Zenia Hellgren
Associate Professor (AQU)
Doctor of Sociology (Stockholm University)
Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the Department of Political and Social Sciences (UPF) and Barcelona School of Management (BSM), and Senior Associate Researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU Social Research).
Member of the research groups GRITIM-UPF and GRETA
Member of the Barcelona City Council's Anti-Racist Advisory Council
Presentation
My research addresses the intersections between inequalities and diversity in European societies. In this framework, I empirically investigate key issues such as the policies and practices of diversity management; discrimination, racism and anti-racism; migrant labour and agency; and undocumented migration.
I am a sociologist with an interdisciplinary and intersectional approach, combining perspectives from, primarily, sociology and political theory. I specialize in qualitative research methods, guided by an inductive and ethnographic methodology. In recent years I have applied a Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach in several of the European research projects that I have designed and led. My work aims to be transformative both at the academic and societal levels, and I often collaborate with policy-makers and organized civil society to extend the impact of my work beyond academia.
New books
Hellgren, Z., C. Rodríguez-Reche, L. Gabrielli & D. Rodríguez-García, eds. (2025). Theorising Race, Racialisation and Racism in Spain. Special issue, Migraciones.
Hellgren, Zenia, Alexander G. Page & Thomas Sealy, eds. (2025). Narratives and practices of migrant and minority incorporation in European Societies: Contested Diversity and Fractured Belongings. London: Routledge.
Zenia Hellgren
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Edifici Jaume I (campus de la Ciutadella)
Ramon Trias Fargas, 25-27
08005 Barcelona
