Staff

Dr. Irma Erlingsdóttir

Director

Iceland

Short Bio

Dr. Irma Erlingsdottir is a Professor and Director of the Gender Equality Studies and Training Programme (GEST), the EDDA – Centre of Excellence, and the Institute for Gender, Equality and Difference (RIKK), University of Iceland. Dr. Irma Erlingsdottir has led several large-scale academic projects in the fields of gender studies, globalization, contemporary politics and critical theory, and has wide-ranging experience in cooperating with government ministries, public and private organizations on policy-relevant gender and equality research. She studied at Sorbonne University (PhD), Vincennes University (DEA), Paul Valéry University in France (Licence and Maîtrise) and the University of Iceland (BA). As a specialist in gender studies, literature and critical contemporary philosophy, she has published articles and book chapters in these fields.

Supervision

Final project

Zero Clout: (Re) Inventing the Objectivity of Gender within the Frame of Marxist Feminism

Andrea Jovanović

2018

Gender and Feminist Discourse

Final project

Women’s Economic Empowerment in Ethiopia: The Concept and the Practice

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Ekram Mohammednegash Osman

2017

Women's Empowerment