Professor of Sociology at the University of Barcelona (UB). Member of the Interuniversity Research Group COPOLIS ‘Welfare, Community and Social Control’, (coordinator of the consolidated group COPOLIS UB 2004-2017) and member of the teaching innovation group CEFOCID- COPOLIS (coordinator of CEFOCID 2004- 2015). PhD in Sociology from the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB), MA in ‘Social Welfare and Social Planning’ from the University of Kent at Canterbury, Graduate of the ‘Common Studies Programme on Criminal Justice and Critical Criminology’ (University of Barcelona) and Degree in Economics and Business Studies (UB). Her research and teaching has been developed in three main areas: criminal justice systems (social control, female criminality and women’s prisons), family changes and policies (family diversity, single-parent families and welfare and gender policies), and memory and identity (gender and sociology of memory). She has carried out several researches, studies and published several books and scientific articles – also with social dissemination – on all these topics. She participates in several networks, committees and associations on her subjects of study, including the coordination of the International Research Network on Gender and the Penal System (coordination GEISPE Network 2008-2018), and the International Thematic Research Network on Single-Parent Families (coordination TIIFAMO Network 2008-2012, www.tiifamo.net).
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