SEJ545 Work, Politics and Gender

Since 2002 she has developed intensive and ongoing research focused on four main lines of research, all of them within the field of Sociology of Work and Employment: migration, gender, employment and labour relations. Throughout these years she has participated as researcher in eleven projects: four international inter-university cooperation projects with Latin American universities, one financed by the European Commission, three from the State R+D+i Plan and three financed by the Andalusian Regional Government. Moreover, she has been or is the lead researcher of two projects financed by the European Commission (D.G. of Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion) within the tender of the program "Improving Expertise in the Field of Industrial Relations" in which the UCA participates or has participated as partner university. Furthermore, she has participated in six Research Results Transfer Office (OTRI by its acronym in Spanish) contracts, being responsible for three of those.

This international profile has been strengthened by research residencies at renowned European universities and institutions: the London Metropolitan University, the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound) and the European Trade Union Institute. She has also undertaken residencies in Latin American universities such as the UNAM and the University of Guadalajara in Mexico and the University of San Martin in Argentina.

This research activity has resulted, on the one hand, in the publication of articles, mostly in international or Spanish journals of relevance in the field of Sociology (Cuadernos de Relaciones Laborales, Sociología del Trabajo, Revista Internacional de Sociología, Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, Papers, Transfer or the Journal of Family Studies), two books and ten book chapters. On the other hand, she has participated as a lecturer or speaker in a wide number of national and international conferences and conventions, as well as in several national and international seminars.

She is currently responsible for the research group "Work, politics and gender" belonging to the Andalusian Research Plan (SEJ 545) and is also part of the research group "Employment, gender and social cohesion regimes " (EGECO by its Spanish acronym) of the Complutense University of Madrid. She is also founder and coordinator of the Latin American Network of Researchers on Work, Gender and Daily Life, registered and financed by the Latin American University Association of Postgraduate Studies.