Dr Mª Àngels Trias i Valls (born 1968, Igualada, Catalonia) Social Anthropologist
Dr Àngels Trias i Valls lives in London and is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology. She works at Regent's College London. She has written several books and many articles on economic and visual anthropology, gender, communication technologies and learning and teaching anthropology. Àngels Trias i Valls was the pioneer of the first UK e-learning BA and MA in Social Anthropology in 2000 for the University of Wales, a project discontinued in 2008 and donated to open access sources. Her most recent ethnography, Japan in Love will be published by the Edwin Mellen Press in 2009. She also produces photoethnographies and research-based ethnographic films.
Àngels is also the editor of the volume on Employability in Higher Education in the UK Social Sciences Matters?' with the University of Birmingham, and the co-editor of 'Consent and Dominance' with Berghan Publishers. She is the chief editor of the Open Access Anthropology Journal, 'Anthropology Reviews: Dissent and Cultural Politics ISSN 2041-1405'. Àngels is also responsible for several online projects, including the Anthropologies twitter and the anthropology-projects.co.uk archive project. She is also a member of Open Anthropology Association, the first UK community for Open Access Anthropology, the FiLO network for anthropologist doing fieldwork in London, the ASA and EASA anthropological associations. She supports the Creative Commons project, Ning, Open Access projects and wikidot.
Career
Àngels Trias i Valls received a Llicenciatura in Cultural and Social Anthropology by the Universitat Central de Barcelona (UCB) and a PhD in Social Anthropology by the Queen's University of Belfast. Her PhD research was on the economic anthropology of Japan. Further research included work on gender, sexuality, cosmopolitanism and visualisations of contemporary Japanese and European identity. Àngels Trias i Valls was an anthropology teaching assistant at the Queen's University of Belfast (1997-2000), a lecturer in social anthropology for the LSB (Dublin) (1999-2000), and a lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Wales, Lampter (2000-2008). In 2008 She was awarded the first C-SAP anthropology associateship by the Higher Education Academy and the Network for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics. She is the co-organiser of a series of conferences on the theme of 'consent and dominance'[1] for the Higher Education Newtwork Center for Anthropology, Sociology and Politics and of a conference on sub-states nationalisms in Europe for iCES. Currently she is the vice-chair of the C-SAP reference group for anthropology. She is the project leader for Regent's College partnership with the consortium projects of the HEA, OER-JISC with C-SAP which aims at the production of anthropology re-usable teaching objects as open educational materials.
In 2009 she was awarded the 'National Higher Education Academy C-SAP Award for Anthropology', for her contributions to the discipline of anthropology.