Rosa Ortiz Monera

PhD Candidate in Sociology at the Universitat de Barcelona (UB); Degree in Economics from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF); Official Master’s Degree in Women, Gender and Citizenship Studies from the IIEDG (Inter-University Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies) coordinated by the UB; and Postgraduate Diploma in International Cooperation for Development from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). Professional experience in the field of International Cooperation for Development, having worked in several national and international NGO and having lived three years in Ecuador. Since 2011 she is a member of the Interuniversity Group COPOLIS, participating in various R&D projects within the thematic line “Gender and families”. She develops her doctoral thesis from 2012 entitled “Global care chains, debts and crises. A case study” for which she has a scholarship from the University of Barcelona. Under this grant, conducts teaching collaboration in the Department of Sociology at the UB, being professor in the degree of Sociology of this university and in the Official Master’s Degree in Women, Gender and Citizenship Studies of the IIEDG. She is also professor and co-director of the Master’s Degree in Family and Society at the UB, developed by Group COPOLIS. She has participated in national and international conferences and is author of papers on one-parent families and family diversity, feminist methodology and feminist economics. Her research interests focus on family diversity, care economy, feminist analysis of global processes and neoliberal policies and gender in development.