Olga Jubany

Biography

Olga Jubany is Doctor by the London School of Economics and Political Science, currently Serra Hunter Associate Professor at the Social Anthropology Department and Director of the European Social Research Unit, at the Universitat de Barcelona. She is a social anthropologist, author of several investigations and publications in the fields of identity, vulnerability and resilience, focusing on gender, age and migration studies, from an ethnographic tradition, adopting the intersectional approach. Her work engages in topics of gender, age, migration and the labour market, with particular focus oncomparative multi-sited research within the European framework. Dr. Jubany has a long international trajectory, having been teacher and researcher at the London School of Economics (UK) for over 5 years. Dr. Jubany is nominated Expert at the Research Executive Agency (REA) of the European Commission, having participated both at the 7th Framework Programm and at the Horizon 2020 Framework Programm. She is member of the Spanish Delegation of the Consejero de Ciencia e Innovación of Spain (MINECO) for the Research Group on Societal Challenges and JRC of the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme. Dr. Jubany is also the UB representative for the Working Group Social Challenges for the Conferencia de Rectores de Universidades Españolas (CRUE) and is actively involved with the League of European Research Universities (LERU). Her current research includes being the Principal Investigator and Coordinator for the research project DIVERCITY: Preventing and Combating Homo- and Transphobia in Small and Medium Cities across Europe, having recently concluded the projects PRISM: Preventing, Redressing and Inhibiting Hate Speech in New Media, funded by the EC DG Justice (2013-2016); and the FP7 project CITISPYCE: Combating Inequalites through Innovative Social Practices of and for Young People in Cities across Europe (2012-2016). Previously she was the international coordinator for the investigations LinkAge: Labour Market Integration of Vulnerable Age Groups through Social Dialogue funded by the DG Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion (2011-2013); TEAM: Trade Unions, Economic Change, and Active Inclusion of Migrant Workers (2010-2012) under DG Employment, Social Affairs, and Equality, and the scientific coordinator for GENDERACE: The use of racial anti-discrimination laws: gender and citizenship in a multicultural context, funded by the EC FP7-SSH programme (2007-2010), in addition to participating in PROSINT: Promoting Sustainable Policies for Integration, funded from EC- DG of Justice, Freedom and Security. Dr. Jubany regularly participates in national and international conferences and debates.

Research Interest

 Qualitative Social Research Social Theory Cultural Anthropology International Relations Human Rights Race, Ethnicity and Politics