ECPR Standing Group on Gender and Politics
The European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) is an independent, scholarly association that supports and encourages the training, research and cross-national co-operation of political scientists throughout Europe and beyond.
The ECPR Standing Group on Gender and Politics has been in existence since 1985. It has currently over 300 members from different parts of the world that form a broad-based network on issues relating to the study of gender and politics. The group actively encourages workshops and research groups with an emphasis on gender issues and seeks to increase the profile of women in the main fields of political science.
The group’s activities include maintaining a research register of feminist research in politics as well as a ’syllabus bank‘ of gender and politics courses taught worldwide. Its mailing list is a vibrant information and discussion forum where messages regarding conferences, grants, jobs, and books are disseminated. The first ever European Conference on Politics and Gender (ECPG) will take place in Belfast in January 2009 and the group Seeks to hold a Summer School on Feminist Research Methods in Politics in summer 2009.
Homepage: http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/standinggroups/women/index.htm
Joining the ECPR Standing Group on Gender and Politics is for free.
Details on how to join us by subscribing to our mailing list can be found under the ‚become a member‘ section of the group’s homepage at: http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/standinggroups/women/index.htm.
When you are on the mailing list you receive information regarding vacancies, tenders and conferences provided by other members on the mailing list and collaborating networks (e.g. APSA Women and Politics Research, the Women’s Caucus of the Australian Political Science Association, the EU Gender Institute, PSA Women and Politics, ECPR Women and Politics Graduate Forum).
Please contact the convenors of the group Karen Celis (karen.celis[at]hogent.be) and Johanna Kantola (johanna.kantola[at]helsinki.fi) for further information.
Johanna Kantola
Senior Lecturer, docent
Department of Political Science
P.O.Box 54
00014 University of Helsinki
Finland
Tel: + 358 9 191 24856