Dra Clara Masriera Esquerra

Function
Researcher

Researcher of Centre d’Estudis del Patrimoni Arqueològic –Center for the Study of archaeological heritage (CEPARQ) from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). Part time assistant professor of the Faculty of Education from the University of Barcelona.
Archaeologist (BA in History and Archaeology in 2002) and PhD in Education (2007) with a thesis entitled “Anàlisi dels espais de presentació arqueològics de l'Edat dels Metalls - Analysis of the Bronze and Iron Age Archaeological Open air museums".
She has been managing during five years (2007-2012) heritage sites in the local coastal city of Calafell (Tarragona), specially the Archaeological Open Air Museum "Ciutadella Ibèrica", coordinator of the european project OpenArch, in the framework of 2007-2013 Culture Program. She has also been working coordinating the scientific committe of the International Educating Cities Congress celebrated in Barcelona in november 2014.
Clara has participated as a member of the coordinating team of the Innovarch project (Erasmus+ 2015-2017) about Public Archaeology in Higher Education. She teaches as assistant professor in the Faculty of Education of the University of Barcelona (UB) since the course 2012-2013 and in the MA about Heritage Management in the same university. Course 2020-2021 has started as a teacher in the MA Humanities and Digital Heritage in the UAB. At the same time she has been teaching, as invited professor, to the Universitat Rovira i Virgili de les Terres de l’Ebre (URV), Universitat de Lleida (UdL), both in Catalonia, and in University of Warsaw (Poland) and University of Zagreb (Croatia).
Has several papers about heritage, public archaeology and the social value of heritage, including gender perspective, where she focuses her research. She has also given several conferences on that topic.