Activities

The research group meets once a month. The activities in our meeting varies according to the needs and wishes of the group. 

The research group has active collaborations with other research groups and environments at NTNU, with whom they regularly organize seminars and public lectures.
 
Do you wish to be added to our e-mail list and receive invitations to our meetings, please contact the research group coordinator. 

Projects

• Power, politics, and performance: Examining the gendered processes and outcomes of a merger between a men’s and women’s Norwegian football club. (Malene Rosvold, Lucy Piggott og Stig Arve Sæther). Funded by NTNU Småforskmidler. 
• Betydninger av kjønn og forståelser av likestilling blant unge - en kvalitativ tilnærming (Brita Bungum). Funded by ISS forskningsstrategiske midler 2026. 
• Foreldreskap i flertall. Et kvalitativt forskningsprosjekt om alternative familieformer. (Ingvill Stuvøy). Funded by forskningsstrategiske midler ISS 2026. 
• Gender equity in the leadership and governance of the sport for development and peace sector. (Lucy Piggott). Funded by the Global Observatory for Gender Equality and Sport. 
• Informal/Unstable Work and the Everyday Lives of Migrant Women in Norway. (Sepand Mashregi). Postdoctoral project. 
• Post-(re)productive Bodies at work: Experiences and Understandings of Menopause in Norwegian Working Life (Tina Danielsson). Ph.D. project. 
• SheRuns: Women Runners’ Safety, Mobility, and Gendered Access to Public Space in Norway. (Lucy Piggott og Sepand Mashregi). Funded by forskningsstrategiske midler ISS 2026. 
• LK20 en kvalitativ studie av demokrati og medborgerskap i skolen, delprosjekt LK20 i Den internasjonale demokrati- og medborgerskapsstudien i skolen (Brita Bungum, i samarbeid med Knut Vesterdal, Trond Risto og Oddveig Storstad, ILU, NTNU). Funded by Utdanningsdirektoratet. 

Recent publications

For more publications, see the researchers' NTNU-profiles.

• Forseth, U. (2025). Critical perspectives on work, health and wellbeing: past, present and future. I C. Rees, Ö. Bozkurt, S. A. Limoncellin og J. Preminger (red.). Handbook on the Sociology of work (s. 436-450).
• Knoppers, A., & Piggott, L. (2026). Male homosociality and the overrepresentation of men as leaders in sport organizations. European Sport Management Quarterly, 1–18.
• Kvande, E. & Bungum, B. (2025). Leave policies in Norway. I Á. A. Arnalds, A.-Z. Duvander & J. Lammi-Taskula (red). Paid parental leave and social sustainability in the Nordic countries NIKK, TemaNord 2025:547 (76-89).
• Magin, M., Haßler, J., Larsson, A. O. & Skogerbø, E. (2024). Walking the line of the double bind. Women and men politicians’ gendered self-presentations on social media. Nordic Journal of Media Studies, 6(1), 157–184.
• Nesse, M., Piggott, L. V., & Agergaard, S. (2026). Navigating the in-between: social workers’ perceptions and experiences of facilitating sport for unaccompanied minor refugees in Norway. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 18(1), 1–16.
• Storstad, O. og Bungum, B. (2025). Kunnskapens kraft og nettets makt. Hvordan forstå gutters holdning til likestilling? I J. Caspersen, O. Storstad og C. Wendelborg (red.), Unge medborgere i en ny tid. Den internasjonale demokrati- og medborgerskapsstudien i skolen (ICCS 2022) (s. 76-99). Universitetsforlaget.
• Sørsveen, A. T., & Stuvøy, I. (2026). Standing on the frontline: Exploring representational work for unaccompanied minor asylum seekers in Norway. Critical Social Policy, Online First, 1-21.
• Tikkanen R. S., Pokhrel S., Ghimire U., Neupane B., Closser S., & Kumar B. N. (2026). Feminist political economy analysis of labor rights and protections of Nepal’s community health workers. Social Science and Medicine - Health Systems 6:100158.
• Tsipis, A., & Mashreghi, S. (2025). Reviving the forgotten: Breathing life into urban wastelands through skateboarding and decolonial placemaking in Nairobi, Kenya. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 7:1637588.

Connections

• NTNU GenderHub