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Sofia Strid

Professor

Department of Sociology and Work Science
Telephone
+46 31-786 38 04
+46 766-18 38 04
Mail
sofia.strid@gu.se
Visiting address
Skanstorget 18
41122 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 720
40530 Göteborg

Deputy Head of Department

Department of Sociology and Work Science
Telephone
+46 31-786 38 04
+46 766-18 38 04
Mail
sofia.strid@gu.se
Visiting address
Skanstorget 18
41122 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 720
40530 Göteborg

About Sofia Strid

Sofia Strid is Professor of Sociology and Associate Professor (docent) in Gender Studies at the Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg. She's a Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She is the Deputy Head of Department and the former Director of Research Studies at the Institution for Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg. She has previously held positions in Gender Studies, Policy Studies, Political Science, and Sociology in Austria, Belgium, Sweden and the UK; most recently in Sociology at Lancaster University, UK. Her research profile is international, multi-disciplinary and collaborative, with a focus on European multi-partner project and collaborations. She has communicated her research results via more than two hundred academic publications and one hundred and fifty conference presentations in 30 countries.

Research

Sofia Strid's research interests are oriented towards the social and political sciences and focuses on different forms of inequalities, their intersections and consequences thereof in different domains, systems and regimes. Her research has recently primarily focused on: 1) inequalities produced in times of crises (e.g. the financial crisis, covid crisis, climate crisis) and political and social mobilisation to mitigate these; 2) the concept, theory and measurement of violences and their interconnectedness; and 3) obstacles and barriers for the realisation of socially just and gender equal sustainability politics.

Sofia Strid's research has been published in in e.g., Current Sociology, Feminist Theory, Journal of European Social Policy, Journal of Gender Studies, Journal of Sex Research, Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, Politics and Governance, Social Politics, Social Problems, Sociologisk Forskning, Sociology, Studies in Higher Education, Theory & Society and Violence Against Women. Her research is funded by the European Commission, the European Parliament, the European Institute for Gender Equality, the Swedish Research Council and FORTE.

Current research projects

Previous projects

Teaching

Sofia Strid has designed and delivered courses related to her research interests, and lectures and supervises on all academic levels and in many disciplines, including Gender Studies, Law, Media and Communication, Political Science, Sociology, Social Work and the Teacher Education Programmes. She also develops and delivers workshops on gender equality, gender mainstreaming and gender-based violence for university staff, practitioners, and policymakers.

She has supervised seven PhD students (two as main supervisor, five as assistant) and examined four PhD theses in three countries; she currently supervises three PhD students (Ida Maria Börjesson, Rukaya Al Zayani, Isabel Köhler).

Sofia Strid welcomes research students and post docs with an interest in feminist violence studies and gendered and intersectional perspectives on sustainability.

Collaborations and service

Sofia Strid is active in well-established European wide networks and collaborations. She is the previous Chair of the Nordic Association for Feminist Research and Gender Studies, NORA; the Chair of SO9: Gender-Based Violence Section of the ECPG of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR); a member of the EU COST Action on Femicide; and the European Representative in the International Sociological Association (ISA) RC32: Women and Society.

Sofia Strid serves as Deputy Head of Department responsible for internationalisation, work environment, including gender+ equality and equal opportunities, and sustainability. She has previously served as Director of Research Studies in the Department for Sociology and Work Science, and as Head of Undergraduate Studies, member of the Faculty Board for Humanities and Social Sciences, and the representative in the Regional Administrative County's Resource Group on Violence against Women, at Örebro University. She's was an organising member of the annual National Gender Dialogue with gender researchers and Members of Parliament, and a founding member of the Regional Gender Dialogue with gender researchers and practitioners working with gender issues.