Professor Cecilia Díaz-Méndez
Visiting Research Fellow, CRESC, University of Manchester (Aug-Nov 2008)
Cecilia Díaz-Méndez is senior lecturer of sociology at the University of Oviedo (Spain). She has a degree in Psychology from the Universidad Autónoma in Madrid and she has a Ph D in Sociology from the University of Oviedo. Since 1996 her main research and lecturing interest has been the Sociology of Consumption and Sociology of Leisure. She is currently the Head of a research team on the Sociology of Consumption at Oviedo University.
Her other research interests are focused on Rural Sociology and the Sociology of Food. On the one hand, she is particularly interested in social and gender changes in rural areas, and, on the other hand, she is interested in the changes in habits of food consumption and modernization.
Her two most recent research projects on food behaviour have been:
- "Dieta mediterránea y prácticas alimentarias: un estudio comparado de las representaciones sociales sobre la dieta saludable en un contexto de crisis del conocimiento e incertidumbre alimentaria”, carried out in collaboration with other Spanish universities (Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia) and the universities in Italy (Bolognia and Naples) and Portugal (Porto),
- “Cambio en el consumo alimentario en España” (Plan Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo), carried out in collaboration with several Spanish universities (Autónoma de Madrid, UNED, Autónoma de Barcelona y Politécnica de Valencia)
Both projects have been funded by Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia del Gobierno de España.
The purpose of Cecilia Díaz-Méndez whilst at CRESC is to study the differences and similarities in official surveys in food consumption in UK and in Spain. The ultimate aim is to draw, if possible, a pattern to compare the habits of food consumption in different countries based on official quantitative surveys.
Most recent and relevant publications include:
- Díaz Méndez y Gómez Benito (coord.) (2008) Food, consumption and health. Estudios Sociales, Obra Social La Caixa, nº 24
- Díaz Méndez y Gómez Benito (2008). Food and health in modern societies. Food, consumption and health. Estudios Sociales, Obra Social La Caixa, nº 24, 11-19
- Díaz Méndez y Gómez Benito (2008): The evolution of institutional recommendations on health and food. Food, consumption and health. Estudios Sociales, Obra Social La Caixa, nº 24, 23.46
- C. Díaz Méndez y Dávila Díaz, M. (2007): Familia, trabajo y territorio: tres anclajes sociales dinámicos para la integración de las jóvenes en una sociedad rural difusa. Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentacion
- Díaz Méndez (2006): The sociology of food in Spain: European Influences in Social Analices on Eating Habits, Comparative Sociology, Vol 5, nº 4, 353-380
- Díaz Méndez (2006): Cambios generacionales en las estrategias de inserción sociolaboral de las jóvenes rurales, en Estudios Agrosociales y Pesqueros, nº 211, 307- 338.
Contact Details
email: cecilia@uniovi.es