ERC Consolidator Grant Project (2018-2023): Gender, party politics and democracy in Europe: A study of European Parliament’s party groups (EUGENDEM)
The ERC funded research project “Gender, party politics and democracy in Europe: A study of European Parliament’s party groups” (EUGenDem) commenced 1 August 2018.
The five-year (2018-2023) research project is funded by European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant (PI Professor Johanna Kantola). It is located in Gender Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Finland. Dr Anna Elomäki and Dr Petra Ahrens are Senior Researchers, Dr Barbara Gaweda and Dr Cherry Miller Postdoctoral Researchers and Valentine Berthet PhD student in the project.
EUGenDem provides a systematic analysis of the gendered policies and practices of 
European party politics. The research comprises a comparative study of the European Parliament’s (EP) party groups and generates empirical findings about the significance of gender in the current party political transformations in Europe.
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University of Tampere interview
Gender and Power in Reconfigured Corporatist Finland (GePoCo)
I am the director of the research project GePoCo funded by the Academy of Finland (2016-2020) and the University of Helsinki Research Funds (2015-2017). Paula Koskinen Sandberg, Armi Mustosmäki, Anna Elomäki and Milja Saari have been postdoctoral researchers and Ville Kainulainen and Miikaeli Kylä-Laaso PhD students in the project. Considering the crucial role played by the corporatist system in Finland there is strikingly little research into its gendered practices in relation to different policy fields or as gendered organizations and decision-making. These are the tasks we undertake in this project. [Read more]
The project is closely linked to the international research network Gender Equality Policy in Practice (GEPP) directed by Professors Amy Mazur, Joni Lovenduski and Isabella Engeli. The project has over 70 researchers from different parts of the world and it looks at the challenges related to the implementation of gender equality policies. We take part in the issue strand on implementing gender equality in labour policy in GEPP (strand directed by Amy Mazur and Roberta Guerrina).
Academy of Finland Research Fellow Project (2012–2018)
Drawing on extensive interview material with politicians and party workers in the Finnish and European parliaments, my research project “Feminized actors or masculine institutions? Gender, Power and Party Politics in Finland” provides analyses political parties in Finland from a gender perspective. [Read more]
Tasa-arvovaje
Together with my colleagues Anna Elomäki, Anu Koivunen and Hanna Ylöstalo I am involved in a research network funded by the Kone Foundation (2016–2017). The aim of the project is to popularize scientific knowledge about gender equality and bring it into public debates about economics and austerity politics and to political decision-making. [Read more]
