Biography

PhD in Political Sociology (University of the Basque Country). Silvia is Principal Researcher at CES and vice-coordinator of the Research Group "Democracy, Justice and Human Rights". She co-coordinates the PhD Programmes: "Human Rights in Contemporary Societies" (CES/IIIUC)and lectures in the Programme "Sociology of the State, Law and Justice" (CES/FEUC, starting in 2021-2022). She coordinated the research project POLITICS - "The politics of anti-racism in Europe and Latin America: knowledge production, decision-making and collective struggles" (ERC- Consolidator Grant, 2017-2023). Silvia has developed her research and teaching activities in postgraduate courses in the areas of critical race studies, anti-racism and decolonial thinking with a focus on: power and knowledge production; integration and inclusion public policies, and antidiscrimination socio-legal discourse.