Categoría: Profesora Ayudante Doctora
Departamento: Sociología
Área: Sociología
Despacho: Despacho nº1, Ala 3, Planta 2ª, Departamento de Sociología, Facultad de Economía y Empresa
Correo: doblytesigita@uniovi.es
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Research interests
- Medical sociology
- Sociological theory
- Social policy
- Mental health
- Suicide
- Health inequalities
Short Bio
Sigita is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Oviedo. Her research delves into the interplay between institutions, culture, and individual agency, and how these dynamics shape social practices and processes such as the medicalisation of social suffering or suicide. Her academic journey includes research stays at the University of Iceland, NOVA University Lisbon, and the University of Edinburgh. Her PhD thesis, titled “A matter of context: Cultural and institutional influences on healthcare seeking for mental distress in Lithuania and Spain” and defended in September 2021, received recognition with the Extraordinary Doctoral Award and International Mention. She also holds Bachelor’s (Vilnius University, Lithuania) and Master’s (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania) degrees in Sociology, as well as Master’s degree in Research and Advances in Preventive Medicine and Public Health (University of Granada, Spain).
Publicaciones
Peer-reviewed journal articles (Web of Science, Scopus)
Doblytė, S. and Giosa, R. (forthcoming). Why people work past retirement age: The continuity of routines, future imaginaries, and practical evaluation. Journal of Occupational Science.
Doblytė, S. and Tejero, A. (2023). Class or individual habitus? Willingness to spend more on reconciliation policies in Europe. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 43(5/6): 436-453. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP-04-2022-0089
Doblytė, S. (2022). Why (not) suicide: Habitus in hysteresis and the space of possibles. European Journal of Social Theory 25(4): 614-631. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684310221101468
Doblytė, S. (2022). “The almighty pill and the blessed healthcare provider”: Medicalisation of mental distress from an Eliasian perspective. Social Theory and Health 20(4): 363-379. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41285-021-00165-1
Doblytė, S. (2022). The vicious cycle of distrust: Access, quality, and efficiency within a post-communist mental health system. Social Science and Medicine 292: 114573. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114573
Doblytė, S. (2021). Power dynamics of the healthcare field: seeking mental care in Lithuania. Journal of Baltic Studies 52(3): 357-372. https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2021.1934053
Doblytė, S. and Tejero, A. (2021). What, where, and how: drivers of welfare attitudes toward work-family reconciliation policies in South European societies. European Societies 23(1): 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2020.1746821
Doblytė, S. (2020). Shame in a post-socialist society: A qualitative study of healthcare seeking and utilisation in common mental disorders. Sociology of Health and Illness 42(8): 1858-1872. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13170
Doblytė, S. (2020). “Women are tired and men are in pain”: Gendered habitus and mental healthcare utilization in Spain. Journal of Gender Studies 29(6): 694-705. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2020.1780420
Doblytė, S. (2020). Under- or overtreatment of mental distress? Practices, consequences, and resistance in the field of health care. Qualitative Health Research 30(10): 1503-1516. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732320918531
Doblytė, S. and Guillén, A.M. (2020). Access compromised? The impact of healthcare reforms under austerity in Lithuania and Spain. Social Policy and Society 19(4): 521-537. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746420000019
Doblytė, S., Gutiérrez, R. and Pruneda, G. (2020). La protección ocupacional de nuevos riesgos sociales: conciliación y formación continua. Revista Española de Sociología 29(2): 321-341. https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/res/article/view/71586
Doblytė, S. (2019). Bourdieu’s theory of fields: towards understanding help-seeking practices in mental distress. Social Theory and Health 17(3): 273-290. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41285-019-00105-0
Doblyte, S. and Jiménez-Mejías, E. (2017). Understanding help-seeking behavior in depression: A qualitative synthesis of patients’ experiences. Qualitative Health Research 27(1): 100-113. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732316681282
Book chapters
Guillén, A.M., and Doblytė, S. (2024). Spain. In G. Giarelli and M. Saks (Eds.), National health services of western Europe: Challenges, reforms and future perspectives (pp. 148-168). Routledge.
Doblytė, S. (2022). Seekers and providers: Medicalization of circumstantial sadness and fear. In M. Elliott (Ed.), Research Handbook on Society and Mental Health (pp. 20-33). Edward Elgar Publishing.
Editorials
Coordination of and introduction to a special issue of Panorama Social “La crisis de salud mental: Más allá de las estadísticas”. Panorama Social 38: 5-7.
https://www.funcas.es/revista/la-crisis-de-salud-mental-mas-alla-de-las-estadisticas/
Scientific dissemination
Tejero, A. and Doblytė, S. (2023). La ventaja de trabajar: Salud mental, pobreza y empleo en España. Panorama Social 38: 111-129, https://www.funcas.es/revista/la-crisis-de-salud-mental-mas-alla-de-las-estadisticas/
Doblytė, S. (2023). The mental health crisis in Spain: Why sociology matters. Global Dialogue GD13.2: 38-39, http://globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org/
Doblytė, S. and Tejero, A. (2020). Support for family policies in South Europe. Global Dialogue GD10.1: 32-33, http://globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org/
d Tejero, A. (2021). What, where, and how: drivers of welfare attitudes toward work-family reconciliation policies in South European societies. European Societies 23(1): 1-22. DOI: 1080/14616696.2020.1746821
Doblytė, S. (2020). Shame in a post-socialist society: A qualitative study of healthcare seeking and utilisation in common mental disorders. Sociology of Health and Illness 42(8): 1858-1872. DOI: 1111/1467-9566.13170