Mónica Ferrín Pereira
InTalent and Ramón & Cajal Researcher at the Faculty of Sociology, Universidade da Coruña
Mónica Ferrín Pereira is an InTalent and Ramón & Cajal Researcher at the Faculty of Sociology at the Universidade da Coruña. Her research focuses primarily on public opinion and political participation.
She is principal investigator for the democracy module in the tenth round of the European Social Survey: https://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/docs/round10/questionnaire/ESS10_democracy_abstract.pdf
The aim of this project is to analyse changes in attitudes to democracy among Europeans since the 2009 economic crisis and to understand these changes in the context of the current European party system. She is also co-principal investigator on the GENPOL project (CSO2016-75090-R), which is funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. GENPOL studies gender disparities in political participation and participation in the public sphere in general, seeking to explain why women tend to display lower levels of public participation than men in all European countries.
Her most recent publications include ‘The gender gap in political interest revisited’ (2019. International Political Science Review, with Marta Fraile, Gema García-Albacete & Raúl Gómez) and ‘Adult roles and the gender gap in political knowledge: a comparative study’ (2019. West European Politics, with Marta Fraile & Gema García-Albacete), which was awarded the Gordon Smith and Vincent Wright Memorial Prize in 2019.