Curriculum Vitae
Julieta Vartabedian
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Julieta Vartabedian
Citation names
- Vartabedian, Julieta
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- D217-84BD-D6DF
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-4022-6357
Websites
- https://ielt.academia.edu/JulietaVartabedian (Professional)
- https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=ub--ZqAAAAAJ&hl=en (Scholar)
Knowledge fields
- Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2012/11/12
Concluded
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Official Program of Doctorate in Social and Cultural Anthropology (Doutoramento)
Universidad de Barcelona Departamento de Antropología Social, Spain
""Geografía travesti: cuerpos, sexualidad y migraciones de travestis brasileñas (Río de Janeiro-Barcelona)" (Travesti Geography.
Bodies, sexuality and Brazilian travesti migrations [Rio de Janeiro-Barcelona])" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Cum Laude Honours |
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2007/09/01
Concluded
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Diploma of Advanced Studies (DEA)
Universidad de Barcelona Departamento de Antropología Social, Spain
""Cuerpos bajo sospecha. Identidades transexuales en Barcelona" (Bodies under suspicion. Transsexual identities in Barcelona)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Excellent |
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2005/07/03
Concluded
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European Master´s Degree in Penal System and Social Problems (Mestrado)
Universidad de Barcelona Facultad de Derecho, Spain
""Sexualidades custodiadas. Una aproximación al cuerpo de las trabajadoras sexuales en Barcelona" (Guarded Sexualities. An
approach to female sex workers’ bodies in Barcelona)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Pass |
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2001/11/21
Concluded
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Bachelor´s Degree in Social Anthropology (Licenciatura)
Universidad de Buenos Aires Facultad de Filosofia y Letras, Argentina
""Mujeres en prisión. El cuerpo como medio de expresión" (Women in prison. The body as a vehicle of expression)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Excellent |
Affiliation
Teaching in Higher Education
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2021 - Current | Lecturer (University Teacher) | Universidad Complutense de Madrid - Campus de Somosaguas, Spain |
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2018/11/01 - Current | Collaborating researcher | Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal |
| 2016/09/01 - 2018/08/31 | Affiliated Researcher | University of Cambridge Department of Sociology, United Kingdom |
| 2014/09/01 - 2015/08/31 | Postdoctoral researcher, European Research Council funded Project "TRANSRIGHTS: Gender citizenship and sexual rights in Europe: Transgender lives from a transnational perspective" | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal |
| 2013/10/01 - 2014/09/30 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Newcastle University School of Geography Politics and Sociology, United Kingdom |
| 2006/04/01 - 2014/09/30 | Member of the research group "Anthropology of the Body" | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain |
| 2003/09/15 - 2013/09/30 | Researcher/Member, Observatory of the Penal System and Human Rights (OSPDH) | Universitat de Barcelona, Spain |
| 2008/03/26 - 2008/09/26 | Predoctoral Visiting Fellow - Gender, Sexuality and Health Program, IMS | Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| 2007/07/16 - 2007/09/17 | Predoctoral Visiting Fellow | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2008/05/01 - 2009/04/30 | Els centres d´acollida per dones que han sobreviscut a la violència masclista dins la parella. Estudi comparat entre les ciutats
de Barcelona, Bilbao i Sevilla
U-39/08
Research Fellow
Observatory of the Penal System and Human Rights, University of Barcelona, Spain
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Institut Catalá de les Dones
Concluded
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| 2004/11/01 - 2005/09/30 | Una aproximació a la vulneració dels drets humans de les treballadores sexuals a la ciutat de Barcelona
U-6/04
Research Fellow
Observatory of the Penal System and Human Rights, University of Barcelona, Spain
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Institut Catalá de les Dones Ajuntament de Barcelona Concluded
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Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2022/09/01 - 2025/08/31 | Gobernanza reproductiva en España: Perspectivas de/sobre los hijos/as de familias TRA-D
PID2021-122120OB-I00
Researcher
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
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España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Ongoing
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| 2014/09/01 - 2015/08/31 | TRANSRIGHTS - Gender citizenship and sexual rights in Europe: transgender lives from a transnational perspective
615594
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
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European Research Council
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
