Home
Photo of Edyta Just

Edyta Just

Associate Professor, Head of Unit, Docent

Edyta Just is associate professor (docent), senior lecturer and director and coordinator of InterGender Consortium and Research School in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at the Unit of Gender Studies, Department of Thematic Studies, Linköping University, Sweden.

She is also a board member and a former co-chair of ATGENDER, The European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation and a co-chair of the strand Feminist Pedagogies, Didactics and Education in the research field of Feminist Studies and Education of GEXcel International Collegium for Advanced Transdisciplinary Gender Studies.

She holds degrees in political science (MA) from Lodz University, Poland and gender studies (PhD) from Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

Field of expertise

  • Gender studies

  • Pedagogy

  • Philosophy

  • Cultural studies of science and technology and in particular of neuroscience

Research

Children in classroom.

Feminist pedagogy

This research area focuses on development of critically-creative forms of teaching and learning in on and offline feminist education. It addresses students’ skills, concepts of difference and body, and human-technology interactions (ICTs).

Publications

2024

Edyta Just (2024) Horror & Life: Telling a Story in Order Not to Run Advances in Applied Sociology, Vol. 14, p. 201-214 Continue to DOI

2023

Edyta Just, Maria Udén, Vera Weetzel, Cecilia Åsberg (Editorship) (2023) Voices from Gender Studies. Negotiating the Terms of Academic Production, Epistemology, and the Logics and Contents of Identity
Edyta Just (2023) "I will Meet You at Twilight": On Subjectivity, Identity and Transnational Intersectional Feminist Research Pluriversal Conversations on Transnational Feminisms: And Words Collide from a Place

2022

Emilia Åkesson, Edyta Just, Katarina Eriksson (Barajas) (2022) Closer to and further away - emergency-remote teacher education, orientations and student-bodies Högre Utbildning, Vol. 12, p. 66-78 Continue to DOI

2021

Edyta Just (2021) Learning and Students' Experiences with Blended Education International Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 10, p. 213-223 Continue to DOI

Research networks

Intergender

InterGender, Consortium and Research School in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies

offers a research training meeting the needs of first-, mid- and last-phase PhD students. InterGender is organized to ensure the quality of the research performed by the students, as well as the development of the training programme they undergo.

InterGender
GEXCEL

GEXcel International Collegium

GEXcel International Collegium is a meeting place for excellent gender researchers, and aims to develop transnational, intersectional gender research. GEXcel is a collaboration between Linköping, Karlstad and Örebro University.

To GEXcel International Collegium
Logotype ATGENDER

The European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation

is a broad association for academics, practitioners, activists and institutions in the field of Women’s, Gender, Transgender, Sexuality, and Queer studies, feminist research, women’s, sexual and LGBTQI rights, equality, and diversity.

ATGENDER

CV

Academic Degrees

2016
Docent, Linköping University, Tema, Tema Genus

2009
Ph.D. degree, Utrecht University (The Netherlands), Research Institute for
History and Culture, Faculty of Humanities
Doctoral Thesis: New Reproductive Assemblages: Understanding,
Managing and ‘Using’ Human In Vitro Fertilization (IVF),
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Rosi Braidotti, Prof. Dr. Rosemarie Buikema

2002
Master degree, University of Lodz (Poland), American Studies, Gender and
Mass Media, Faculty of International and Political Studies
Master Thesis: Identity, Body and Gender under the Influence of New
Modern Technologies,
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Elzbieta H. Oleksy,

Professional Affiliations

2012 – present
NeuroGenderings Network

2011 – present
ATGENDER, The European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation

2008 – present
European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health

2005-2008
Board Member of Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights

Coordination & Participation

Scientific Projects

2016 
STINT Project, New Tools for Transnational Analysis in Postgraduate Intersectional Gender Research - Towards Long-Term International Collaborations in Doctoral and Postdoctoral Training, Tema Genus, Linköping University; The Bergen Centre for Women’s Studies (SKOK), Norway; Gender Studies, Central European University, Hungary; Gender Studies, University of Western Cape, South Africa.

2010-2011
ETICA Project, Ethical Issues of Emerging ICT Applications, European Commission, 7th EU Framework Program.

2007-2009
Acume 2 Thematic Network, Interfacing Science, Literature, and Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Subproject: Cultural Representations of Science and Technology, European Thematic Network Projects. 

2007-2008
ADVANCE Project, Advanced Training for Women in Scientific Research, European Commission, 6th EU Framework Program.

2006-2009
Athena 3 Thematic Network in European Women’s Studies, Working Group: Visual Culture, European Thematic Network Projects.

Teaching Experience

Teaching experience

Utrecht University, The Netherlands

  • Technobodies in Cyberspace
  • Body Zones

    • Lodz University, Poland

    • Feminist Theory. Between Difference and Diversity
    • Feminist Philosophy and Literature
    • Gender and Academic and Creative Writing
    • Gender and Welfare State, International Perspective
    • Political Campaigns in the Media
    • Science and Gender
    • Images of Women and Men in Visual Culture and Literature

    Teaching at LiU

    I coordinate and teach in the following courses

    • Career Paths and Professional Communication
    • Master Thesis in Gender Studies (15 ECTS) 
    • Masther Thesis in Gender Studies (30 ECTS).
    • Theories and Methodologies
    • Feminist Pedagogy and Intersectional Gender Didactics
    • Master Thesis in Gender Science

    I teach in the following courses

    • Introduction to Studies of Intersectional Gender at Advanced Level
    • Analysing Change
    • Science Communication and Critically Mediated Interventions

    Organisation

    People in silhouette in different bright colours

    Gender studies (TEMAG)

    At Tema Genus, we conduct research, PhD training, undergraduate and master’s education, and social outreach, all with a foundation in interdisciplinary gender studies and often together with international collaborators.
    Temahuset Temabuilding

    Department of Thematic Studies (TEMA)

    In an increasingly complicated world, there is a need for researchers that can handle both breadth and depth, and can collaborate across disciplinary borders. Major societal questions are studied from an interdisciplinary perspective at TEMA.
    Studenthuset on Campus Valla in Linköping

    About LiU

    Linköping University, LiU, offers innovative education and boundary-crossing research. The students are among the most desirable in the labour market and international rankings consistently place LiU as a leading global university.

    Tags