Faculty of Social Sciences

Sunna Kristín Símonardóttir

Assistant Professor
460 8661

Location

  • Utan skólans / Off Campus

Specialisation

Parenting Sociology Gender equality Fertility rate

General information

Courses

ÍLB0176250
Rural communities in Iceland: An international perspective
MFM0176190
Marginalized groups and social injustice
LOK0142150
B.A. Thesis in Modern Studies
LOK0772150
B.A. Thesis in Social Studies
LOK1182210
B.A. Thesis in Journalism and Media Studies
LOK0872170
B.A. Thesis in Police Science
LOK0142150
B.A. Thesis in Modern Studies
LOK0772150
B.A. Thesis in Social Studies
LOK0872170
B.A. Thesis in Police Science

Education

2017
University of Iceland, Doktorspróf Sociology
2008
University of Leeds, Meistarapróf Gender Studies
2005
University of Iceland, BA Literature and Gender Studies

Career

2025
University of Akureyri, Assistant Professor
2020 - 2025
University of Iceland, Post doctoral researcher
2017 - 2025
University of Iceland, Adjunct and sessional lecturer
2012 - 2017
University of Iceland, PhD Student
2009 - 2011
University of Iceland, Project Manager

Research

2025
The 2021 Baby Boom in Iceland: Exploring the Role of a Parental Leave Reform and the COVID-19 Pandemic
2025
“Now We Just Have to Take a Step Back”: Media Portrayal of Cash‐For‐Childcare Benefits in Iceland
2025
"Ég held að þetta hafi alltaf byrjað sem leið til sparnaðar og svo fegrað með hvað er best fyrir börnin".
2024
“Unless I could be like the typical dad”: Exploring parenthood through the perspective of the voluntarily childfree
2024
Excluding the Involved Father: Having a Child During the COVID Pandemic in Iceland
2024
Að verða venjulegt fólk: Viðhorf Íslendinga til samkynhneigðar frá 1984 til 2017
2023
Menntun eða þjónusta?
2022
„Manni líður eins og maður sé alltaf að stara í ginið á ljóninu“ Viðhorf ungra kvenna til barneigna
2021
“We at least say we are equal”: Gender equality and class in healthcare professionals’ discursive framing of migrant mothers
2020
The “good” epidural: Women’s use of epidurals in relation to dominant discourses on “natural” birth
2020
„Ég var að feila á því eina sem kona á að geta gert“ Orðræðugreining á frásögnum kvenna sem áttu í erfiðleikum með brjóstagjöf
2018
Mothering and Gender Equality in Iceland: Irreconcilable Opposites?
2018
When breast is not best: Opposing dominant discourses on breastfeeding
2016
Constructing the attached mother in the “world's most feminist country”
2016
Getting the Green Light: Experiences of Icelandic Mothers Struggling with Breastfeeding