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Dr Àngels Trias i Valls

Dr Mª Àngels Trias i Valls  BA MA (UCB) PhD (QUB)
Lecturer in Social Anthropology

iCES Senior Research Assistant

Phone:+44 207 487 7464

E-mail: triasiva@regents.ac.uk

• Academic Experience
• Professional Memberships
• External Affiliations
• Professional Distinctions
• Research and Teaching
• Publications
• Media Contacts

Academic Experience

• Institute of Contemporary European Studies, EBSL, Regent's College 2008-ongoing:
                    iCES Senior Research Assistant  
                    Occasional Lecturer
                    Research & Publications
                    Anthropology Delegate C-SAP
  
• Regent's American College, Regent's College ongoing:
                    Lecturer in Anthropology        
           
• University of Wales, Lampeter:
  2000-2008 Lecturer in Social Anthropology (BA) & (MA)
                    Convenor MA degree in Social Anthropology
                    Head of learning technologies for the E-learning BA and
                    MA degrees in Social Anthropology
                    AUT/CU Equal Opportunities and LGBT Officer
                    Tutor in Social Anthropology
  2001-2008 Departmental C-SAP Associate
  2005-2008 UWL Research Institute Member: Cultural Politics
  2006-2008 Chair of the Open Learning Committee
  2000-2004 Staff co-ordinator of the Tairona Heritage Trust
  2000-2008 Co-organiser of University of Wales, Staff-Student conferences University of Wales, Gregynog
  
•  BLS Dublin College
  1999-2000  Lecturer in Social Anthropology
  
• The Queen’s University of Belfast
  1997-2000 Teaching Assistant in Social Anthropology.
  1998-2000 Faculty Examination and Graduation Ceremony Assistant.
                    Distance Learning production for Introduction to
                    Anthropology
           1999 Teacher at the Institute of Further and Continuing
                    Education on Japanese Studies
  
• University of Central Lancashire
           2000 Distance Learning multimedia production for Applied
                    Medical Anthropology

Membership of Professional Bodies

• The European Association of Social Anthropologists
• Association of Social Anthropologist
• Royal Anthropological Institute
• Higher Education C-SAP (Centre for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics)
• Association for Learning Technologist

External Adviser/Examiner/Funding

Professional Distinctions

• The 2009 Higher Education C-SAP Award Recognition of Contribution to the discipline of Anthropology
• The Higher Education Academy Centre for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics (C-SAP)  Associate Award 2008
• Research Affiliate to the Institute of Languages and Cultures in Asia and Africa. University of Tokyo, Japan

Research and Teaching

Àngels Trias i Valls has fifteen years of academic research experience in the field of social anthropology. She specialises in economic anthropology, anthropology of gender and visual anthropology.

Àngels is a member of the Higher Education Academy subject network for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics and of the C-SAP and BSA study group for Gender Studies. She was awarded the 2008 Higher Education Academy C-SAP associateship in Anthropology and in 2009 she has been awarded the Higher Education C-SAP Excellence award in Anthropology. 

In December 2008, she attended the 2008 C-SAP Conference on the Internationalisation of the Curriculum in Edimburgh. In 2009 she chaired a discussion pannel for C-SAP conference on 'Virtual Universities', London and on 'Employability after the Crash', Birmingham. She is involved with several academic websites, Open Anthropology Association, the FiLo Network, and an Anthropology Twitter, Open Anthropology Cooperative, and a discussant of Altermodernity.  She is preparing her third monograph, two ethnographic films and other works for publication. In her spare time she enjoys going to the movies.

Ethnography

Àngels two main ethnographic areas are Japan and Europe although she has also conducted research in Morocco and Malaysia. Her focus of research is on the area of economic anthropology and its intersection with the politics of cultural consent and gendered identities within globalisation processes, cosmopolitanism and citizenship rights.  Àngels interests include research on the theme of learning, teaching and research in Higher Education in the UK, with special emphasis on new communication and virtual technologies.

Teaching

Àngels is a lecturer in anthropology and taught for twelve years and has convened and extensively taught most core modules in Social Anthropology at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. In 2000 she pioneered the creation and delivery of the first e-learning MA and BA degree in Social Anthropology in the UK; she became Chair for Open Learning (Distributed and E-learning) in 2006. From 2001 to 2008 she was the UC officer for Equal Opportunities and LGBT at Lampeter. She was also the member of the Research Institute at UWL on the area of Cultural Politics. She co-ordinated the Staff/Postgraduate Theory Group and actively participated in seminars and conferences both in the UK and abroad. She is an anthropology lecturer for Regent's American College and a visisting anthropology lecturer for Birkberk college.

