Begonya Enguix Grau

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Catedràtic Arts and Humanities Department

Expert in::

  • activism
  • affections
  • social anthropology
  • body studies
  • cultural studies
  • gender
  • qualitative methodologies
  • nationalism
  • Queer Theory
  • social networks
  • gender relations
  • body
  • feminism
  • Mixed Methods
  • social media
  • social movements
  • political participation
  • masculinity
Research group
MEDUSA
Area
Arts and Humanities
Area of specialization
City and Community, Network society, Knowledge governance,
Membership Center
Faculties

ODS:

  • 5 - Gender equality
  • 10 - Reduced inequalities
  • 16 - Peace, justice and strong institutions
  • 17 - Partnerships for the goals

Begonya Enguix Grau's R&I activity focuses on the anthropology of gender (with an emphasis on masculinities), bodies, sexualities, affects and identities in relation, fundamentally, to digital and other media, social movements and politics.

She coordinates the Genders in Transition: Masculinities, Affects, and Bodies (MEDUSA) research group (UOC-GRC).

1. Advanced research accreditation (Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency, AQU Catalunya, May 2021).

2. Aigner-Rollett-Guest Professorship for Women's and Gender Studies.

Coordination Centre for Gender Studies and Equal Opportunities / Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, University of Graz, Austria.

(1 March-30 June 2019)

3. UOC grant to encourage participation in the Horizon 2020 programme and other international R&I programmes in 2019 (Office of the Vice President for Strategic Planning and Research, 2019). 

4. Research accreditation (Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency, AQU Catalunya, 2013).

5. Two recognized five-year teaching periods (Docentia programme, UOC, 2005-2010 and 2011-2015). 

6. Two recognized six-year research periods: 2003-2010 and 2011-2016 (Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency, AQU Catalunya).

7. Best Scientific Article Award for "Negotiating the Field: Rethinking Ethnographic Authority, Experience and the Frontiers of Research" (Qualitative Research) (UOC, 2012).