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Lisa Lazard is a Professor in the School of Psychology and Counselling at The Open University. Her research interests include gender, intersectional inequalities, identity and power. She has studied these issues in relation two broad areas – sexual harassment and digital cultures. Her recent research on sexual harassment is concerned with how gendered, intersectional inequalities shape contemporary understandings of this form of gendered violence. Through this work, Lisa has been commissioned as a UK parliamentary consultant and trainer for several years, working on gendered working relationships, respect and dignity in organisational settings. In her capacity as a consultant and trainer, Lisa has developed evidence-based strategy, policy and training programmes on gender equality and delivered training for clients in both private and public sectors. Lisa’s work on digital cultures has focused on women’s curation of self and relationships on-line, digital motherhood and families use of social media. Her academic interest in gendered relationships has facilitated the long-standing involvement she has had in the Psychology of Women & Equalities Section of the British Psychological Society where she is currently serving as Chair.

Rose Capdevila is Professor of Psychology at The Open University (UK). Her research focuses on the construction and transgression of discursive boundaries around identity – in particular political and gender identities. She has recently been conducting research on gender and digital spaces as well as the history of feminist psychology in the UK. Rose co-edits the book series Feminist Companions to Psychology and was co-editor of the award-winning Handbook of International Feminisms: Perspectives on Psychology, Women, Culture, and Rights. She has been co-editor of the journal Feminism & Psychology and long time member and past chair of the Psychology of Women & Equalities Section of the British Psychological Society.

Simone is a senior research manager at The Open University. At the core, her projects have focused mainly on international development, working with academics to develop partnerships and research initiatives in the Global South. She has also project managed multiple institutional projects on Gender, such as Athena SWAN.

Alison Davies is a post-doctoral research associate at The Open University. Her research interests include gender, identity and social justice issues, particularly in relation to the gendering effects of mental health discourses. More recently, her research focus has been on digital exclusion and the psychosocial barriers to digital engagement. She is a committee member of the Psychology of Women & Equalities Section of the British Psychological Society.

Irmgard Tischner is a critical (health) psychologist with a keen interest in gender, health and social justice issues such as the positioning and representation of women in contemporary societies, social inequalities in health and work environments, etc.. Her research focus is on the productive nature of language and the dominant discourses on gender, health and society, predominantly using discourse and thematic analysis as her method of analysis. Irmgard has gained international working experience in the industry as well as higher education, and she has been working at Deggendorf Institute of Technology (Germany) since 2018. Irmgard is an active member of the Story Completion research team (https://www.storycompletion.net/), as well a member of the BPS Psychology of Women and Equality Section.

Antonia Heil joins GEiO as a PhD student in Gender and Political Science at Deggendorf Institute of Technology. Her research interests include the study of political parties and gender studies. In her work, she explores social structures and power relations, electoral behavior, and extremism.

Annadís Greta Rúdólfsdóttir is an associate Professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Iceland. She studied at the London School of Economic and Political Science and completed her PhD in Social Psychology in 1997. She worked in the UK for 10 years, first as a lecturer at the department of Social Psychology at LSE (1999-2000) and then as a senior lecturer in social psychology at the University of the West of England (UWE) (2000-2009). She was the Studies Director of the United Nations University Gender Equality Studies and Training Programme (UNU-GEST) between 2009-2015. Dr Rúdólfsdóttir has done extensive research on gender and specialises in qualitative research methods. In her research she has used affective discursive approaches to analyse constructions of gender, young femininities, motherhood, and young feminist movements. Her latest publications have been in Journal of Gender Studies, Feminism and Psychology, Social Science and Medicine and Gender Work and Organization.

Gyða Margrét Pétursdóttir is a Professor in Gender Studies at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Iceland. She completed her Ph.D. in 2009 from the University of Iceland. Her main areas of research are gender, gender relations, work cultures, gender in higher education, feminism in higher education, police work and gender, family responsibility, masculinities, femininities and gender based violence from various angles. She has carried out both quantitative and qualitative research but focuses more on the latter. Pétursdóttir´s research has been published internationally, most recently in Journal of Gender Studies, Gender and Education and NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research.

Katrín Ólafsdóttir completed a PhD degree from the University of Iceland in 2022, specialising in critical studies. She is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the School of Education, University of Iceland. Her research interests include critical theory, power imbalances, gender, intimate partner violence and affect theory.

Flora Tietgen is a doctoral candidate and adjunct lecturer at the Faculty for Education and Diversity at the School of Education, University of Iceland. Her research interests include gender-based violence, immigrant experiences, structural violence, intersectionality and critical theory. Her PhD project is on immigrant women's experiences of intimate partner violence in Iceland. Flora completed an MA degree in political science and sociology from the University of Würzburg, Germany, in 2017. Before starting her PhD, she worked as a project assistant at a gender research and training institution in Iceland.

