and sameness - categorizations and inequality - is produced and possibly changed. I am interested in exploring lived experience and the potential for change embedded in the everyday experiences we share, and currently I am engaged in learning the method of micro-phenomenology.
I received my doctoral degree in 2013 based on a dissertation on the making of a policy reform introducing corporate board gender quotas in Norway. I co-edited Bodies, Symbols and Organizational Practice (Routledge, 2018), and Reproduksjon, kjønn og likestilling i dagens Norge (Fagbokforlaget, 2016).
Ongoing research projects:
- ProGender - A Digital Hub on Gender, the Covid-19 Crisis and its Aftermath (EEA, 2020-2022)
- 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),
Courses
- KULT6502 - Gender and Diversity in Theory and Practice
- KULT3310 - Tools for the analysis of gender, equality and diversity
- KULT2025 - Interdisciplinary profile course: Sustainability
- KULT8874 - Special topics in Gender - and diversity studies.
- KULT3305 - Theories of gender, equality and diversity
Scientific, academic and artistic work
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Journal publications
- (2021) Feminist solidarity: Practices, politics, and possibilities. Gender, Work & Organization.
- (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).
- (2018) Maktens kjønnede dynamikk. sosiologen.no.
- (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.
Artistic productions
- (2020) Toolbox for gender balance. Toolbox for gender balance
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
- (2021) Making it in academia: A study of career narratives of men and women professors in Norway and Japan. Comparative Perspectives on Gender Equality in Japan and Norway. Same but different?.
- (2020) From Agri-Culture to Agri-Nature: New Allianced or Farmland Preservation in Norway. Finance or Food?: The Role of Cultures, Values, and Ethics in Land Use Negotiations.
- (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.