He is a Sociologist from the Complutense University of Madrid (2005), and has been a visiting researcher at the Center Marc Bloch (Berlin, 2007), CNRS (Paris, 2008) and Brown University (Providence, 2011). Ganuza did the Master of Research and Participatory Methodologies at the UCM (1997). Between 2009 and 2020, Ganuza was Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Social Studies in the city of Córdoba.
He worked on citizen participation in a broad sense, from the history that favours its implementation, to the analytical elements that allow us to better understand the conditions that favor participatory institutions. He has been involved in international research projects on the spread of democratic innovations around the world, publishing books and articles on this issue (such as Popular Democracy: the paradox of participation, Stanford University Press).
He has taught in the Master of Participatory Methodologies at UCM. But he has also performed important advisory and consultancy tasks in the implementation of participatory processes at different scales (local and regional). He was the coordinator of the first Deliberative Survey organized in Spain on Water in Andalusia (2008) and advised the City Council of Córdoba to design and organize Participatory Budgeting (2000).
Part of his time is dedicated to Scientific Management, highlighting the work carried out as Chief Editor of the Revista Internacional de Sociología (JCR journal) since 2014. He has been academic deputy director at the Institute of Advanced Social Studies in the city of Córdoba (2013-15). He was also a member of the Commission of Area 1 at the CSIC (Human and Social Sciences) between 2015 and 2018.
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