Elisabet Almeda Samaranch. Professor of Sociology of the Family and Gender, Department of Sociology at the University of Barcelona (UB). Director (2003-2017) of the International and Interuniversity Group for Research, Training and University Extension COPOLIS, “Welfare, Community and Social Control”, attached at the University of Barcelona, which was recognized by the UB in 2006 and consolidated with funding from the Generalitat de Catalunya in 2009. Coordinator (2004-2016) of the CEFOCID-COPOLIS Teaching Innovation Group, recognized as a teaching group consolidated in 2014. Member of the Collective of Social and Cultural Legal Action, COPOLIS-ADALQUI (Argentina). PhD in Sociology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Master in “Social Welfare and Social Planning” from the University of Kent, in Canterbury, Postgraduate in the “Common Study Program on Criminal Justice and Critical Criminology” at the UB and Degree in Economics and Business Sciences from the UB. Headed the Department of Sociology and Analysis of the Organizations of the University of Barcelona during the period 2011-2013. Her research and teaching work has been carried out in three main areas: criminal systems (social control, female crime, imprisoned women and women’s prisons), changes and family policies (one parent families, divorces and comparative family policies) and memory and identity (sociology of memory and everyday memories of the Franco regime). In all of them, he has carried out various researches and published several books and scientific and social dissemination articles. Participates and / or coordinates various networks, commissions and associations on their study topics, including the International Thematic Network on Gender and the Criminal System (Geispe Network, coordinator 2008-2018), the Cassandra collective and the International Thematic Network for Research on One Parent Families (TIIFAMO Network, coordinator 2008-2012).