Silje Lundgren

Senior Research Coordinator

I coordinate work with research funding at Thematic Studies and I am also Director of Forum for Gender Studies and Equality.

Research Coordinator and Director

As a research coordinator, I work with research funding at the Department of Thematic Studies. I am also Director of Forum for Gender Studies and Equality.

The Department of Thematic studies takes on major societal issues, and I coordinate our work with research funding. I am in contact with funders, organize workshops and coordinate questions of co-funding.

I am also the director of the centre Forum for Gender Studies and Equality at Linköping University. Forum an arena for relevant meetings between research and practice within the field of gender studies and gender equality.

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Sexual abuse of power: Taking action against sextortion in Tanzania

Sextortion occurs when a person with entrusted authority abuses it to obtain sexual favors in exchange for a service or benefit within their power to grant or withhold. This research project studies the implementation of policy against sextortion.

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2020

2015

2013

2012

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2017
Research Coordinator, Department of Thematic Studies (TEMA)
2012-2016
Research Coordinator, Gender studies, Linköping University.
2011
Ph D, Uppsala University.
Ph D thesis in Cultural Anthropology was titled "Heterosexual Havana : Ideals and hierarchies of gender and sexuality in contemporary Cuba".
2006-2012
Ph D student and teacher, The Institute of Latin American Studies, Stockholm University.

Assignment

2019
Director of Forum for Gender Studies and Equality
2017
Coordinator of work at Linköping University in relation to the situation for refugees
2016
Coordinator Conference g16 - Boundaries, Mobility and Mobilisation at g16.

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Discourse and dance during gender conference

Research and revels, can they be combined? Indeed they can, according to the organisers of the g16 conference. Not only researchers from all round the world, but also Linköping residents are invited.

Gender research excels in new collaboration

Six years of collaboration between gender researchers at Linköping and Örebro Universities has gained a permanent successor in the form of the GEXcel International Collegium.

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Malin Wieslander

Associate professor, Docent

Alma Persson

Associate professor, Head of Division, Docent

Charlotte Fridolfsson

Associate professor, Docent

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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.

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.

International Affairs and Collaborations Division (ISA)

International Affairs and Collaborations Division (ISA) supports faculties and departments in their work with internationalisation, research funding, commissioned education and collaboration.

Forum for Gender Studies and Equality (Forum)

A meeting place for researchers, teachers, students and others interested in gender studies and gender equality.