Árdís Kristín INGVARSDÓTTIR

Position
Adjunct Professor
E-mail
ardis.ingvars@unive.it
Website
www.unive.it/people/ardis.ingvars (personal record)

EDUCATION                                                                                                                   

2019  PhD. in Sociology. University of Iceland in association with Panteion University, Greece.

2014  MA in Anthropology. University of Iceland.

2013  Diploma in Globalization, migration and cultural studies. University of Iceland.

2010  BA in Anthropology. University of Iceland.

1994  BA in Education. School of Pedagogy (ísl. Fósturskóli Íslands), Iceland.

 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2022 - Current   Adjunct professor in Sociology. Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics. University of Iceland

2023-2024         Adjunct professor in Disability Studies. Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics. University of Iceland.

2021-2024         Researcher, RIKK, Institute for Gender, Equality and Difference, Universtiy of Iceland, "Queer Refugees in Queer Utopias: Inclusions                               and Exclusions: Dublin Regulated SOGIE Refugees"  

2018-2020         Post-doctoral research fellow, Center for Disability Studies, Universtiy of Iceland. Iceland. 

 

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES 

2025-         Researcer in "Co-creating sustainable care and social services for LGBTI plus older people in the Nordic countries". Role in Project:                                Principal investigator of the Icelandic services, alongside Dr. Guðbjörg Ottósdóttir.

2025-         Resercher in "Facing Hate: Racialized Migrant Men in Visible and Invisible Labouring Spaces of Europe". Role in the project: Principal                              investigator in Iceland and leading a seminar sexuality and qualitative methods.

2021-2024  Resercher in "Queer Refugees in Queer Utopias: Inclusions and Exclusions: SOGIE refugees’ experiences of deportation from queer                               utopias". Role in project: Supervising the deporation experiences. Funded by Rannís.

2022           Researcher in "Moral autonomies: Exploring gendered subjectivities among activist and refugee men in Germany." GExcel                                             research project, Karlstad University.

2018–2020  Post-doctoral reserch fellow in "Rethinking work inclusion for people with intellectual disabilities in Iceland. Center for Disability Studies,                        University of Iceland. Funded by Research Council of Norway. 

2018-2019   Balconologues. Collaborative project with Dr. Kontantina Isidoros, University of Oxford.

2014–2019  PhD resercher in Border masculinities: Emergent subjectivities through humanity, morality and mobility. Supervised by dr.Ingólfur V.                             Gíslason, University of Iceland and dr. Aliki Angelidou, Panteion University, Greece.

2015–2018  Assistant reserher in Masculinities; paternity leave; ethnic fatherhood; benevolent gender discrimination; #Metoo. Projects supervised                          by dr. Ingólfur V. Gíslason, professor in sociology, University of Iceland.

 

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

2023–       Adjunct professor in charge of Qualitative methodology (FÉL430G). University of Iceland.

2023-        Adjunt professor in charge of Sociology of migration: Youth on the move (FÉL034G). University of Iceland.

2022         Acjunt professor in charge of of Men in migration: Positionality, sexuality, and morality. Department of Sociology. Tübingen University.

2021-        Acjunt professor in charge of Theories in Social and Human Sciences (FMÞ102F). University of Iceland.

2020-        Acjunt professor in charge of Men and Masculinities (FÉL209G). University of Iceland.

2019-        Adjunct professor in Sexualities and bodies: Pleasure and Pain (FÉL302G). University of Iceland.

2019-        Adjunct professor in Social psychology (in charge 2022). Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics. University of Iceland.

2015–       Adjunct professor in Qualitative methodology I (FMÞ103F) (in charge 2023). University of Iceland.

2023         Adjunct professor in charge of Qualitative methodology II (FMÞ201F). University of Iceland.

2020-        Lecturer in Images, power and orientalism (MAN101F). University of Iceland.

2015–2018  Lecturer in Ethnicity, migration and transnationalism (MAN403G). University of Iceland.

2018–2022  Assistant teacher in in Classical theories in Social Sciences (308G). University of Iceland.

2015          Assistant teacher in Icelandic society (106G)  University of Iceland.

2014          Lecturer in Anthropology of Modern Greece. Department of Social Anthropology. Panteion University, Greece.

 

2024-        Co-Supervising Sigurrós Alice Svöfudóttur, PhD candidate in Philosophy, School of Humanities, University of Iceland.

2019-        Supervising BA and MA thesis. 

 

COLLATERAL ACTIVITIES

2023-current  Icelandic represenative and a board member in NFMM (Nordic Association for Research on Men and Masculinities).

2022-current  Interrogating Bordering in Qualitative Research: Self-Identified Female Scholars Working on Migrant Men and Masculinities. Co-editor,                           along with dr. R. Kukreja and dr. E. Gallo.

2022             Visiting shcolar, Migration and Diversity at Tübingen University. Germany

2020             Visiting scholar, Center for Gender Studies at Karlstad University. Sweden.

 

ORGANISATION OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

2024          "Queer Utopias: Imagining Futures without Borders". Collaborative seminar between RIKK, University of Iceland and FAC (Feminist                                 Autonomy Centre) for research in Athens, Greece. FAC, Athens, 28-29th of November.

2023          NFMM (Nordic Association for Research on Men and Masculinities) General assembly, 28th of December, Online.

2022          "Reserching Migrant Men & Masculinities: Unpacking "Female" researcher identity in knowlegde production". International seminar.                                 Department of Sociology and Social Research. University of Trento. 1-3 December, 2022. 

2022          "Bordering regimes and Transitioning Masculinities of Racialized Migrant Men". International seminar, RIKK and Department of Sociology,                           University of Iceland. 20-21st of April.

 

SCIENTIFIC REVIEWER

Referee for the following scientific journals and publishing series: Men & Masculinities; NORMA; Journal of Refugee Studies; Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies; Journal of Asian and African studies; Íslenska þjóðfélagið; Culture Unbound; Ethos; Global Society; Geoforum; Cultural Anthropology; Civil Society Review; Bristol University Press.

 

PRIZES AND AWARDS  

2022   Fellowship grant. Equal Opportunity Fund. Tübingen University, Germany. Visiting scholar.

2022   Erasmus+ staff exchange grant. Between University of Iceland and Tübingen University, Germany.

2020   GEXcel grant, Centre for Gender Studies, Karlstad University.

2019   Valedictorian speech award. Received from the Rector of University of Iceland.