Ágata Ignaciuk

Ágata is a full professor at the Department of the History of Science at University of Granada. She is currently the principal investigator of ABLE (Legal abortion in Spain: science, services and social movements (1980s-1990s). She also work on Birth control cultures in Poland, 1945-1989, which received funding through the Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions COFUND and the Polish National Science Center POLONEZ 2 scheme. Her research focuses on gender and the history of sexual and reproductive health and rights from a transnational and comparative perspective, and dialogues with the history of technology, international studies, anthropology and sociology. She has published work on the history of the contraceptive pill in Spain and Poland, the journeys that Spanish women took to obtain abortions in the 1970s and 1980s, and contraceptive technologies in communist Poland.