A valuable addition to gender research at 幸运飞艇计划
Professor in philosophy at UiT, Annamari Vitikainen, is guest researcher at the Centre for Women鈥檚 and Gender Research (SKOK) in the academic year 2021-2022.
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Vitikainen鈥檚 research interests fall broadly within the field of contemporary political philosophy, social and global justice and gender and sexuality. The last couple of years, she has mainly worked on questions related to migration, multiculturalism and minority rights, focusing on 鈥渕inorities within minorities,鈥� for instance LGBT+ refugees.
At , Vitikainen leads the research group , and she is also a member of
Vitikainen also has several years of experience working on projects funded by the Research Council of Norway (NFR): She is part of the project and participated in the recently concluded project . From 2021, she has been the project leader of the NFR project .
At SKOK, Vitikainen is member of the research group Foundational Questions in Gender and Sexuality Research. During her visit, she hopes to deepen her understanding of gender and sexuality related problematics also within other fields than philosophy, and to gain valuable, empirically grounded knowledge on issues relating to migration, integration, and inclusion.
"Philosophers are often dependent on data provided by social scientists, and the interdisciplinary environment at SKOK provides an excellent arena for such collaboration and transfer of knowledge," says Vitikainen.
According to interim Head of Centre at SKOK, Kari Jegerstedt, Vitikainen is a highly valuable addition to SKOK鈥檚 staff:
"She does research on many of the same topics as us, like migration, justice and sexuality, but she is approaching them from different angles, which sparks good discussions. In addition, we have benefited from her extensive experience in securing external funding, and she provides support to our young, up-and-coming researchers who seek a career in research."