Sara Porras

PhD in Sociology and Anthropology, my main lines of research are feminist and gender studies as well as the field of analysis and study of cities and spatial conflicts. In recent years I have been intensively engaged in the field of social research in a comparative framework, which has allowed me to delve into the social reality of European and Latin American cities, developing various research and development programs. In addition, this work has allowed me to test different research techniques by combining the analysis of databases with the development of applied research fields. Throughout my career the fundamental element is the study of gender dynamics and the role of feminist movements.

In parallel to my professional work, I have been involved in feminist social activism for more than two decades in different platforms, such as the state feminist assembly and the feminist assembly of Madrid. I also publish on gender conflicts and feminist movements in various newspapers and media in my country.

• Technical Secretary of the Summer Course. Agenda 2030 The dispute for the commons, Complutense University of Madrid, 01/07/2019, 05/07/2019
• Technical Secretary of the Summer Course. Vulnerability and care in big cities, Complutense University of Madrid, 26/06/2017, 30/06/2017
• Organizer of the First Inter-Congress Meeting of the Urban Sociology Committee of the FES, SPANISH FEDERATION OF SOCIOLOGY, 09/01/2017

• Genericized spatial order. Dis/reconfigurations in households during the COVID pandemic, Sara Porras Sánchez, Akal, Madrid, 2023
• Housing and inequality in large Spanish cities. Territory, place and identity in vulnerable neighborhoods. El barrionalismo como práctica política, Sara Porras Sánchez; Francesca Donati, Ciudad y Territorio, 03/05/2021
• Madrid, city of fifteen minutes. Los hogares y el barrio: por una política de lo próximo frente a lo global, Sara Porras Sánchez, Lengua de Trapo, 01/09/2022
• Para hacerte saber mil cosas nuevas. Ciudad Real 1939. Braulio García Fernández, Sara Porras Sánchez; Marina Alberti, UNED, 01/07/2019
• Win or die: Political lessons in game of thrones. Game of Roles or the feminist subversion, Sara Porras Sánchez; Cristina Castillo, Akal, 05/11/2014
• When movies vote: Lessons in social science through film. Mad Men What is feminism, Sara Porras Sánchez, Catarata, 16/10/2013
• Politics and Game of Thrones. Game of Thrones or life on the frontier, Sara Porras Sánchez, Beers and Politics, 10/04/2018

• Member of the Institute for Feminist Research at UCM. From 2019 to the present.
• Member of the Research Group on Contemporary Sociocultural Studies, GRESCO. From 2021 to present.
• Women's Coordinator of IU Community of Madrid. Start - End Date: May 2013 - February 2015.
• Deputy to the federal leadership of the Women's Secretariat of the Communist Party of Spain. January 2013- March 2016.
• Deputy Spokesperson of the Madrid City Council's Central District Board. Start - End Date: September 2012- March 2015.
• Representative in the Governing Council of the Complutense University of Madrid. Start - End Date: October 2006 - September 2009.

• RESILIENT COMMUNITIES LOCAL ARRAGMENT AND SOCIAL NETWORKS IN THE GLOBAL CITY: COMURES...., Complutense University of Madrid, 01/07/2020, 16/03/2023, 192.000 €
• INFLUENCE OF CHANGES IN THE REGIMES OF PRODUCTION AND ACCESS TO HOUSING ON SOCIAL RESTRUCTURING IN LARGE SPANISH CITIES, CAMVIVSOC Organization, 01/01/2018, 31/12/2020, 36.300 €
• INNOVATIONS AND CONTINUITIES IN THE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF LARGE SPANISH COMPANIES IN A CONTEXT OF CRISIS. Comparative and transnational diagnosis, University of Castilla-La Mancha, 30/12/2016, 29/12/2019, 42.350 €
• VULNERABILITY, PARTICIPATION AND CITIZENSHIP. KEYS FOR A SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT, Complutense University of Madrid, 01/01/2016, 29/12/2018, 208.070,19 €
• MAPEP. MAP OF THE SOUNDS OF MADRID. CONNECTING THE CITY, ARRANGING THE SPACES, Coordinator of the total project, network, 01/09/2022, 31/07/2023, 1 year
• URBAODS, INCORPORATING THE GOALS OF THE AGENDA 2030 FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN URBAN STUDIES AND IN A COVID CONTEXT: AN INTERNATIONAL COMPARATIVE APPROACH OF NEW PARTICIPATORY METHODOLOGIES, 01/09/2021, 31/07/2022, 1 year
• GENDER, SOCIAL NETWORKS, ATTACHMENT TO PLACE, LOCAL WELFARE AND PROVISION IN IBEROAMERICAN CITIES: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE CASES OF BARCELONA, BUENOS AIRES, MADRID, MEXICO CAPITAL AND SAO PAULO, 01/09/2020, 1 year, 15.000 €
• IBERO-AMERICAN SMART CITIES: OPPORTUNITIES AND VULNERABILITIES IN SAO PAULO, BUENOS AIRES, MEXICO, MADRID AND BARCELONA, 15/10/2017, 1 year, 15.750 €
• GENLEARNING. THE CITY FROM A GENDER PERSPECTIVE. THE INCORPORATION OF THE GENDER PERSPECTIVE IN URBAN STUDIES, 01/07/2017, 1 year
• EVOKING, KNOWING, ANALYZING: THE MEMORY, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF URBAN STUDIES AND MADRID URBANISM THROUGH THE FIGURE OF JESÚS LEAL. EVOCATE, 01/07/2016, 1 year

• UCM Feminist Research Institute
• Sociocultural Studies Research Group

The Institute of Feminist Research is one of the oldest of the Spanish universities, with more than 30 years of operation it hosts a multiplicity of studies and researchers making it one of the most prestigious in Spain.