Ana
Bravo Moreno

Research Professor
Dept. of Science and Innovation
Metrics and Innovation in Science and Technology (MIST)
Office
3A10
Phone
916022446 / Extensión interna: 441253
Biografía

Principal Investigator of the project REPRO-SCAPES: A Novel Approach to New Family Forms, Assisted Reproductive Technologies, and Transnationalism. A multi-sited ethnography: Spain, Denmark, Canada, and Israel funded by the ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2022-ADG); Principal Investigator of the project “REPRO-SCAPES: A Novel Approach to New Family Forms, Assisted Reproductive Technologies, and Transnationalism. A multi-sited ethnography: Spain, Denmark, Canada, and Israel” funded by the ERC Advanced Grant. Professor of Social Anthropology, PhD in social anthropology, University of London that was funded by the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) of the United Kingdom; MSc in social anthropology, University College of London; and I was an Erasmus student in the MA in Women's Studies & Education, Institute of Education, London (UK), and BA (Hons) in Philosophy from the Autonomous University of Madrid. I have participated in 14 international and national research projects and led 9 as principal researcher that were funded by the European Commission, Marie S. Curie (H2020), the Economic and Social Research Council (UK), the Ministry of Science and External Affairs (Spain), the Agency of International Cooperation (Spain), the Spanish National Plan for Scientific Research (I+D), the Plan of Andalusia for Excellent Research (I+D), the Ramón y Cajal Program, Salvador de Madariaga, Next-Generation EU, among others. I have a strong interdisciplinary research interest, and over the past thirty years, my research has focused on assisted reproductive technologies, reproductive health, transnational mobilities, and issues of citizenship, equity, and diversity. I have received 12 fellowships and have over a decade of experience in ethnographic fieldwork in London, Miami, Los Angeles, Madrid, and Granada. Most of my publications have been published by peer-reviewed international publishers (SPI-Q1,Q2). I have coordinated and participated in academic networks such as the European Science Foundation (ESF), the Erasmus Mundus Program, the Association of Social Anthropologists (ASA), the Comparative Education Society in Europe (CESE), and the Social Policy Association (SPI). I have been an expert consultant for the International and Ibero-American Foundation for Administration and Public Policies (FIIAPP). I have been a visiting scholar at UC Irvine, UC Berkeley, Brown University, Florida International University, University College London, and Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina, and an evaluator for the State Research Agency (Spain) and for international journals like Sociology of Health & Illness, Ethnic and Racial Studies, British Journal of Educational Studies, and Oxford University Press.

Publications

Books

(2026). Los males de la academia. Abuso de poder, endogamia, acoso, corrupción y otras violencias. Peter Lang.

(2025). Biotechnologies and Reproductive Agency. An Ethnography of Solo Motherhood in Spain and the United Kingdom. Routledge. 

(2015). Desigualdades, Diferencias y Experiencias de (no) Pertenencia en Educación. Peter Lang.

(2006). Migration, Gender and National Identity. Peter Lang.

(2001). Cultura y Maternidad en la Inmigración: Desigualdades en la Salud Reproductiva. Instituto Universitario de Estudios sobre Migraciones. Universidad de Comillas.

Book chapters

(2026). Ogáyar-Marín, F. J.  &  Bravo-Moreno, A. (2026). Técnicas de Reproducción Humana Asistida (TRHA) y Asociacionismo en España: Estrategias, Desafíos y Transformaciones”. In Adrián J. Ricoy-Cano, Gabriela E. Vásquez-Peña, y Pedro J. Salguero-González (Eds.) Epistemologías insurgentes para prácticas de transformación social. Entre lo global y lo situado: Investigación y acción social para la resistencia y la co-construcción del saber. Dykinson. ISBN 979-13-7006-505-8. https://www.dykinson.com/libros/epistemologias-insurgentes-para-practicas-de-transformacion-social/9791370065058/

Recent articles

(2026). Donor Conception and Family Connection: Beyond Genetic Reductionism in the Postgenomic Era. Human Fertility. DOI:  10.1080/14647273.2026.2674709

(2022). Demystifying the Academy: Resistance, Ethics and Abuse of Power. Power and Education.

(2022). Reproductive Agency, Assisted Reproductive Technology & Obstetric Violence. Health Care for Women International.

(2021). The Intersection of Reproductive, Work-Life Balance and Early-Education and Care Policies: ‘Solo’ Mothers by Choice in the UK and Spain. Social Sciences.

Press

(2026).  De Argentina a EEUU pasando por España, el mundo académico tiene un problema de malas prácticas: "El modelo se presta" elDiario.es 

(2025). Carreras de espermatozoides, el último episodio de la obsesión de la ‘machosfera’ con el semen. elDiario.es