Anna Gálvez Mozo

Ana Gálvez has a PhD in Psychology. She is an associate professor in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. From 2011 to 2017, she was director of the licenciatura and bachelor's degree in Psychology. She has taught Social Psychology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and has worked in different organizations in the professional sector in areas related to career advancement and the design of in-company training through ICT.

She began her research career studying social interaction in virtual environments and analysing the social and cultural transformations that the virtual world implies. During this time, she participated in the following research projects:

1998-2001. Sociability on the virtual campus: an approach to the study of the communications, interactions and social relations of UOC students. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.

2000-2001. The virtualization of institutions: the impact of ICT on users in organizations. Ministry of Education and Culture.

2002-2003. Between women on the web: a study of social interactions between women in electronic conversation spaces. Catalan Women's Institute.

Subsequently, she expanded her lines of research and focused on the study of the balance between professional, family and personal life, and its relationship with remote work. During this time, she was principal investigator of the following competitive research projects:

2005-2008. Work-life balance in women working with ICT: a psychosocial and cultural analysis of the strategies in place. Ministry of Equality. Secretariat-General for Equality Policies. Spanish Women's Institute.

2010-2011. The balance between professional, family, personal life and remote work: a comparative analysis of genders. Catalan Women's Institute.

She is currently principal investigator of the research project Remote work, gender and social sustainability. Towards a new work culture. Ministry of Science and Innovation (PID2021-127076OB-I00).

She coordinates the TRAGSO (Work, Gender and Society) research group. Her current research interests focus on two lines of work: the first focuses on analysing the relationship between gender, work, the balance between professional, family and personal life, and social sustainability; and the second on exploring how the new working patterns, marked by job insecurity and flexibility, affect and shape the lives of workers and their life plans, as well as the role of gender in these issues.

The main publications resulting from these lines of research are the following:

– Valenzuela, A., Gálvez, A. and Alcalde-González, V. (2022). Invisible Room Attendants: Outsourcing as a Dispositive of (In)visibility and the Resistance of Las Kellys in Spain. Work, Employment and Society.

– Alcalde-González, V., Gálvez, A. and Valenzuela, A. (2022). "Las Kellys son las que limpian": Collective identity and social media in the mobilisation of room attendants in Spain. New Media & Society.

– Alcalde-González, V., Gálvez, A. and Valenzuela, A. (2021). No clean rooms, no hotel business: Subversion tactics in Las Kellys' struggle for dignity in hotel housekeeping. Annals of Tourism Research, 91, 103315

– Alcaraz, J. M.; Tirado, F. and Gálvez, A. (2021) Dark times for cosmopolitanism? An ethical framework to address private agri-food governance and planetary stewardship. Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility, 30(4), 697-715.

– Gálvez, A.; Tirado, F. & Alcaraz, J. M. (2021). Resisting Patriarchal Cultures: The Case of Female Spanish Home-Based Teleworkers. Work, Employment and Society, 35(2), 369-385.

– Gálvez, A., Tirado, F., Alcaráz, J. (2020). "Oh! Teleworking!" Regimes of engagement and the lived experience of female Spanish teleworkers. Business Ethics: A European Review, 29, 180-192.

– Gálvez, A.; Tirado, F.; Martínez, M. (2020). Work-Life Balance, Organizations and Social Sustainability: Analyzing Female Telework in Spain. Sustainability, 12, 3567.

– Gálvez, A.; Tirado, F. (2020). Ideological dilemmas and everyday life: A qualitative research about Spanish female teleworkers. Psicoperspectivas. Individuo y Sociedad, 19 (3), 17-28.

She has completed four teaching periods and two six-year research periods. In 2020 and 2018, she won the Best Article and Best Critical Paper awards, respectively, from the Academy of Management.