Principal Investigator, University of Sheffield, UK
Rebecca is lecturer in Modern Languages, Media and Culture studies at the University of Sheffield, with an expertise in Mexico and Cuba and a particular interest in the cultural politics of reproduction and health. Her previous British Academy/Leverhulme funded project focused on the representation of the politics of childbirth and midwifery in contemporary Mexican cultural production. Rebecca coordinates a podcast about the cultural politics of reproduction in Latin America, called Cuerpa Politica.
r.ogden@sheffield.ac.uk
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Sheffield, UK
Saskia has a PhD in Development Studies from King's College, London, where researched adolescent pregnancy and multi-sided violence in Ayacucho, Peru, and where she teaches on the Development Studies programme. She is also one of the founding members of the Editorial Collective of the online publication, Feminist Perspectives. Her research interests include the political economy of adolescent pregnancy, the intersections of invisibilised violence (structural, symbolic, and normalised violence), sexual and reproductive health and violence, and constructions of adolescence.
s.hoskins@sheffield.ac.uk
Research Partner
Diurkis is a professor and researcher at the Center for Management and Local Development Studies, at the University of Granma, Cuba. She has a PhD in Sociological Sciences and a Master's in Community Cultural Development. Her research focuses on sociological issues relating to the family, gender, youth, cultural consumption, social vulnerability, as well as research on population dynamics and local development. She has published over 50 research papers, and has been awarded various national and provincial prizes and recognitions for her academic work, including the Premio de la Academia de Ciencias de Cuba.
Research Partner
Itzel is a researcher at the Regional Centre for Multidisciplinary Research (CRIM) at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), attachd to the Population Studies programme. She has a PhD in Sociology from the Université Laval, Canada and is part of the Latin American network for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies (UNAM-Yale University). Her areas of interest include: gender studies and intersectional analysis, teenage pregnancy, the sociology of the body, the sociology of sexuality, sexual and reproductive health, social inequalities, and quantitative and qualitative methods.
Research Partner
Catherine is a researcher at the Regional Centre for Multidisciplinary Research (CRIM) at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).