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The Gender Studies Doctoral Programme (GSDP) is a collaborative, interdisciplinary graduate school for the dynamic and growing field of women’s and gender studies in Finland.
The graduate program, designed to educate research scholars with proficiency and sofistication in their fields of study, consists of regular scholarly courses and theme seminars, annual follow-up meetings as well as individual dissertation supervision. With various associates, GSDP organizes domestic and international scholarly seminars.
Women’s and gender studies disciplines at the Universities of Helsinki, Joensuu, Jyväskylä, Lapland, Oulu, Tampere and Turku as well as at Åbo Akademi University and Hanken all contribute to the Gender Studies Doctoral Programme. GDSP is led by Academy professor Tuija Pulkkinen (University of Helsinki), and Tuija Modinos (University of Helsinki) works as the GDSP coordinator.
The GDSP is funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Academy of Finland. It has been in operation since the establishment of the Finnish graduate school system, initially (1995–2006) titled the Gender System Graduate School. From 2007 to 2011 it funtioned as the Finnish Research School in Women’s and Gender Studies.