The multidisciplinary Center for Gender Research (Gender Lab) at the University of Crete aims at creating and maintaining a creative research environment promoting open and interdisciplinary collaboration and research focusing on gender and equality. Created in 2004 (EC Structural funds) originally involved three Departments: Sociology, History and Archaeology and Philosophy and Social Sciences). In 2009, the Gender Lab acquired independent legal status. Since then it operates in coordination with the Department of Sociology and the active participation of the other two departments. It is located at the UCRC of University of Crete, Gallos campus, house of its archival material and home of its academic and research activities (e.g. workshops, conferences, lectures by visiting Greek and international scholars).
The Center for Gender Research contacts, supports and hosts research and research related activities focusing on gender and equality. It has secured cooperation with other similar Research Centers and Organizations and is always open to collaborations with scholars aiming at studying, understanding and overcoming gender and social discrimination.
The Center for Gender Research promotes initiatives, which increase gender awareness within the academic environment as well as the general public. Working towards this goal, the Center organizes dissemination, extension and liaison activities with stakeholders and the general public.
The Center owns teaching and lecturing equipment and material as well as an extended collection of catalogued material which is available to students, research scholars and all those interested in Gender and Equality issues.
Center for the study of gender, Gender Lab
Department of Sociology
Objectives
Topics
Gender Studies, Feminist Theory, Gender Research Methods, Gender and Law, Gender and Bioethics, Gendered Theories of Crime, Gender and Media, Gender and Immigration, Gender in History and Prehistory (Crete, the Aegean and the Mediterranean Sea), Feminist and Women’s Movement, State, Gender and Feminism.
Members
(FACULTY) Vasiliki Petousi, (Associate Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Director); Christina Konstantinidou (Associate Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Director 2016-2019), Yota Papageorgiou [Founder and First Director (2004-2015), Faculty Member (retired) Dept. of Sociology], Eleni Fournaraki (Associate Professor, Dept. of Sociology), Katerina Kopaka (Professor, Dept. of History and Archaeology), Katerina Dalakoura (Associate Professor, Dept. of Philosophy and Social Studies). (RESEARCHERS) Ioanna Kaiserli (PhD candidate, Dept. of Sociology), Aspasia Vasilaki (Teacher, Graduate of Dept of Sociology), Irini Ampoumogli (MA student in Sociology).
Research Projects (after 2010)
Events
- Contractual Collaboration for “Actions to promote gender equality in the Region of Crete 2018-2020”. Collaborating partners: Region of Crete, University of Crete, TEI of Crete.
- Summer School in Computers, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (https://www.csd.uoc.gr/~wistem2019/) 1-3 July 2019.
- Lecture: «The reproductive rights battleground in Poland: socio-cultural contexts, legal frameworks and human consequences» Katarzyna Zielinska, Dr hab. Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University.
- 1st Workshop on Women’s Entrepreneurship (http://sociology.soc.uoc.gr/?p=8527) 12-13 April 2019, Hrakleion, Crete,
- Awareness raising activity: Gender and Advertising, Thematic Week on Gender. Secondary Education. Rethymno. 8/5/2018
- Liaison activity: “Center for the Study of Gender: Activities” Vasiliki Petousi, Department of Sociology, 1st Research meeting of UCRC-UoC Dialogue, Interdisciplinarity, Synergies 26-27 May 2018, Rethymno
- • Lecture: “Sex and gender in research design and reporting”, Carolyn Ells, Associate Professor, Medicine Biomedical Ethics Unity, McGill University, Montreal, Canada in Collaboration with project DEFORM 2nd International Workshop Governance of Science and Research Integrity: Agencies, Researchers, Case Studies. 8 September 2017, UCRC, Rethymno.
- Book presentation: Gender in History. Examples and Valuation. Speakers: Androniki Dialeti (Department of History, Archeology and Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly), Eleftheria Zei (Department of History and Archeology, University of Crete), Eleni Fournaraki (Department of Sociology, University of Crete). Coordination: Vasiliki Petousi (Department of Sociology, University of Crete), 9/3/2017, Xenia Student Center, Rethymno.
Collaborations/ Affiliations
- Vasiliki Petousi: (2013-present) Chair, Grants Committee of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB), (2013-present) Member of the Advisory Board of FAB, 2012. Member of the Nominating Committee of FAB, (2005-present) Country Representative, FAB.
- Yota Papageorgiou: Country representative European Institute for Gender Equality (Contribution: Gender statistics analysis).
- Katerina Dalakoura: Member of the Scientific Committee, on-line journal Espacio Tiempo y Education http://espaciotiempoyeducation.com, Member of the Advisory Committee of Knjiženstvo, Journal for Studies in Literature, Gender and Culture
Contact
Tel.: (+30) 28310 77469
E-mail: petousiv@uoc.gr, gender@social.soc.uoc.gr
