Department: Information and Communication Sciences Department

Unit: Culture, creativity, social justice, critical thinking, humanities

Research group: NODES Transdisciplinary research on contemporary social challenges

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Email: acreus0@uoc.edu

Doctor by the Universitat de Barcelona with the thesis Fragmentos de un cuaderno de viaje. Una investigación narrativa sobre experiencias de inmigración 2011. Supervised by Dr. Fernando Hernández, Dr. Juana María Sancho Gil.

I started my academic training in Brazil, with a Bachelor Degree in Communication from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and a master's degree in Communication and Culture from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. In 2011 I obtained my PhD from the University of Barcelona with a doctoral thesis on immigration, based on narrative analysis of migrants' life stories. During my research training I have also been a Predoctoral Visiting Scholar at the Department of Sociology at University College Dublin, at the Faculty of Civil Law at the University of Malta and at the Department of History of Art and Screen Media at Birkbeck College, London. In Spain, I continued my academic career, first as an associate professor at the University of Barcelona, and later at the Open University of Catalunya, where I am currently the Deputy Director of Teaching at the Faculty of Information and Communication Sciences and also Coordinator of the transdisciplinary research group Nodes. In the last 15 years I have been working as a teacher and researcher in the fields of education and communication, always interested in studying their impact on people's social and individual development, with special emphasis on critical pedagogies. Currently, my main research interests are contemporary visualities in visual culture, and the social construction of racism and discrimination, an area in which I currently coordinate two research projects: Crossing Borders and MyWay.