Asunción Pie Balaguer

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Professor Agregat Psychology and Educational Sciences Department

Expert in::

  • functional diversity
  • feminism
  • educational philosophy
  • social pedagogy
Research group
CareNet
Area
Social sciences
Area of specialization
City and Community,
Membership Center
Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3)
Collaborates with
e-Learn Center

ODS:

  • 3 - Health and well-being
  • 5 - Gender equality

My profile

Asun Pié Balaguer has a PhD in Education from the University of Barcelona, as well as a Diploma in Social Education from Ramon Llull University. She is a member of teaching staff and researcher at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya's (UOC) Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences. She is also a member of the research group CareNet. Care and Preparedness in the Network Society (IN3-UOC). Her research focuses on feminist disability studies. She has been a guest scholar at the University of Antioquia (Colombia), the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the National Pedagogical University of Hidalgo in Pachuca, Mexico, and Austral University of Chile (UACh), among others. She has been co-director of the research project The Collaborative Management of Medication: a participatory action and research project in the field of mental health (URV-UOC). RecerCaixa 2016. Citizen participation in health policies (2017-2020). She worked as a researcher on the project Metaphors of Severe Mental Disorders. Discourse analysis of affected people and mental health professionals (2018-2021) (Spanish National R&D Plan: FFI2017-86969-R).

She is a member of the international network Red Internacional de Investigadores y Participantes sobre Integración/Inclusión educativa (RIIE). She has been a member of the Observatorio internacional de práticas de gestão autônoma da medicação (Brazil) since 2022. She is currently a member of the Medical Anthropology Research Center (MARC) at Universitat Rovira i Virgili, as well as of the Catalan Mental Health Congress Foundation's (FFCCSM, Barcelona) Healthcare Ethics Committee. She is co-director of the Pedagogías Contemporáneas series published by Oberta Publishing. Some of her publications can be found at:

https://www.researchgate.net/

 

2nd Prize with Mention awarded by the Association of Educators of Catalonia (COPEC) in the 9th

edition of the Frederic Company i Franquesa Pedagogical Essay Award.  "Inclusion vs.

Segregation. Approaches from an education point of view". 2019.

Scholarship from the Ministry of Equality. Women, disability and employment. A new approach towards inclusion