Laura Oso
Full Professor of Sociology
Laura Oso is Professor of Sociology at the Universidade da Coruña. She was the coordinator of ESOMI (Societies in Movement Research Team) for thirteen years (2011-2024), having held the position of vice-dean in the Faculty of Sociology between 2009 and 2013. She was vice-president for international activities of the Spanish Federation of Sociology (2018-2022) and member of the Executive Committee of the International Sociological Association-ISA (2018-2023).
Laura Oso has been a consultant for several international organisations (OECD, European Union, INSTRAW-UN) and has carried out research stays in the United States, France and Latin America (University of California, Berkeley, Université de Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne, Université de Paris VII, Flacso Ecuador, Universidad de Buenos Aires). She was also associated with COST Action IS1209 – Comparing European Prostitution Policies: Understanding Scales and Cultures of Governance (ProsPol).
Since 2022 she is Deputy Director of CISPAC (Inter-University Research Centre on Atlantic Cultural Landscapes), a unique, state-of-the-art and pioneering centre in basic and applied research in social and human sciences, which brings together high-level research staff from more than thirty research groups from the three universities of Galicia. CISPAC’s main objective is to study human interactions with landscapes and mainly with issues related to environmental transition, territorial management and the establishment of fair relationships between people and the landscapes they inhabit.
Laura Oso is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the IMISCOE- International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion Network and co-coordinator of the RN27- Regional Network Southern European Societies (European Sociological Association-ESA). She is also part of the Cost Action CA21143 – Transnational Family Dynamics in Europe (TraFaDy).
PhD in Sociology from the Université de Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne (2002) and the Universidade da Coruña (1997), her research work has mainly focused on the study of gender and migration issues and, specifically, the integration of immigrant women into the labour market. Her lines of research also include the study of Spanish emigration in France (women domestic workers and second-generation concierges), as well as the analysis of migration from the perspective of inter-generational strategies and trajectories of social mobility. She also works on the migration and development nexus. She has four six-year research fellowships and one transfer fellowship (the last one awarded in 2021).
She has been principal investigator of the UDC (beneficiary member of the consortium) of 5 European projects (Carewell-JPI MYBL EWG; H2020-Welcoming Spaces- 870952; Equal Convive Mais”-European Social Fund; H2020-691004-MSCA-RISE – INCASI – International Network for the Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities); A new measure of socio-economic inequalities for international comparison (INCASI2-HORIZON-MSCA-2022-SE-01-101130456). As well as principal investigator of 5 research projects of the National Plan for Scientific Research, Development and Technological Innovation (FEM 2015-67164-R, FEM2011-26210, SEJ2007-63179, SEJ2004-07750, Instituto de la Mujer-I+ D+I: 53/02), a state project of the AECID and 4 projects of the Xunta de Galicia. This makes a total of 15 coordinated competitive projects.
Laura Oso has been editor of books in high impact publishers (Edward Elgar, Routledge), leading the coordination of monographs in internationally prestigious journals (Identities: global Studies in Culture and Power; Sociological Research Online; Ethnic and Racial Studies; Sociologia Ruralis). He is a member of editorial committees of international journals (Migration and Society, Advances in Research-NY&Oxford-Berghahn Journals; Migraciones Internacionales-México) and Spanish journals (RES). He is Co-Series Editor of the Book Series on Southern European Societies (Edward Elgar) and member of the Editorial Committee of the IMISCOE Book Series (Springer).