Obdulia Taboadela
PhD in Sociology (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1992) and Postgraduate Diploma in Social Responsibility and Innovation (Universidade da Coruña)
Obdulia Taboadela holds a PhD in Sociology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1992) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Social Responsibility and Innovation from the Universidade da Coruña. She is a university lecturer and researcher, who specialises in the labour market, international migration and gender.
Her CV features stays as a teacher and researcher and/or speaker at several foreign research centres. She has published numerous articles in Spanish and international journals, as well as book chapters on topics relating to her academic research: trade unionism and labour relations; migration; labour market; gender relations; and social aspects of globalisation. She has also participated in more than 20 publicly funded research projects relating to the sociological study of Spanish and European society.
Obdulia is a founding member and current member of the UDC’s research excellence team on migration, ESOMI.
From 2004 to 2011, she held a series of leadership positions in the political sphere: she was government sub-delegate for the province of A Coruña and councillor and deputy mayor at A Coruña City Council, working in different government departments. She was a senator in the thirteenth legislature.
Obdulia has held the position of coordinator of the Master’s Degree in International Migration at UDC. She has been Vice Dean of Quality and Mobility and coordinator of the Erasmus Programme and the Internship Programme at the Faculty of Sociology at the Universidade da Coruña. She teaches Sociology on several different undergraduate and master’s courses at UDC. She is a teacher and tutor at the UNED Associated Centre in A Coruña.
In January 2020, she was appointed Galician Director of the Universidad Internacional Menéndez y Pelayo.