Dr Gabriela Loureiro

Gabriela is a researcher and lecturer currently teaching Sociology of Emotions and Sociology of Intimate Relationships at the University of Edinburgh. Gabriela is also part of the research project Connecting during Covid-19: Practices of care, remittance sending and digitisation among UK’s migrant communities, based at Queen Mary University and in partnership with SOAS and UCL’s Institute of Education.

Gabriela received a PhD in Media and Gender Studies at the University of West London with a thesis about emotions and online feminist activism in Brazil, looking at hashtags as digital consciousness-raising and exploring the sociology of emotions in cyberfeminisms. Gabriela also holds a Masters in Gender, Sexuality and the Body from the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds.