For more information on these you can find these subjects in the Teaching Activity Plan.

If you want to find teachers with experience in these topics look at the UPF experts guide.

Source: Details of the Teaching Activity Plan 2021-2022. Extracted on 15/7/2021. Minor in Gender Studies (M) Subjects. 

Examples of projects working on this SDG (more information at the ods.cat website) 

Projects in progress 

•   ¿Dividir el liderazgo de los partidos para tener más mujeres líderes? Un estudio del liderazgo colectivo de los partidos políticos desde la perspectiva de género.   IP: Astudillo Ruiz, Javier. This project seeks to analyze how the division of party leadership among various people, as already happens in some parties of advanced democracies, affects womens access, action capacity and exit from these leading party positions.  Project start and end:  2022-2025.
• Educational Common Spaces. Passing through enclosures and reversing inequalities– SMOOTH. PI: Figueras Maz, Mònica SMOOTH looks to introduce the emerging ‘commons’ paradigm as an alternative value and action system in the field of education for children and young people. The project critically draws out the implications of the commons for refiguring education and for social change in general, on a footing of equality, sharing, participation, togetherness, caring and freedom. The project will address social inclusion according to the ‘educational commons’, to gain an insight into whether or not they can operate as a catalyst for reversing inequalities, through a variety of methods such as pedagogical documentation, the pedagogical active listening approach, ethnography and discourse analysis. Project start and end: 2021-2024.
•  educoGEN: Metodología participativa audiovisual en educación secundaria para revertir las desigualdades de género. IP: Figueras Maz, Mònica i Co-IP Fernández-Planells, Ariadna (Universitat Politècnica de València).  The project aims to evaluate the impact of the audiovisual participatory methodology in the educational field for the deconstruction of sexist imaginaries and practices in adolescents between 12 and 16 years of age from different socioeconomic levels.  Project start and end: 2022-2025.

•   Fairness and Intersectional Non-Discrimination in Human Recommendation (FINDHR).  IP:  Castillo Ocaranza, Carlos.  Algorithmic hiring is the usage of tools based on Artificial intelligence (AI) for finding and selecting job candidates. As other applications of AI, it is vulnerable to perpetuate discrimination. Considering technological, legal, and ethical aspects, the FINDHR project will facilitate the prevention, detection, and management of discrimination in algorithmic hiring and closely related areas involving human recommendation.  Project start and end: 2022-2025

•  Football and Visual Culture under Francoism: Discourses of Class, Gender and National Construction in Cinema, Newsreels and the Press 1939-1975. IP: Garin Boronat, Manuel.  T he goal of this research project is to identify, analyze and document the main themes and forms of visual representation of football in Spain during Francoism, focusing on three critical points of view: class discourse (1), gender (2) and national construction (3).  Project start and end: 2021-2024.

•   Geografías de las sexualidades y derecho a la ciudad: una perspectiva emocional e interseccional para el caso de la comunidad LGTBI . IP:  Rodó-Zárate, Maria .  This project aims to develop new conceptualizations and methodologies to collect, analyze and visualize inequalities that can contribute to a better understanding of power dynamics and to more inclusive and equal cities.   Project start and end: 2021-2024.  

•    La intersección de religión y género en contextos transculturales. La Península ibérica y el Mediterráneo en la época premoderna. IP: Jones, Linda Gale. This project studies the role of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish religious agents in the interaction and spreading of ideas of religious identity and otherness in medieval and modern Mediterranean societies. It analyzes the role of these agents in negotiating transcultural relations; and it explores how the gender topic influence in these identity and otherness constructions, as well as in transcultural interactions. Project start and end: 2023-2026.

•    La situació de les persones grans amb dependència funcional i les persones cuidadores a Barcelona. IP: Lanau Sanchez, Alba. Project coordinated by Universitat de Barcelona. The aim of this project is to analyze the living conditions and characteristics of people in a situation of functional dependency (SFD) in Barcelona and of the people in charge of care (management and assistance), in order to assess their needs by differentiating their profiles, as well as the different care strategies they develop. Project start and end: 2023-2026.

•   Mapping intersectionality: a conceptual and methodological model for the study of inequalities and discriminations. IP: Rodó-Zárate, Maria.  The INTERMAPS project will allow better understanding how structural inequalities (re)produce and how they affect people’s daily lives in different ways, building bridges between feminist and postcolonial theories, critical geographies and political and social sciences, overcoming the difference between quantitative and qualitative approaches in the social sciences. Project start and end:  2022-2027.

• Mujeres en guerra: vida y legado de las mujeres combatientes en la guerra civil española. IP: Presas Puig, Albert  -  Bergue, Gonzalo. The project is based on research and documentation on women who were part of combat units during the conflict between the organizations of the Popular Front and the Government of the Second Republic with the insurgent military and its allies between 1936 and 1939.  Project start and end: 2022-2023 

•   Mutaciones de los Motivos Visuales en la Esfera Pública. Representaciones del poder en España 2017-21: pandemia, cambio climático, identidades de género y conflictos raciales IP: Pintor Iranzo, Ivan Co-IP: Salvadó Corretger, Glòria.  Over the last five years, the visual construction of the public sphere has undergone a radical transformation around four essential vectors: the pandemic, climate change, gender identities, and racial conflicts. Based on the study of these vectors, the central aim of the project is to analyze the presence, production, and circulation of the visual motifs related to power through images disseminated in print and digital media and TV newsreels in Spain from 2017-2021.nbsp; Project start and end:2022-2025.   

