In this session, Helene Pristed Nielsen is our featured guest speaker. Nielsen is a sociologist and gender researcher and affiliated associate professor at the University of the Faroe Islands. After years in the gender research centre, FREIA, at Aalborg University, she took the step into the Danish Royal Military as a senior researcher. Today she works as an administrator in the Royal Danish Navy.  

Nielsen’s talk will centre on experienced rigid gender roles in the context of flexible work-mobility. With her talk, Nielsen invites us to reflect on how come gender roles are experienced as sturdy and rigid in an ever-changing world, especially when it comes to gender roles in the work context. While, the talk will not depart from a specific article/research publication, you are welcome to read the following article. As such, the talk will more so draw on thematic questions that have emerged in relation to her previous research. 

Nielsen, Helene Pristed No place for their children negotiating gender, place and generation in a flexible work context, Gender, Place & Culture: A journal of feminist geography DOI (link to publication from Publisher): 10.1080/0966369X.2018.1435509