Dr Àngels Trias i Valls
Dr Mª Àngels Trias i Valls BA MA (UCB) PhD
(QUB)
Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology
iCES Senior Research Assistant
Phone:+44 207 487 7464
E-mail: triasiva@regents.ac.uk
Academic Experience
- Institute of Contemporary European Studies, EBSL,
Regent's College 2008-ongoing:
iCES
Senior Research Assistant
Senior
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
- University of Birmingham. The Higher Education Academy, Centre
for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics (C-SAP). Anthropology
Advisor
- University of Birmingham. The Higher Education Academy, Centre
for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics (C-SAP). Gender Group
Advisor
- Hellena Wallace Research Fellowship Research Funding
£1KHEFCW
- Funding Contract (Teaching and Learning Fund 2001-2003).
Provision of Distance Learning degree in Anthropology £3K
- HEWCW Inclusion in a reconfiguration fund for Distance Learning
provision £15K
- The Higher Education Academy, C-SAP Funding Contract for the
Network Welsh Anthropology Staff/Students £500
- Award University of Wales Lampeter £500 - staff award,
recognition of merit and work for the department of
anthropology UWL
- The Higher Education Academy, C-SAP Funding Contract for
Conference £2,500Project title: Interrogating consent and
dominance: ethnicities, citizenship and sexualities in research and
teaching. 10th September 2008 and 9th February 2009 at the
University of Wales Conference Centre Gregynog, Newtown.
- The Higher Education Academy, C-SAP Associateship Grant £1,000.
Project titles: 'Economies of Crisis in a Global Europe:
Anthropological Responses to the 'Economic Crisis', and 'Open and
Shared Anthropology', FiLO network.
- ESRC Occasional Research Peer Reviewer
- Welsh Academic Press Political Studies
editorial panel
- Anthropology Journal Consent and Cultural Politics
chief editor
- OER-JISC (Higher Education Academy, Open Educational Resources
- Joint Information Systems Committee) project
partner with University of Birmingham, Regent's College
Project Lead.
- External Examiner - Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths
College, University of London
- Vice-Chair Anthropology Reference Group, The Higher Education
Academy, Centre for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics
(C-SAP).
Professional Distinctions
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.
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 and scuba diving.
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. She has a keen theoretical interest on
visual, reflexive and sensorial ethnographies and
methodologies. 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 a senior anthropology
lecturer at Regent's College.
Current Research and Projects
Àngels is conducting several strands of fieldwork research.
In Catalonia she does research on economic anthropology on the
theme of commodity exchange and political inclusion locally and
within Europe. In London, she looks at the cultural politics of
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. In terms of methodological directions, Àngels
focusses on visual and sensorial ethnographic approaches to
research.
Àngels is involved supporting research projects within iCES and
Regents. 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'.
National Projects
Àngels is one of the key academic partners of the C-SAP OER Project, a
collaborative project managed by a C-SAP
team (Centre for Sociology, Anthropology and
Politics) with six academic partners in the disciplines of
anthropology, sociology and politics across 6 different HEIs and 4
social science subject areas. The project explores processes around
the release and sharing of modular teaching content, the
re-usability of learning and teaching materials in open access
contexts (Read More about the Project
here)
The project was part of the UK-wide Open Education Resources
programme [UKOER] collaborating with JISC [Joint Information Systems
Committee) and the Higher
Education Academy to enable higher education institutions,
consortia and individuals to share learning materials freely
online, adopting a critical social science perspective.
You can read more about the completed
project here
Experiment the Case
Studies, and read the Resources
and Guidance
You can use an online demonstration
of the toolkit and download
the toolkit (work in progress)
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.) Berghahn: 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 ‘Globalisation & Europeanisation in Education’ Book
Review in
Power and Education, Symposium Journals, ISSN
1757-7438
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
2010 Editor 'Altermodern: journeys,
global cultures, fragmentations' in ARDAC, Anthropology
Journal: Dissent and Cultural Politics, Issue n.1, Open
Access Journals ISSN: 2041-1405 May 2010
2010 'Open
Access Anthropology 2.0 as a type of altermodern
experimentation' in Anthropology Journal: Dissent and
Cultural Politics, issue n.1, Open Access Journals ISSN:
2041-1405 May 2010 p.40-48
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.
Media Contacts
Available for media contact about:
Europe: Nationalism, Catalan/Non-Estate based
ethnicities, transnationalism, citizenship/cosmopolitanism 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 and digital
learning environments
Research and teaching: research practice, ethics, film,
ethnography, blended learning, new communication technologies,
visual and sensorial research
Body and Gender: modifications, ideologies, sexualities,
embodiment, violence, sensorial practices
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