As the locus of interdisciplinary gender scholarship, the Department attracts scholars with a wide range of backgrounds including anthropology, cultural studies, development studies, family and child studies, education, history, medicine, political science, science and technology studies, sociology as well as area studies. By embracing, and allowing for, multiple research traditions, the Department avoids ideas about a united feminist view, or standpoint, and thus fertilizes a broad research horizon.
The Department is keen on bridging between academic research and society at large. The dynamic research community at the Department is created in dialogue with national and international partnerships including academic departments and scholars, governmental bodies, and civil society movements, agencies, and organizations.