Maria José
Romano Serrano

María José Romano is a research assistant at the Gender and ICT research group of the Interdisciplinary Internet Institute (IN3 - UOC), where she has been working since 2016 supporting various projects, including data collection and fieldwork, data management, report writing, implementation of the communication strategy, and organisation of seminars and other science outreach events. Her educational background includes a Bachelor's degree in Audiovisual Communication from the Universitat de València (UV) and a Bachelor's degree in Social Anthropology from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV). She has also completed a Master's degree in Strategic Communication at the URV and postgraduate studies in Applied Social Research at the UAB and Civic Participation and Communication at the URV. Her main areas of expertise are organisational strategic communication, project monitoring and project implementation, with a special focus on sustainability and gender equality. As a researcher, in addition to collaborating at the GenTIC group on several articles on gender inequalities and stereotypes in ICT and STEM, she is the author of publications on the social memory of the Spanish Civil War and Franco's dictatorship recreated in oral history and social media, and on the evolving representations and communication practices of rural women in Spain from a gender perspective. Her current research interests focus on ecofeminism and the communication practices, discourses and narratives of rural women's movements linked to the agricultural and livestock sectors in Catalonia and Spain.