Our team

Débora Lanzeni. Anthropologist specialising in interdisciplinary studies on technology at Monash University (Australia). Her research focuses on the intersection between technology, anthropology, design, digital ethnography and future studies, with a special focus on data, artificial intelligence, smart cities, emerging technologies and imaginary futures, as well as work regimes and new digital technologies.

Cosimo Marco Scarcelli. Associate professor at the Università Degli Studi di Padova (Italy), specialising in sexuality, gender and digital culture. His research addresses digital intimacies, pornography, masculinities and emotions, with an emphasis on youth and participatory methodologies. He is director of the Communication Degree programme and participates in digital media education.

Priscila Alvarez-Cueva. Lecturer María Goyri in the Department of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She was a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Information and Audiovisual Media at the University of Barcelona. She is a member of the CRICC (University of Barcelona). Her research interests include gender studies, cultural studies and communication, with a particular focus on youth.

María González. Lecturer in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at Pompeu Fabra University. Her research analyses the relationship between youth and democracy, public policy and social movements, using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods.

Roger Soler-i-Martí. Lecturer in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at Pompeu Fabra University. His research analyses the relationship between youth and democracy, public policy and social movements, using an approach that combines quantitative and qualitative methods.

Colectivo Gamá is a non-profit LGBT association in the Canary Islands promoting sexual and gender diversity. With 30 years of experience, it is dedicated to combating discrimination against the community and promoting equality and respect for diversity in society.

Jennifer Niesvaara Molina. Graduate in Social Work from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (2010), specialising in sexual and gender diversity. Co-coordinator at Gamá in the area of social intervention since 2010, with responsibilities including intervention with LGBT people and their environment, representation of the organisation, training of professionals and supervision, design and development of projects.

María José Hinojosa Pareja. General health psychologist and specialist in gender diversity care. Head of Gamá’s Psychological Support Service since 2001. Head of training and co-coordinator of the organisation’s technical team. Family mediator. Works from an LGTBIQ+ affirmative psychology approach. Trains and advises professionals from different fields.

Malegría is a professional association dedicated to developing social, educational, community and health initiatives in the field of sex education, individual and group sexological counselling, and community action on sexuality, in collaboration with public and private entities. Its objectives include promoting research on sexuality, with a special emphasis on the Canary Islands.

Cleia Montesdeoca. Sexologist at Malegría, social nurse and equality officer. She is currently a doctoral student at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, where she focuses her research on sexuality and gender.

Sudergintza is a feminist cooperative focused on research, diagnosis and intervention for peacebuilding and the promotion of diverse perspectives from a gender and feminist approach, with a track record and experience in communication and research. Founded in 2016, it seeks to generate convergence between communication, feminism, human security, peace and diversity.

Zuriñe Rodríguez Lara. Member of the Sudergintza cooperative. Her work focuses on feminist research on historical memory and impunity, public policies on equality, diversity and LGTBI, and the design of communication and political management strategies, especially in contexts of crisis and social reconstruction after conflicts.

The Centre Jove d’Atenció a les Sexualitats (CJAS) is a specific support service that accompanies young people and their families throughout their growth process. Its aim is to promote a positive and responsible experience of sexuality. The CJAS is accredited by CatSalut and is considered a benchmark service, complementary to health, psychological and social services, based on three areas of intervention: sexual rights, the biographical perspective and feminism.

Jordi Baroja. Director of the CJAS. He has a degree in Nursing and Journalism and a postgraduate degree in Public Health. He has more than 15 years of experience in the health sector, in both the public and private sectors and the third sector. A specialist in public health project planning and management, he has worked in HIV prevention and in communication and fundraising.

Emma Baudais. CJAS worker, specialising in gender studies and with a master’s degree in Women’s, Gender and Citizenship Studies from the University of Barcelona. Affective-sexual educator and head of sexuality workshops at the Youth Centre for Sexuality Care, with extensive experience in training and support in sex education issues.

Maria-Jose Masanet. Co-Principal Investigator of KALEIDOSCOPE. Serra Húnter Associate Professor at the University of Barcelona. Her research focuses on media education, transmedia narratives, adolescence and youth, and the representation of sexuality and romantic relationships in the media.

Sergio Villanueva Baselga. Co-Principal Investigator of KALEIDOSCOPE. Associate Professor at the University of Barcelona. His lines of research critically examine the media and cinema, understanding them as articulators, creators, and structural constituents of the narratives that shape different health stigmas and, in general, collective identities.

Ona Anglada Pujol. Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Information and Audiovisual Media at the University of Barcelona. Her areas of research include gender and queer studies, fan and celebrity studies, popular culture and television fiction. She is one of the creators and scriptwriters of the series Les de l’hoquei.

Eduard Ballesté-Isern. Serra Húnter lecturer at the University of Barcelona. Previously, postdoctoral researcher at the UOC and the UPF. His lines of research focus on studies of youth, their political participation, processes of marginalisation, urban peripheries, structural violence and forms of resistance.

Vítor Blanco-Fernández. Lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Information and Audiovisual Media at the University of Barcelona. His main line of research is LGBTIQ+ Media Studies. In particular, he researches non-binary gender identities.

