
Women and social inclusion
General objectives
Understand the reality of women in contexts of social vulnerability and learn the strategies they implement to overcome and transform their situations.
Develop training and awareness-raising proposals that lead to greater social awareness of the situations of greater vulnerability experienced by some women.
Carry out actions to transfer and disseminate the results obtained from ongoing research, as well as contribute to various national and international conferences.
Contribute to the eradication of gender-based violence during pregnancy. Study the obstacles and facilitators to women's autonomy and well-being in relation to cesarean delivery.
Research Team

Coordinator
Montserrat Payà Sánchez
Group members
Ana Maria Ayuste
Monica Gijón
Laura Rubio
Research
Understand the reality of women in contexts of social vulnerability and learn the strategies they implement to overcome and transform their situations.
Develop training and awareness-raising proposals that lead to greater social awareness of the situations of greater vulnerability experienced by some women.
Carry out actions to transfer and disseminate the results obtained from ongoing research, as well as contribute to various national and international conferences.
Contribute to the eradication of gender-based violence during pregnancy. Study the obstacles and facilitators to women's autonomy and well-being in relation to cesarean delivery.
Publications
Ayuste, A.; Gijón, M.; Payá, M.; Rubio, L. (2015). Social work and prostitution: an approach to educational practices. European Journal of Social Work. ISSN: 1369-1457
Ayuste, A.; Payá, M. (2014) The educational relationship with women in prostitution contexts: the pedagogical dimension of the intervention in Education XX1, Vol17, No. 1 291-308.
Gómez-Fernández, M.A., Goberna-Tricas, J., & Payá-Sánchez, M. (2023). Training for midwives and health professionals to address gender-based violence in pregnancy. Temps d'Educació, 64, pp. 173–189. doi.org/10.1344/TempsEducacio2023.64.11
Gómez-Fernández, M.; Payá-Sánchez, M.; Cunillera-Puértolas, O.; Cabrera-García, P.; Vidal-Ventura, C.; Goberna-Tricas, J. (2021). Gender-based violence during pregnancy: association with voluntary termination of pregnancy and neonatal health complications. Midwives Profession, 22(1), pp. 20-26.
Prats Hueso, E., Payà Sánchez, M., & Goberna Tricas, J. (2024). Negative experience and false sense of autonomy after elective cesarean section in a second pregnancy. Index De Enfermería, (33), 1. https://dx.doi.org/10.58807/indexenferm16694