Barbara
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Barbara

Biglia

Short Presentation

Barbara Biglia has been an active member of the research and academic community for over 20 years. She has been the PI for 34 competitive research projects (6 of which were European) and 13 research contracts (2 international) and a researcher for 28 other projects or contracts. As well as completing several extended foreign stays (in USA, UK, Chile, Spain, Brazil), she has shared the results of her research at multiple international conferences (around 85%). Worldwide collaboration has been a key feature of her research (in Latin America, USA, Canada, Europe, Africa, Australia), and she received the Distinguished Publication award for the Handbook of International Feminisms from the AWP. Her work has garnered most recognition in two areas: (1) processes of knowledge construction and feminist epistemology and research methodology, and (2) sexual and gender-related violences. Through her PhD, she specialised in feminist methodology and set up the ground-breaking SIMReF research working group in Spain. In this area, her commitment to the generation of situated knowledge and her recognition of the multiplicity of partial knowledge production have led her to consolidate and strengthen international collaboration networks. This work has had a significant impact on junior researchers career development; in fact, it has constituted part of the methodological framework used for many gender-sensitive PhD theses internationally. In reference to the second research area, her academic production began in 2007 with the co-edition of the book Estado de Wonderbra, which has been used as a talking point and as debating material in many womens groups and is included on the compulsory reading list of several university courses. Since then, her pioneering wider understanding of gender-related violences has been adopted by numerous international and national regulations. Within this sphere, she has recently acted as principal investigator on three European-funded projects (GapWork, USVReact, and GEiO), a national project (SeGReVUni), and a Catalan project (SeGReVUni_CatMex) that has been awarded as best research work from the Catalan Justice Observatory on Sexist Violence of the Department of Justice in 2022. Furthermore, her feminist, activist research has strongly influenced the specific area of gender related violences within universities. In fact, she has been consulted by many Spanish universities for the definition of their protocol on sexual and gender harassment. Today, she leads the GREDI groups at the URV and the SIMReF, in addition to being the URV board representative at the iieDG (Institut Interdisciplinari dEstudis de Gènere) and a Visiting Academic at the Open University (UK). She is also an evaluator for the Spanish State Research Agency (AIE) in social sciences and has acted as a tenure-track and postdoc evaluator for Spanish, Italian, Irish, Germans and EU agencies and universities. The social impact of her work is considerable thanks to the importance she assigns to knowledge dissemination and diffraction; to this end, she has produced various creative commons masterclass videos, which are being reused internationally. In the same vein, she is enthusiastic about citizen science and has collaborated with cooperatives and NGOs to try to build a better society. In addition, the professional training she designed and evaluated within the European projects GapWork and USVReact is still being implemented in many Spanish cities and universities. As an educator, she has had three five-year teaching periods acknowledged by the AQU and has been recently awarded with the Encarna Sanahuja recognition for incorporating the gender perspective into university classrooms. Her involvement in junior research career development is considerable, as she teaches and supervises within five doctoral programmes (two of which are international) and gives masterclasses in several others. The PhD students she has supervised have all received the maximum grade, and most of them the international component. All her former PhD students now hold full-time contracts: three in universities in the public sector or in the private sector. Now, she is supervising two PhD students with full national grants and two with an international grant (for university teachers) and one with a full-time job; one postdoctoral researcher, and a visiting lecturer with a Maria Zambrano grant.

Research Fields

Research areas (short description)

Perfil general
Feminist pedagogy
Critical Social psychology
Gender sociology and psychology: social rol, rights, power relation, subjectivities
Gender related violence
Feminist epistemology and research methodology
Political participation in no formal organization. Gender politics

Academic training

Publications

Agencies
Number of Documents
N Citations
h-index
Q1
D1
WoS
April 2024
12
46
4
3
2
Scopus
April 2024
11
78
5
5
2
Google Scholar
April 2024
110
2022
22
Publons
April 2024
28
251
10

Evolution

Internationalization

Altmetrics

Publications in social networks: 9 / 28
Percentage: 32.14%
Score: 344.906
Average score:
344.906 / 28 = 12.286
Doctoral Thesis
5
Final project (Master)
1
Final project (Master)
5

Subject / Course

Research Group

Collaboration Network

Production