Our research

Showcasing a transdisciplinary skillset and demonstrating excellence in qualitative methods. 

Rooted in the critical genealogies of feminist methodologies, our research builds upon and advances strong methodological traditions of intersectional feminist, antiracist, queer, trans and decolonial ethnography.

Employing a range of methods – including narrative, discourse, image and text analysis, archival research, quantitative tools, computational approaches and critical big data studies – our research uncovers how social experiences, power imbalances, embodiment, struggles for justice and agency shape categories such as gender, femininity, masculinity, sexuality, race, ethnicity and class, considering them as discourses, practices, relationships, and as historically situated phenomena in both local and global contexts.
 

Grounded in a strong tradition of investigating issues of gender and sexuality through empirically driven, intersectional, transdisciplinary and transnational approaches. 

Ongoing debates about the very nature of gender studies ensure the field remains dynamic and constantly undergoing productive transformation. Gender Studies at Lund University has played a pivotal role in these debates both nationally and internationally, broadening and interrogating the scope of research within gender studies. Such debates raise questions about how we conceptualise sex and gender, and welcome intersectional analyses of various processes and factors of difference in our research and problem formulation.

Recognising that the regulation of gender and sexuality is central to state and nation-building, and is expressed as struggles for social justice, both historically and today, our researchers undertake critical, pioneering investigations into the meaning and impact of gender(s) and sexuality/ies within and across specific contexts in the Global North and Global South, always mindful of the diversity within these broad categories. By critically engaging with binary perspectives, practices, and experiences in everyday life as well as in law and societal norms, the research examines gender(s) and sexuality/ies from the lens of subjectivities, relationships and knowledge, to studying them as mechanisms of geopolitical boundary-making, (inter)national regimes, violence, justice struggles and mobilisation of resilience in times of crisis and beyond. This provides sophisticated analytical tools that foster connections across distinct empirical settings, locally and globally.

Strong links with a variety of universities, networks, workplaces and civil society actors regionally, nationally and internationally. 

Rooted in the critical genealogies of feminist methodologies, research in the Division of Gender Studies builds upon and advances strong methodological traditions of intersectional feminist, antiracist, queer, trans and decolonial ethnography.

Employing a range of methods – including narrative, discourse, image and text analysis, archival research, quantitative tools, computational approaches and critical big data studies – our research uncovers how social experiences, power imbalances, embodiment, struggles for justice and agency shape categories such as gender, femininity, masculinity, sexuality, race, ethnicity and class, considering them as discourses, practices, relationships, and as historically situated phenomena in both local and global contexts.