Laura Oso

Professor of Sociology at the Universidade da Coruña and Deputy Director of CISPAC, having been the coordinator of ESOMI at the UDC between 2011 and 2023. She was Vice-President for International Activities of the FES (2018-2022) and member of the Executive Committee of the ISA (2018-2023). As well as member of the Board of Directors of the IMISCOE Network and co-coordinator of the RN27-ESA. She has been associated with COST Actions IS1209 – Comparing European Prostitution Policies: Understanding Scales and Cultures of Governance (ProsPol) and CA21143 – Transnational Family Dynamics in Europe (TraFaDy).

PhD in Sociology from the Université de Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne (2002) and the Universidade da Coruña (1997), her research work has mainly focused on the study of gender and migration, the migration and development nexus and the relationship between social and spatial mobility. She has been principal investigator of the UDC (beneficiary member of the consortium) of 5 European projects (Carewell-JPI MYBL EWG; H2020-Welcoming Spaces- 870952; Equal Convive Mais-European Social Fund; INCASI-H2020-691004-MSCA-RISE; INCASI2-HORIZON-MSCA-2022-SE-01-101130456). As well as principal investigator of 5 research projects of the National Plan for Scientific Research, Development and Technological Innovation (FEM 2015-67164-R, FEM2011-26210, SEJ2007-63179, SEJ2004-07750, Instituto de la Mujer-I+ D+I: 53/02), a state project of the AECID and 4 projects of the Xunta de Galicia. She has edited books in high impact publishers (Edward Elgar, Routledge), leading the coordination of monographs in prestigious international journals (Identities: global Studies in Culture and Power; Sociological Research Online; Ethnic and Racial Studies; Sociologia Ruralis). He is a member of editorial committees of international journals (Migration and Society, Advances in Research-NY&Oxford-Berghahn Journals) and Spanish journals (RES). He is Co-Series Editor of the Book Series on Southern European Societies (Edward Elgar) and member of the Editorial Committee of the IMISCOE Book Series (Springer).

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laura.oso@udc.es
Tel. 00 34 981 167 000 (4848)

Researchers in the INCASI project