Adjunct lecturers in the Department

PhD in Social Anthropology by the University of Barcelona (2016) based on an ethnography carried out between 2008 and 2015 with the Kukama-Kukamiria indigenous population from the Marañón River, Peru. The thesis won the Extraordinary PhD Award. Her pioneering investigation investigates aquatic cosmology, fishing culture and socio-environmental conflict in the Pacaya Samiria National Reserve and its zone of influence. She has collaborated with public institutions and other organizations in carrying out research in the areas of environment, international cooperation, among others topics as women in prison, and youth. She has carried out research stays at the University of Costa Rica and in Peru, financed by AECID and CNRS (France). Nowadays she is still doing research on environmental issues about Peruvian Amazon, although in 2018 started a new line of study in Anthropology of Food. From 2017, she is a member of the Research Group: Grup d'Antropologia Social from Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) (2017 SGR 00023). She has worked as an adjunct lecturer at the University of Lleida, and since 2017 as postdoctoral researcher and adjunct lecturer at the URV. She has published several books, book chapters and articles derived from her research, all of them in open access.

Neus Càrdenas Morell has been a social worker for people with disabilities at Villablanca Serveis Assistencials S.A. since 2008. In this field she also worked at a residence and day care centre for people with special needs (Marinada, Grup Pere Mata) from 2000 to 2008 and for Baix Camp Regional Council (1999). She holds a degree in Labour Sciences from the UOC (Open University of Catalonia) (2010) and a degree in Social Work from the University of Barcelona (1997). She has ample specialist training, having earned a Master's in Psychosocial Rehabilitation in Mental Health from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) (2008) and graduate studies in Primary Care in Social Services (UAB, 1998) and Knowledge and Attention in Intellectual Disability (UAB) (1999).

Doctor in Anthropology and Communication from the Rovira i Virgili University (URV, 2021), a master's degree in Medical Anthropology and International Health (URV, 2015), and a bachelor's in Social Anthropology (Pontifica Universidad Católica del Perú, 2010). He is currently doing a postdoctoral stay at Oxford Brookes University (2022) on long-term care and ageing. He is a professor at the URV and a member of the Medical Anthropology Research Centre (MARC-URV). He has participated in qualitative studies related to education, care, and health in rural areas of the Andes and the Peruvian Amazonian. Their main research lines are based on the experience of illness and disability; the cultural construction of gender and kinship; long-term daily care; and the processes and meanings of ageing. His ethnographic work on elderly husbands as caregivers in rural Spain environments in contexts of disability and illness stands out. He is a member of the research team of the GenderCare R&D project (2018-2021), CUMADE Project (2020-2021), CareModel R&D Project (2021-2024), and RETCOV R&D Project (2022-2025).

Social Worker, specialized in social mentoring. Master's Degree in Citizenship and Human Rights: Ethics and Politics (UB). Trained in management and direction of associations and non-profit organizations. PhD. student in care ethics and inclusive social mentoring. She focuses her research on tools to ensure the sustainability of human life, social mentoring as an innovative tool for social transformation. She has worked in the area of socio-educational and labour orientation for young people. She is currently working on the coordination of mentoring projects at the Kilómetro Zero Association in Tarragona.

PhD in Medical Anthropology (URV, 2013) and Master in Medical Anthropology and International Health (URV, 2008), master and doctorate award (with Hons). Degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology (UB, 2002) and Diploma in Education (UB, 1999). Specialist in ethnographic methodology, qualitative applied health research and analysis of illness narratives. She has worked extensively on the issue of the experience and management of chronic illnesses (chronicity) and related areas such as disability, dependency, public policies and global health. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher within the project Anthropology and Phenomenology of the Locked-In Syndrome at the Department of Anthropology, Philosophy and Social Work of the Rovira i Virgili University (DAFiTS-URV) and a collaborator of the Medical Anthropology Research Center (MARC-URV ). She is a professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Barcelona (UB) and at the Institute of Global Health of Barcelona (ISGlobal).

Diploma in Social Work (EUTS-URV, 1997). Postgraduate studies in Stimulative Animation for the Elderly, Mental Health and Disabilities (URL, 1999), in Psychogeriatrics (UAB, 2000), and in Direction and Management of Residences and Services for the Elderly (URV, 2008). From 1997 to 2005, he has worked in different areas of social intervention; from 2006 to 2017, as a social worker and technical director of day centers and residences for the elderly of the social area of the Santa Tecla Network. From 2018 to the present, he has been working as a health social worker in the health area of the Network itself, specifically in socio-health care and primary health care. She is also a member of the Health Care Ethics Committee of the organization itself.

Joan Muela Ribera holds a Master's in Medical Anthropology from Brunel University London and a PhD from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). He began his research in Medical Anthropology in the field of international health in Tanzania, conducting a study on care processes and social vulnerability related to children with malaria. He currently participates in numerous research projects, courses, workshops and consultancies with PASS-International, a non-profit organization dedicated to socio-anthropological research in international health projects, of which he is a founding member and researcher. He is a member of MARC (Medical Anthropology Research Centre) (URV).

Jordi Navarro Lliberato is a social worker, social educator and pedagogue with extensive graduate training in social management and intervention. He has worked in primary care public social services in Tarragona (1990-1995), Salou (1996-2004), and Valls (2011-2012). He was the director of the Tarragona offices of ADIGSA, a public company that manages the public social housing of the Catalan Government (2004-2011). Social worker and coordinator of the EAIA Alt Camp-Conca de Barberà (2012-2019). Since 2019, technical director of the SEIS-Vila-seca of the En Xarxa Foundation. He is a founding member of the NGO Fundació Casal Amic (for children at risk of exclusion) and has been its president since 1995. He has been an adjunct lecturer at the URV since 2000. He is a trainer in resilience and applied optimism and the author of several specialized articles and books in that field. Social work doctoral student.

Josefa Perelló Bargalló is a social worker who provides complementary training in tools and conflict resolution; creativity as a tool for adapting to change; communication; political and citizen participation; team coaching; and techniques in the planning, management and evaluation of programmes. She has vast professional experience in community work, being responsible for a civic/cultural public facility of the Catalan Government since 1990. She also participates in several committees and work groups in the western districts of Tarragona. She has been an adjunct professor at the URV since 2001, teaching communitarian intervention and performing tutorial tasks related to fieldwork and students' final degree dissertations.

PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology by the URV, specialising in Anthropology of Medicine (2003). Degree in Social Anthropology (Univ. Nacional de Misiones, Argentina, 1994). Member of the Medical Anthropology Research Center, MARC and the Union of Scientists Committed to Society and Nature in Latin America (UCCSNAL). She works in the field of medical anthropology and her most important research has focused on the health conditions of different populations: gypsies (Spain and France), Quechua indigenous people (Bolivia) and she is currently researching the effects of pollution on the health of various populations in the Peruvian Amazon. She has been doing fieldwork in Latin America for more than 20 years. Among her most relevant books are: Salud intercultural. Crítica y problematización a partir del contexto boliviano (2011); Donde el viento llega cansado. Sistemas y prácticas de salud de la ciudad de Potosí (2005); Calidad de atención en salud. Prácticas y representaciones sociales de las poblaciones quechuas y aymaras del altiplano boliviano (2009) and Cuando la enfermedad se silencia. Sida y toxicidad en el oriente boliviano (2016).

Isabella holds a Ph.D in Anthropology (URV,2017). Master in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology (2011) and Bachelor's degree in Anthropological Science (University of Bologna). From 2014 until 2017 she was a doctoral fellow at URV, and in 2016 she was visitor student at Oxford University for 5 months. Her Ph.D thesis focuses on therapeutic pluralism, with particular emphasis on folk medicine, CAM and New Age therapies. Since 2017 she has worked on several international projects (Horizon 2020 and Erasmus+) at URV and UOC on the following topics: ageing, co-creation and participatory methodology, citizen science, digitalization and education. She is currently co-coordinating the project AGORAge: Ageing in a Caring Community (pilot of the H2020-COESO project) on community care and older people.

Diploma in Social Work (2000) and Degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology (2003) from the University of Barcelona. Master in Ethnographic Research, Anthropological Theory and Intercultural Relations (2012) and PhD in Social Anthropology (2018) by the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She has practiced as a social worker in the field of mental health and the elderly (2009-2020), and has participated in research projects on caregiving from a gender and social justice perspective: Men caregivers (RecerCaixa, 2015-2018), GenderCare (R&D, 2018-2021) and CUMADE (CRUE SUPERA call, 2020-2021). She is also currently an associate professor at the Degree of Social Work of the UB and researcher in the CAREMODEL project (R&D).

Aurora Sáez holds a degree in Social Work from the Rovira i Virgili University (2012), Master in Public Orientation Anthropology from the Unniversidad Autonoma de  Madrid (2013). She has continued her training in gender studies and Social Economy and Solidarity. She has professional experience in the field of care for people with disabilities in the United Kingdom and as a trainer of the Certificate of Professionalism, Promotion and Socioeducational Intervention with People with Disabilities of the Occupational Service. She is currently the dynamizer of the Social and Solidarity Economy workshops of Federación SETEM.

Olga Salvat Salvat holds a degree in Social Work from the University of Barcelona (1992), a Master's in Ageing and Health from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the URV (2012), and graduate studies in Systemic Intervention in Non-clinical Contexts (Family Therapy School, Psychiatry Services of Santa Creu i Sant Pau Hospital, Barcelona) (1999).

PhD in Anthropology and Communication and Master's degree in Medical Anthropology and International Health from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV). Degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology and Psychology from the University of Barcelona. She has worked in different research and intervention projects in the field of health in Guatemala, Bolivia and Catalonia. Her main areas of interest focus on health, disasters, risk and bodies, focusing on the articulations between processes of social inequality and experiences of health risks. She is a postdoctoral researcher in the CareNet group (IN3 - UOC) and works as an adjunct lecturer at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV). She is also attached to the Institut Interuniversitari de la Dona i Estudis de Gènere (IIEDG).