Fitxa persona

I am Nina Navajas, I hold a degree in Social Work and a Master in Gender and Equality Policies from the University of Valencia. I obtained the extraordinary end-of-career prize and the Jane Addams Award from the Faculty of Social Sciences of the UV to the best final degree project for incorporating the gender perspective. Likewise, I received the extraordinary Master's Award for the Master's Degree in Gender and Equality Policies from the UV, and the Olga Quiñones Award from the UV for the best master's degree project. I am a member of the Research Group Gènere, Coneiximent, Història i subjectivitat (GECOHIS) of the Institut Universitari d'Estudis de la Dona GIUV 2014-202, whose director is Mónica Bolufer Peruga.

I teach in the Departament de Treball Social i Serveis Socials of the University of Valencia.

Currently I am a researcher personnel in training at the Universitary Institute of Women´s Studies of Valencia University, with a University Teacher Training scholarship from the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports within the doctoral program in Gender Studies and Equality Policies. My research activity is part of the research line "Subjectivity and gender: implications of socio-cultural models in psychological development and health", and within this is oriented around two themes: "Cultural imaging, construction of identities and gender, and violence "and" Women, gender, health and well-being ". I prepare my doctoral thesis under the supervision of Mónica Bolufer, Amparo Bonilla and Lucía Gómez, from a critical, interdisciplinary, and gender approach, about the modern and contemporary identity configuration processes and about how, in this context, the subjects live the relationship with their own bodies —paying special attention to women.

My research interests are centred around the discourses of health and fatness, the sociology of the body, antiopressive social work and health with a gender perspective. I also introduce methodological procedures of incipient use in the field of Social Sciences, such as qualitative techniques: autoethnography, life stories and critical discourse analysis from a feminist perspective. I have presented my work in national and international conferences.