Asun Pié Balaguer 

Asun Pié Balaguer is a Doctor of Pedagogy from the University of Barcelona and a Diploma in Social Education from Ramon Llull University. She has been a professor/researcher of the Studies of Psychology and Education Sciences of the Oberta de Catalunya University (UOC) since 2011. In 2010, he received a PhD in Pedagogy from the University of Barcelona. His thesis articulated disability studies in the field of social work and reviewed their implications in educational theory. She is a member of the CareNet Research Group. Care and Preparedness in the Network Society (IN3-UOC). His research path focuses on Feminist Studies of Disability. She has been a guest professor at the University of Antioquia (Colombia), the Autonomous University of Mexico, the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional-Hidalgo (Pachuca, Mexico), the Universidad Austral de Chile, among others.

He has co-led the Collaborative Medication Management Research Project: a participatory research and action project in mental health (URV-UOC). RecerCaixa 2016. Citizen participation in health policies (2017-2020). She has been a researcher on the Severe Mental Disorder Metaphors Project. Analysis of speech by affected individuals and mental health professionals (2018-2021) (National Plan of Spain R&D: FFI2017-86969-R). She is a member of the International Network of Researchers and Participants on Education Inclusion/Integration (RIIE). Since 2022, it has been part of the ‘International Observatory of autônoma da medicaçao (Brazil) gestational practices’. She is also member of MARC, Medical Anthropology Research Center, at Rovira i Virgili University. She is currently member of the Assistencial Ethics Committee of ‘Fundació Congrés Català de Salut Mental (FCCSM)’, in Barcelona. In 2019, he received the 2nd Mentioned Award from the COPEC (Colegio de Pedagogos de Cataluña) at the IX Pedagogical Trial Award Frederic Company i Franquesa, with her work ‘Inclusion vs. Segregation. Approaches from pedagogy’. She co-directs the Oberta Publishing’s editorial collection of Contemporary Pedagogies.