Alejandro Valdivia

Since June 2021 – Research Associate and PhD Candidate at the Interdisciplinary Centre for European Studies (ICES), Europa-Universität Flensburg

• PhD thesis: From Knowledge to Policy: Occupational Health Precarity in Slaughterhouses in Germany. Supervised by Prof. Dr. Anna Katharina Mangold, LL.M. [Cambridge]
• May–July 2023 – Three-month research stay at the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Education, University of Oslo (Norway), with Prof. Dr. Eivind Engebretsen

2016–2019 – M.A. in International Relations (specialisation on International Politics and International Law; bilingual: German/English), TU Dresden

2012–2015 – B.A. in Social Sciences (in French), University of Strasbourg, France

• Academic year 2014–2015 – Diploma in the Teaching of French as a Foreign and Second Language

2010–2012 – Diploma in Classical Humanities (in Spanish), Jesuit University Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, Lima, Peru

• Access+: Access to Social Rights in Germany and France - Inequalities and discrimination, gender and migration in the jeux d'échelles of Europe. Collaboration between Europa-Universität Flensburg and the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, Paris. Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the French National Research Agency (ANR).

• HELA: Occupational health in the EU: an interdisciplinary analysis of health inequities within the labour market. Collaboration between PhD researchers from HU Berlin (Centre Marc Bloch), University of Pisa, UCLouvain, and University of Vienna. Funded by the European University Alliance Circle U.

• Circle U. grant (Seed Funding Scheme 2022) for the project HELA: €10,000 (01–12/2023)
• HU Berlin grant (funded by the DAAD) for a three-month research stay at the University of Oslo: €5,000 (05–07/2023)

Feminist Science and Technology Studies (STS), Medical Humanities, Evidence-Based Policy, Global Health, Precarity, Trade Unions, Migration

• Centre Marc Bloch (An-Institut of HU Berlin)
• Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Education (University of Oslo, Norway)

Alejandro Valdivia (2025) Precarity-Based Evidence: Trade Unions’ Knowledge Production on Migrant Workers’ Occupational Health in Slaughterhouses in Germany, Zeitschrift für Politik. doi: https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748949398-117

Sandy Tubeuf, Alejandro Valdivia, Lara Tavoschi, Jean-Philippe Empana, Eivind Engebretsen (2025) The responsibility of health: shifting the focus from individuals to systems, The Lancet. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(25)00013-1

Alejandro Valdivia, Johannes Gallon, Anna Katharina Mangold (2023) Occupational health in slaughterhouses in Germany: translating political claims into legal language during the COVID-19 pandemic, Zeitschrift für Sozialreform. doi:https://doi.org/10.1515/zsr-2023-0005

Sandy Tubeuf, Josephine Aikpitanyi, Omar Deraz, Jean-Philippe Empana, Zoulikha Faraj, Christoph Gradmann, Bojana Matejic, AmauryPeeters, Matthew Prina, Torben Sigsgaard, Lara Tavoschi, Alejandro Valdivia, Christian Morberg Wesje, Pascal Grosse. Global Health in Higher Education: New Perspectives from a trans-European University Alliance, The Lancet(under review)

Ruben Della Pia, Alejandro Valdivia, Francesca Grasso, Maria-Christine Mautner, Andres Salazar, Alexia Bigorne. Occupational Safety and Health in the European Union: A Multifaceted Challenge Requiring Interdisciplinary Research (manuscript for submission to The Lancet)