Gender Studies: Culture, Societies and Policies - What do we research on?

The interuniversity doctoral programme in Gender Studies: Culture, Societies and Policies comprises four lines of research. The teaching staff participating in the programme are members of the five participating universities: Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), University of Barcelona (UB), University of Girona (UdG), Rovira i Virgili University (URV) and University of Vic (UVic). Below are the specific topics that the URV teaching staff are currently addressing and about which they are interested in directing topics.

1. Anleu Hernández, Claudia María

International migration and descendants of immigrants.

Resilience and social intervention

2. Biglia, Barbara

Gender related violences (including institutional violences, anti-LGTBI violences, violences in the university context, etc.); feminist research methodologies; pedagogical and/or activist responses to the rise of anti-feminisms among young people; other related topics. Grounded in a situated knowledge perspective, with an intersectional feminist and transformative orientation (e.g., feminist activist research), and possibly adopting a transdisciplinary approach.

3. Bodoque Puerta, Yolanda

Alternative housing, older people, gender, care ang ageing. Anthropology.

The research areas of this line are, among others: a) Body identities. Sex, race and culture, b) Family diversity, well-being and family policies, c) Affective relationships, d) Legislation and gender.

4. Cagliero, Sara

Gender-based and institutional violence · Institutional analysis and power relations · Decolonial and intersectional feminisms · Feminist and participatory methodologies · Higher education, equality policies and institutional transformation · Critical pedagogies and educational innovation · Social work and social justice · Care and collective resistance

5. Casadó Marín, Lina

Social and gender inequalities in health. Experiences of health and illness from a sociocultural perspective.

6. Offenhenden, María

international migrations, (paid) reproductive labour and social care, focusing on social stratification, gender, health, aging, segregation in the labour market, and the processes of collective action and community organization

7. Pastor Gosálbez, M. Inmaculada

My main lines of research are equality policies and gender studies. Regarding the first line, I am specifically investigating equality policies and plans in universities, as well as persistent sexism, resistance to equality, and gender gaps. A second line of research relates to the labor market, reproductive work, time use, and employment policies. A third line of research concerns the sociology of health and, specifically, the integration of a gender perspective into the healthcare system and the study of the determinants of health. I am also currently researching coeducation and sexism in the education system.

8. Soronellas Masdéu, Montserrat

Social Organisation Care. Aging. Changes of the family system

9. Tortajada Giménez, Iolanda

Representation of femininity, the mediatization of sexual and affective relationships, the role played by fictional formats in the consolidation of sexist violence against women, the representation of aging and the teenage appropriation of self-generated media to build their gender identities.

10. Usart Rodríguez, Mireia

Education and co-education from a gender, intersectional and decolonial perspective; gender digital divide; feminisms in the digital society; artificial intelligence and gender.

11.Willem, Cilia

Feminist media studies; gender and communication; media representations of gender, violence against women (femicide, gender-based violence), the female body, and feminism; the mediatization of sexual and intimate relationships; gender-based violence in popular culture; the appropriation of self-generated media for the construction of gender identity.

12. Zafra Aparici, Eva

Gender-based violence, feminicides, and institutional responses, as well as socio-educational innovation aimed at promoting social justice, equality, and community cohesion.