Ana Miranda has worked on academic research for more than twenty-five years from the perspective of public sociology. She co-funded FLACSO’s Youth Research Program, creating numerous projects on education, work, gender, political participation, and migrations. From 1998, she has focused on longitudinal panel studies with three social generations in Argentina. In 2001, she won first prize and in 2008, she won second prize in the Domingo F. Sarmiento Competition organized by Argentina’s National Academy of Education. In 2016, she won the FORD/LASA Award to create the Latin American Network of Studies on school to work transition.
She was Visiting Professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona; Professor at the Universidad de la República, Uruguay, FLACSO Ecuador, Universidad del Salvador, Argentina, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED Spain), and Universidad Estatal a Distancia (UNED Costa Rica). She has lectured with Peru’s National Secretariat for Youth, Ecuador’s National Council for Intergenerational Equality, Colombia’s National Union School, Chile’s Universidad de Chile and Austria’s Labor, Family and Youth Ministry. She has collaborated with multiple cooperation agencies, among them: IDB, WB, MIF, ILO, UN Women, UNDP, UNICEF, and YIF.
Miranda has published two books and compiled six. Her most recent publications include Cuervo H. and Miranda A. Eds. (2019): Youth, Inequality & Social Change in the Global South. Springer. She has published more than sixty articles in books and journals in Spanish, English, and Portuguese. She participates in the editorial boards of Journal of Applied Youth Studies (Springer), Youth and Globalization (Brill), and JOVENes Revista de Estudios de Juventud (IMJUVE). She is part of the Board of RC34 Sociology of Youth, International Sociological Association.
She is currently part of Vidas Sitiadas Regional Initiative, a learning network on youth, work, and violence in Latin America coordinated by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC Canada). Together with Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos, Brazil, she develops the Youth Collective Project, an action research project in partnership with social organizations. Along with Avellaneda Municipality’s Education Secretariat, she implements the Young Mothers Project, focused on expanding the care sector among young women. She is a member of Agenda Igualdad’s Academic Union Articulation Program working group, which promotes gender equality in Argentina’s labor market.
Ana Miranda is a researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET Argentina). She has earned her Ph.D. in Social Sciences from FLACSO. She holds a B.A. in Sociology and a Master’s in Social Policies from the University of Buenos Aires, School of Social Sciences.
