Management and equipment. Structure
- Chair
- Executive Board
- Board of Advisors: from the Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Architecture.
Objectives
- Raise public awareness of gender issues.
- Promote and conduct interdisciplinary research on gender-specific issues.
- Disseminate research findings and conference outcomes to the decision-making mechanisms in charge of gender-related matters in universities, and public.
- Promote the status of women.
- Facilitate communication with and among institutions and organizations dealing with women’s issues.
- Contribute to the development and change of policies addressing the problems women face.
- Provide an archive of information and documentation for the use of researchers working on gender-related subjects.
- Promotion of scholarly research on gender issues.
- Preparation of education kits and campaigns to increase gender awareness in schools, governmental and non-governmental institutions, and the media, among others.
- Publication of periodicals, books and proceedings, addressing women’s issues and articulating the findings of research in the área.
- Organization of conferences, congresses, workshops and seminars.
- Opening a women’s studies graduate program at EMU to increase the number and quality of research projects and researchers.
- Coordination and cooperation with national and international organizations and institutions.
Research and results
- Women and the Environment: towards Sustainable Development in North Cyprus (2008-2010).
- Completing the «Missing» History of Turkish Cypriot Community: Portraits of Turkish Cypriot Women (Sevda Alankuş, Hanife Aliefendioğlu, Pembe Behçetoğulları). Publication: Hanife Aliefendioğlu and Pembe Behçetoğulları, “Displacement, memory and home(less) identities: Turkish Cypriot women’s narratives”, Gender, Place & Culture. A Journal of Feminist Geography, 26 (2019).