The faculty of the University Institute in Gender and Diversity of the University of Oviedo coordinates and participates in different research groups through which it carries out its projects, both nationally and internationally.
Intersecciones. Principal investigator: Isabel Carrrera Suárez
The research group Intersections: Literatures, cultures and contemporary theories is composed of research staff from the University of Oviedo, predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows and includes collaborators from different R&D research centres, such as the University Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Spain); de les Illes Balears (Palma de Mallorca, Spain); King's College London (United Kingdom); Columbia (United States), Murdoch University (Australia); Calgary University (Canada) and Casa de las Américas (Cuba). The group has been rated very positively by the National Agency of Evaluation and Prospective of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (99/100).
The group examines theoretical, cultural and methodological intersections in the contemporary world, especially through the lens of postcolonial, decolonial and gender theories. Its research focuses on post/European cultures in an international context and on diasporas, migrations and multiculturalism. To this end, it adopts interdisciplinary methodologies, with special emphasis on Anglophone, Francophone and Hispanic areas. The Group is particularly interested in the literatures and cultural productions of ‘minority,’ racialized and diasporic groups, studying issues of hybridity, transculturation and cultural expression.
Its international network has found expression in several European Commission funded projects, the latest being a Marie Curie ITN, EUTERPE.
DEMETER Group. Principal investigator: Rosa María Cid López
The group Demeter. Maternity, Gender and Family is a research group with extensive experience at the University of Oviedo. It emerged in 2006 as Demeter. History, Women and Gender and, from the beginning, one of its main lines of research was related to motherhood. For this reason, it is now identified as a group specialized in the study of motherhood and family, or maternities and families, from an interdisciplinary perspective of gender studies, with special interest in History and Law.
Demeter has PhD professors and staff in training, nationally and internationally, attached to centers in Zaragoza, Cordoba, Milan, Geneva, Lisbon, New York and Edinburgh. Above all, the group analyzes discourses on motherhood and the position of mothers in the history of the West. In this context, it is also interested in observing how different representations and stereotypes about motherhood have been questioned, as well as the ruptures produced in the present with the emergence of new forms of motherhood, both biological and social and cultural.
TRANSLIT group. Principal Investigator: Socorro Suárez Lafuente
Gender, Economics, Health and Society (GENESYS)
Principal Investigator: Sandra Dema Moreno
The GENESYS research group was born with a clear international and interdisciplinary vocation. It is made up of 12 researchers, five from the University of Oviedo, three from FLACSO Uruguay, one from FLACSO Dominican Republic and one from the University of Chile, as well as two professionals in the field of social intervention, linked to the Red Cross and the CESPA Foundation Proyecto Hombre. All of them belong to different social disciplines, including economics, sociology, anthropology, social work and social education and have a long teaching, research and professional career in areas related to women's, gender and/or feminist studies.