The Team
Principal investigator
Maria Rodó-Zárate (she/her)
Tenure-track professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Pompeu Fabra University. Her research focuses on the study of social inequalities from an intersectional, spatial and emotional perspective.
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Researchers
Joel Canto (he/him/they/them)
PhD student at the Department of Political Science of the University of Toronto, specializing in LGBTI+ politics. His research focuses on the intersection of Comparative Politics and Public Policy, combining insights from Political Science and Sociology to provide a broad, intersectional perspective.
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Mar Coll Planell (she/her)
PhD Student at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Pompeu Fabra University, researching social inequalities from an intersectional, spatial, and emotional perspective focusing particularly on rural areas.
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Núria Font (she/her)
Post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Pompeu Fabra University. Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography, University of Barcelona. Her main research interests include critical cartography, feminist mapping methodologies and urban socio-spatial inequalities.
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Leon Freude (he/him)
Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Pompeu Fabra University. PhD in Sociology (Universitat de Barcelona) on Homonationalism in European values. Master in Gender Studies (Interuniversitarian Institute of Women's and Gender Studies) and Research Techniques for Applied Social Sciences (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). His main research interests are to deal with contemporary queer-feminist debates through quantitative methods as well as teaching innovation
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Carmen Geha (she/her)
Maria Zambrano scholar and senior researcher on gender and displacement at the Department of Political and Social Sciences. Her research agenda is on women’s political and economic participation, with a focus on institutional and policy constraints in the Arab Middle East and North Africa. She is an activist and political organizer.
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Twitter: @CarmenGeha
María José González (she/her)
Associate Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Pompeu Fabra University. Her research focuses on the interaction of paid work, domestic work and gender relations in different institutional contexts, as well as on different dimensions of social and gender inequalities. She addresses these issues by applying different empirical methods, especially quantitative techniques and experimental methods.
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Shahrzad Goudarzi (she/her)
Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology at New York University, Abu Dhabi. Her work explores how social inequalities are reproduced (or challenged) at the individual, institutional, and societal level. She uses a mixed-method interdisciplinary approach incorporating insights from social and political psychology as well as feminist and decolonial theory.
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Zenia Hellgren (she/her)
Doctor of sociology, senior researcher/PI and lecturer at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Pompeu Fabra University. She uses ethnographic and participatory research methods and applies an intersectional approach to the study of inequalities, with a particular focus on ethnic/racial discrimination
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Alba Lanau Sánchez (she/her)
Tenure-track professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Pompeu Fabra University. She is an applied quantitative researcher with a wide range of interests including multidimensional poverty, child wellbeing, youth and gender violence.
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Belén Masi (she/her)
PhD Student at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Pompeu Fabra University, researching social inequalities from an intersectional, spatial, and emotional perspective focusing particularly on urban living and right to the city.
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Marina Muñoz (she/her)
PhD Student at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Pompeu Fabra University, researching on gender and politics, intersectionality, social movements, and political representation.
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Júlia Pascual Bordas (she/her)
Research Assistant at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Pompeu Fabra University. PhD Student in the Inter-University Doctoral Program in Gender Studies: Cultures, Societies and Policies, researching on LGBTIAQ+ youth and private space in Catalonia.
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Fatimah Saadi (she/her)
PhD student at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Pompeu Fabra University. Her dissertation is focused on the gendered implications of power-sharing arrangements in sectarian post-conflict polities, with a view to shedding new light on the gendered micro-foundations of sectarian-based systems in the case of women’s political representation. In her Ph.D. research, she is designing and applying mixed methods to capture the experiences of women in political institutions with the aim of developing a theoretical framework to unpack the impact of sectarian politics on gender and women’s inclusion.
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Juliana Souza (she/her)
Post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Pompeu Fabra University. Her main research interests include gender and sexual diversity policies, inequalities and discursive disputes in the media, parliament and education
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Tània Verge (she/her)
Full Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Pompeu Fabra University. Her main area of research is gender and politics, with focus on how political parties and parliaments are patterned through gender and on resistance to the adoption and implementation of equality policies.
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- María Martí Capera (she/her)
Undergraduate student of Political Science at Pompeu Fabra University and has completed a Minor in Gender Studies. Outside the academic realm, she is an active member of Time Is Up, an intersectional and trans-inclusive feminist association at University.