Sofía Ramírez is a sociologist from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and master's student in Sociology at the same institution. Her research has focused on the sociology of crime, the sociology of memory, human rights, social inequality, intersectionality, and gender-based violence, analyzing hiw these phenomena manifest and transform over time.
She has experience in qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods data analysis in the field of human rights, particularly in the study of deprivation of liberty and dictatorshio from gender perspective. She is skilled in statistical analysis tools, database management, survey design and implementation, report writing, data processing, and conducting interviews.
She has participated in research projects on former political prisoners during the dictatorship, sexual offenders, and women deprived of liberty. She is currently developing her thesis, titled “Women Deprived of Liberty during the Dictatorship: Discursive Analysis and Gender-Based Violence in Documents and Parliamentary Records on Memory and Post-Dictatorship Reparation in Chile (1991–2021)”, in which she conducts a critical discourse analysis of gender-based violence during the dictatorship, drawing on truth and reparation documents and parliamentary debates in Chile.
