Antía Domínguez Rodríguez
Assistant Professor
Antía Domínguez Rodríguez is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Communication Sciences at the University of A Coruña (UDC) and collaborates with the research group of the University of the Basque Country, OPIK- Grupo de Investigación en Determinantes Sociales de la Salud y Cambio Demográfico (Research Group on Social Determinants of Health and Demographic Change). She is also the coordinator of the Official Master’s Degree in Public Policy and Socio-Community Intervention (MOPS) at the UDC.
Trained in Sociology and Statistics, she specialised in demography through the Master in Territorial and Population Studies, specialising in demography, at the Centre d’Estudis Demogràfics (CED) and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). Subsequently, she obtained her PhD in Demography, with international mention at the CED (UAB) with the thesis title ‘Health, gender and education in the transition to retirement’, with a grant linked to the project ‘Acicates in the prolongation of working life: health, training and forms of coexistence (CSO2013-48042-R)’. She previously worked in the field of development cooperation, an area with which she maintains links through various collaborations with NGOs and other organisations.
Participates in the research project ‘Crisis, migratory dynamics and living conditions of the migrant population in Spain. Comparative analysis of the effects of the Great Recession and the Great Pandemic’ (Reference: PID2020-118716RB-I00), (2021-2024) with principal investigator Antía Pérez Caramés.
She has carried out several research stays that have enriched the development of different works. The last one was in March 2023 at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria funded by the UDC Research Grant.
Her lines of research focus on demography, population ageing, labour transitions, health and social inequalities, all from a gender perspective. Her publications include: Miedos e inquietudes ante la pandemia en España: un análisis exploratorio de las desigualdades sociales (2023) Revista Española De Sociología (author: Antía Domínguez Rodríguez); The Active Ageing Index and policy making in Italy (2021). Ageing and Society (authors: Andrea Principi, Mirko Di Rosa, Antia Dominguez, Maria Varlamova, Francesco Barbabella, Giovanni Lamura, Pietro Checcucci, Marco Socci); Desigualdades sociales en salud en población mayor: una aportación desde la salud pública al debate sobre el retraso de la edad de jubilación en España. (2019) Gaceta Sanitaria (authors: Unai Martín, Antía Domínguez-Rodríguez, Amaia Bacigalupe).