Postdoctoral Researcher at the Millenium Institute for Care Research (MICARE), Santiago, Chile. She is a sociologist, podcaster and artist based in Zürich.
Areas of interest: mixed methods, social network analysis, social gerontology, care, gender and science.
Languages: Spanish and English.
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Projects
ANID Fondecyt Regular Nº1230437 “Personal networks and social capital of caregiver women. Meassuring their changes trough time, and impact on wellbeing and health.”
Co-researcher / 2023-2027
This research aims to study the changes in the personal networks and social capital of female caregivers of a dependent elderly father/mother in Santiago, Chile, and its impact on their subjective well-being and physical and mental health.
You can click here if you'd like to know about this project.
Care and support networks of older people
Principal investigator / 2022-23
Principal Investigator “Living taking care: exploring social support and caregiving networks from a mixed method approach" sponsored by Millennium Institute for Care Research (MICARE), Santiago, Chile.
Feminism and social sciences in Chile
Co-researcher / 2022-2023
Co-researcher with Denisse Sepúlveda Sánchez, Bárbara Flores, and Manuela Mendoza Horvitz at "Feminismo y ciencias sociales en Chile: voces desde sus participantes". The results are a book, podcast and an article.
Surviving old age on a Chilean pension
Principal investigator / 2018-21
Principal Investigator “Surviving old age on a Chilean pension: A research about the personal life of ageing using mixed methods (SNA and QCA)”, sponsored by ANID. Research to obtain the PhD degree at the University of Manchester.
Care and work are differentiated by gender
Co-researcher / 2022-2023
Co-researcher with Bárbara Flores at ”Cuidados y participación laboral: Un análisis diferenciado por género".
Gender and institutional affiliations in SNA
Co-researcher / 2022-2023
Co-researcher with Alejandro Espinosa-Rada in the project "Gender and researchers with institutional affiliations in the global south/north in social network science".
Gendered life-course determinants of EWL
Senior researcher / 2022-Current
Principal Investigator Ignacio Cabib Fondecyt Regular “Gendered life-course determinants of extended working life among older people in developing and developed liberal countries”.
Books
Work in progress. Open Access Book in GitHub.
Editors: Francisca Ortiz Ruiz, Riva Quiroga.
Book in press at Editorial Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas CIS, Madrid, Spain.
Editors: Francisca Ortiz Ruiz, Alejandro Espinosa Rada.
Open Access book. Available online in Spanish and English for download.
Editors: Denisse Sepúlveda, Francisca Ortiz Ruiz.
Published book. Available to buy printed and online.
Editors: Alejandro Espinosa-Rada, Francisca Ortiz Ruiz, Nicolas Sanhueza.
Podcast
Outreach
I'm always open to new collaboration and ideas!