Dr Francisca Ortiz Ruiz is a postdoctoral researcher at the Millennium Institute for Care Research, based in Santiago, Chile. She is a Sociologist (Universidad Alberto Hurtado) with a Master’s degree in Sociology (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) and a PhD in Sociology at the Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis, University of Manchester, UK. Her research has focused on social support and care networks of the ageing population, social gerontology, mixed methods, social network analysis, and gender inequalities in science.
Her work has been published in more than 40 papers, book chapters and other documents, which have been presented at national and international conferences. She is co-editor of two books: “Redes sociales: teoría, métodos y aplicaciones en América Latina” (2022) (“Social Networks: theory, methods and applications in Latinamerica”) and “Tecnopolíticas: aproximaciones a los estudios de ciencia, tecnología y sociedad en Chile” (2018) (“Techno politics: studies of science, technology and society in Chile"). It is currently working on a third book co-edited about "Feminismo de Datos con R" ("Data feminism with R").
She collaborates in creating open-source R packages, and other outreach initiatives, like Knitting Networks Podcast, Cuidando Podcast and REDES colloquiums, among others. She is part of the editorial committee of REDES journal, AWARI, and Contenido Journal. Currently, she is a member of the “Women in Network Sciences” (WiNS Global network) council and coordinator of Red Feminista de las Ciencias Sociales. Contact: franortizruiz@gmail.com