| Book |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2023/11/24 | Decolonising trans experiences: some methodological (dis)encounters | Workshop “Decolonize the Anthropology of Gender & Sexuality”
EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists), Network for the Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality (Barcelona, Spain)
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| 2023/09/07 | Uma questão de inteligibilidade: apropriações não heteronormativas dos espaços urbanos | IV Congresso da ABRE (Associação de Brasilianistas na Europa)
Iscte, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Portugal)
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| 2023/06/09 | On uncertainties, beauty and transphobia: travestis´bodies as a battleground for recognition | SIEF2023 16th International Congress (International Society for Ethnology and Folklore)
(Brno, Czech Republic)
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| 2023/04/28 | Apropiaciones trans de los espacios públicos: entre el trabajo sexual, las migraciones y la búsqueda de un lugar seguro | Webminari: Sociologia de les sexualitats: ‘Sexe als espais públics, mecanismes de control dels cossos i dels plaers’
(Valencia, Spain)
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| 2022/07/14 | Acerca de algunos encuentros etnográficos: una 'amapô' en Lapa | 8º Congreso Internacional de Antropología AIBR
Universidad de Salamanca (Spain)
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| 2022/06/09 | El fracaso de las biopolíticas posmodernas: sobre belleza, tecnologías y cuerpos travestis | I Congreso de Antropología Feminista
Universidad del País Vasco y AFIT, Antropología Feminista Ikerketa Taldea (San Sebastián, Spain)
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| 2022/04/13 | Cartografías trans: cuerpos, migraciones y experiencias contrahegemónicas |
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina)
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| 2022/04/06 | Migraciones de travestis brasileñas: Género, sexualidades y experiencias encarnadas |
Ministerio de Salud de la Nación (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
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| 2021/06/11 | Le privilège d´un espace sûr: les expériences corporelles et migratoires de travestis brésiliennes travailleuses du sexe à Rio de Janeiro et Barcelona | Groupe de travail « Migrations et espaces urbains »
EHESS, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Mondes américains (France)
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| 2020/03/04 | Sobre algunas identidades trans no hegemónicas: las experiencias de las travestis brasileñas trabajadoras del sexo | II Jornada ACICDDI: Les Infermeres i les persones transgènere
L'Associació Catalana d'Imatge Corporal i Dermoestètica Diplomades en Infermeria (ACICDDI) (Barcelona, Spain)
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| 2019/06/04 | Las movilidades de las travestis brasileñas como actos de supervivencia | Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia
NOVA/FCSH (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2018/12/06 | Brazilian travesti migrations: apresentação de uma pesquisa etnográfica | Open Class
Nova School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH) (Portugal)
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| 2017/07/05 | When beauty meets race. Cosmetic surgery and Brazilian travesti sex workers´experiences | EASA Medical Anthropology Network, Biennial Conference Network Meeting
University of Lisbon (Portugal)
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| 2016/11/08 | Trans trabajadoras del sexo online: una aproximación a sus anuncios en Internet | Nuevas Cartografías de la Sexualidad. III Congreso Internacional sobre Estudios de Diversidad Sexual en Iberoamérica
University of Granada (Spain)
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| 2016/09/06 | Encrucijadas corporales: el lugar de lo 'carnal' en un encuentro etnográfico | II AIBR International Conference of Anthropology
Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona (Spain)
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| 2016/08/30 | Beauty, tradition and citizenship: On indigenous women (beauty) contests in Latin America | The Politics of Beauty: Discourses and Intersections in the Global Sphere, Summer School
University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
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| 2016/04/06 | On indigenous women´s bodies outside 'modernity' and their 'lack' of beauty | International Conference ‘Beauty and the Norm: Debating Standardization in Bodily Appearance’
Bayreuth University (Germany)
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| 2015/06/21 | Bodies and desires eroticized: migrant trans women sex workers on the internet | The International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF2015) 12th Congress
Zagreb (Croatia)
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| 2015/02/10 | Reflections of an amapô: becoming a 'photographer' among Brazilian travesti sex workers | Research Seminar
Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon (Portugal)
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| 2014/09/02 | 'Comer o ser comidas/os': sobre clientes, maridos y la construcción de género de las travestis brasileñas | XIII Congreso de Antropología
Tarragona (Spain)
