Informed Migrant Women in Health (MMI)

University of Chile Fund – Public Challenges: Innovation for Better Public Policies, 2023–2024.

Principal Investigator: Dr. Caterine Galaz Valderrama

Research Team: Dr. Mauricio Cerda, Dr. Paul Délano, Dr. Silvana Castillo, Catalina Gutiérrez, Fabián Issi Oviedo and Sofía Bravo.

The project aims to provide reliable and accessible health information to migrant women in Chile, supporting them in understanding their rights, accessing health services, and feeling accompanied as they integrate into the national health system.

Co-Research Model with Children and Adolescents for the Promotion of Well-Being and School and Civic Engagement: From the International Scientific Literature to the Generation of Evidence in Chile

ANID – Fondecyt Regular No. 1250064 / 2022–2025.

Principal Investigator: Dr. Mahia Saracostti

Co-Investigators: Dr. Claudia Campillo, Dr. Cristian Leyton N., Dr. Ximena De Toro and Dr. José Antonio Lozano.

Administrative and Scientific Coordinator: Cecilia Coloma.

Research Assistants: Alfredo Lagunas, Catalina Silva, Belén Álvarez, Francisca Bernal, Isidora Apablaza, and Francisca Espinoza, undergraduate students in Social Work, University of Chile.

The project’s main objective is to design, implement, and evaluate the impact of a co-research training and development model that addresses social issues with children and adolescents, focusing on subjective well-being, school engagement, and civic engagement among upper primary school students in Chilean public schools.

Decentering Gender Inequalities

ANID – Thematic Research Ring in Specific Areas ATE22005.

Director: Alejandra Ramm

Principal Researchers: Alessandra Olivi, Elisabeth Simbürger, Hillary Hiner Carroll and Rosario Undurraga Riesco.

Associate Researchers: Alejandra Pérez Núñez and Julieta Palma.

Research Assistants: Sofía Campos González, Natalie Rojas Vilches, Fran Núñez Rebolledo, Camila Campos Paredes, and Rocío Ferrada Hurtado.

Postdoctoral Researchers: Mateus Gustavo Coelho and Valentina Álvarez López.

Professional Team: Gabriela Ojeda Valenzuela, Miranda Sepúlveda Sánchez, Alex Jara Andrade, Paulina Salvatierra Canto, Emilio Bernal Ríos, and Jacobi Hadley Valenzuela.

Undergraduate Thesis Students: Camilo Gutiérrez & Daniela Cabezas, Vanesa Venegas & Benjamín Rojas, Valeria Sandoval, and Gabriel Sagredo.

The project’s main goal is to provide an accessible tool for the general public that enables observation of how gender inequalities manifest across various areas of social life, fostering a more precise and contextually grounded understanding of the phenomenon.

Within the framework of this project, the Regional Gender Inequality Indicators System (SIRDG) was launched — a data platform designed to make visible gender inequalities in Chile from a regional perspective.

Dissonances: Community, University, and the Feminist Uprising

ANID – Thematic Research Ring in Specific Areas ATE220009.

Principal Researchers: Director: Dr. Andrea Vera, Associate Director: Dr. Claudia Montero, Dr. Sandra Vera, Dr. Tamara Vidaurrázaga, Dr. María Antonieta Vera and Dr. Lelya Troncoso.

Research Assistants: Camila Stipo, Rocío Gallardo, Daniela Lillo Muñoz, and Valentina Lastra.

Postdoctoral Researcher: Dr. Panchiba Barrientos.

Professional Team: Florencia La Mura, Carolina Muñoz, Valentina Fuentealba, and Oriana Miranda.

Postgraduate Thesis Students: Salvador Bello, Lucas Bastidas, Diego Cruz, and Naira Martínez.

This project brings together the University of Valparaíso, the Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, the University of Chile, and the Austral University of Chile. Its objective is to examine the emergence of feminist demands within higher education institutions in Chile, emphasizing the challenges faced in implementing gender, equality, and diversity initiatives and policies. It focuses on the critical reflections toward the State that arose from cases of gender-based violence within educational spaces—events that reached their peak during the feminist mobilizations of May 2018—and seeks to document the experiences of Chilean universities in their processes of institutionalizing gender policies.

One of its key outputs is the Pedagogical Material “Feminist Proposals for Anti-Sexist (Un)Learning”.

Navigating Uncertainty: Strategies for Mobilizing Financial and Non-Financial Resources in Precarious Households

ANID – Fondecyt Regular No. 1220039 / 2022–2025.

Principal Investigator: Lorena Pérez Roa.

Co-Investigators: Alejandro Marambio-Tapia and Gabriela Azócar.

Recognizing that households possess both financial and non-financial resources — including those derived from markets, family and community networks, government transfers, and self-employment initiatives — this study seeks to identify and make visible the diverse strategies households employ to cope with the economic challenges posed by contexts of uncertainty.

Between Femininity and Feminism: Exploring the Embodied Tensions of Feminist Activists in Chile

Fondecyt Initiation Grant No. 11251033 / 2025–2028.

Principal Investigator: Javiera Cubillos Almendra.

Research Assistant: Alexandra Soto Márquez.

Undergraduate Thesis Students: Alejandra Parra Rojas and Lisette Córdova Sepúlveda.

This project aims to analyze, from an intersectional perspective, the embodied tensions experienced by feminist activists in Chile — in the realms of sexuality, aesthetics, performance, and emotions — and to examine how these tensions are expressed within intimate contexts (experiential level), collective settings (intersubjective level), and feminist protest spaces (public level).