Dr. Estefanía Calo works in research lines related to urban sociology, territory and housing. She teaches in the Department of Sociology and Communication Sciences at the UDC where she teaches, among others, the subject of Urban Sociology and Territorial Planning.

She carried out different research stays in various organizations, among which is the Center for Urban History, of the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom (2012); the ISCTE-Instituto do Universitário de Lisboa (2019); the Complutense University of Madrid (2020-2021); and the University of Barcelona (2022), in which she collaborated with research groups related to the study of the city and the relationship between the population and the territory.

She has published different articles in journals of recognized quality and participated in conferences at an international level presenting works related to the study of the city, housing and territory, specifically linked to: the analysis of residential needs, residential policies, the right to housing and the city and the study of different urban processes such as gentrification and touristification. All this work is also linked to issues of sustainability and the environment and the new social relations associated with the common good and decrease.

His most outstanding bibliographic contributions include:

• Alberto Rodríguez-Barcón; Estefanía Calo; Raimundo Otero-Enríquez (2018), Commercial Gentrification in a Medium-Sized City: An Ethnographic Look at the Transformation Process of the Historic Centre of A Coruña. Urbanities, Journal of Urban Ethnography, 8, 87-96
• Raimundo Otero-Enriquez; Estefanía Calo; Alberto Rodríguez-Barcón (2020). Una síntesis conceptual e histórica de la “escurridiza” periferia exurbana: usos del suelo, residentes simbióticos y paradigmas explicativos. Zarch, Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture and Urbanism, 14, 201-213, 10.26754/ojs_zarch/ zarch.2020144291
• Estefanía Calo; Raimundo Otero-Enríquez; Alberto Rodríguez-Barcón (2021). Discourses on Spain´s housing crises: a typological proposal. JURA Journal of Urban and Regional Analysis, 13(1), 77-91, doi.org/10.37043/JURA.2021.13.1.5.
• Alberto Rodríguez-Barcón; Estefanía Calo; Raimundo Otero-Enríquez (2020). Social transformation and urban regeneration: three interpretations on the phenomenon of gentrification in the historic centre of A Coruña (Spain), en Jerome Krase y Judith N. DeSena (eds) Gentrification around the world. Vol II. Innovative aproaches. ISBN: 978-3-030-41340-8.
• Estefanía Calo; Emma López-Bahut (2023) Alternative Models of Access to and Production of Housing in Spain: The Bottom-up Processes. Zarch. Journal of interdisciplinary studies in Architecture and Urbanism, 21, 144-177
• Estefanía Calo; Raimundo Otero-Enríquez; Alberto Rodríguez-Barcón (2021). Del conservadurismo al criticismo: tipologías discursivas sobre la crisis de la vivienda en España, Discurso Sociedad, 15 (2), 244-267
• Estefanía Calo; Alberto Rodríguez-Barcón; Raimundo Otero-Enríquez (2024). Ciudad naturaleza y animalidad: un acercamiento desde la sociología. Futuro poliédrico del fenómeno social a principios del siglo XXI. Peter Lang. ISBN: 978-3-631-91595-0