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| 2014/07/09 | «Eu sou uma travesti bonita». On Brazilian travesti sex workers´ embodied identities | LOVA International Conference 2014 (‘Ethnographies of Gender and the Body’)
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
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| 2014/06/19 | Feeling beautiful. Beauty and power among Brazilian travestis | ASA14: (Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth)
University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom)
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| 2014/05/30 | Seeking Recognition: empowered beauty among Brazilian travesti sex workers | Sexgen Research Northern Network Seminar ‘Transforming Citizenships’
Newcastle University (United Kingdom)
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| 2014/04/30 | Reflections on beauty and sexual practices among Brazilian travesti sex workers | Sociology Seminar
School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds (United Kingdom)
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| 2014/04/03 | Confronting bodies: on Brazilian travesti sex workers and their negotiations of gender roles | SLAS 2014 Conference (Society for Latin American Studies)
University of London (United Kingdom)
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| 2014/01/29 | An amapô in Lapa: images of a field research experience among Brazilian travesti sex workers | Visualities Research Group
Newcastle University (United Kingdom)
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| 2014/01/22 | Do they transgress? On Brazilian travesti sex workers and their perceptions of themselves | Graduate Seminar Series
Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, University of Warwick (United Kingdom)
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| 2013/11/22 | The charm of being Brazilian: travestis in the Spanish sex market | 6th Annual Sibéal Conference Intersecting Gender
Queen's University, Belfast (United Kingdom)
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| 2013/11/06 | Bodies, gender and sexuality. A research experience on Brazilian travesti sex workers | Americas Research Group
Newcastle University (United Kingdom)
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| 2013/10/02 | Sexuality, social class and ethnicity in the construction of the 'trans' subject | Seminar on Body, Gender and Trans Feminization
Research Group on Social Exclusion (GRECS), University of Barcelona (Spain)
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| 2013/09/11 | Travesti Beauty. Bodies, sexuality and Brazilian travesti migrations (Rio de Janeiro-Barcelona) | International Symposium on 'Race', Beauty and Feminist Theory in Latin America and the Caribbean
School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University (United Kingdom)
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| 2012/03/15 | Transphobia and Brazilian travestilities | round table: Struggles against Transphobia
Information and Resource Center for Women (CIRD), Barcelona City Council (Spain)
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| 2011/11/25 | Transphobia as gender-based violence? | round table: Breaks the Silence. International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
Altafulla City Council (Tarragona) (Spain)
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| 2011/11/02 | Trabajo sexual en Barcelona: sobre algunas prácticas de control y sus alternativas | Sexological Reason Critical Conference. Ethnographies on bodies, genders and sexualities
Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Barcelona (Spain)
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| 2011/07/06 | Nombrando la diferencia. Sobre travestis brasileñas y la construcción de identidades transgenéricas | VIII IASSCS Conference: Naming and Framing. The Making of Sexual (In)Equality
International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society, Madrid (Spain)
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| 2010/12/17 | Travestilidades brasileñas migrantes. Cuerpo y espacio como articuladores de las identidades | Research Group Anthropology of the Body
The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Barcelona (Spain)
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| 2010/11/25 | Travestis brasileñas en Europa: el viaje como constructor de las identidades | 1st Seminar Studies on Brazilian Immigration in Europe
Association of Brazilian Researchers and Students in Catalonia (APEC), Barcelona (Spain)
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| 2010/05/13 | Trabajo sexual en Barcelona. Sobre la gestión municipal del espacio público | Workshop Citizen Landscape, Crime and the Perception of Insecurity: interdisciplinary research on crimes and conflicts in
the urban environment
Oñati Legal Sociology Institute, Basque Country (Spain)
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| 2009/09/29 | Más que un 'montaje': Tecnologías y construcción de la subjetividad travesti | VIII Mercosur Anthropology Meeting (RAM)
University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
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| 2009/01/28 | Travesti Geography. Beauty, Bodies and Cross-cultural Spaces: from Rio de Janeiro to Barcelona | The Body Congress: object and subject of humanities and social sciences
The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Barcelona (Spain)
