Dear all,

I would like to invite you to the following open webinar on May 6th hosted by the Collegium Gender Perspectives in Education at the University of Gothenburg:

Gendered Structures of Finnish Comprehensive Education Through the Lens of Trans Studies

Date and time: May 6, kl. 15.00-17.00 (CET)

Sign up: Anmälan till webbinarium med Kollegiet genusperspektiv i pedagogik, 6 maj 2026 – Fyll i formulär 

Liekki Valaskivi, doctoral student in gender studies

Tampere University, Finland

Faculty of Social Sciences

Gender diversity is an increasingly visible and relevant phenomenon in Finnish comprehensive education (grades 1-9), but the subject has yet to be extensively researched in a Finnish context. In my doctoral research I argue that gender must be reconceptualised through trans theory and understood as fundamentally diverse, if we hope to produce meaningful change in the inequal gendered structures of Finnish comprehensive education. I am conducting my research at Tampere University in the Faculty of Social Sciences, in the subject of Gender Studies. My research is transdisciplinary and utilises multiple datasets. In my presentation, I will introduce findings from my first two articles, published and in review, respectively. The topics of these studies are 1) past school experiences of trans young adults and 2) discourses surrounding gender diversity among teacher education students. I will also present the broader theoretical discussion of my research, which includes trans pedagogy and trans theory, and Foucauldian theory of power and critical discourse analysis. 

Welcome! 

Ylva Odenbring (chair) 

Agnes Lanker och Elisabeth Berg (secretaries) 

Collegium website: https://www.gu.se/pedagogik-specialpedagogik/kollegiet-genusperspektiv-i-pedagogik 

Have a great weekend everyone! 🌷

All the very best,

Ylva