Categoría: Investigadora Postdoctoral, Programa «Severo Ochoa»
Departamento: Sociología
Área: Sociología
Despacho: Sala Adolfo G. Posada
Correo: doblytesigita@uniovi.es 

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Áreas de Interés

• Políticas Sociales
• Sociología Médica
• Medicalización
• Desigualdades en Salud
• Teoría Sociológica

Short Bio

Sigita is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Oviedo. She has 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).

She completed her PhD at the Department of Sociology, University of Oviedo in September 2021. Her doctoral research focused on how the interplay between institutional arrangements, cultural context, and their historical trajectories shapes individual health behaviour, and in particular, mental healthcare seeking.

Her research interests include medical sociology, medicalisation of society, mental health and well-being, social policy, and sociological theory.

Publicaciones

• Doblytė, S. (2021). “The almighty pill and the blessed healthcare provider”: Medicalisation of mental distress from an Eliasian perspective. Social Theory and Health. Advance online publication. DOI: 1057/s41285-021-00165-1
• Doblytė, S. (2021). Power dynamics of the healthcare field: Seeking mental care in Lithuania. Journal of Baltic Studies 52(3): 357-372. DOI: 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. 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
• 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. DOI: 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. DOI: 1177/1049732320918531
• 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. and Guillén, A.M. (2020). Access compromised? The impact of healthcare reforms under austerity in Lithuania and Spain. Social Policy & Society 19(4): 521-537. DOI: 1017/S1474746420000019
• Doblytė, S. (2019). Bourdieu’s theory of fields: towards understanding help-seeking practices in mental distress. Social Theory & Health 17(3): 273-290. DOI: 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. DOI: 1177/1049732316681282