Ana
Bravo Moreno
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); 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 been a tenured professor of social anthropology at the University of Granada, and previously I taught at the Open University and at City University in London for twelve years. I have been a principal researcher at the Institute of Migration Studies, University of Comillas in Madrid, and have participated in 14 international and national research projects, led 9 as principal researcher that have been financed by: Project of Excellence R & D Junta de Andalucía, National Plan of R & D, Marie S. Curie (H2020), Ramón y Cajal Program, CICODE, AECID, Next Generation-EU, Salvador de Madariaga, among others.
My research has focused on assisted reproductive technologies, new family forms, reproductive health, international migration, identities, education, and racialization. I have over a decade of experience in ethnographic fieldwork in London (UK), Miami, Los Angeles (USA), Madrid, and Granada (Spain). My publications: research monographs, edited books, and book chapters have been published in international publishers (SPI-Q1), and my academic articles have been published mostly in international journals; some examples are: SAGE Open, Health Care for Women International, Qualitative Report, Comparative Education, and Power & Education. I have participated in academic networks such as 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) and the “Transnational Family Dynamics in Europe (TraFaDy)” Committee of the EU, and an advisor on the Academic Committee of Telemark Research Institute, Norway.
I have been a visiting researcher at the University of California Irvine, UC Berkeley, Brown University, Florida International University, University College of London, Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina, and an evaluator for the State Research Agency (Spain) and for international journals like Ethnic and Racial Studies, British Journal of Educational Studies, and Latino Studies, and I am also a member of the editorial board of PLOS One Journal.
Books
(2024). Biotechnologies and Reproductive Agency. An Ethnography of Solo Motherhood in Spain and the United Kingdom. Routledge.
https://www.routledge.com/9781032209821
(2015). Desigualdades, Diferencias y Experiencias de (no) Pertenencia en Educación. Peter Lang.
https://www.peterlang.com/document/1053392
(2006). Migration, Gender and National Identity. Peter Lang.
https://www.peterlang.com/document/1098717
(2001). Cultura y Maternidad en la Inmigración: Desigualdades en la Salud Reproductiva. Instituto Universitario de Estudios sobre Migraciones. Universidad de Comillas.
Recent articles
(2022). Demystifying the Academy: Resistance, Ethics and Abuse of Power. Power and Education.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17577438211068283
(2022). Reproductive Agency, Assisted Reproductive Technology & Obstetric Violence. Health Care for Women International. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07399332.2021.1883026
(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. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/10/12/458