GODESS Institute

Welcome to the GODESS Institute!

GODESS is a research and development institute that focuses on research areas of Gender, Organisation, Diversity, Equality, and Social Sustainability in transnational times.

The Institute was founded in 2016 and is based at Hanken School of Economics Opens in new window in the Department of Management and Organisation Opens in new window with collaborations from the Departments of Accounting and Commercial Law, Opens in new window and Marketing Opens in new window .

The institutional partners are:

School of Business and Economics Opens in new window , University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
School of Industrial Economics and Management Opens in new window , KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

The affiliated partners are:

Gender, Leadership and Social Sustainability Research Unit, GLASS Opens in new window , University of Newcastle, Australia
Sobey School of Business Opens in new window doctoral programme, St Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada

GODESS Institute builds on and brings together strong international research areas at Hanken along with key partners, nationally and internationally. The main research areas of GODESS are:

All areas of gender, diversity, intersectionality, equality, and social sustainability are central.

The Institute seeks to be outward- and forward-looking, and to act as a base for raising collaborative research funding from national and international sources.