Assumpta Aneas is a Full University Professor in the Department of Research Methods and Evaluation in Education at the Faculty of Education of the University of Barcelona.
She is the coordinator of the area of Equity, Welfare and Inclusion of the Institute for Research in Education at the University of Barcelona. She is the coordinator of the consolidated research group GREDI on intercultural education.
Her main interests are pedagogical responses to the needs and challenges arising from contexts of migration and refuge from intercultural encounters. She is also particularly interested in the dynamics and situation of minority groups for religious or ethnic reasons in the host society. In all these cases the concepts of religious and ethnic identity intersect with issues of social inequality, existential emptiness, radicalism, and xenophobia. Her purpose is to identify educational strategies to achieve dialogue and citizen cohesion.
Her epistemological approach is systemic and transdisciplinary. She mainly applies qualitative methodologies based on the Responsible Research Focus (RRI) approach.
She is a member of various intercultural research and advisory organizations and networks: International Academy of Intercultural Research, Scholas Chairs, EERA European Educational Research Association, Interuniversity Research Association in Pedagogy AIDIPE.
Her latest projects are: Speak to me in Catalan, I am a Catalan Muslim woman (commissioned by the Generalitat de Catalunya); Innova4Div on training in intercultural skills for teachers (commissioned by the JCR of the European Commission); Stories that Move against all forms of discrimination, cultural diversity and equal opportunities in school; RESCUE Support for the education of refugees in fellow children (Erasmus + Project).
She has over 200 publications (book chapters, journal articles, conference materials OA) in Spanish, Catalan, English and German. Her favorite publications are: Intercultural Competences in Business; Research in intercultural and intercultural communication: some reflections on culture and qualitative methods; Moroccans in Spain, so close so far; Transdisciplinary technology education: a characterization and some ideas for implementation in the university.