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The city of shades: Ethnography of urban habitability in times of climate mutation (June 17-21, 2024)

2024 Activities

Tomás Sánchez Criado

Presentation Different intergovernmental panels have long warned that the response to climate change must start from cities: increasingly populated settlements and complex-to-change infrastructures from which we need to rethink the…

Cristina Moreno Lozano, PhD candidate in Science and Technology Studies at the University of Edinburgh is doing a research stay at CareNet

2023 Research stays

Cristina Moreno Lozano investigates the medical work carried out by healthcare professionals running antibiotic optimisation interventions in Spanish public hospitals. Cristina’s PhD explores how health professionals coordinate their work to…

Victoria Andelsman Álvarez, PhD candidate at the University of Copenhagen and researcher of the ERC project “Datafied Living” is doing a research stay at CareNet

2023 Research stays

Victoria Andelsman investigates digital parenting infrastructures as well as implications of digitalized care for family life. Her PhD explores how digital technologies participate in everyday family life, altering not only how families connect with each…

Call for applications for postdoctoral fellowships at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya: an opportunity to join CareNet

2023 Calls

We would like to inform you that our university, the Open University of Catalonia, has opened a call for three-year postdoctoral research stays at the UOC. The places are aimed at…

Aging in community: new models of housing and support for the elderly

2022 Audiovisuals

Lluvi Farré

“En los incendios, hay que valorar todos los tipos de conocimientos, no solo el científico”, entrevista a Isabeau Ottolini

2022 Audiovisuals

Isabeau Ottolini

Entrevista realizada por Margalida Ripoll Ferrer y originalmente publicada en Arrels.info el 20/06/2022. Isabeau Ottolini (Países Bajos, 1992) es ambientalista y fotógrafa y, desde que tiene 11 años, vive cerca en la comarca valenciana…

Katherine Campos, PhD Candidate at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

2022 Research stays

Her thesis investigates the daily life of women who live in informal settlements in Chile, from a micro social dimension of disasters Katherine Campos Knothe is a sociologist and…

Visiting scholars: Carla Greubel, PhD candidate at the Utrecht University

2022 Research stays

Her thesis project examines the different ideas of ‘good ageing’ in different contexts of elderly care and new technologies, including the ‘VinclesBCN’ project Next May 19, the researcher will…

How is the territory preparing for the next wildfire?

2022 Activities

Isabeau Ottolini

By Isabeau Ottolini, PhD Candidate at the UOC, Early Stage Researcher in the PyroLife Innovative Training Network and researcher in the IN3 group CareNet. Her research focuses on Community-based wildfire communication. For this, Isabeau…

How to understand what a “Slow Disaster” means, interview with Israel Rodriguez in Ràdio 4

2022 Audiovisuals

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

CareNet’s co-director participates in Vida Verda” to talk about his research in areas contaminated and devastated by chemical, energy and agricultural industries The ” Slow Disasters” are…

Miriam Arenas takes part in the UOC podcast ‘Despacho 42’

2022 Audiovisuals

Miriam Arenas

Miriam Arenas and Iolanda García González present in the podcast ‘Despacho 42’ “Docència en línea amb perspectiva de gènere“, a guide with a gender perspective aimed at teachers and edited…

Israel Rodríguez Giralt participates in “La Corba”, report on the graphic governance of the covid-19 pandemic

2022 Audiovisuals

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Directed by: Jorge Luis Marzo and Fèlix Pérez-Hita Speakers: Màrius Boada, Lorena Elvira, Albert Carles, Clara Prats, Manel Medina, Cristina Rovira, Israel Rodríguez Giralt, Anna Llupià.

‘Challenges of ageing. An interdisciplinary look at old age’ by Daniel López Gómez

2022 Audiovisuals

Daniel López Gómez

What do technological innovations for aging societies? What notions of care do they construct? What notions of old age? Professors and researchers at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC),…

Israel Rodríguez Giralt participates in the report ‘Psychosocial Project on covid – 19 syndemic’

2022 Audiovisuals

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Information pill about the implications of an exclusively biosanitary management of syndemia. It describes the mental health impact that syndemia has had on migrant and LGTBI+ populations, including non-binary people.

Israel Rodríguez participates in the 6th session organized by NoGracias to talk about Persistent COVID

2021 Audiovisuals

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Participating in the session: Esperanza Martín Correa. Family and community physician for 21 years. Currently working in a Primary Care center of the Institut Català de la Salut in…

[INTERVIEW] Israel Rodríguez: “Framing the pandemic as a health emergency means overlooking other important effects”

2021 Audiovisuals

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

*Interview by Margalida Ripoll Ferrer and originally published in IN3 Blog. Israel Rodríguez-Giralt is a researcher and the coordinator of the IN3’s Care and Preparedness in the Network Society (CareNet) research group. His…

Studying gender-based violence and disability

2021 Audiovisuals

Asun Pié Balaguer

Original article published in the blog of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ According to the European Parliament’s Report (2004) on the situation of women from minority groups in…

[PANEL] Mundane Media Moments: Ageing, the Ordinary, and Everyday Life (ACT and Socio-Gerontology Network)

2021 Audiovisuals

Daniel López Gómez

Hosted by Alexander Peine. Speakers: Dr. Wendy Martin, Dr. Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol, Dr. Galit Nimrod and Dr. Daniel Lopez

“When does a fire start?” Isabeau Ottolini’s presentation at Environmental Volunteering activity in Pego

2021 Activities

Isabeau Ottolini

On June 18, 2021, CareNet researcher Isabeau Ottolini participated in the 1st Environmental Volunteer Day in Pego (Valencian Country) with “When does a fire start? Considerations beyond smoke”. In this…

Research Seminar: “Loneliness, social support and participation in older people from a health perspective” by Laura Coll

