
Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (UOC), Estudios de Psicologia y Ciencias de la Educacion (UOC)
Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3)
Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia (Edifici B3)
Av. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 5
08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona)
+34 93 326 36 81
dlopezgo@uoc.edu
Daniel
López Gómez
Co-Director · Full-time Researcher · Associate Professor
Daniel López Gómez (UOC) is PhD in Social Psychology, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and Education and member of the CareNet research group since its inception. Currently, he is a full-time researcher at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) at UOC. His background is on Social Psychology but he defines himself as an STS scholar and ethnographer interested in care infrastructures and care practices, ageing and disability, and grassroots innovation processes such as senior cohousing or mutual-care in contexts of crisis and austerity. His PhD was a critical exploration of the intersections between care and security in telecare developments for older people. He is an experienced ethnographer and has published extensively on these topics. From a theoretical point of view, his work is very inspired by Actor-network theory, poststructuralism and feminist technoscience. More recently, he got interested in self-tracking technologies, participatory sensing projects as well as maintenance and repair practices as infrastructural care. He would also love to get into food studies some day.
He is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology and Education at UOC since 2007. From 2011 to 2013 he was a Marie-Curie postdoc of the Law, Science and Technology Studies (LSTS) research group at the Vrije Universitet Brussel. He is an associate member of the Centre for Invention and Social Process (Goldsmiths, University of London). He was also visiting scholar at Universidad Andrés Bello (Chile)
He is a member of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), the Spanish STS network and a board member of the Catalan Association of Geriatrics and Gerontology. He was part of the organizing and leading committee of the 2016 EASST/4s Joint Conference in Barcelona.
- Care
- Science & Technology Studies
- Ageing
PROJECTS
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

No future for care without new digital media? Making time(s) for mediated informal care practices in later life

Civilising technologies for an ageing society? The performativity of participatory methods in Socio-gerontechnology
RELATED NEWS
Research Seminar: “Connected at Home: digital technologies and aging”
Los próximos días 10 y 12 de mayo se realizará el seminario de investigación “Conectados en casa: los usos de las tecnologías digitales en la vejez”, en el que se compartirá con la comunidad científica algunos de los resultados del proyecto BCONNECT@HOME
Conversation with Ibero-American Networks of Science, Technology & Society
Researchers Daniel López-Gómez and Israel Rodríguez-Giralt join in the online meeting, on February 26, 2021
“If we are to improve employment security in care provision and stop pathologizing old age, we need to rethink the concept of home” Interviewing Daniel López
Interview to Daniel López-Gómez published at IN3 Blog (UOC), 08/02/2021
Daniel López participates in the 2020 Senior Cohousing Virtual Congress organized by Hispacoop
Researcher Daniel López participates in the 2020 Senior Cohousing Virtual Congress organized by Hispacoop
Webinar: “Aging-in-place and care: imaginaries, practices and technologies” by Daniel López
Researcher Daniel López Gómez gives the webinar “Aging-in-place and care: imaginaries, practices and technologies”.
Exploring the digital and built environments of social connectedness in later life
Introduction to the project BCONNECT@HOME at the UOC Research Showcase 2019
Video of the MOVICOMA Final Conference in Barcelona, a research about the senior cohousing movement in Spain
Video of the MOVICOMA Final Conference that took place in June 2017 in Barcelona. Video in Spanish with English subtitles
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