URJC TEAM

Sonia Núñez Puente (PI URJC). Director of the Equality Unit of the Rey Juan Carlos University and director of the Master’s Degree in Digital Communication, Culture and Citizenship, Sonia Núñez Puente is PhD in Philology from the University of Salamanca. She is Professor of Gender and Communication in the Department of Communication Sciences at Rey Juan Carlos University. Her research work focuses on the analysis of the relationships between new technologies and gender. She currently leads the MINECO/FEDER project FEM2015-65834-C2-1-P.

Alejandro Barranquero Carretero is lecturer and researcher in the Department of Journalism and Audiovisual Communication at the University Carlos III of Madrid. His areas of research explore the interrelation between communication, citizenship and social change from different perspectives: communication for development, alternative and community media, technopolitics of social movements, education and communication, etc. He is the director of the "Communication and Citizenship" Thematic Group at the Spanish Association of Communication Research (AE-IC) and a member of the Community, Alternative and Participative Communication Research Network (RICCAP) (www.riccap.org) and of the research group Dialectic Mediation of Social Communication (MDCS) at UCM.

Mar Chicharro Merayo is PhD in Sociology and Professor of Audiovisual Communication at the University of Burgos. She currently teaches modules such as Communication Theory and Television Fiction. She has spent long research stays at universities such as the University of San Diego, California, Harvard University or the University of San Francisco, among others. Her research interests focus on the television medium, more particularly on serial fiction products, which she very often studies from a gender perspective. During the 2012-16 period she was the principal investigator of an R+D+i research project about gender stereotypes in television fiction and videogames.

Daniela Cherubini is PhD in Applied Sociology and Methodology of Social Research and in Women and Gender Studies (University of Milan-Bicocca and University of Granada 2010). Her academic training is developed in an interdisciplinary manner in the field of Gender Studies (PhD 2010, NOISE Summer School 2005, SIMREF Course 2011), Anthropology, Sociology and Methodology of qualitative social research (Bachelor 2005, Essex School 2009). She is currently a Researcher (RTDa) in the Sociology of Culture at the Ca 'Foscari University of Venice.

María Florencia Cremona. PhD in Communication from the National University of La Plata in Argentina. I am currently Professor of Communication and Education with the area of specialization in communication, education and sexualities. I was part of the international communication office at Nottingham College in the United Kingdom. In addition I lead the Gender Laboratory of the School of Journalism and Social Communication at UNLP and I coordinate the Latin American Chair of Gender at the Evita Museum in Buenos Aires under the Ministry of Culture of the Nation. I am the director of a scientific journal, Oficios Terrestres, and coordinated for Chasqui. Revista Latinoamericana de Comunicación (“Chasqui. Latin American Journal of Communication”) the monograph on Gender and Communication in 2017.

Sergio D’Antonio Maceiras. Sociologist. Master in Sociocultural Analysis of Knowledge and Communication. Member of the research group on Digital Culture and Social Movements at UCM (www.cibersomosaguas.net). He has participated in several scientific publishing projects. His fields of research are social innovation, its dynamics in the area of scientific journals and the analysis of social networking sites. He is currently a lecturer in Philosophy of Culture and Ethics at the Complutense University of Madrid. His doctoral thesis focuses on the production and dissemination of knowledge through scientific journals.

Eva Espinar Ruiz. PhD in Sociology. Professor in the Department of Sociology II at the University of Alicante. In this same university, she is academic secretary of the Interuniversity Institute for Social Development and Peace (IUDESP). She has been a visiting researcher at different European universities, such as the University of Oxford and the Swedish universities of Uppsala, Umeå and Lund. Her main areas of research are in the fields of Gender Studies and the Sociology of Communication.

Laura Favaro. Sociologist and teacher specialised in feminist theory and methodology as well as in cultural and media studies. PhD in Sociology (City, University of London), Master in English Linguistics (UCM), Graduate in Sociology (Leeds Beckett) and Primary Education (Alcalá). She has published in academic journals such as the Journal of Gender Studies and books such as Aesthetic Labor: Rethinking Beauty Politics in Neoliberalism. She has taught in Spanish and British universities, including City, where she was also part of the team that founded the Gender & Sexualities Research Forum, which she coordinated for three years. Together with Ana de Miguel, she coordinates the course ‘Sexual Neoliberalism’ at Ágora: Espacio de Formación Feminista (http://agora-online.es/).

