Paloma Yáñez Serrano

University of Manchester

Paloma Yáñez Serrano is an award-winning independent ethnographic filmmaker and social anthropologist interested in the methods of adaptation that humans develop to address the changing environment, technology and political conflicts. Her Ph.D. in social anthropology with visual media, at the University of Manchester, focused on farmers’ and labourers’ everyday survival strategies in Almería’s plastic sea, in southern Spain. Paloma currently works at the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology at UAM as a researcher in EmCliC. She has published in Teaching Anthropology and Visual Ethnography, and her work has been awarded with the University of Manchester’s Research Excellence Award and the EASA Food Network Award.