This research cluster is an outcome of fruitful cross-disciplinary cooperation between the three co-researchers with backgrounds in gender studies, ethnology, informatics, and applied IT. Together with two PhD-students, we constitute the core group of this research cluster.
Mia Liinason
Director of TechnAct and Professor in Gender Studies at the University of Gothenburg
She is interested in transnational feminism and queer as theory and praxis, and supervises PhD-students and postdocs in gender studies.
For more info: https://kultur.gu.se/om-institutionen/personal?userId=xliima
Lisen Selander
Associate professor within Information Systems research at the University of Gothenburg
She is interested in digital transformation and the digital organizing of contemporary collective action.
For more info: https://ait.gu.se/om-institutionen/avdelningen-for-informatik/personal?userId=xselal
Lena Martinsson
Professor in Gender studies, University of Gothenburg
Her main research interests are transnational social movements, in the field of feminist, queer and post colonial studies. She has also written extensively on the discourses on gender equality and diversity.
For more info: https://kultur.gu.se/om-institutionen/personal?userId=xmalen
Onur Kılıç
Ph.D. candidate in Gender Studies at the University of Gothenburg and co-researcher in TechnAct
He is interested in the politics of gender and sexualities, globalization and neoliberalism, politics of space and digital technologies. His current project is on queer activism in Turkey and building transnational solidarities in digital spaces.
Nadia Ruiz-Bravo
PhD candidate in Informatics at the University of Gothenburg and co-researcher in TechnAct
She is passionate about the video game industry and its community and finds interesting themes around inclusion and diversity in such spheres. Her current research is in the entanglements between digital technologies, especially digital platforms, and collective action, gender, and sexualities in the video game sphere.