•   Producción de nuevas subjetividades en los personajes femeninos y las actrices: el cine español del final de la dictadura a la post-transición (1975 - 1992) IP: De Lucas Abril, Gonzalo. This project investigates the modes of representation of new subjectivities in female characters and actresses in Spanish cinema and television series from the end of the dictatorship to the post-Transition.  Project start and end: 2022-2025.  
•  Razón pública global: derechos humanos, legitimidad democrática y cambio demográfico (GLOPUR). IP: Moreso Mateos, Josep Joan.  The expected impact is to develop a model of public reason that serves to assess the legitimacy of political decisions and institutions at the international and global level -e.g. the European Court of Human Rights-, at the same time that it serves as a useful criteria for the design of political institutions and decisions at the international and global level .  Project start and end: 2021-2024  

•  REACT. Research-action against Antigypsyism and Anti-Muslim Discrimination: An intersectional approach to deconstruct Institutional Racism in schools. IP: Hellgren, Zenia Agnes Andrea. The REACT project examines subtle forms of exclusion and “native preference”, which can become major barriers for students of minority backgrounds. Specifically, this project focuses on two groups that existing research deems to be among those most affected by educational inequalities and by racism in society in general: Roma and Muslim students. The project applies an intersectional perspective and considers the importance of gender/gender identity and social class for individual experiences of negative prejudices.  Project start and end: 2022-2024. 

•   Reforzando los derechos de las personas trabajadoras en riesgo de exclusión social en la economía verde y circular (GreenPoors). IP: Chacartegui Javega, Consuelo. The premise from which we start at GreenPoors is that the transition towards a circular and green economy will involve multiple labour law institutions, especially in relation to the vulnerable groups of workers.  Therefore, the actions that mitigate the risk of social exclusion with respect to vulnerable workers must constitute one of the priorities of the different public and private actions towards a new productive model of circular and green economy with social and democratic foundations. Project start and end: 2023-2026. 

•  Shifting the Obesity Epidemic in Iberia-Latin American cities: Applying interdisciplinary, intersectional and intersectoral approaches to understand and change key obesogenic causes. PI: Benach de Rovira, Joan. The general objective of this project is to develop an analytical model to evaluate the determinants of social and gender inequalities in overweight and obesity in Ibero-Latin American cities in a recent period of time, and inform policies by integrating interdisciplinary and intersectoral approaches. Project start and end: 2021-2023.

•  The Other Post-Criticism: Experimental Critical Writing by Women and the Future of the Literary Humanities. PI: Coles, Elizabeth.  Supervisora Marie Curie: Arribas, Sonia  The TOPCRIT project aims to produce a richer, more inclusive understanding of the concept of post-criticism by studying the pioneering role of women in contemporary literary-critical culture. Project start and end: 2021-2024.  
•  Trayectorias de vida de agresores y víctimas de violencia en pareja. PI: Rodríguez Menes, Jorge.  The study proposes to analyze the life-long penal, employment, and health trajectories of perpetrators and victims of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) in order to shed light on the overall debate about the gendered nature of IPV. The main expectation is that we will observe a worsening of the differential between men and women in such long-term trajectories due to a patriarchal structure of power in society coalescing into womens cumulative histories of disadvantage.  Project start and end: 2022-2024.

Finalised projects 

• Thesis
• L’imperialisme amb perspectiva de gènere en els llibres de text: anàlisi i proposta didàctica. Milian Costa, Rosa; Hernández Carceller, Paula (2022) TFG
• Les dones indígenes com arma de guerra durant el conflicte armat de Guatemala: anàlisi de l’estigma social i el debilitament del teixit familiar i comunitari a l’àrea Ixil. Rodríguez Amat, Neus (2022) TFG
• (Un)loveable monsters: representations of bisexual women as monstruous in audiovisual fiction. Arévalo Trigo, Andrea (2021) TFM
• The UN’s sustainable development goal 5 in Indigenous populations of Canada: missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in Canada and the history of colonial gendered violence. Maroto Pérez, Carles (2021) TFG
• (Re)thinking masculinity: a study about masculine identity and personal expression. Pérez Serra, Miquel (2021) TFG

• Gender-based persecution at the international, European and Spanish levels: obstacles and challenges. Kowalyszyn, Clarisa Irina (2021). TFM

• Propuesta de reforma de los delitos contra la libertad sexual en base al consentimiento de la víctima : agresión y abuso sexuales en adultos. Mañé Sánchez, Laia (2020) TFG
• La pantalla, el cuerpo, la herida : hacia una política de representación somato-afectiva de la vulnerabilidad queer. Blanco Fernández, Vítor (2019). TFM
• Barreras y oportunidades para la participación de las mujeres en las decisiones relacionadas con la atención del parto López Toribio, María; Bravo Valenzuela, Paulina (2019) TFM
• El Panòptic : el joc de la teoria Queer Amorós Ordás, Clara (2019) TFG
• La dependencia como causa de desigualdad de género : otorgar relevancia moral al cuidado para lograr la igualdad efectiva Esteve Alguacil, Laura (2016) TFG
• La pantalla, el cuerpo, la herida : hacia una política de representación somato-afectiva de la vulnerabilidad queer Blanco Fernández, Vítor (2019) TFM
• L’ensenyament de l’antiga Roma en l’educació primària: una mirada crítica amb perspectiva de gènere Pintó Calderer, Ivet (2018) TFG

Source: e-repository UPF Research Tesis (Data as of 2004). e-repository UPF Student Work (Data as of 2015).

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