Gender for Excellence in Research (GenderEX) is a project designed to build networks, exchange knowledge and engage best practices to stimulate the integration of the Sex and Gender Dimension in Research Content (SGDRC), between the Gender and Women’s Studies Research Center at Kadir Has University (GWSRC-KHAS) in Turkey and three internationally-leading partners in this area: University of Lund (Sweden), University of Genoa (Italy) and Technological University Dublin (Ireland).

GenderEX embodies an intersectional approach to SGDRC which recognizes a multiplicity of gender identities and that gender is embedded in intertwined systems of difference and power. SGDRC as we envision under GenderEX will embrace intersections of gender and sexual orientation, race, class, religion and ability and the ways in which these categories mutually construct gender identities. Although gender studies as an academic field has been well established for more than thirty years, SGDRC in all aspects of academic research is far too often absent. This both represents and perpetuates the androcentric and biased orientation of academia and academic production. The importance of SGDRC lies in the ways that it can illuminate gendered mechanisms that produce inequalities. Furthermore, the lack of attention to SGDRC provides any number of previously unexplored areas for academic research and production.