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| 2008/11/07 | Travestilidades, Cuerpos y Migraciones: una experiencia de campo en Río de Janeiro | Research Group Anthropology of the Body
The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Barcelona (Spain)
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| 2008/08/25 | Cuerpos (trans)formados: acerca de las identidades de género y la producción de la feminidad | 8th International Seminar Doing Gender - Gender, Violence and Power
Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis (Brazil)
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| 2007/12/17 | Cuerpos (trans)formados: belleza y transgenerismo | Research Group Anthropology of the Body
The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Barcelona (Spain)
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| 2006/04/28 | Prostitución callejera en Barcelona. ¿Un espacio de liberación o la visibilidad de la marginación?(co-authored with Celeste Arella) | International Congress on Modernity, Citizenship, Deviations and Inequalities. For a comparative analysis of the difficulties
of the transition to modern citizenship (Canada, Spain, France, Belgium)
University of Cordoba (Spain)
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Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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| 2022/09/06 - 2022/09/09 | Co-coordinadora de panel: Bellezas no-hegemónicas: una mirada crítica e interseccional de la belleza en contextos (trans)nacionales
Congress
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VIII Congresso da Asociação Portuguesa de Antropologia
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
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Jury of academic degree
| Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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| 2015/12/21 | The cross-dressing in the Catalan context of 21st Century
(Thesis) Arguer
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Alba Barbé i Serra (PhD)
Universidad de Barcelona Departamento de Antropología Social, Spain
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Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2013/03/15 - 2013/03/15 | VISITING LECTURER: Bodies (trans)formed: limits and dangers of the construction of travesti bodies | Master´s Degree in Anthropology and Ethnography (Master) | Universidad de Barcelona Departamento de Antropología Social, Spain |
| 2012/11/13 - 2012/11/13 | VISITING LECTURER: Travesti Geographies | Interuniversity Master's Degree in Women’s, Gender and Citizenship Studies (Master) | Universidad de Barcelona Departamento de Antropología Social, Spain |
| 2011/05/05 - 2011/05/06 | VISITING LECTURER: Bodies, sexuality and migration: an ethnographic approach to the Brazilian travestilities | Course: Anthropology of Health (Graduado) | Universidad de Barcelona Departamento de Antropología Social, Spain |
| 2010/06/02 - 2010/06/02 | VISITING LECTURER: The social construction of sexuality and gender: about other non-heteronormative identities | Official Master´s Degree on Criminology and Sociology of Criminal Law (Master) | Universidad de Barcelona Facultad de Derecho, Spain |
| 2009/05/27 - 2009/05/27 | VISITING LECTURER: Transgender identities | Official Master´s Degree on Criminology and Sociology of Criminal Law (Master) | Universidad de Barcelona Facultad de Derecho, Spain |
| 2007/04/24 - 2007/04/24 | VISITING LECTURER: The (in)visible steps of prostitution in Barcelona | Department of Criminology (Graduado) | Universitat de Girona, Spain |
Evaluation committee
| Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | Funding entity | |
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| 2017 - Current | REVIEWER at the peer-review journal:
Athenea Digital. Revista de Pensamiento e Investigación Social (Athena Digital. Journal of Thought and Social
Research) (Spain)
Evaluator
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| 2017 - Current | REVIEWER at the peer-review journal:
Transgender Studies Quarterly (USA)
Evaluator
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| 2016 - Current | REVIEWER at the peer-review journal:
Qualitative Research (UK)
Evaluator
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| 2016 - 2018 | REVIEWER at the peer-review journal:
Revista Internacional de Sociología (RIS) (International Journal of Sociology) (Spain)
Evaluator
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| 2015 - 2016 | REVIEWER at the peer-review journal:
Journal Treball Social. Revista de Ciències Socials Aplicades (Pedagogy and Social Work. Journal of Applied Social Sciences)
(Catalonia)
Evaluator
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Distinctions
Award
| 2013 | Leverhulme Visiting Fellowship
Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom
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| 2008 | Beca para estancias de investigación fuera de Cataluña (Scholarship for research stays outside Catalonia)
Generalitat de Catalunya Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca, Spain
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Other distinction
| 2023 | Positively evaluated as Associate Professor
Agencia Nacional de Evaluación de la Calidad y Acreditación, Spain
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| 2016 | Positively evaluated as Assistant Professor
Agencia Nacional de Evaluación de la Calidad y Acreditación, Spain
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