Current Research and Ongoing Projects

Àngels is conducting two strands of fieldwork research. In Catalonia she is completing research on economic anthropology on the theme of commodity exchange and political inclusion locally and within Europe. In London, she is doing prospective fieldwork considering cultural politics within London-based transnational LGBT groups and their European Networks. The overall theoretical emphasis is on defining an Anthropology of Relationality in the age of biotechnology, globalisation and altermodernity.

Àngels is involved supporting research projects within iCES. She is also supporting the editorial production of several iCES publications: 2009 Contemporary Europe: iCES Annual Review 08/09 Institute of Contemporary European Studies, ISSN 2040-6487/2040-6495. And 2009 iCES Occasional Paper series, Institute of Contemporary European Studies, ISSN 2040-6509/2040-6517.

Additionally, she has an ongoing research-based visual ethnographies project online, and an ongoing online archive of her previous elearning anthropological projects. She is also working towards the editing of two volumes, one on conference proceedings from 'interrogating consent and dominance' and another one on 'social science matters: critiques to employability in Higher Education' with C-SAP.  She is in the Editorial Board of the Welsh Academic Press series of Political Studies. She is the chief editor of 'Anthropology Reviews: Dissent and Cultural Politics'.

Selected Publications

2001 Wrapped Gifts. Ritual Prestations and social obligations in contemporary Japan. CSAC Monographs online 19. Center for Social Anthropology and Computing: The University of Kent 

2002 ‘The Dangers of Wrapping gifts: El Perill d’ embolicar regals’ in Identidades, Relaciones y Contextos (ed. J Bestard) Barcelona:UB 2002:93-113 ISBN: 84-457-2724-7

2002 ‘Online teaching: The role of visual media in the delivery of Anthropology online’ in Visual Learning, Visual Teaching (ed. S.Pink, L Kurti) Anthropology in Action 2002, Volume 9, Issue 2. ISBN: ISSN 0967-2019. 

2009 ‘Escaping the ‘modern’ excesses of Japanese life: critical voices on Japanese rural cosmopolitanism’ in “United in Discontent: Local Responses to Cosmopolitanism, Multiculturalism and Globalisation” Kirtsoglou, E and Theodossopoulous, D (Eds.) Routledge: London.

2009 Book review (2008) Diez, T, Albert, M and Stetter, S (Eds) The European Union and Border Conflicts. The power of Integration and Association. Cambridge University Press: New York. In 'Research Review: The Cultural Politics of Borders and Kinship in Europe' Contemporary Europe. iCES Publications,  ISSN: 2040-6495

2009 Book Review (2009) Edwards, J and Salazar, C (Eds) European Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology.  Berghahn Books: New York. In 'Research Review: The Cultural Politics of Borders and Kinship in Europe' Contemporary Europe. iCES Publications,  ISSN: 2040-6495

2009 ‘Normalising Japan’. Book Review for Democracy and Security. Volume 6 Taylor & Francis ISSN 1741-9166

2009 Editor 'Why Social Science Matters: Employability after the Crash'. C-SAP:Higher Education Academy Subject Network for Sociology, Anthropology, Politics, University of Birmingham, Issue 2. ISBN 1902191374

2009 'Last in Line: When employability is not enough' in Why Social Science Matters: Employability after the Crash. C-SAP:Higher Education Academy Subject Network for Sociology, Anthropology, Politics, University of Birmingham, Issue 2. ISBN 1902191374

2010 'Beyond Gender? A New Minister for a Transformative Post-Lisbon Agenda. e-International relations (e-IR), WordPress http://www.e-ir.info/?p=3163

Accepted in Press

2010  ‘Consenting to Gender and Sexuality in Anthropology’ in Teaching Gender in the 21st Century. CSAP Monographs. University of Birmingham.

2010. ‘Introduction: Interrogating Consent and Dominance’ Special series of Learning and Teaching: the International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences. Berghahn Publishers.

2011. ‘Exploring consent in Europe: transnational borders and the citizenship of the body, Special series of Learning and Teaching: the International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences. Berghahn Publishers.

2010 'Altermodern Economies' in Anthropology Review: Dissent and Cultural Politics, Open Source Journals Issue 1. ISSN 2041-1405

2010 Japan in Love. Romance, gender, markets and national subjectivities in Japan. The Edwin Mellen Press, New York.

Media Contacts

Available for media contact about:

Europe: Nationalism, Catalan/Non-Estate based ethnicities, transnationalism, citizenship and consent
Japan: culture, consumption, gender, film, animation, romantic ideologies
Religion: Japanese festivals (Shinto and Buddhist festivals)
Economics: Japanese and European economic/domestic trends
LGBT: same sex politics, policies, sexualities, fetishes, kinship
E-learning: e-learning anthropology, virtual environments, rich media for learning and teaching, blended, distance, and mobile learning.
Research and teaching: research practice, ethics, film, ethnography, blended learning
Body and Gender: modifications, ideologies, sexualities, embodiment, violence

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