Diana Fernández Romero. PhD in Information Sciences from the UCM and University Specialist in Culture and Gender Violence from the UNED. Lecturer in Theory of Information and Digital Communication. Her doctoral thesis received the Extraordinary Doctorate Award and a Doctoral Thesis Award from the Spanish Government Delegation for Gender Violence. Coordinator of the Gender and Communication Studies Working Group at the AE-IC. Researcher for National Plan projects on cyberfeminism and gender-based violence.

Juana Gallego Ayala (Arriate, Málaga) has been a professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona since 1989. She is currently the Director of the Observatory for Equality and co-director of the Master’s Degree in Gender and Communication at the same university. In 2001 she received the First Prize by the Catalan Audiovisual Council for a project she had led with her research team, which was published under the title of La prensa por dentro (2002). Among others, notable publications include Periodismo social (2014); De reinas a ciudadanas. Medios de comunicación ¿motor o rémora para la igualdad (2013); Putas de película. Cien años de prostitución en el cine (2012); Eva devuelve la costilla, (2010); Si te vas te mato. Mujeres que murieron por su libertad, (2009); El sexo de la noticia (2000) or the groundbreaking book Mujeres de papel. La prensa femenina en la actualidad (1990). “Many Women, Little Power” in the Handbook of Women and Journalism (2013).

Sveva Magaraggia. Researcher in the Sociology of Culture. PhD in Applied Sociology and Research Methods (University of Milan-Bicocca). In 2012, she was awarded the Endeavour Research Fellowship (Australian Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations), and conducted an investigation on gender representations in Australian media. From 2008 to 2012 she was postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Milan-Bicocca. Her lines of research are located in the area of sociology of culture with a special interest in gender theory, media and social movements.

Yolanda Melgar Pernías is PhD in Hispanic-American literature from University College Dublin. She has worked as a Spanish lecturer at this institution, as well as a doctoral assistant in Spanish and Hispanic-American language and literature at the University of South Bohemia (Czech Republic) and at the University of Innsbruck (Austria). Since 2012 she works as a lecturer in literature at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Her areas of research include, among others, the narrative of contemporary Latin American women writers, gender studies and the interrelation between literature and photography.

Gema Pastor Andrés is a graduate in Fine Arts and a PhD in Communication Sciences. She is currently a lecturer in photography, audiovisual technologies and design at the Rey Juan Carlos University and has been a teacher at secondary and baccalaureate levels in the specialty of drawing. Her artistic and research work presents several interrelated lines in the study of the image: both in its technical, as well as in its artistic or semantic aspects. There is a parallel creative axis in which the analysis of social discourses is combined with the artistic construction of the image.

Igor Sádaba Rodríguez. Graduate in Physics and in Sociology and PhD in Sociology from the Complutense University of Madrid. He has been a lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Sociology at the UC3M and currently holds this position in the Department of Sociology IV (UCM). His areas of research include the social and political uses of digital technologies, social movements, social exclusion or economic sociology. He belongs to the UCM Research Group Digital Culture and Social Movements (CIBERSOMOSAGUAS) and to the Complutense Institute of Sociology for the Study of Contemporary Social Transformations (TRANSOC).

Núria Vergés Bosch holds a PhD in Information and Knowledge Society from the UOC, a Master's degree in Public and Social Policies from the UPF and a degree in Political and Administration Sciences from the UAB. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Barcelona. She is a member of the consolidated research group COPOLIS at the UB and collaborator in the SIMReF (Interdisciplinary Seminar on Feminist Research Methodology), as well as a member of the IIEDG (Inter-University Women and Gender Studies Institute), the ALIA association of women for research and action and the Donestech collective. She has participated in different investigations and publications on gender and technology, gender and international mobility of highly qualified personnel, gender violences, family policies and single parenthoods, public policies and health, as well as on feminist research methodologies.