Team / Teaching and research academic staff
Associate Professor
Mireia BolÃbar holds a PhD in sociology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2014). He has been a visiting researcher at the Mitchell Center for Social Network Analysis of the University of Manchester, at the Employment Research Center of the Trinity College Dublin, and at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity.
Upon the completion of her PHd, she was employed at the Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy (SOCIUM) and the Institute of Sociology at the University of Bremen, and later a Juan de la Cierva research fellow (with the JdC-Formación and JdC-Incorporación grants) at Research Group on Health Inequalities – Employment Conditions Network of the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF).
In 2020, she joined the Department of Sociology of the University of Barcelona (UB) as Serra Hunter Lecturer, and later on in 2022 she joined the Department of Sociology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) as associate professor.
She is a member of the Sociological Research Center on Everyday Life and Work (QUIT) and the Institute for Labour Studies (IET). Her teaching is on the areas of research methods and sociology of work.
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Departament de Sociologia
Campus UAB- Edifici B
08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès (Barcelona)
Spain
Despatx B3b/071
Areas of specialization
Her research delves on the study of inequalities in youth employment trajectories; the role of social capital in the labour market; and the characteristics, extent and consequences of job insecurity and unemployment for health and health inequalities. She also works in the development and application of mixed methods methodologies, life course research and social network analysis.
Selected bibliography
Kvart S, Cuervo I, Gunn V, Lewchuk W, Bosmans K, Davis L, et al. (2025) Labour and social protection gaps impacting the health and well-being of workers in non-standard employment: An international comparative study. PLoS ONE 20(3): e0320248. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0320248
BolÃbar, Mireia; MartÃnez-Ariño, Julia & Schiller, Maria (2024). Network of Categories: A Method to Aggregate Egocentric Network Survey Data into a Whole Network Structure. Field Methods, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/1525822X241262678
BolÃbar, Mireia & Padrosa, Eva (2024). Salut mental, joventut i desigualtats. Una mirada integral al benestar emocional de la població jove de Catalunya. Col·lecció Aportacions, núm. 67. Generalitat de Catalunya https://dretssocials.gencat.cat/web/.content/JOVENTUT_documents/arxiu/publicacions/col_aportacions/SALUT_MENTAL_JOVENTUT_DESIGUALTATS.pdf
BolÃbar, M., Belvis, F. X., Gutiérrez-Zamora, M. (2022). The Embodiment of Insecurity: How Precarious Labour Market Trajectories Affect Young Workers’ Health and Wellbeing in Catalonia (Spain). In Choonara, J., Murgia, A & Carmo, RM (eds.) Faces of Precarity. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
Padrosa, E., BolÃbar, M. (2022): Disentangling youth non-compliance with COVID-19 restrictions from gender, socioeconomic vulnerability and poor mental health: lessons from the first wave in Catalonia. Journal of Youth Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2022.2046260
