Stillingsbeskrivelse

PhD fellow in Gender Research at Center for women’s gender research UiT Tromsø,

Member of ConGender Research group

Working on Gender and Diversity Perspectives in Academia 

 

Project overview

The project is concerned with Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) perspectives in higher education and studies them as a practice and vision in academic teaching. The project studies institutional policy to explore how DEI is problematized in academia and explores how DEI permeates academic practices. The project aim is to understand how DEI and minority disparities are (re) produced and how voices of all backgrounds are validated in teaching and learning.

Main research question 

How does DEI permeate academic practices in higher education?

 

PUBLICATIONS

Book Chapter: Intersectionality: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003363590-8

Master of Philosophy in Indigenous Studies at UiT where I explored gender dimensions and changing gender roles in street begging amongst the Karamojong of  Uganda: https://munin.uit.no/handle/10037/11304

Master of Philosophy in Global Development-theory and practice at UiB where I explored the contemporary trends, empowering and disempowering aspects bride price among the Baganda of Uganda: https://bora.uib.no/bora-xmlui/handle/1956/20208

Research interests:

• Gender and diversity research
• Social policy and social stratification
• Diversity in academia
• Qualitative research methodologies
• Indigenous and post-colonial research methodologies