About

Petra Ahrens is Academy of Finland Research Fellow at Tampere University, Finland, for her research project “On the road to gender-sensitive parliaments? Gender Equality and Democratic Practices in the Finnish, German, and Polish Parliament Compared” (GSParls) (2021-2026). Previously, she was Senior Researcher in the ERC-funded research project “Gender, party politics and democracy in Europe: A study of European Parliament’s party groups“ (EUGenDem) at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Tampere University, Finland. Beforehand, she held positions as Assistant Professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2014-2016), as Marie-Curie-Sklodowska-Fellow and Guest Professor at the University of Antwerp, Belgium (2017-2019), and as Guest Professor for Gender and Diversity at the Free University Berlin (2021). Her research focuses on gender policies and politics in the European Union and its institutions, gender equality in Germany, gender-sensitive parliaments, and transnational civil society. Alongside articles, she is the author of Actors, Institutions, and the Making of EU Gender Equality Programs (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), co-editor, with Lise Rolandsen Agustín, of Gendering the European Parliament. Structures, Policies, and Practices (Rowman & Littlefield / ECPR Press, 2019), and co-editor, with Anna Elomäki and Johanna Kantola, of European Parliament’s Political Groups in Turbulent Times (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).

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Email: petra.ahrens@tuni.fi