Macarena Ares is a Serra Húnter Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science of the University of Barcelona. She completed a PhD in Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute in 2017. She is interested in the study of class politics, social policy, electoral behavior, political participation and public opinion. You find more details about my research here. [Web https://macarenaares.com/]
Pedro Manuel Bellón Jiménez is a PhD Candidate at the IGOP-UAB and Departament of Political Science in Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Political Science from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2021) and a Master’s degree in Labour and Work Studies from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2022). His research deals with work-life balance and gender equality in relation to labour studies and urban sociology.
Julia Cañero Ruiz is an anthropologist, a mother, and a researcher on maternity and feminism. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Granada conducting research on mothers’ activism carried out in breastfeeding support groups in Andalusia. She has participated in various specialized national and international conferences and published articles. She is a public intellectual with articles appearing in newspapers and magazines, including Pikara Magazine. She is a feminist activist in various groups. [Personal website: https://linktr.ee/juliacaneroruiz]
Sheila González Motos is a professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Barcelona. She holds a PhD in Public Policy and Social Transformation from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She was a postdoctoral researcher in the Sociology Department of the same university and visiting researcher at Hochschule Bremen (Germany), Institute of Social Science (UNAM, Mexico) and the Department of Educational Research (CINVESTAV-Mexico). Her research centers on public policy analysis, with a focus on educational inequalities.
Margarita León is Associate Professor in the politics department and a senior Research fellow at the Institute of Government and Public Policies (IGOP) of Universitat Autònoma Barcelona. From 2003 until 2010 she was a lecturer in European social policy (SSPSSR, University of Kent). She has been a Marie Curie Post-doctoral fellow at the RSCAS, European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She holds a PhD from the London School of Economics (2000). She has co-edited with A.M. Guillén The Spanish Welfare State in European Context (2011 Ashgate) and edited The Transformation of Care in European Societies (2014, Palgrave). She has published in international peer reviewed journals such as Journal of European Social Policy, Comparative European Politics, South European Society and Politics, and European Journal of Women Studies. She received the ICREA ACADEMIA award for research excellence (2018). (URL at Academia.edu: https://uab.academia.edu/MargaritaLeon)
Danislava Marinova (Principal investigator) is Serra Húnter lecturer at the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Indiana University-Bloomington, USA. She has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, and also as a postdoctoral researcher with funding from the program Juan de la Cierva Incorporación and Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship. Her book, Coping with Complexity: How Voters Adapt to Unstable Parties (ECPR Press, 2016) won the GESIS Klingemann International Prize in 2017. Her lines of research focus on political behavior, political economy and gender studies.
Martha Ogochukwu Dennis is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Political Science at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science (Federal University Wukari) and a Master’s degree in Political Science (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). Her research interests centre on behaviours and attitudes towards political protest.
Damjan Tomic is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Political Science at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biology, with a minor in Psychology (University of Western Ontario, 2014); a Master’s degree in International Business Management (Institut des hautes études économiques et commerciales, 2016) and a Master’s degree in Political Science (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2021). His research focuses on the impact of parental leave policies on fertility rates and employment.