This academic year, we have welcomed three research trainees to the IUCIE, and we want to highlight their professional profiles. We are sure their contributions will enrich the Institute's history. Welcome.
Alba Galán Sanantonio
Graduate in Social Work and Master's in Gender and Equality Policies from the University of Valencia. She is a research trainee at the University of Valencia (CIACIF/2021/176) and a doctoral candidate in Social Sciences. She is a lecturer in the Department of Social Work and Social Services at the University of Valencia. She has authored several articles, book chapters, and contributions to national and international conferences. She has completed residencies at the University of Granada and Trinity College Dublin. Her research interests include social work, social services, social exclusion, homelessness and gender, and gender-based violence.
Eva Gallén Granell
She is a social worker and development cooperation specialist. She is a predoctoral researcher at the FPU (Federal University of Valencia) and is developing a thesis on homelessness, measurement methodologies, and care policies. His research focuses on residential exclusion, social intervention, social rights, and ecosocial practices. His most recent research explores the use of nature-based therapies with homeless people in the Azores.
Arturo Lance Porfilio
He is currently in his third year of doctoral studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, pursuing a research focus on Critical Theory. His thesis focuses on Axel Honneth's theory of recognition, anti-Gypsyism, and the Roma people in Spain. In it, he attempts to offer a social critique that, based on an immanent critique, is capable of illuminating the potential and limitations of the logic of recognition with regard to human groups such as the Roma people.
In it, he reflects on the dangers of reproducing an assimilationist logic as a mechanism for social integration for minorities such as the Roma people. It also presents an alternative path, based on recognition, that could mean achieving a form of society where minorities like the Roma people could achieve greater degrees of emancipation and social equality.
