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Home » Team » University of Oviedo (UNIOVI) Researchers » María Isabel García Espejo

María Isabel García Espejo

María Isabel García Espejo ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (PhD in Sociology)
Mª Isabel Garcia Espejo

Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (PhD in Sociology)
Department: SOCIOLOGY
Field: Sociology of Food Research Group.
Address: Universidad de Oviedo. Departamento de Sociología. Facultad de Economía y Empresa. Edificio Departamental, 2º Planta. Campus de El Cristo.
33006 Oviedo. Asturias (España).
Email: igarcia@uniovi.es
Phone: (+34) 985 105 043

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She received her degree in Sociology from the Complutense University of Madrid, and her PhD in Sociology from the University of Oviedo; she has been Professor of Sociology since 2000. Among other subjects in the field of Sociology, she has taught Social Research Techniques since 1988. She has conducted research and published numerous national and international works on young people’s entry to work, training and the labour market, labour mobility, in-company training, analysis of longitudinal data and social inequality. Her publications are the result of her participation in numerous publicly funded research projects. Since 2009 she has focused her research towards the Sociology of Food. In the field of social inequalities, it is worth singling out her participation in the European Commission’s RECWOWE “Reconciling Work and Welfare in Europe” Network of Excellence (6th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development), which is made up of an interdisciplinary team of European researchers and experts. Within this Network she has published, together with Dr. Rodolfo Gutiérrez, “Spain: Persisting Inequalities in a Growing Employment Context”, in the book edited by Neil Fraser, Rodolfo Gutiérrez and Ramón Peña-Casas, Working Poverty in Europe. A Comparative Approach, Palgrave Macmillan (2011). Also noteworthy is the publication with Dr. Marta Ibáñez Pascual “Los trabajadores pobres y los bajos salarios en España: un análisis de los factores familiares y laborales asociados a las diferentes situaciones de pobreza” in EMPIRIA (2007). She is a member of the Research Group in Sociology of Food (approved by ANECA in November 2011) and is part of the Biotechnology and Health Cluster of the Campus of International Excellence of the University of Oviedo. Her collaboration in this Group has mainly been motivated by her expertise in methodology and social research techniques, providing methodological support for most of the projects carried out by the group at the University of Oviedo. In this area, with Dr. Cecilia Díaz Méndez, she has published “Eating Practice Models in Spain and the United Kingdom: A Comparative Time-Use Analysis” in the International Journal of Comparative Sociology (2014) and “Contemporary Food Trends: the homogenization of food expenditure in Spain and the United Kingdom” in the magazine REIS (2012). She participated, along with other colleagues, in the National Survey of Food Habits (ENHALI, 2012), published by the Ministry of Agriculture. In 2014, she co-edited the monograph “Metodologías para el estudio de la alimentación contemporánea” (“Methodologies for the study of contemporary food”) with Dr. Cecilia Díaz Méndez for the Revista Política y Sociedad.

Research Fields

  • Food in modern societies
  • Food and social structure

Project participation

  • Alimentación y estructura social. Análisis de las desigualdades sociales en España (2015-2019)

Proyectos I+D+I del Programa Estatal de Investigación. Ref. CSO2015-68434-R

Investigador Principal: Isabel García Espejo

Publications

  • Laura Cabiedes- Miragaya, Cecilia Díaz Méndez and Isabel García Espejo (2021). “Well-Being and the Lifestyle Habits of the Spanish Population: The Association between SubjectiveWell-Being and Eating Habits”. Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 18 (4), 1553. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18041553
  • Díaz-Méndez, Cecilia, Isabel García-Espejo and Sonia Otero-Estévez (2020).” New and old forms of poverty in Spain: exploring food consumption during the crisis”. British Food Journal, vol. 122 (9), 2807-2821. doi 10.1108/BFJ-07-2019-0527
  • Díaz-Méndez, Cecilia and Garcia Espejo, Isabel (2019). “Social inequalities in following official guidelines on healthy diet during the period of economic crisis in Spain”. International Journal of Health Services.  49 (3), 582-605. Disponible en: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0020731419847589
  • Díaz-Méndez C. y García-Espejo I. (2018). Homogeneidad y fragmentación en los hábitos alimentarios de los españoles: una respuesta a través del análisis de los horarios, las relaciones y las normas alimentarias. Revista Internacional de Sociología.  76 (3) e102. Disponible en: https://doi.org/10.3989/ris.2018.76.3.17.360
  • Díaz-Méndez, C. García-Espejo I. y Otero-Estévez S. (2018). Discursos sobre la escasez: estrategias de gestión de la privación alimentaria en tiempos de crisis. EMPIRIA (2018). 40, 85-105. Disponible en: https://doi.org/10.5944/empiria.40.2018.22012
  • García Espejo, I. y Novo Vázquez, A. (2017): “La emergencia del consumidor consciente: Un análisis de la participación política a través de las decisiones de compra”. Revista Española de Investigaciones Científicas REIS, 158, 59-78. Disponible en: https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/cis/reis/2017/00000158/00000158/art00004?crawler=true&mimetype=application/pdf
  • Cecilia Díaz Méndez e Isabel García Espejo (2014): “La mirada sociológica hacia la alimentación: análisis crítico del desarrollo de la investigación en el campo alimentario”, Política y Sociedad, vol. 51, nº 1, pp. 15-49.
  • Cecilia Díaz Méndez e Isabel García Espejo (2013): “La organización de la alimentación cotidiana”, Cecilia Díaz Méndez (Coord.) Hábitos alimentarios de los españoles, Ministerio de Agricultura, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente, pp. 11-48. ISBN: M-28934-2013.
  • Cecilia Díaz Méndez e Isabel García Espejo (2013): “La alimentación fuera del hogar”, Cecilia Díaz Méndez (Coord.) Hábitos alimentarios de los españoles, Ministerio de Agricultura, Alimentación  y Medio Ambiente, pp. 49-63. ISBN: M-28934-2013.
  • Cecilia Díaz Méndez e Isabel García Espejo (2014): “Eating Practice Models in Spain and the United Kingdom: a Comparative Time Use Analysis”, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, vol. 55, nº 1, pp. 24-44.
  • Cecilia Díaz e Isabel García Espejo (2012): “Tendencias en la alimentación contemporánea: la homogeneización del gasto alimentario en España y Reino Unido”, Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, nº 139, pp. 21-44.

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sociological analysis, sociological study, surveys, food, consumer studies, food consumption, food knowledge, health, obesity, gender roles.

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