Maddalena Fedele. Researcher. Associate professor at the University of Barcelona. Her lines of research focus on the relationship between the media and young people, audiovisual narrative and aesthetics, with a special emphasis on serial fiction, and gender perspective.

Adrien Faure-Carvallo. Researcher. Lecturer at the University of Barcelona. His research focuses on musical and sound experiences in the fields of communication, education, audiovisuals and sound technologies.

Anna Iñigo. FI Joan Oró pre-doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Information and Audiovisual Media at the University of Barcelona. Her research focuses on feminist and queer media studies, the manosphere and anti-gender movements, digital cultures and youth studies.

Ana Marjalizo. FI Joan Oró pre-doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Information and Audiovisual Media at the University of Barcelona. Her research focuses on alternative aesthetics in digital music, paying attention to queer and dissident realities. She is an independent composer and producer.

Marta Meneu. FPU pre-doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication at the University of Valencia. She is writing her thesis in co-direction with the University of Barcelona on the relationship between social platforms and youth in terms of participation.

Aida Navas Aparicio. FI Joan Oró pre-doctoral researcher at the University of Barcelona. Her research focuses on cultural studies from the perspective of critical theory and with a gender and intersectional approach, concentrating on youth narratives in literature and the media, specialising in the fantasy and horror genres. She collaborates as a translator with the publishing house Mutatis Mutandis and is an editor at Hénadas Revista de Pesimismo Filosófico.

Octavio Torres Gomariz. Substitute professor at the University of Barcelona and educational and heritage project technician at Galipat Servizos Culturais S.L. Affiliated with the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Barcelona, his lines of research are gender in the past and everyday life as a historical explanation, working with young people in different educational spaces and developing working methodologies based on equality and intersectionality.

Mihaela Vancea. Senior researcher. Lecturer at the University of Barcelona. Her research focuses on youth studies, with a special emphasis on intersectionality, sexualities, participation, social engagement and sustainability. She also critically examines related public policies, with the aim of promoting more inclusive and transformative approaches.

Alaitz Saez-Suarez. Pre-doctoral researcher thanks to the PREDOC-UB scholarship at the Faculty of Information and Audiovisual Media at the University of Barcelona. Her thesis focuses on the relationship between the media and butch identity, with her main lines of research being the study of audiences, audiovisual narrative and the representation of LGTBIQ+ identities.

Marina Diez-Pastor Prado. Pre-doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Education, University of Barcelona. Her work focuses on Comprehensive Sex Education (CSE), gender, and critical, feminist and queer pedagogies, using participatory approaches. She is currently exploring the transformative potential of CSE through a project based in the Benasque Valley (Huesca).

Nerea Martínez Bassart. Pre-doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Education, University of Barcelona. Her research focuses on the integration of artificial intelligence into secondary school music classrooms, with the aim of analyzing its impact on students’ creativity, motivation, and ethical literacy from a gender perspective.

Noemi Parra Abaúnza. Lecturer at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. PhD in Gender Studies from a consortium of Catalan universities (UVIC-UCC, UAB, UB, UdG, URV). Her research focuses on sexuality, gender and diversity from an intersectional and applied perspective, with particular attention to transgender adolescence, sexual and reproductive rights, and public policies on equality.

Melania Domínguez-Benítez. holds a PhD in Hispanic Philology from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and specialises in comparative literature, cultural studies and gender studies. She is currently continuing her postdoctoral research linked to the Research Group on Thought, Creation and Representation in the field of Cultural Studies (PeCRaEC) at the ULPGC and the GENSEX Group (Gender and Sex-Gender Diversities) at the Fernando Pessoa-Canarias University.

Guacimara Gil Sánchez. Contracted Professor at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. PhD in Sociology from the ULPGC. Her research focuses on the study of gender experiences and inequalities in the field of public policy, and on the critical analysis of socially responsible initiatives in large corporations. In terms of methodology, she specialises in the sociological analysis of discourse systems.

Alejandro Fleitas Mireles. PhD candidate in Social Work at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC). Social Worker from the ULPGC and Equality Officer from the University of La Laguna (ULL). He is an active member of the Sentipensar University Group for Gender and Sexuality Studies. His line of research focuses on sexual and gender diversity in childhood.

Erlantz Velasco. KALEIDOSCOPE research team. Vice-Dean of Academic Planning and Teaching Innovation at the University of Deusto. Doctor of Education from the University of Deusto. His research focuses on teaching-learning processes and the critical analysis of educational action from a gender perspective, also exploring the role of digital tools and healthy lifestyle habits in school contexts.

Jessica Paños Castro. KALEIDOSCOPE research team. Doctor in charge at the Faculty of Education and Sport at the University of Deusto. Her lines of research focus on entrepreneurial education, active methodologies and the development of generic skills, with special attention to the use of technologies applied to learning.

Maialen Astarloa Martín. Undergraduate student at the Faculty of Education and Sport at the University of Deusto. She participates in the EDUCAR research team through an Ikasiker grant from the Basque Government. Her collaboration focuses on the analysis and design of innovative educational proposals, with a special interest in the use of active methodologies and the development of skills in school contexts.