Biography

Professor of Sociology at the University of Barcelona, Fellow at CREA -Community of Researchers on Excellence for all. Affiliated member of the Centre for Community, Gender and Social Justice. Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. Results have been published in top-ranked journals as well as in several books among which we highlight in 2003: “Women and social transformation” published together with Judith Butler and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim.

Her research is in the field of violence against women and the socialization processes behind this. In particular, along with colleagues at CREA, has focused on the advancement of the understanding of the causes and the prevention of gender violence among young people. Research funded by the European Commission (FP5, FP6 and FP7) and other national and regional funded researches have enabled her to contribute and expand the line of preventive socialization of gender violence (Puigvert, L., Gelsthorpe, L., Soler-Gallart, M. & Flecha, R. (2019). Girls’ perceptions of boys with violent attitudes and behaviors, and of sexual attraction. Palgrave Communications, 5(56); Valls, R., Puigvert, L., & Duque, E. (2008). Gender Violence amongst teenagers: socialization and prevention. Violence against Women,14(7), 759-785) and Valls, R., Puigvert, L., Melgar, P., & García-Yeste, C. (2015). Breaking the silence at the Spanish universities: the first research about violence against women. Violence Against Women, the pioneering research on gender violence at the university in Spain. The results of this project were included in the Spanish Law for Effective Equality between Women and Men (2007) and led to the creation of the first protocol for the prevention of sexual harassment and response in a Spanish university

She also has influenced the recognition of non-academic women in the feminist movement: the “other women”. Prof. Puigvert works closely to the social movements and policymakers using a methodology that has contributed to achieved high social and political impact (Gómez, A., Puigvert, L. & Flecha R. (2011). Critical Communicative Methodology: Informing real social transformation through research. Qualitative Inquiry, 17 (3), 235-245). She also has been responsible for the gender dimension of a large-scale EU project IMPACT-EV (2014-2017), focused on the development of a permanent system of selection, monitoring and evaluation of the various impacts of Social Sciences and the Humanities research.

In 2008 Prof. Puigvert was a member of the Advisory Group of EPACVAW -European Policy Action Centre on Violence Against Women within the European Women’s Lobby and evaluator expert at the topic 7.1.2. Gender and Citizenship in a Multicultural Context in the 6th Framework Programme. Responsible for Gender issues as well as one of the three members of the General Coordination Team: INTEGRATED PROJECT Priority 7 of Sixth Framework Programme (2006- 2011): INCLUD-ED. Strategies for inclusion and social cohesion from education in Europe. This research project was highlighted by the EC DG Research as one of the ten success stories in added value and innovation research (the only one in the Social Sciences and Humanities) and part of its results have been recommended by the European Commission, the Council of Europe and the European Parliament.