PhD Fellows

Pre-doctoral researcher beneficiary of a contract for the training of university professors from the Ministry of Universities (FPU 2019). Graduate in Anthropology and Human Evolution (URV-UOC, 2018), Master in International Trade (ISEAD, 2012) and Master in Biological Anthropology, specialty in human diversity and biomedical applications (UB-UAB, 2020). He has been a research assistant and external consultant in institutions such as Stanford Law School at Stanford University, or the Geneva Graduate Institute, working on the analysis of social networks and the impact of cognitive biases on decision making. More recently, he has conducted research on the etiology of schizophrenia and other mental disorders at the FIDMAG Hermanas Hospitalarias Research Foundation. As a student, he was beneficiary of an international mobility scholarship at the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona (2015), a collaboration scholarship from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports (2017) and a master's scholarship from the Universia Foundation (2019). He is currently developing his thesis on severe mental disorders, alternatives to coercion and social approaches to mental health at the Medical Anthropology Research Center.

Bachelor in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Master's degree in Urban Anthropology, Migrations and Social Intervention from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili of Tarragona, where she won the Extraordinary Prize for the End of Master's Studies in her promotion. She has participated in research groups and projects thanks to several collaboration grants in the departments of Anthropology, Philosophy and Social Work and Geography of the URV, working on family care in the former, and on touristification and urban mobility in the latter. Her lines of research have focused on different fields, on areas such as anthropology of education, political anthropology and, more recently, the field of critical urban studies, where she has made ethnographic incursions into the question of the securitisation of public spaces and their link with the processes of urban transformation. She is currently a pre-doctoral researcher with the Joan Oró FI2023-2024 grant in the doctoral programme in Anthropology and Communication at the URV, where she is carrying out research focused on urban space and care activities for the elderly and dependents.

Pre-doctoral FI-AGAUR fellow of the Doctoral Programme in Social Work at Rovira i Virgili University. Graduate in Early Childhood Education (UdL, 2020). Master in Innovation in Social and Educational Intervention (URV, 2021). University Specialist in Bereavement Support (UdL, 2018). Focused on research into the social problem of violence against children and interested in connecting the educational and social spheres. She has designed and implemented educational interventions to improve coexistence in the classroom. She has also carried out trainings for families and professionals for violence-free education. She has been a volunteer in social organisations supporting children who are victims of violence. She is currently participating in a social initiative to support victims of Child Sexual Abuse. She has recently participated in the #D-VioPrev study on the use of digitalisation for the protection of children and adolescents with disabilities. She is currently collaborating in the FEMMINOR research on the needs and rights of children of feminicide.

Pre-doctoral Martí i Franquès fellow of the Doctoral Programme in Anthropology and Communication, in the line of Medical Anthropology. Graduated in Social and Cultural Anthropology with mention in Anthropological Applications in Culture, Environment and Society at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2018), she studied the Interuniversity Master in Medical Anthropology and Global Health at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili and the Universitat of Barcelona (2020). She has worked for four years as a research technician at the Wassu-UAB Foundation linked to migration and sexual and reproductive health care, and is a member of the Grup de Recerca en Antropologia del Cos i la Sexualitat (GRACS) of the Institut Català d'Antropologia. She is currently interested in the study of reproduction, maternity and identity from a phenomenological point of view. 

Anthropologist from the Universidad Alberto Hurtado in Chile and Master in Urban Anthropology, Migrations and Social Intervention from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. His research interests include political ecology and urban anthropology. The former was explored in his final thesis, investigating the situation of rurality in the context of water scarcity in Los Lagos region (Chile). In recent years, he has focused more specifically on the latter, with his Master's thesis on the issue of urban mobilities in the context of the neoliberal city and his current doctoral research. He is a Joan Oró FI2023-2024 fellow in the doctoral programme in Anthropology and Communication, in which he is carrying out research on community care, with special emphasis on the organisational potential of care in neighbourhood contexts. He has participated in research in Chile, Spain, Colombia and Mexico.

He holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ, 2016), a master's degree in Public Health from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ, 2021), and a residency in Mental Health from the Institute of Psychiatry at UFRJ (IPUB/UFRJ, 2019). Additionally, he is also a specialist in psychopathology (Faculty of Medical Sciences of Santa Casa de São Paulo/FCMSCSP) and was a substitute professor in the Department of Mental Health at the Faculty of Medicine of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ/Macaé), as well as an assistant professor at the Psychology Institute of the Augusto Motta University Center (UNISUAM), planning and teaching courses on psychopathology, psychoanalysis, narrative medicine, and other topics. His research interests focus on how macro-scale phenomena -such as culture, language, and psychological states- interact with and influence micro-scale phenomena, such as brain states.

Graduate in Social and Cultural Anthropology by the University of Granada (2016). Master's degree in Medical Anthropology and Global Health (URV, 2020). She works as an independent ethnographic collaborator and consultant. She is currently a pre-doctoral fellow FI-AGAUR of the Programme in Anthropology and Communication by Universitat Rovira i Virgili. She is working on her doctoral thesis on the sexual experiences of people with Locked-in Syndrome within the framework of the project "Anthropology and Phenomenology of Locked-in Syndrome" (DAFiTS, URV).

Architect by the Barcelona School of Architecture of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (2000); Social and Cultural Anthropologist by the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (2022); Master's Degree in Urban Anthropology, Migrations and Social Intervention by the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (2023). He is currently a pre-doctoral fellow with an FPU grant (2023-2029) in the PhD in Anthropology and Communication at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili; he has a Master's degree in Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Thought from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra.