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(PI UJI). Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at Jaume I University of Castelló. She is a member of the Interuniversity Institute for Social Development and Peace (IUDESP) and of the University Institute for Feminist Studies (IF), as well as member of the Equality Advisory Commission at her university. Her research focuses on feminist theory, the analysis of gender representations and the transformation of cultural violence. She currently leads the project MINECO/FEDER FEM2015-65834-C2-2-P. She has three six-year research periods (most recent 2008-2013) and has been accredited as Full Professor in the area of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising since 2015.

Researcher and lecturer in training affiliated to the Department of Communication Sciences at Jaume I University of Castelló. Holder of the FPU grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture. Member of the Interuniversity Institute for Social Development and Peace (IUDESP) and the Institute of Feminist Studies (IF) at the same university. Her work focuses on the analysis of the intersections of gender and memory in popular culture products. She is currently developing her doctoral thesis on the representation of women in Spanish historicist fiction series under the supervision of Professor María José Gámez Fuentes.

Director of the Interuniversity Institute for Social Development and Peace at the Jaume I University of Castellón and lecturer at the Department of Philosophy and Sociology in this same University. She is a researcher for the UNESCO Chair of Philosophy for Peace at the Jaume I University. She researches and publishes on gender and peace, addressing in particular the contributions of the ethics of care to the peaceful transformation of conflicts and to the resignification of the notion of citizenship. In her research she analyses and makes visible the legacy of women as peacebuilders. She is a member of the Spanish Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).

Graduate in Public Relations and PhD in International Peace, Conflict and Development Studies. She is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Communication Sciences and the research group "Social Development and Peace" at Jaume I University of Castellón (UJI). Her research focuses on communication for peace, development and social change, civil society communication and (cyber)activism. She has participated in different research projects on communication for social change and collaborates in activities with civil society organizations and informal communication networks for social change.

Emma Gómez Nicolau is PhD in Sociology from the University of Valencia (2015). She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Sociology at Jaume I University. She is part of the research team of the project "The resignification of the woman-victim in popular culture" (FEM2015-65834-C2-2-P) where she mainly works on the methodological design for the application of the concept 'ethical testimony' to the analysis and evaluation of cultural products. Her research focuses on the study of the representation of gender violence in information and entertainment products.

Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Languages at the University of Alaska Anchorage, US. Throughout her career she has delved into issues pertaining to the relationship between gender and feminism(s) such as 'Considerations around an Alternative Pornography', 'The Deconstruction of Gender and Sex in Sally Potter's Orlando', or the book Ensayo sobre la contradicción: Virginia Woolf en Pantalla (Ed University of Alicante). She has also researched, from the framework of Trauma Studies, the possibilities of alternative representations of women’s trauma to avoid pernicious effects such as vicarious traumatization, voyeurism, its aestheticization, or trivialization and the desensitization of the public. Along these lines, she has published several articles, including 'Mood, Silence and Ghostly Words: Female Trauma in Isabel Coixet's The Secret Life of Words' and 'Songs of Pain. Female Active Survivors in Claudia Llosa's The Milk of Sorrow'.

Professor (accredited as Full Professor) of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising, Department of Communication Sciences, Jaume I Universty of Castellón (UJI). Researcher at the Interuniversity Institute for Social Development and Peace (IUDESP-UJI headquarters), which she led for 6 years. She has undertaken international teaching and research stays and numerous national and international publications on Communication (advertising), Civil Society, Social Change, Cultures of Peace and Equality. She coordinated the Master's Degree and the International PhD in Peace, Conflict and Development Studies at the UJI for 8 years. She has led two R+D projects. Main results here: www.e-comunicambiosocial.org.

PhD from Jaume I University and Teaching Assistant in the Department of Spanish Studies (University of Stirling, UK). Her research centres on the analysis of the representation of gender violence in Spanish cinema, the main focus of her doctoral thesis, publications and conference presentations. This is also the area in which she develops her research in the present project, as a member of the UJI team, led by María José Gámez Fuentes, where she directs her attention to modalities of film representation that contribute to re-signifying the figure of the woman-victim.

Law graduate from the University of Valencia and PhD in Communication from Jaume I University of Castelló. Currently lecturer in the Department of Communication Sciences at UJI. Specialist in protocol and event management, belonging to different associations related to the world of communication such as AdComunica and Dircom. She is also member of the ISONOMIA Foundation. Her research work in this project takes as the object of study commercial advertising and the models of empowered women that are represented in it.