Fitxa persona

María José Barbé Villarubia is a Doctor of Social Sciences with an international distinction (2020), a Master's in Gender and Equality Policies from the University of Valencia (2015), and a Bachelor's in Social Work with an outstanding degree award (2013). She is currently a Tenured Professor in the Department of Social Work and Social Services, a member of the University of Valencia's Institute for Women's Studies, and a member of the InMIDE research group. She has been a postdoctoral research fellow, through a competitive “Talent Attraction” contract from the University of Valencia (UV-INV-PREDOC17F1-538430), and has also been a “Talent Attraction” predoctoral researcher (ref: INV17-01-13-18). Her research focuses on issues related to the problems affecting women, migration, development, epistemologies of the South, and the SDGs from a gender perspective. In this regard, she has undertaken a research stay at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Ecuador, a collaboration with the Central University of Ecuador, and an international specialisation course with CLACSO (Latin American Council of the Social Sciences) and the University of Coimbra (Portugal).