Research

• PROJECT 1
  Sexuality and Age Care in Spain and Australia (1998, finalised) UB: Assumpta Rigol, Maria Honrubia  Postgraduate Student Collaborators: Laura Álvarez Torres, Glòria Beltrán González, Antonio García Gómez, Antonio Moreno Poyato, Nuria Viadel Jimenez La Trobe University Gerontologic Nursing Professorial Unit: Professor Rhonda Nay, Cathy Barret, Cally Berryman Department of Nursing, University of Southern Queensland: Professor Don Gorman
  PROJECT 2
  Lives in Migration: Rupture and Continuity (2010, finalised) UB: Dr Isabel Alonso Breto, Dr Susan Ballyn, Dr Jaime de Cordoba, Dr Elisa Morera de la Vall, Dr William Charles Phillips, Dr Martin Renes CESAG, Mallorca: Dr Caty Ribas
  PROJECT 3
  Postcolonial Crime Fiction: a global window into social realities (POCRIF) UB: Dr Susan Ballyn, Dr William Charles Phillips, Dr Martin Renes UDL, Lleida: Dr Isabel Santaularia CESAG, Mallorca: Dr Caty Ribas
  INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH
  Dr Isabel Alonso (English Studies, UB)  Project “Relations and Networks in Indian Ocean Literature” ” (FFI2012-32626): South African writers of Indian origin. Research Group Ratnakara: Sri Lankan literatures in English. Postcolonial, Migration and Diaspora Studies.
  Dr Susan Ballyn (English Studies, UB) Spanish, Lusophone and Hispanic Convicts Transported to Australia Surgeons' Journals on Male Convict Ships The biography of Adelaide de la Thoresa, A Spanish convict in Australia (Research done with Prof Lucy Frost, University of Tasmania, and Co-Director, Centre for Colonialism and its Aftermath), 1996-2006 Biographies of Spanish Female Convicts Dedal-LIT, consolidated project on Ageing and part of the European Project SIforAGE (UDL, Lleida), http://www.dal.udl.cat/eng/recerca/DEDAL-LIT.html and http://www.siforage.eu/ Female Convict Research Centre (UTAS, Tasmania) http://www.femaleconvicts.org.au/
  Dr Jaime de Córdoba (Fine Arts, UB)  Aesthetic Passports in Contemporary Art
  Dr Maria Grau (English Studies, UB) Caribbean non-migrant Literature and its Translation into Spanish: The Case of Trinidadianauthor Earl Lovelace (PhD dissertation in progress) Caribbean Literature Literary Translation
  Dr Kathleen Firth (Independent scholar retired from UB) Caribbean, Indian and Canadian diasporic literature
  Dr Emma Martinell (Hispanics, UB)  Galician and Asturian Migrants in Australia Presencia actual de voces prehispanas americanas en lenguas de cultura del mundo / Contemporary presence of pre-Hispanic American voices in other languages (project vehicle language: Spanish) Adquisición de la conciencia lingüística: contacto de lenguas y de pueblos / The acquisition of linguistic awareness: contact between languages and peoples (project vehicle language: Spanish)
  Ms Victoria Medina (Archaeology, UB)  Migrant cultural baggage: Tradition and Cultural Identity among the Yolngu in Arnhem Land and the Wê in the Ivory Coast “Dieta humana y subsistencia en el margen occidental del lago Natrón (Tanzania): los recursos alimentarios en el registro arqueológico plio-pleistocénico de Peninj” (“The human diet and subsistence in the eastern fringe  of the Natron Lake (Tanzania): food sources in the Peninj archaeological plio-pleistocene register”) (PhD dissertation in progress)
  Dr Elisa Morera de la Vall (English Studies, UB) The Just Among the Nations: Jewish Literature after the Holocaust
  Dr Ma Angeles Pérez (Hispanics, UB) Waves of Migration between Spain and South America
  Dr Bill Phillips (English Studies, UB)  Migration in literature (includes: Australia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Irlanda, England, The Caribbean) Postcolonial crime fiction POCRYF (ministerial project)
  Dr Martin Renes (English Studies, UB) Postdoctoral research on Aboriginal Literature Postcolonial literatures and cinema from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa Postcolonial Crime Fiction
  Dr Catalina Ribas (English Studies, CESAG Mallorca)  Contemporary Migrant Literature in Australia Cultural Continuum theory Postcolonial Crime Fiction
  Mr Carles Serra (English Studies, UB; Philosophy, UPF)  The notion of the 'sign' in the genesis of Derridean deconstruction (Master’s, UPF) The representation of masculinities in David Malouf's fiction (PhD, UB)
  Dr Jordi Serralonga (Archaeology, UOC/Catalan Open University) Anthropology: Ecology, Behaviour and Material Culture among the Yolngu in Arnhem Land (Australia) Archaeology: The Natural History of the Moa (New Zealand)
  Dr David Serrat (Geology, UB)  Glacial geology: correlations between Pyrenees, Alpine National Park (Australia), Southern Alps (NZ) and Patagonian Andes
  Dr Dolors Soriano (Curator of Ethnologic Museum, Barcelona)  Migrant cultural baggage: Tradition and Cultural Identity among the Yolngu in Arnhem Land and the Wê in the Ivory Coast