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 Bachelor in Psychological Sciences and Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology at the University of Padua, Italy. Since publishing her first paper on pro-Ana online groups, Giulia has developed her research interest in the digital transformation of society and critical approaches in the social sciences, engaging in research collaborations and transdisciplinary training. She has carried out qualitative inquiry on rejection, digital media, and user's safety collaborating with the University of Padua, Northumbria University (UK); she also collaborated with the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens and Cooperativa Nivalis (Milan, Italy) on gamification approaches to tele-psychotherapy. She is now a PhD student in Anthropology and Communication, line of Medical Anthropology and global health, where she applies her background in mental health to investigate gender-based violence in Brazil.

Julia is Martí i Franquès COFUND Doctoral Fellow in the Anthropology Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili and student in the inter-university PhD in Gender Studies. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Management (2016) and a Master 1 in Finance (2017) from Paris-Dauphine University, and a Master Degree in Development Studies (2019, 2020) from the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She studies the problematics of care for adult and elderly people from various perspectives: feminist sociology and anthropology of Labour as main framework, ethics of care, queer studies, feminist epistemologies

Herena holds a degree in Psychology (URV, 2014) and Anthropology and Human Evolution (URV, 2017), and Master in Quaternary Archaeology and Human Evolution (Erasmus Mundus, 2019) and Master's degree in Training for Teachers and Compulsory Secondary Education and Upper Secondary Education (2020). Currently she is a Fi-Agaur predoctoral scholarship holder of the Doctorate in Anthropology and Communication from the Rovira i Virgili University. Her thesis focuses on aging and organization of family care for the Moroccan population in Catalonia.

Lucia holds a degree in Psychology from Universidad del Salvador (Buenos Aires, 2007), with training studies in psychoanalysis, and a Master's Degree in Medical Anthropology and Global Health from Universitat Rovira i Virgili (2020). Her work experience has been in the fields of clinical psychology and education, in different public and private projects and institutions in Peru. She has been a teacher in Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya's Psychology Department. During her master's studies she has done research in mental health, agency, body and gender in the case of women diagnosed with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome in Catalonia.

Pre-doctoral fellow of the Martí Franqués programme (2022-2024) for the completion of his thesis in the PhD programme in Anthropology and Communication at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. He holds a degree in Anthropology from the Universidad Central de Venezuela (Caracas, 2016) and a Master's degree in Urban Anthropology, Migrations and Social Intervention from the URV (2020). He is currently concentrating his efforts on the concept of "immobile migration" through his research on the care work of elderly people who remain in their places of origin, under circumstances marked by (in)mobility, as well as conditioned by the times of complex and multifactorial crisis that are being experienced in the Venezuelan territory.

She is a PhD student in Anthropology and Communication at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV). Master in Tourism from Universidade de Brasília - UnB (2016), and degree in Social Communication (2008) from the same university. She has culinary certification from Le Cordon Bleu Paris (2012) and from the University of Arts of Florence - FUA (2013). Since 2015 she has been researching Brazilian food culture as heritage, its inventories and tourism as a development tool. Her current research focuses on the role of Slow Food, as a civil society movement, in safeguarding food heritage in Brazil and Germany.

He holds a bacherlor degree in Environmental Sciences from the UAB (2010), Master in Environmental Studies - Global Change and Climate Change by the ICTA-UAB (2011), and Master in Urban Anthropology, Migrations and Social Intervention by the URV (2019). Since 2012 he has participated in research activities on environmental geography, governance and local knowledge in complex socio-ecological systems. He has also been trained in Rural Development and Geographic information Systems and has worked as a technician in the agri-food production and processing field. He is currently working on his doctoral thesis on the processes of de-agrarianization and re-agrarianization in Catalonia, public re-agrarianization programmes, and the transformations of land signification. Currently he is a Martí Franqués predoctoral scholar (2020-2022) of the Doctorate in Anthropology and Communication at the Rovira i Virgili University.

Predoctoral Fellow FI (AGAUR) of the PhD in Anthropology and Communication at the University Rovira i Virgili. Graduate in Social and Cultural Anthropology (2017) by the UNED and Master in Medical Anthropology and Global Health (2019) by the URV. He is currently developing a research work and anthropological review about Pica disorder in the framework of his doctoral thesis. Winner of the Carmelo Lisón Prize 2019 awarded by the Lisón-Donald Foundation.

Graduated in Medicine from the National University of Cuyo (Mendoza, Argentina) in 2015. Master's degree in Medical Anthropology and Global Health by URV in 2019. She has developed teaching activity in the medical career and has participated and coordinated social inclusion projects linked to Comprehensive Sexual Education in childhood and adolescence with educational institutions in vulnerable populations in the province of Mendoza. She has worked as a primary care physician in the city of Barcelona. She is currently a pre-doctoral researcher in the URV's Anthropology and Communication programme, in the line of Medical Anthropology and works as an assistant lecturer in the subject Marginalisation and Social Exclusion in the Bachelor's Degree in Social Work.

Research interest: Medical Anthropology 

julietamarcela.maure@urv.cat

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Marta Pi

She holds a degree on Social and cultural anthropologist from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2012), Master in Direction, Management and Intervention in Social Services at Ramon Llull University (2016) and Master in Social Gerontology at IL3-UB. Since 2016, she has been involved in various projects related to the field of the elderly and care. Currently pursuing a doctorate in Anthropology and Communication at the URV, focused on collaborative housing for the elderly, in the narratives on active ageing, care and care for dependency in this space.

Research interests: long-term care, narratives of active ageing, collaborative housing, care roles, incidence of COVID-19

marta.pi@urv.cat