The project Challenging Gender and the theme Challenging Normalization Processes include a great deal of internationalisation. This is in accordance with the vision of the FGV, to provide “ a gender environment in central Sweden that will initiate and carry out innovative courses and research on a national and international level of excellence”.

Here you can read about the current international research collaboration that gender researchers at Mid Sweden University are involved in, and the international guests that the FGV has hosted in recent years.

 

Guest researchers and current research collaboration:

 

Sept 22-28 2009, Guest researcher Bronwyn Davies, Professorial Fellow at Melbourne University, Australia, visited FGV and CG. She is a member of the FGV’s international network MING and participate in the second meeting of the network on Sept. 24-25 2009. She also gave a Gena-seminar, held a Collective Biography workshop, and an open lecture. We are looking forward to welcome her back in Sept. 2010.

 

In May, 2009, the senior research scientist Nan Stein, from Wellesley Center for Research on Women, will visit Mid Sweden University for two weeks of research collaboration with Katja Gillander Gådin. Nan Stein is a member of the FGV’s international network MING and will participate in the first meeting of the network on 7th – 8th May 2009.

 

Professor Philomena Essed, Critical Race, Gender and Leadership Studies, Antioch University, USA, visited Mid Sweden University in November, 2008. She is a member of the international reference group for the project Challenging gender, and of the FGV’s international network MING.

 

Ruth McLelland-Nugent, Professor of History, from Augusta State University visited Mid Sweden University, Härnösand, in April, 2008. Bodil Formark, PhD student and Senior Lecturer Eva Söderberg will return her visit during the spring of 2009.

 

 

As part of research collaboration with Lena Sawyer, Senior Lecturer Tina Campt from Duke University, USA, visited Mid Sweden University for a week in May, 2008 as a visiting researcher.

 

Dr. Lia Bryant, University of South Australia Adelaide, Australia, visited Mid Sweden University as a guest researcher from 1st to 11th July 2007 to collaborate on a research project that she is carrying out in collaboration with Mona Livholts.

A PhD student under Dr. Bryant, Elisabeth Hoon, University of South Australia, visited Mid Sweden University as a guest researcher from 10th to 20th November 2007.

From 26th November to 6th November Livholts was a Visiting Scholar at the Hawke Research Institute and Research Centre for Gender Studies, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, where she continued her collaboration with Lia Bryant.

 

 

Professor Liz Stanley, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, visited Mid Sweden University in December 2006 to work in collaboration with Mona Livholts.