The decision means that the Department of Gender Studies will be reorganized from being a separate department to becoming a division within the Department of Sociology, along with the divisions Sociology and Social Anthropology. The three subjects already share the same building since August this year.
Gender Studies will continue to be a main field of study and will be taught and examined at all levels; bachelor's, master's and doctoral level. The subject will also remain as a separate research area.
In connection with the decision to merge, the new department has been allocated stimulus funds from the faculty to develop research collaborations between the subjects. The faculty also allocates funds to develop a platform with seminars and activities linked to gender research.
– This opens up exciting opportunities going forward. We look forward to continuing to discuss, explore and further develop gender studies research in new constellations as well as within the framework of our seminar series, including the Gender Studies Seminar and the Queer and Crimping Seminar, says Mia Liinason, assistant head of department at the Department of Gender Studies until the merger.
Read more about the Faculty of Social Sciences' organisation project:
Organisational development towards fewer and larger units (sam.lu.se)