Post-Doc, Sociology
Örebro University, School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences
Senior Research Associate
Thesis Title: Gendered Interests in the EU
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Anna G. Jónasdóttir
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About
My research interests are both theoretical and policy oriented and include research on comparative gender equality and intersectionality in the EU27; gender based violence and intersectionalised violence against women; feminist civil society and the organisation and institutionalisation of women’s interests by women and by political authorities; the EU as a polity and a political authority; intersectionality in equality policies; and the equality architecture/equality machinery.
I am currently working on publications from the EU 6 Framework funded project Quality in Gender+ Equality Policies, a project I have been involved in since 2007 and where some 50 researchers compare the meanings of gender equality in the EU27 and Croatia and Turkey. This involves close textual analysis of key policy documents on gender equality in employment, gender-based violence and intimate citizenship, as well as the comparative analysis of the varied institutional and social structural environments under which these meanings develop. Prof. Mieke Verloo in Vienna coordinates the project.
http://www.quing.eu
This year I have, together with Prof. Sylvia Walby and Dr. Jo Armstrong, completed a project funded by the by the British Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), which analysed the physical and legal security and the Criminal Justice System in Britain, with a special focus on the protected inequality grounds (gender, race, ethnicity, religion/belief, sexual orientation, disability, age and transgender). The final report of the project contributed to the Commission's Triennial Review and its final report How Fair is Britain?,
http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/key-projects/triennial-review/full-
As part of the UNESCO Chair in Gender Research Group, based at Lancaster University UK, I have been involved in research on the gendered impact of the financial crisis, including gender based violence against women, and co-chaired a session on 'Gender and the Financial Crisis' at the International Sociological Association XVII World Congress of Sociology in July 2010, where I also chaired a session on ‘New approaches to understanding economic inequalities and their significance’.
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/groups/gender_research/
In addition, I have been involved in Gendering Excellence – Centre of Gender Excellence (GEXcel) and co-edited, with Prof. Anna G. Jónasdóttir, GEXcel Work in Progress Report, Volume VIII. Proceedings from GEXcel Theme 10: Love in Our Time – A Question for Feminism. GEXcel, funded by the Swedish Research Council, seeks to establish a Centre of Gender Excellence at the inter-university Institute of Thematic Gender Studies, Linköping University and Örebro University for the period 2007-2011. The overall research theme of GEXcel is defined as transnational and transdisciplinary studies of changing gender relations, intersectionalities and embodiment.
http://www.genderexcel.org
I am currently working as a lecturer in gender studies at Örebro University and as a senior research associate at the Department of Sociology, Lancaster University.
