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The Gender Studies Doctoral Programme is a collaborative, interdisciplinary graduate school for the dynamic and growing field of women’s and gender studies in Finland.
The Doctoral Programme’s core operations include regular scholarly courses and theme seminars, annual follow-up meetings as well as individual dissertation supervision. With various associates, it organizes domestic and international scholarly seminars.
The Gender Studies Doctoral Programme involves the disciplines of women’s and gender studies at the universities of Helsinki, Joensuu, Jyväskylä, Lapland, Tampere and Turku as well as at Åbo Akademi University. The director of the Doctoral Programme is prof. Tuija Pulkkinen (University of Helsinki). The coordinator is Tuija Modinos (University of Helsinki).
The Doctoral Programme is funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture, the Academy of Finland and the affiliated universities. It has been in operation since the establishment of the Finnish graduate school system, initially (1995–2006) under the name Gender System Graduate School. From 2007 to 2011 it worked under the name the Finnish Research School in Women’s and Gender Studies.