Barbara Biglia is a Serra Hunter Associate Professor in the Department of Pedagogy of the Universitat Rovira and Virgili. She holds a PhD in Psychology from the UB (2006), and her research focuses on a diverse range of themes: sexual and gender-related violence; processes of knowledge construction/production and feminist epistemology; research methodology; the influence of gender roles in processes of identity construction; virtual teaching and (cyber)feminist pedagogy; analysis of public policy. She is the URV PI of the research group GREDI, founder of the SIMREF and board member of the Inter-University Women and Gender Studies Institute (IIEDG). Her more recent finalized Project has been the SeGReVUni Visibilizing and measuring the scale and scope of sexual and gender-related violence in universities. In 2022 she won an award of the Catalan Justice Observatory of Machist Violence for the research Let's learn together: responses to Sexual and gender-related violence in Catalan and Mexican Universities and the mention Encarna Sanahuja for the excellence in the inclusion of gender perspective in university teaching practice.

Jordi is a Lecturer at the Department of Sociology of The University of Barcelona. He holds a PhD in Social Psychology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He has been a visiting scholar at the Metropolitan Manchester University and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. He has previously worked at other academic institutions such as the Universitat Rovira I Virigli and the Universitat de Girona.

He is co-coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Working Group on Feminist Research Methodology a research/teaching group focused on exploring feminist strategy of knowledge production with the objective of transforming both ‘science’ and ‘society’. His research topics are in the wider area of feminism, spreading from feminist methodology to anti-feminism and anti-gender movements. He is a member of the Research Group Cópolis. Many of his publications are available the ResearchGate website.

Marta Castillo holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and Language Sciences at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). From an interdisciplinary approach, her research interests encompass the sociology of trends, discourse analysis, and media studies. More recently, she has addressed the discursive basis of managerialism with a strong interest in the new digital economy. She joins GEiO as a postdoctoral researcher at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain.

Adriana Gil-Juárez has a degree in Psychology from the UNAM in Mexico, a Master’s degree in social psychology and PhD in Psychology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona where she is currently a Senior Lecturer in Developmental and Educational Psychology. She has been visiting researcher at the Centre for Gender and Women Studies at Lancaster University, UK and visiting lecturer at the Department of Sociology, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa, Mexico. She has been coordinating the JovenTIC research group since 2000. Adriana’s research interests include the gender digital divide, gender identities and ICTs, online gender violence and qualitative methodology. Adriana is a member of the research group GREDI of the Universitat de Barcelona and co-principal researcher of the SEGREVUNI project.

Sara Cagliero completed her PhD students in 2019 at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. From the beginning of her research career, Sara has been interested in gender and gendered relations, especially dealing with themes related to sexual and gender violence. During the completion of her doctoral thesis and through her engagement with the Interdisciplinary Seminar of Feminist Research Methodology (SIMReF), Sara has become interested in feminist methodologies and the process of knowledge production. Sara has been involved in a number of competitive research projects and secured a traineeship at the European Commission. Her current research focuses on the analysis of the policies against sexual and gender violence within universities in various institutional contexts. She an active member of the GREDI - an interdisciplinary and interuniversity research group on intercultural education and gender.

Julia Nuño de la Rosa is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Basics, Developmental, and Educational Psychology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). She received her Ph.D. in Humanities at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and holds a master's degree in Citizenship and Human Rights, Ethics and Politics at the University of Barcelona. She teaches humanities and social science in secondary school and collaborated with the Institute of Government and Public Policy (UAB) in research on participatory action and education in secondary schools. She has a lot of experience in communitarian projects and social movements. She worked as a researcher in CHIEF (Cultural Heritage and Identities of Europe's Future) project (HORIZON 2020), collaborating with different working packages, and coordinating the mini-projects related to youth people, and social and cultural organizations in Spain. In parallel to her academic activity, she is a member of the coordination team in PROLLEMA, a pro-mother tongue language project in Barcelona, that trains young migrant people, unemployed and at risk of social exclusion, to be a teacher of their own languages.

Alejandra Araiza Díaz holds a Ph.D. in Social Psychology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She was Researcher-Professor at the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo (Mexico, 2014-2022). She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain. Her research and academic production have mainly focused on the fields of epistemology and methodology in feminist research, gender-related violence and femicide, communication and gender, and women’s political participation, among others. She is a member of GREDI and SIMReF research groups.