Laia Soto Bermant

University of Barcelona – Academic Director & Lecturer en Universitat de Barcelona

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

About

Experience

  • University of Barcelona – Academic Director & Lecturer at Universitat de Barcelona
    Oct 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

    Faculty member for the MA program in Psychoanalysis and Clinical Psychotherapy. I teach a core course on ‘Anthropology and Psychoanalysis’ and I supervise students writing their dissertation.

  • Kone Research Fellow at University of Helsinki
    Oct 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

    PI of the project "Truth, Fiction, and Power: Understanding Conspiracy Theories about Covid-19". This four-year research project documents ethnographically the global spread of conspiracy theories about Covid-19 and investigates how the circulation of theories about the origins of the disease is creating new kinds of relations and separations between locations across the globe.

  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Social Sciences at University of Helsinki
    Oct 2016 - Oct 2021 · 5 yrs 1 mo

    I was a member of the core research team for two interrelated projects on the meaning and value of place, space and ‘relative location’. The projects were run by Prof. Sarah F. Green: 1) Academy of Finland – “Trade, Transit, and Travel in the Mediterranean” 2) ERC- “Crosslocations: Rethinking relative location in the Mediterranean”

  • Lecturer, Faculty of Social Sciences at Bournemouth University
    Nov 2014 - Jul 2015 · 9 mos

    This was a fixed-term lectureship to replace a Faculty member on maternity leave. My responsibilities included designing and teaching two undergraduate courses for the Faculty of Social Sciences: ‘Introduction to Social Anthropology’ and ‘Globalization and Marginalization’.

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Comparative Border Studies at Arizona State University
    Nov 2013 - Jul 2014 · 9 mos

    Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Program at the School of Transborder Studies of Arizona State University. This one-year postdoctoral research fellowship allowed me to carry out comparative research between EU-North Africa and US-Mexico borders and become acquainted with the latest sociological research on border studies in the US.