Begoña Abad
PhD in Political Science and Sociology (2008) and Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Work at the University of the Basque Country (EHU). She specializes in discourse analysis and advanced qualitative social research methods, as well as in the ethics of qualitative social research. Her research has addressed social cohesion and community development from a social innovation perspective, as well as practices aimed at overcoming inequalities in vulnerable populations. She currently focuses on epistemological, methodological, and ethical innovation in social research using visual materials applied to the field of culture. She is the author of books, book chapters (published by academic presses listed in Scholarly Publishers), and scientific articles in journals indexed in Web of Science and Scopus. Notable publications include: Investigación social cualitativa y dilemas éticos: De la ética vacía a la ética situada (Empiria. Revista de Metodología de Ciencias Sociales, no. 34, 2016); Regímenes de movilidad y expropiación del tiempo: la espera como cronopolítica (Arbor, 194(788), a453, 2018); Reflexiones sobre archivo y análisis secundario de datos cualitativos: perspectiva ética, metodológica y epistemológica (Investigação Qualitativa em Ciências Sociais / Investigación Cualitativa en Ciencias Sociales, CIAIQ2019 Proceedings, Vol. 3, 2019); (with Andrés Dávila) Infortunio de la investigación social cualitativa en la era del capitalismo académico (New Trends in Qualitative Research, 4, 2020); and (with Sandra González) From compass to radar: An innovative methodological strategy for researching cultural innovation (European Public & Social Innovation Review, 7(2), 2022).
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