Queen's University Belfast

Post-Doc, History and Anthropology

Social Anthropology Tutor - QUB / Lecturer at IHE - QUB

School of Anthropological Studies, The Queen's University of Belfast

Thesis Title: Wrapped Gifts: ritual prestations and social obligations in Contemporary Japan

About

My name is `Angels and I am a Catalan Anthropologist (Social Anthropologist) living and working in London. My research interest cluster in the fields of economic and political anthropology (exchange), gender and sexuality (bodies/LGBTs), visual anthropology (film and communication technologies) and anthropological pedagogies and methods.

I did my PhD at the School of Anthropological Studies (now History and Anthropology) at the Queen's University of Belfast. I taught there as an anthropology tutor until 2000. I also lectured for the Institute of Further Education at QUB on anthropology and Japanese Studies. I then worked for the Law, Business and Social Sciences College Dublin and for the University of Wales Lampeter as a Lecturer in Social Anthropology.

I am a member of the Royal Anthropological Institute, ASA, EASA, CMALT and the UK Higher Education Academy C-SAP (network for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics. In 2008 I was awarded a C-SAP (Centre for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics) Anthropology Associateship and the 2009 HEA C-SAP Recognition award for contributions to the discipline of Anthropology. I am also a member of the Anthropology reference group and Gender Study group for C-SAP.

I am a member of the Creative Commons, Open Access, and a member of the Open Anthropology Co-operative, FiLo Network (fieldwork in london) and ARDAC journal.

Last year I organised seven conferences, three anthropology conferences and projects, one which explores the themes of 'consent and dominance'; another which explores 'economic anthropology' after the Financial Crisis and one on fieldwork research in London.

In 2001 I started and completed (2008) the first UK e-learning degree (BA) in Social Anthropology and the first UK e-learning MA degree for the University of Wales Lampeter. My work at UWL was donated to a JISC OER C-SAP project that makes this work available online as open access for future re-usable objects in teaching practice in Anthropology.

Next week I should start completing an ethnographic project that has taken 3 years of filming! I am developing two further projects but they are just at an early start!!!

I am currently working as an anthropologist in a post of senior research assistant at the Institute of Contemporary European Studies -iCES at the European Business School London, Regent's College in London. I am also a Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology at Webster University also in Regent's College. I am a seasonal lecturer in Anthropology at Birbeck College, University of London. I am also an external examiner for the University of London, Goldsmiths College.

I moved to London from Wales in August 08 and it has been the best thing I ever did! I really enjoy being in London.

I have done anthropological research in Japan since 1995. I have done research in Europe (Wales, Barcelona, Manchester, London) since 2003. I have also carried out research on teaching and learning social anthropology in Higher Education and on e-learning/blended learnings. I am the editor of the last number of 'Why Social Sciences Matter' on employability in Higher Education with the University of Birmingham. I am also the editor of the Anthropology Journal: Consent and Cultural Politics. I also run an online open access project and the anthropologies twitter.

I have a passion for films, chocolate and communication and virtual technologies. I have a young family in progress.

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