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This online seminar aims to create a space for presenting and reflecting on the Feminist Action Research methodology, developed in collaboration with XEAS País Valencià, the Solidarity Economy network of País Valencià. Between 2019 and 2020, XEAS promoted, together with the researcher, a process of organisational change with a feminist approach. At the same time, REAS Euskadi, the counterpart network in the Basque Country, carried out a similar process of longer duration, from 2018 to 2022. The doctoral thesis, analyses the impact of both processes in their respective organisations. In the case of XEAS País Valencià, the organisational process was facilitated by applying a Feminist Action Research methodology that sought to give continuity to a broader process in the organisation and to encourage the active participation of the network in the research. During the seminar, the lessons learned from this methodology will be shared and the changes that have taken place in the participating organisations will be explored. The session aims to open a debate that will inspire new questions, interrogate other territorial realities and, hopefully, motivate the replication of these processes in other organisations.

Moderator: Michela Giovannini (CES)

Bio note

Marta Maicas Pérez is a lecturer in the Department of Business Management at the Universitat de València. She is currently involved in research projects at European level. Specifically, she collaborates as a researcher at INGENIO CSIC-Universitat Politècnica de València in the project SWIFT  (Supporting Women-Led Innovation in farming territories), focused on strengthening the organisation of women linked to agroecology and the rural world. She is also a member of the CSIC project CLIMALBIO (LINCGLOBAL2023), which aims to raise awareness of the need to change production and consumption systems.

Her academic background includes a degree in Business Administration from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), a Bachelor in Business Administration from l'École Supérieure de Commerce (ICN) in Nancy (France), a Master in Development Cooperation from the UPV and a Master in Teacher Training from the Miguel Hernández University.

Her doctoral thesis focused on the analysis of feminist organisational change processes in solidarity economy organisations, based on Feminist Organisational Theories, Feminist Economics and Gender Theories in Development. She used a Feminist Action Research methodology in her research. She has been a teacher in the feminisms module of the Master in Development Cooperation of the UPV and has participated as a teacher and facilitator in the processes of educational innovation ‘Learning in Action’ promoted by the Master in Cooperation of the UPV from 2016 to 2021.

In addition, she has carried out training and research stays in internationally renowned institutions, such as the Manipal Institute of Technology in India, Veterinarios sin Fronteras in Honduras, Daytona University in the USA and the University of Tifariti in the Sahrawi refugee camps. She has also carried out research stays at the Department of Gender Studies at the University of Tampere in Finland and at the Hegoa Institute in Bilbao.

Her main areas of interest include feminism, especially Feminist and Solidarity Economy, organisations, feminist and activist participatory research methodologies, facilitation and process work.

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