by ana.cerezuela@uab.cat | May 16, 2026 | Sin categoría
Bruna Alvarez (AFIN Group, UAB) participated in the “Maternidades impossibles” series, held at Palau Macaya and organised by the UNESCO Chair in Women, Development and Cultures at the Universitat de Vic-Universitat Central de Catalunya. The conversation, shared with Sandra Ezquerra (Universitat de Vic) and Laia Forné (IDRA), revolved around the difficulties of becoming a mother and the tension between capital and life.
by ana.cerezuela@uab.cat | May 16, 2026 | Sin categoría
The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona has opened the admission process for the Master’s in Anthropology: Advanced Research and Social Intervention for the 2026/27 academic year. It is an on-campus programme designed to understand contemporary social phenomena from a critical perspective and to intervene in contexts of cultural diversity using ethnographic tools.
The master’s offers two specialisation pathways: Research, geared towards academic or applied projects, and Social Intervention, which includes 90 hours of placement in partner organisations.
Classes will be taught at the Facultat de Lletres (UAB), on an intensive timetable from 16:00 to 20:00, from September to March. The teaching staff, drawn from the UAB Department of Anthropology, has extensive research experience in areas such as ecological crisis and maritime studies; global health, bodies and medicalisation; gender, sexualities and families; childhoods and education; exclusion and vulnerability processes, and migrations, urbanism and mobilities.
The admission period will remain open until 30 September and 30 places are offered. For more information, please visit this link or write to bruna.alvarez@uab.cat.
by ana.cerezuela@uab.cat | May 16, 2026 | Diseminación
On Tuesday 21 April, the activity “Voces en resonancia: relatos audiovisuales, debate interdisciplinario y reflexión colectiva sobre la pérdida gestacional temprana” took place, organised by the AFIN Barcelona Group.
The event was held in the UAB cinema hall to watch and discuss the short film “MUY LLENA”, under the artistic direction of Miguel Gaggiotti (University of Bristol, AFIN) and produced by AFIN, thanks to the grant for knowledge transfer activities in the university sphere awarded by the Instituto de las Mujeres of the Ministerio de Igualdad of Spain and available open access on the AFIN YouTube channel.
This is the third series of short films resulting from the project Pérdidas reproductivas precoces: del malestar físico y emocional invisible al posible duelo personal, familiar y social, funded by the Fundación “la Caixa” and led by Prof. Diana Marre.
The session was moderated by Carolina Remorini (AFIN, UAB), and the discussion included Diana Marre (AFIN, UAB), Bruna Alvarez (AFIN, UAB), Manuel Fernández Alcántara (UA), Sandra Guevara (UAB) and Purificación Escobar García (UAB), together with an audience of lecturers, researchers and students from various degree programmes at UAB.
Thanks to UAB for supporting the organisation of this activity.
by ana.cerezuela@uab.cat | May 16, 2026 | Publications
A new article titled “‘Smile, even though it hurts’: A photovoice study exploring the practices, experiences and spaces for menstrual care in Spain” has been published in Social Science & Medicine – Qualitative Research in Health, with Astrid Boe Hüttel of the AFIN Group as first author and Laura Medina Perucha of the Institut Universitari d’Investigació en Atenció Primària (IDIAP Jordi Gol) as last author.
The study uses the photovoice method to analyse how white and cis-heteropatriarchal social structures worsen experiences of menstrual discomfort and often hinder menstrual care practices. Through photographs and personal accounts, participants reveal the social pressure to hide and suppress their menstrual discomfort, highlighting a critical lack of menstrual knowledge and a systemic dismissal of their experiences.
However, by focusing the analysis on the concept of menstrual care, the research also highlights the positive aspects of menstrual experiences: they are meaningful moments of creativity, introspection, rest and opportunities to give and receive care.
This work is part of the project Salud menstrual, salud mental y calidad de vida en España, led by the Institut Universitari d’Investigació en Atenció Primària (IDIAP Jordi Gol) in collaboration with the AFIN Group.
The article is available open access here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2026.100771
by ana.cerezuela@uab.cat | May 16, 2026 | Diseminación
Dr Miguel Gaggiotti, lecturer in the Department of Film and Television at the University of Bristol and member of the AFIN Research Group, has been awarded first prize for Best Short Film at the 2026 edition of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS), held recently. As part of several AFIN Group projects, Gaggiotti has created and produced various series of short films addressing themes linked to childhood, family and reproduction studies.
