Last Friday, 14 February, we presented the Cecilia Castaño Awards at the UOC Science and Gender Awards Ceremony. Here are the winners of the 3rd edition:

Award for the best Master’s degree final project: Daniel Sánchez Peláez for “Lenguaje en el mundo gamer y la plataforma Twitch” [“Language in the gamer world and the Twitch platform”].

In his work, Daniel Sánchez Peláez explores the language used in video games by university students on Twitch from a gender perspective. He analyses the violent and derogatory language that Spanish female streamers receive during their live broadcasts and the strategies they use to counteract these messages.

Daniel Sánchez made a video of his acceptance speech for the award.

Award for the best doctoral thesis or article linked to a doctoral thesis: Ana María de la Torre Sierra for “The Representation of Gender Stereotypes in Spanish Mathematics Textbooks for Primary Education”.

Ana María de la Torre‘s research examines the extent to which primary mathematics textbooks challenge or perpetuate gender stereotypes, and the impact these stereotypes can have on girls’ mathematical competence from an early age. To know more, read the interview with Ana María de la Torre at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya: “There are no real-life female role models in school maths textbooks”.

Ana María de la Torre Sierra at the moment of receiving the award.

During the awards ceremony, we also enjoyed an inspiring conversation between the event’s host, feminist communicator Estela Ortiz, and Cecilia Castaño, Honorary Professor of Applied Economics at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Cecilia Castaño stressed that a gender and feminist perspective is essential for research to address social problems in all their complexity and include the specificities and needs of the entire population. Among the barriers to women’s access and retention in the technology sectors, she highlighted the hypermasculine culture that often prevails in these fields: “There is a ‘brogrammer’ culture, which is deeply sexist, promotes individualism and is a barrier for many women and some men to feel part of it,” she said.

Estela Ortiz (left) and Cecilia Castaño (right) during the UOC Science and Gender Awards.

In addition to the Cecilia Castaño Awards, the winners of the Final Projects with a Gender Perspective Awards, organised by the UOC Equality Unit, and the Equit@T Awards for videos on gender and technology, promoted by the UOC Faculty of Computer Science, Multimedia and Telecommunications, were also awarded at the event. You can view the photo album of the UOC Science and Gender Awards ceremony below. Congratulations to all the winners!