PhD Fellows

Graduate in Anthropology and Human Evolution from the URV (2019). Master's degree in Urban Anthropology, Migrations and Social Intervention from the URV (2021). Pre-doctoral researcher of the Martí i Franquès Programme in the PhD in Anthropology and Communication at the URV, in the line of Contemporary Identities. Interested in ancestral religious and spiritual forms and their current configuration in our society. Dedicated the last 22 years to the study, practice and teaching of yoga and meditation in a traditional way. Also, to holistic health, implementing new therapeutic forms associated with spirituality on a freelance basis. She researches new religious forms and spiritualities, with an emphasis on gender. Her doctoral thesis focuses on the study of Tibetan Buddhism in our cultural environment and its mental and ritual technologies.

He holds a degree in Sociology from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), a Master's degree in Sociology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and a Master's degree in Medical Anthropology and Global Health from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV). He has taught in the Sociology programme at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina) and in the nursing and kinesiology programmes at the Universidad National de La Matanza (Argentina). He has also participated in several research projects in both institutions, on topics such as teenage pregnancy, nursing, and therapeutic care in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, among others. He is currently a Martí i Franquès pre-doctoral fellow at the URV's Doctorate in Anthropology and Communication, in the line of Medical Anthropology.

Graduate in Nursing from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain, 2019); Master in Public Health with specialisation in Society, Violence and Health from the National School of Public Health of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Brazil, 2022). She has experience in academia and research in international contexts (Spain, Brazil and India); she has worked in the clinical setting as a family nurse and in development cooperation, and is a cellist. She is currently a pre-doctoral fellow with a FPU grant within the line of medical anthropology and global health of the PhD programme in Anthropology and Communication at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Her research focuses on transcultural mental health, suicide and community care.

Predoctoral researcher Joan Oró FI2024-2025 of the PhD programme in Anthropology and Communication of the URV, in the line of Contemporary Identities. Graduate in Social Communication from the Universidad Federal de Espírito Santo (2008), with specialisations in Strategic Communication from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Minas Gerais (2014) and in Business Management from the Fundación Dom Cabral (2017), in Brazil. She has worked in community and corporate communication, marketing, change and content management, as well as in culture, diversity and inclusion projects in companies and non-governmental organisations. She studied a master's degree in Urban Anthropology, Migrations and Social Intervention at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (2024), focusing her final work on legal devices, migratory agency, the construction of narratives and memory related to the Afghan diaspora, especially from 2020 onwards. Her interests revolve around geopolitics, migration and forced displacement, and their effects on processes of identity, belonging, transnational networks and dynamics in host societies.

Pre-doctoral researcher beneficiary of a contract for the training of university professors from the Ministry of Universities (FPU 2019). Graduate in Anthropology and Human Evolution (URV-UOC, 2018), Master in International Trade (ISEAD, 2012) and Master in Biological Anthropology, specialty in human diversity and biomedical applications (UB-UAB, 2020). He has been a research assistant and external consultant in institutions such as Stanford Law School at Stanford University, or the Geneva Graduate Institute, working on the analysis of social networks and the impact of cognitive biases on decision making. More recently, he has conducted research on the etiology of schizophrenia and other mental disorders at the FIDMAG Hermanas Hospitalarias Research Foundation. As a student, he was beneficiary of an international mobility scholarship at the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona (2015), a collaboration scholarship from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports (2017) and a master's scholarship from the Universia Foundation (2019). He is currently developing his thesis on severe mental disorders, alternatives to coercion and social approaches to mental health at the Medical Anthropology Research Center.

Bachelor in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Master's degree in Urban Anthropology, Migrations and Social Intervention from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili of Tarragona, where she won the Extraordinary Prize for the End of Master's Studies in her promotion. She has participated in research groups and projects thanks to several collaboration grants in the departments of Anthropology, Philosophy and Social Work and Geography of the URV, working on family care in the former, and on touristification and urban mobility in the latter. Her lines of research have focused on different fields, on areas such as anthropology of education, political anthropology and, more recently, the field of critical urban studies, where she has made ethnographic incursions into the question of the securitisation of public spaces and their link with the processes of urban transformation. She is currently a pre-doctoral researcher with the Joan Oró FI2023-2024 grant in the doctoral programme in Anthropology and Communication at the URV, where she is carrying out research focused on urban space and care activities for the elderly and dependents.

Graduated in Anthropology and Human Evolution by the URV in 2021, Master in Social Policies and Dependence by the UNED in 2023. She is enrolled in the PhD Programme in Anthropology and Communication from 2023. She currently has the FPU grant for a period of 6 years (due to her disability) for the completion of her doctoral dissertation, codirected by Montserrat Soronellas and Ramona Torrens.

Pre-doctoral FI-AGAUR fellow of the Doctoral Programme in Social Work at Rovira i Virgili University. Graduate in Early Childhood Education (UdL, 2020). Master in Innovation in Social and Educational Intervention (URV, 2021). University Specialist in Bereavement Support (UdL, 2018). Focused on research into the social problem of violence against children and interested in connecting the educational and social spheres. She has designed and implemented educational interventions to improve coexistence in the classroom. She has also carried out trainings for families and professionals for violence-free education. She has been a volunteer in social organisations supporting children who are victims of violence. She is currently participating in a social initiative to support victims of Child Sexual Abuse. She has recently participated in the #D-VioPrev study on the use of digitalisation for the protection of children and adolescents with disabilities. She is currently collaborating in the FEMMINOR research on the needs and rights of children of feminicide.

Pre-doctoral Martí i Franquès fellow of the Doctoral Programme in Anthropology and Communication, in the line of Medical Anthropology. Graduated in Social and Cultural Anthropology with mention in Anthropological Applications in Culture, Environment and Society at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2018), she studied the Interuniversity Master in Medical Anthropology and Global Health at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili and the Universitat of Barcelona (2020). She has worked for four years as a research technician at the Wassu-UAB Foundation linked to migration and sexual and reproductive health care, and is a member of the Grup de Recerca en Antropologia del Cos i la Sexualitat (GRACS) of the Institut Català d'Antropologia. She is currently interested in the study of reproduction, maternity and identity from a phenomenological point of view. 

Anthropologist from the Universidad Alberto Hurtado in Chile and Master in Urban Anthropology, Migrations and Social Intervention from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. His research interests include political ecology and urban anthropology. The former was explored in his final thesis, investigating the situation of rurality in the context of water scarcity in Los Lagos region (Chile). In recent years, he has focused more specifically on the latter, with his Master's thesis on the issue of urban mobilities in the context of the neoliberal city and his current doctoral research. He is a Joan Oró FI2023-2024 fellow in the doctoral programme in Anthropology and Communication, in which he is carrying out research on community care, with special emphasis on the organisational potential of care in neighbourhood contexts. He has participated in research in Chile, Spain, Colombia and Mexico.

He holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ, 2016), a master's degree in Public Health from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ, 2021), and a residency in Mental Health from the Institute of Psychiatry at UFRJ (IPUB/UFRJ, 2019). Additionally, he is also a specialist in psychopathology (Faculty of Medical Sciences of Santa Casa de São Paulo/FCMSCSP) and was a substitute professor in the Department of Mental Health at the Faculty of Medicine of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ/Macaé), as well as an assistant professor at the Psychology Institute of the Augusto Motta University Center (UNISUAM), planning and teaching courses on psychopathology, psychoanalysis, narrative medicine, and other topics. His research interests focus on how macro-scale phenomena -such as culture, language, and psychological states- interact with and influence micro-scale phenomena, such as brain states.

She has a degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology (UAB, 2022), a master's degree in Social Anthropology (UPV/EHU, 2024) and a master's degree in Medical Anthropology and Global Health (URV, 2024). Her line of research addresses environmental health and pollution, with special interest in toxic environments and their impact on human health. She is especially interested in the links between toxic exposure, experience and understanding of risk and socio-environmental inequality. She is currently a predoctoral fellow, with the FI Joan Oró grant, in the URV's PhD programme in Anthropology and Communication, in the field of Medical Anthropology.

He is an architect by the Barcelona School of Architecture of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (2000); Social and Cultural Anthropologist by the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (2022); Master's Degree in Urban Anthropology, Migrations and Social Intervention by the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (2023); Currently, he is a pre-doctoral researcher with an FPU grant (2023-2029) in the PhD in Anthropology and Communication at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili; he has a Master's degree in Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Thought from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. As an architect, he is experienced in drafting urban planning and building projects, particularly in the field of cultural heritage; he has also taught architectural projects and theory at several Catalan universities. As a social and cultural researcher, he has curated the exhibition of the new Museu del Blat in Cervera, and has been in charge of its dynamization. He has written several articles in specialised journals on rural change and the transformation of rural spaces; he has been awarded the Institute of Catalan Studies' prize of the Young Sociologists Competition 2021, and the Joaquim Capdevila i Capdevila Scholarship for Humanistic Studies and Social Sciences (2022-2023), awarded by the Urgell County Council.

Graduate in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU) and Master in Medical Anthropology and Global Health from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV). In 2021 he was awarded the BIDI grant from the URV, and since then he has been collaborating in different research projects in the field of Medical Anthropology. He is part of the Radio Nikosia experience and has worked on various projects in the socio-community field. His research interests are oriented towards phenomenological approaches, narratives of distress and subjectivation, capacitation studies and psychiatrisation. He is currently a pre-doctoral researcher with a PIPF contract in the Anthropology and Communication PhD programme at the URV. He is working on his doctoral thesis within the research project Rethinking 'the social' in mental health: mapping and analysis of autonomy-producing initiatives in Spain of the Department of Anthropology, Philosophy and Social Work (DAFITS).