Spanish Team
PROMISE involves teams of researchers from 12 different organisations across Europe. The project is being coordinated at The University of Manchester. The Spanish Team members are:
Zyab Ibañez
Zyab Ibañez is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Government and Public Policies (IGOP) of the Universitat Autònoma Barcelona. He holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute, Florence 2007, and an MSc in Environmental Assessment from the London School of Economics. His research combines cross-national institutional analyses and organizational case-studies to explore how different institutional regimes shape the design and implementation of public policies in the areas of employment, working-time and migration. As a researcher, he has been involved in several EU and National funded projects, such as RECWOWE and Mobile Identities. Currently he is part of the IGOP team undertaking the project: Promoting Youth Involvement and Social Engagement (PROMISE), a major EU funded research project, under the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, running from May 2016 to April 2019.
Margarita León
Margarita León is Professor of political science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Of the 2010 to 2015 He was a researcher in the Ramón y Cajal Institute of Government and public policy (IGOP) of this University. He has been Professor of comparative public policy at the University of Kent (2004-2010) and Marie Curie researcher at the European University Institute of Florence. He received his Ph.d. at the London School of Economics with a grant from the V framework programme of the European. Account in addition, with a master’s degree in Sociological Research by the University of Essex (1995) and a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the University of Alicante (1994). He has published articles in numerous journals of international impact ’. Is co-editor along with Ana M. Guillén of the book The Spanish Welfare State in European Context (Ashgate, 2011) and editor of The Transformation of Care in European Societies (Palgrave, 2014). His main areas of research are comparative public policy and the reform of the ’ welfare State. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the European social Policy Network (ESPAnet) and of the Spanish network of Social policy (REPS).
More info: https://uab.academia.edu/MargaritaLeon
Gabriela de Carvalho
PhD student in Politics, Policies and International Relations at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain). She holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing/Brasil (ESPM), a Master’s of Science in Latin American Development from King’s College London and a Master’s of Arts degree in Political Science from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Gabriela’s research interests are in social investment policies, conditional cash transfer programmes, poverty and social inequalities, focusing on Latin American experiences. In addition, she is also interested in the study of quantitative and qualitative methodologies applied to the Social Sciences.
Lara Maestripieri
Lara Maestripieri is postdoc grantee at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Pavia, where she works as research fellow in the EU funded project CRESSI – Creating Economic Space for Social Innovation. From 2011 to 2014, she has been appointed as research fellow in the UE funded project FLOWS and WILCO (Laboratory of Social Policies – Polytechnic of Milan), working respectively on local welfare policies favouring women’s labour market participation and tackling youth’s marginalisation. In 2015, she has received a grant from Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation to study determinants of over-education among young Italian workers. She is adjunct professor in “Methodology for Social Sciences”, University of Pavia, Pavia. She holds a PhD in Sociology and Social Research from the University of Trento (2011) and a MA in Applied Social Sciences – specialisation in Social Research Methods from the Catholic University of Milano (2006). In 2017, she will be appointed as Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the Institute of Government and Public Policies (IGOP) of the Universitat Autònoma Barcelona, studying gender and social vulnerability in an intersectional perspective. Main interests of research are focused on labour transformation in the post-industrial society, and in particular: marginalised groups on the labour markets (migrants, women and young); gender and social vulnerability; emerging professions. Her most recent publications include: Maestripieri, L. Kaseauru K. and Ranci C. (2016) The impact of labour-market participation, family structure and local welfare systems on the economic insecurity of women, European Societies; Maestripieri, L. (2016) Professionalization at work: The case of Italian management consultants, Ephemera: theory and politics in organization, 16(2): 31-52; Cucca R. and Maestripieri L. (2016) “Varieties of post-Fordist transitions and labour market inequalities” in Cucca R. and Ranci C. (eds) Unequal cities. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 21-44. She is representative of Early Career Researchers in the board of the ISA RC 52 “Sociology of Professional Groups” and she is part of the editorial staff of Italian Society for Economic Sociology website ([http://www.sociologia-economica.it)/]www.sociologia-economica.it).
Clara Rubio
Clara Rubio Ros és doctora en Antropologia Social per la Universitat de Lleida, té un Màster en Joventut i Societat per la Universitat de Girona i és licienciada en Pedagogia i en Antropologia Social i Cultural per la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. També ha estat investigadora convidada a The Royal Anthropological Institute i en l’Open University. Les seves àrees d’investigació són: joventut, migració, moviments socials i les adscripcions identitàries; i actualment és membre dels grups de recerca de JOVIScom (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) i de Ciutadanies (Institut Català d’Antropologia). Treballa com a investigadora post-doctoral a l’IGOP dins el projecte PROMISE sobre participació juvenil. La seva publicació més recent és “Català university students and their previous and prospective experiències periodístiques abroad: answering the wh-questions in a context of economic crisi” al Journal of Contemporary European Studies.[:]