Dorthe Staunæs is professor of socialpsychology with speciel interest in affect, diversity (gender,  race, and ethnicity) and leadership in Education 

Current research issues  

1) Feminist, affective-discursive-materiel metodologies, performativity  and affirmativ critique

2) Posthuman, new materialist and poststrukturalist conceptualizations  

3) Gender, race/racialization and intersectionality 

4) Affect, subjectification and  'soft governance' 

5) Diversity work, moods and affective athmospheres

6) Data, affect and race

7) Affective pedagogy, eksperimentel leadership, learning labs  

Current positions 

Member of the researchprogram Policy Futures

Coordinator of the research unit Ethnicity, Diversity and Education 

Member of the COST-network on New Materialism.

Chair of the Niels Klim Prize-komitee under the Holberg Prize

Chair of the reviewpanel concerning Gender in the Academy of Finland

Chair of Arts' Committee for Equity and Diversity

Member of Aarhus University's Committee for Diversity and Equality

PI for the research project Diversity work as moodwork

PI for the research project Affective Investements in diversity work in STEM at Danish Universities

Leadership experience

Head of the research program Organisation and Learning 2008-2016

Head of the masterprogram Educational Psychology  (2004-2007)

Head of the PHD School Organisational Learning (DOCSOL) (2010)

Board member of KVINFO (2007-2016)

Head of the board of KVINFO (2014-2016)

Regional editor International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (2007-2013)

Main supervisor for PhD-students:  

Thomas Binderup (2018-2021), Camilla Nørgaard (2017-2021)

Main supervisor for PhD-students (completed)

Dorethe Bjergkilde (2021), Kia Wied (2019), Rikke Brown (2017)  Lonni Hall (2017) Katja Brøgger (2015), Helle Bjerg (2010).  

Co-supervisor for PhD-students: Jette Sandarger/CBS, Lise Ulrik Andreassen/AU,

Co-supervisor for PhD-students (completed): Jannick Friis Christensen/CBS, Mante Vertelyte/AAU, Sabina Pulz/KU, Rasmus Præstmand Hansen/KU, Mads Bank/KU, Karen Ida Dannesboe/DPU, Mari Simola/Helsinki, Marie Bruvik Heinscou/KU, Katarina Machechova/Prag, Lotte Holck/CBS. 

 Awards

• 2004 the Kraka prize for gender research
• 2002 the Edith og Valborg Larsens prize for excellent research
• 1996 Silvermedal University of Copenhagen