Management and equipment. Structure
- Direction and Administration:
- Director
- Assistant Director
- Deputy Director
- Administration:
- Secretary General
- Communication officer
- Scientific Committee
- Steering Committee
Objectives
- To bring together thirty institutional partners involved in research on gender and sexualities.
- Contribute to the scientific recognition and geographical extension of research on gender and sexualities in France.
- Support young research through a series of targeted measures.
- Give international visibility to research conducted in French in this field through various support actions.
- Encourage the emergence of new forms of scientific collaboration, both within the French academic world and with international partners.
- Encourage and promote interdisciplinary or transversal research with multiple perimeters and circumferences, within the SHS but also between the SHS and other scientific fields.
Research and results
Gender Institute’s Thesis Prize:
- Award Winners 2022:
- La Vie en rose. Petite histoire d’une couleur aux prises avec le genre (Kévin Bideaux; Dir.: Hélène Marquié; Université Paris, 2021).
- Des romances au-delà des frontières. La globalisation genrée du marché matrimonial: échanges intimes, expériences migratoires et réflexivités sur le genre dans les conjugalités franco-postsoviétiques (1990-2015) (Laure Sizaire, Dir.: Jean-Hugues Déchaux; Université Lumière Lyon, 2021).
Ongoing projects
- Gender Institute’s Thesis Prize
- “Jeudis du genre” (Gender Thursdays conferences).
- Gender Chair.
- “Gender in movement” – A programme of activities to enrich research by organising collaborations with artists and collectives whose work questions these themes.
- International seminar (webinar).
- Gender Studies Conventions (July 4 to 7, 2023: its 3rd International Congress on Gender Studies, in partnership with the University Toulouse Jean Jaurès).