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Mia Liinason is a Professor of Gender Studies at Lund University, affiliated with the LU Profile Area: Human Rights and eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration. She holds a PhD in Gender Studies from 2011 and has held academic positions at the University of Gothenburg before joining Lund University in 2021. Her research focuses on intersections of transnational feminism, queer studies, digital cultures, and religiosities/secularities. She leads major projects like Liveability at the crossroads of religion, gender and sexuality and TechnAct: Transformations of Struggle, exploring digital technologies' impact on social movements and LGBTQ+ communities' lived experiences within religious contexts.
Her work addresses global issues such as hate speech mitigation (via the NETHATE network), language evolution’s cultural impact (in the Change is Key! program), and transnational activism across Scandinavia, Russia, and Turkey. Awards include the Wallenberg Academy Fellowship (2015) and Wallenberg Scholar (2024). Recent publications analyze secular-religious divides in LGBTQ+ rights, Sámi cosmology, and digital protest dynamics. She supervises PhD students and contributes to interdisciplinary initiatives like the Futures of Democracy Graduate School.
Key research themes include gender struggles in new political conjunctures, AI’s societal impacts, and the role of hope in feminist theory. Her projects often bridge qualitative methods with computational social sciences, reflecting her commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration.
