Department: Sociología Aplicada

Faculty: Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales

Area: Sociology

Research group: GRESCO Grupo de estudios socioculturales contemporáneos

Email: abriales@ucm.es

Personal web: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alvaro-Briales/

Doctor by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid with the thesis El tiempo superfluo una sociología crítica del desempleo : el caso de España (2007-2013) 2016. Supervised by Dr. Carlos Prieto Rodríguez, Dr. Eduardo Crespo Suárez.

Álvaro Briales is an assistant professor in the Department of Applied Sociology at the Complutense University of Madrid. His thesis 'Superfluous time: a critical sociology of unemployment' was dedicated to the analysis of social transformations related to mass unemployment in Spain after the global crisis of 2008. His interests, publications and translations focus on the sociology of unemployment and work, critical theory of capitalism, social times and their relations with feminist perspectives. Previously, he has worked at the Fundación de los Comunes, the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He is currently participating in the project "Evaluation of working and employment conditions on digital platforms with the methodology of the international Fairwork network" and the GENERA project (Gender Equality in the Uses of Time). More publications at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alvaro-Briales/research