Vicent Borràs Català

Associate Professor of Sociology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and researcher at the Sociological Research Centre on Everyday Life and  – QUIT and the Institute for Labour Studies.
B.A. in Political Sciences and Sociology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Graduate Teaching from the University of Valencia and PhD in Sociology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (1997) with the thesis “The structuring of consumption and social groups in the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona”.

He has been Vice-Dean of Academic Organization (2012-2018) and Secretary of the Department of Sociology (2018-2020) at the Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology of the UAB.

His academic career began in 1991 as a scholarship holder (FPU) at QUIT. During these years he has carried out predoctoral stays at the University of Berkeley, California; at the University of Chicago, Illinois and at the Unversity of Essex, England. In 2014 he did a research stay at the Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities at Stony Brook University, New York.

He has published numerous articles and papers in various high-ranked journals and is a reviewer of specialized journals in his areas of knowledge, work and gender, research methods, consumption, labour market and the relationship between time, work and everyday life.