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Academic interests
Far-right protest mobilization, anti-gender mobilization, politics of knowledge, immigration
Background
Dr. Iris B. Segers is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Gender Research (STK), and the Centre for Research on Extremism (C-REX), at the University of Oslo. Her research focuses on far-right protest mobilization, anti-gender mobilization, gender and extremism, and the politics of knowledge.
Iris has a background in media studies and sociology of culture. She acquired her PhD in Media and Communication at the University of Oslo in 2020. In her PhD dissertation, she explores the role of local contextual drivers and practices of storytelling in mobilization against asylum seekers in diverse urban spaces.
The research outputs of her PhD have been published in the book Mobilization against Asylum Seekers in Contemporary Urban Spaces: Not in Our Backyard, which is part of the Routledge Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest and Culture.
Her current postdoctoral project explores the ways in which far-right actors in North-Western Europe mobilize against gender equality via avenues of knowledge production and education.
Iris is a researcher on the Comparative Far-right Protest (CFP) project at C-REX, and has supervised the collection of protest event data across a variety of European countries. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher on the H2020 DRIVE project until March 2023.
Positions held
- Researcher at the Center for Research on Extremism, University of Oslo (2021-2022)
- Lecturer at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo (2020-2021)
- Lecturer at the Department of Media and Communication – Erasmus University Rotterdam (2015-2016, 2017, 2020-2021)
- PhD candidate at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo (2016-2020)