Imported in 2024
The masculine work culture in the police force brings certain challenges, due to traditional ideas of masculinity and the hierarchy within the institution.
Studies show that disabled women are more likely to have experienced violence than non-disabled women. It has, moreover, been found that disabled women in Iceland do not have sufficient access to support services for survivors of violence. Imported in 2024
Haven't we all at one time or another asked ourselves questions like: Do I really get as much back from the contributions I make to society as the person next to me?
Protests by upper secondary school students in the autumn of 2022 in support of victims of sexual violence, the #MeToo revolution, #FreeTheNipple and other social justice movements are the focus of a thesis by philosophy student Katrín Pálmadóttir Þorgerðadóttir.
How do we close the gender gap in the workplace?
Marriage and cohabitation rights: what is your legal status?
Natural experiment on educational reforms.
Parental Leave and Parenting Roles: Equality in Practice?
For this project, a team of Law students and social workers combined their forces to help asylum seekers and refugees adjust more easily to life in Icelandic society. Imported in 2024
Generally speaking – my research centres around the topic of social inequality in education and ways to increase equality. This is a broad topic but I am interested in how students‘ social origin as well as their ethnicity or gender influences what or which type of education they obtain.
The Icelandic rental market
On 24 February 2026, the GRÓ GEST programme at the University of Iceland marked the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine with the opening of the international exhibition Unissued Diplomas: Never Graduated, Eternally Honoured.
Human rights backlash, the interplay between artificial intelligence and gender equality and freedom of gender, the inclusion of neurodivergent students and students of diverse origins in universities are among the topics during the annual Equality Days taking place from 9 to 12 February in Icelandic universities.
A new Equality Action Plan for the next three years at the University of Iceland was approved by the University Council at the beginning of the year.
A new report exploring the gender ratio in higher education.
Equality Days Programme takes place in Icelandic universities from 6 to 9 February.
Representatives from the University in Coimbra, Portugal visited the University of Iceland 3 - 4 May. The visit is part of Gender@UC the university collaboration in the field of gender equality.
Equality days will take place 14-18 February; mostly online. The programme tackles equality matters from diverse angles.
Representatives from the University of Iceland visited the University of Coimbra earlier this September to take part in a conference under the auspices of the Gender@UC project.