Paz Olaciregui Rodriguez, PhD

Sociologist and political scientist

paz.olaciregui@epistemesocial.org

Paz Olaciregui Rodríguez holds a PhD in Sociology and Political Science from the University of Zaragoza, specialising in gender studies. She has a Master’s degree in Sociology of Public and Social Policies from the same University and a Double Degree in Sociology and Political Science from the University Carlos III of Madrid. Convinced of the importance of networking, she has carried out research stays in Mexico (UAM), São Paulo (USP) and Buenos Aires (UBA). She has been a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), the University of Guelph (Canada) and the School of Criminology of the University of Porto, Portugal. For more than seven years she has focused her research on risk assessment and risk management in cases of gender-based violence from an intersectional perspective. She is a member of the European Feminicide Observatory and of the Teaching Innovation group ‘University in post-pandemic times: innovation, imagination and uncertainty’. She is currently a research professor at the University of Zaragoza.

Paz combines her teaching career with work as an independent professional, including directing the research project for the Government of Aragon on ‘the value of domestic and care work in the Aragonese GDP’ or the development of the protocol on violence for family meeting points. She has collaborated in projects for the European Institute for Gender Equality and the European Commission on legal improvements for victims of feminicide. In Episteme Paz is the delegate of Episteme in Aragon, where she coordinates the study ‘Processes of empowerment and access to rights in (semi) hidden drug-dependent populations. A research oriented to the evaluation of the effectiveness of social and health resources and to the evaluation of the impact of public policies and the pilot programme ‘Community Service. Multi-component programme to reduce the harm associated with alcohol and other drugs’.