Extended research on gender equality projects
| Reference number | |
| Coordinator | Mälardalens högskola - Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 341 775 |
| Project duration | September 2014 - August 2016 |
| Status | Completed |
Purpose and goal
The purpose was to analyze the processes and methods used in the projects to increase gender equality. The goal has been to contribute with methods that can be used by others. The research questions were: - How can research and development with a focus on increased gender equality organized between researchers and other stakeholders? - How can the methods used by researchers and other stakeholders used by others? What is significant for methods and approaches in their work? - Are the methods and processes involved in the projects transferable to other equality projects with other actors?
Expected results and effects
The results of this research is that work to promote gender equality, needs both the knowledge that these projects have generated, but also the individual methods that projects have combined in the work done . The result is multi-dimensional and are both at an overall level when it comes to work for greater equality in general but the results also show a concrete method to use. The core in that result is that a combination of various methods in relation to what must be tackled is also a result.
Planned approach and implementation
The research method is inspired of an ethnographic design and approach where each and every research project in itself has been studied as a form a case. The material consists of ten such cases where the concrete data material creates a holistic meta-understanding of the different levels of the projects (cf. Callerstig 2014, p. 94). The material that has been created in this research has been related to other research projects also dealing with development work around gender equality. The material that builds up a case is interviews, documents and observation field notes.