Dra. Gloria Baigorrotegui: Addressing social conflicts with technology, from research and science

The academic from the Faculty of Humanities and the IDEA Institute tells us in this interview how large power generation plants affect societies and gives us her particular vision of gender equality in science, technology and innovation.

USACh Communications.- Gloria Baigorrotegui has a PhD in Social and Political Studies of Science and Technology from the University of the Basque Country and Industrial Civil Engineering from the University of Santiago. She works at the Institute for Advanced Studies, in the area of ​​social and political studies.

The topics that he is passionate about are concentrated in energy and society, sectors that he considers very interdisciplinary, since they are made up of professionals from engineering, philosophy, social studies, anthropology and obviously ecology.

Remember that your involvement with these issues comes from monitoring conflicts with collective actions. The first, the construction of a natural gas thermal power plant in the Basque country and the large-scale coal-fired power plants and hydroelectric dams in our country.

Dr. Baigorrotegui believes that science always is and will be a challenge for her. “It is a concern, a true call for attention that channels what I want to do in life.” She considers herself a curious woman who is always seeking to know more about what is happening and the reasons behind these events.

“Science has always been a very strong belief in the universality of knowledge and has been sustained by a single idea, but in my opinion it is not like that, “it is neither universal nor ideal, it is very concrete and has many forms to conceive knowledge, and research practices could be worlds apart”, he remarks.

We invite you below to watch the following video where the PhD in Social and Political Studies of Science and Technology at the University of the Basque Country gives us her vision of knowledge, technology and innovation, as well as her opinion on equity of genre; in a work that she prepared by the Communications Unit of the Vice-Rector for Research, Innovation and Creation.