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Àngels Trias i Valls

Senior research assistant of the Institute of Contemporary European Studies (iCES) and Senior Lecturer

Dr Àngels Trias i Valls has fifteen years of academic research experience in the field of social anthropology. She specialises in ethnographic research in the areas of economic anthropology, anthropology of gender and visual anthropology.  

Àngels has taught research methods for twelve years in different universities in the UK and Europe including the Queen’s University of Belfast, the Law and Business School in Dublin and the University of Wales. Àngels conducted extensive research in Japan on the theme of economic exchange, commodity advertising and Japanese chocolate trends, looking at issues of inequality, cosmopolitanism and representations of Japanese capitalism. She also conducted research in Europe, Morocco and Malaysia. Her focus of research is on the area of economic anthropology within globalisation and cosmopolitan processes.  Àngels interests include research on the theme of learning, teaching and research in Higher Education in the UK, with special emphasis on new communication, virtual and media technologies.  

In 2008 and 2009 Àngels  received two awards from the Higher Education Academy on her contributions to the discipline of anthropology. In 2010 she was the subject leader for an awarded national project that examines the re-usability of teaching materials for social sciences. Àngels sits in the Editorial board of Political Studies of the Welsh Press, and is the chief editor of Anthropology Reviews: Dissent and Cultural Politics.  She is a co-organiser of the FiLo network (Fieldwork in London Network) and avid academic twitter. Àngels is currently teaching anthropology and research skills and methods as well as supporting research and the development of the research areas within iCES and Regent’s College.

Àngels is a Senior Lecturer at Regents College and the Module Leader for the RBSMAGM Research Skills – SKL7500 module.