Curriculum Vitae Julia Cordero Coma julia.cordero@cchs.csic.es jcordero@ceacs.march.es Country of birth: Spain Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales Spanish National Research Council Albasanz 26-28, 28037. Madrid Phone: +34-602-23-01 Ext. 2753 Fax: +34-91-375-77-41 Web page: http://demografia.ieg.csic.es/index.php/en/research/show/id/15/txt/julia_cordero_coma Current Position Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Doctor-member candidate in the Center for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Juan March Institute, Madrid. Dissertation Title: Social Interactions and Sexual Behavior. Explaining HIV Preventive Practices in Southeastern Africa. Advisors: Richard Breen (Yale University) and Teresa Castro Martín (CSIC). Education M.A. in Democracy and Government, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (60 credits), 2007-2008. M.A. in Social Sciences, Juan March Institute, Madrid, 2005-2007. M.A. in Population and Health, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencia Sociales, Mexico City, 2003-2005. B.A. in Sociology, Universidad de Salamanca, 1999-2003. Stays in other Universities Visiting pre-doctoral Fellow at the Yale Sociology Department (2 months, 2010). Advisor: Richard Breen.
Visiting Assistant in Research at the Yale Sociology Department (8 months, 2008-2009). Advisor: Richard Breen. Fellowships Dissertation Grant (Ayuda a la finalización de la tesis), Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas, Government of Spain. Ph.D. Fellowship, Comunidad de Madrid, 2008-2011. Ph.D. Fellowship; Juan March Institute, Madrid (MA two years; two years of PhD covered) 2005-2007. M.A. Fellowship, Secretaría de Educación Pública de México, 2003-2005. Further Education Introduction to the Analysis of Social Networks, Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, 2011. Hierarchical Models, Juan March Institute, Madrid, June 21 st -25 th, 2010. IV Postgraduate course. Population Health. Demographic and Sstatistical Analysis. CCHS, Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, Spain, 2010. Thinking about Endogeneity and Selection: Theoretical and Practical Issues, Juan March Institute, Madrid, November 30 th -December 4 th, 2009. Latent Class Analysis, 42 nd Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection, University of Essex, July 27 th -August 7 th, 2009. Methods to Identify Causal Effects Theory and Applications, Juan March Institute, Madrid, June 15 th -17 th. Bayesian Methods Workshop, CIQLE, Sociology Department, Yale University, Aprill 11 th, 2009. The Logic of Empirical Social Research. Yale University, Fall Term 2008. XI Summer School on Economics and Philosophy, Urrutia Elejalde Foundation and University of Basque Country, San Sebastian 2008. IV Postgraduate course. Demography and Statistics Applied Of Health. CCHS, Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, Spain, 2008.
Publications Cordero, Julia and Richard Breen. Husband-wife discrepancies in reports of condom use and HIV-preventive behavior (under review) Cordero, Julia (2009) El espaciamiento de los nacimientos: una estrategia para conciliar trabajo y familia en España, Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, 128: 11-33 Participation in research Projects European Science Foundation, European Collaborative Research Projects (ECRP) The new role of men and family dynamics in Europe. Countries involved: Sweden, Finland, Netherlands, Great Britain, Spain, Italy. Main researcher: Livia Sz. Oláh (Stockholm U.). Duration: 2011-2013. Ministry of Science and Innovation Familias en plural: implicaciones demográficas y sociales de la creciente diversificación familiar desde una perspectiva internacional (CSO2009-11883) Main researcher: Teresa Castro Martín (CSIC), 2009-2011. (Amount: 61.710,00 ) Presentations Protection or Contraception: Dealing with the Twofold Function of Condom Use. Poster presented at the 2011 annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Washington DC, 2011. Explaining both reported and true condom use within marriage in rural Malawi. A couple-level analysis Segundo autor: Richard Breen. Poster presented at the European Population Conference, Vienna, 2010. Who tells the truth? Simultaneously Explaining Condom Use and Husband-Wife Discrepancies on Reporting Preventive Behavior Co-author: Richard Breen. Communication presented at the XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Gothemburg, 2010. Cuando el grupo fomenta la infidelidad sexual. Obstáculos en la prevención del VIH en Malawi. Communication presented at the X Congreso Español de Sociología, Pamplona, 2010. The Social Environment Matters: The Influence of Interpersonal Communication and Community HIV Knowledge on Condom Use in South Africa, Zambia, and Uganda Poster presented at the XVII International AIDS Conference, Mexico City, August 2008. Social Norms Regulating Preventive Sexual Behaviour. The Relevance of Interpersonal Communication and the Differences Between Types of Sexual Relationship in Uganda (2001) and Malawi (2000) Poster presented at the XI Summer School on Economics and Philosophy, Urrutia Elejalde Foundation and University of Basque Country, San Sebastian 2008.
Interpersonal Communication and Preventive Behaviour against AIDS: The Relevance of the Type of Interlocutors. Poster presented at the European Population Conference, Barcelona, July 2008. Some unpublished research Master s theses Percepciones egocéntricas de la economía y niveles de información política: Condiciones que potencian la relevancia de la experiencia económica personal en la evaluación del gobierno, presented at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2008. Hablar de sexualidad con sus padres ayuda a los adolescentes mexicanos a prevenir el VIH/SIDA? Un acercamiento al contexto mexicano urbano, presented at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencia Sociales, Mexico City, 2005. Unpublished research papers El impacto de la desigualdad en dos partidas del gasto público: atención primaria en salud y subsidios por incapacidad. Motivaciones redistributiva y de protección frente al riesgo de los votantes March 2006. Electoral Rules and Corruption. The Relevance of the Permeability of Coalitions and the Number of Parties on Political Corruption, September 2006. Sentimientos antipartidistas en América Latina. Exploración de características y consecuencias del rechazo a los partidos, December 2006. The Role of Social Interactions in the Diffusion of the Condom Use, February 2007. Exposición a los medios de comunicación y tipo de voto. Estudio de elecciones recientes en España, June 2007. Flexibility in the International Regulation of Pharmaceutical Patents. A Consequence of a Coordination Process, June 2007 Languages Spanish: native. English: TOEFL Score 104 (December 2007). Technical Skills Statistical software: SPSS, STATA, LEM.
Membership in Research Groups Research Group on Demographic Dynamics, 2008- Research Group on Population and Society Studies (Grupo de Estudios de Población y Sociedad, GEPS), 2008- (May 2011)