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National Prize for Sociology and Political Science 2018
Madrid, 24 July 2018
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Tuesday, July 24, 2018. This year's National Prize for Sociology and Political Science has been awarded to María Ángeles Durán Heras . This Award is a recognition of contribution and scientific work in the field of Sociology or Political Science and is awarded for a professional career or a singular work.
María Ángeles Durán has a PhD in Political Science, a degree in Political and Economic Sciences (Political section). She has been Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of Zaragoza and head of the Chair at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the Autonomous University of Madrid. Research Professor at the CSIC. He has directed the Department of Socioeconomic Analysis and belonged to the Departments of Economy and Population.
She currently teaches postgraduate courses at various universities and is a consultant for several international entities.
In 2002 he received the Pascual Madoz National Research Award in Social, Economic and Legal Sciences. She is also an Honoris Causa Doctor from the Universities of Valencia, the Autonomous University of Madrid and Granada.
She has been President of the Spanish Federation of Sociology (FES), member of the Executive Committee of the International Sociological Association, founder and director of the Institute of Women's Studies of the Autonomous University of Madrid and of the UNESCO Chair “Equality Policies”.
He has carried out research stays at the Institute for Social Research (University of Michigan), College of Spain in Paris, European Institute of Florence, University of Washington (Seattle), University of Cambridge, Pontificia Universidade Católica (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
She has collaborated with UNESCO, World Health Organization, ILO, Economic Commission for Latin America, United Nations Development Program, UNFPA and UN Women.
He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Autonomous University of Madrid, Club of Rome (Spanish chapter), Commission of Experts of the Health Plan of the Valencian Community, Academy of Sciences of Malaga (corresponding), Fundacion General CSIC (advisory commission on aging ), Advisory Committee of the Sociological Research Center and Advisory Committee of the Ibero-American Union of Municipalities.
She has published more than two hundred works on unpaid work, time use, health, women, inequality and urban planning. Among his books are “The Invisible Costs of Illness” (2003), “If Aristotle Raised His Head” (2003), “Unpaid Work in the Global Economy” (2012), “Older People in the Global Economy” Basque Country” (2014) and the recent articles “The other Spanish economy” (2015), “The impossible neutrality of science” (2016), “Methodological alternatives in research on care” (2016), “The costs are not health care of chronic diseases” (2017) and “The invisible wealth of care: Necessary innovations in economic and sociological analysis” (2018).
The winner has been recognized for her extensive research and teaching career, and for her role in sociology in Spain and internationally. His intellectual production has left its mark on the sociology of work, family, health, and urban planning and has contributed to the development of studies on the relationship between men and women.
She is the only Spanish sociologist who has achieved the prestigious Pascual Madoz National Research Award.
The jury was made up of the president of the CIS, the Professor of Sociology José Félix Tezanos Tortajada, the Professor of Sociology of the Complutense University of Madrid Inés Alberdi Alonso, the Professor of Sociology of the Rey Juan Carlos Alfonso de Esteban Alonso University, the Professor of Political Science and Administration of the Complutense University Esther del Campo García, the Professor of Political Science of the National University of Distance Education Irene Delgado Sotillos, the Full Professor of Sociology of the Complutense University María José Mateo Rivas, the Professor of Sociology from the National University of Distance Education María Rosario H. Sánchez Morales and the Professor of Sociology at the Carlos III University of Madrid Constanza Tobío Soler.
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