2021 Activities

Research Seminar conducted by Dr. Laura Coll-Planas (Foundation for Health and Ageing, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Abstract Ageing is a global success but poses specific challenges, such as an increased…

Israel Rodríguez-Giralt at the round table “Challenging a time of disasters: art and social sciences” in the Barcelona Science Biennial

2021 Audiovisuals

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

El investigador Israel Rodríguez-Giralt participó el passado 8 de junio de 2021 en la mesa redonda “Desafiar un temps de desastres: art i ciències socials” en el marc de la Biennal…

Israel Rodríguez-Giralt at #jotambé event discussing about the effects of conceptualizing pandemics in terms of “health emergency” preparedness

2021 Audiovisuals

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

COVID-19 crisis has helped to highlight the historical invisibility and undervaluation of care. Even so, the set of measures to face this pandemic continues to resort to social isolation and…

Research Seminar: “Connected at Home: digital technologies and aging”

2021 Activities

Daniel López Gómez, Israel Rodríguez Giralt, Roser Beneito Montagut, Andrea García-Santesmases

El objetivo de este seminario de investigación es compartir con la comunidad científica algunos de los resultados del proyecto “Conectados en casa: los usos de las tecnologías digitales en la…

Conversation with Ibero-American Networks of Science, Technology & Society

2021 Audiovisuals

Daniel López Gómez, Israel Rodríguez Giralt

With the purpose of learning from related experiences in other contexts, on Friday, February 26, 2021, a virtual conversation took place in which representatives of the STS networks (Science, Technology…

“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

2021 Audiovisuals

Daniel López Gómez

Interview by Joan Antoni Guerrero originally published at IN3 Blog, 08/02/2021. Daniel López is one of the researchers at the UOC Internet Interdisciplinary Institute‘s CareNet Research Group, which explores the…

Andrea García-Santesmases participa en la charla “La interseccionalidad a debate, cuando las opresiones se encuentran”, organizada por Casal Lambda

2020 Audiovisuals

Andrea García-Santesmases

Charla a cargo de las investigadoras Andrea García-Santesmases y Laura Sanmiquel (Departamento de Psicología Social de la UAB) en la que explican y debaten sobre el marco de la interseccionalidad

Researcher Andrea García-Santesmases at ‘Feminist Debates around Disability’ Conference (UC3M)

2020 Audiovisuals

Andrea García-Santesmases

Intervention by the researcher Andrea García-Santesmases during the Conference “Feminist debates around disability” held at the Carlos III University of Madrid on November 25 and 26, 2020. The session in…

Presentation of “Toolkit for Collaborative Management of Medication in Mental Health”

2020 Audiovisuals

Asun Pié Balaguer

El pasado 17 de noviembre de 2020 se realizó la presentación de la “Guía para la Gestión Colaborativa de la Medicación en Salud Mental”, un trabajo producto de la colaboración…

Asun Pié and Andrea García-Santesmases participate in the 1st International Conference “Deconstructing and transforming education from an intersectional approach”

2020 Audiovisuals

Asun Pié Balaguer, Andrea García-Santesmases

Interventions made by researchers Asun Pié and Andrea García-Santesmases during the 1st International Conference ‘Deconstruyendo y transformando la educación desde un enfoque interseccional’ Organized by Pedagogías Feministas y Queer on November 17 and…

Daniel López participates in the 2020 Senior Cohousing Virtual Congress organized by Hispacoop

2020 Activities

Daniel López Gómez

On November 16, 2020, researcher Daniel López Gómez gave a presentation at the Senior Virtual Cohousing Congress. “A new model of coexistence is possible“. This event was organized by the Spanish Confederation…

CareNet Seminar: “Ammarantha Wass: a trans-chueca experience of a teacher at the UPN” by Yennifer Villa (Universidad Pedagógica Nacional)

2020 Activities

Asun Pié Balaguer

On September 22nd 2020 we organized an open seminar under the title: “Ammarantha Wass: a Trans-Chueca Experience of a Teacher at the National Pedagogical University (UPN)“. The seminar, given by…

¿Disability and sex? Yes, we fuck! | by Andrea García-Santesmases

2020 Reflections and analysis

Andrea García-Santesmases

¿Los “discapacitados” follan? Y si así, ¿cómo lo hacen? ¿Y con quién? A todas las personas, en un momento u otro, nos han surgido estas dudas: quizá porque vimos las…

Israel Rodríguez-Giralt at the round table “Art and Science of the Political Ecology of Disasters”, Ars Electronica Festival 2020

2020 Audiovisuals

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Researcher Israel Rodríguez-Giralt joined the Ars Electronica 2020 Festival held from September 9 to 13, 2020, one of the most important events in the world dedicated to the interconnections between…

Me Before You or, rather, “me without sex” | by Andrea García-Santesmases

2020 Reflections and analysis

Andrea García-Santesmases

[Image By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=49305990] Me Before You comienza con la típica escena romántica hollywoodiense: una pareja heterosexual, joven y atractiva, retoza entre las sábanas de la cama…

Yennifer Paola Villa Rojas, predoctoral researcher from Universidad Pedagógica Nacional (UPN, Colombia), is doing a research stay with us

2020 Research stays

PhD Candidate in Education, holding a Master’s Degree in Education and a bachelor’s degree in Education with an emphasis on Special Education, Normal-school teacher focused on Mathematics. Feminist and Syndicalist.…

Desiring and other fictions | by Andrea García-Santesmases

2020 Reflections and analysis

Andrea García-Santesmases

Media and cultural representations of functional diversity (disability) tend to answer to this “thesis of personal tragedy,” to the idea that these people’s lives are necessarily and essentially painful and…

Coronavirus and lockdown: What does a meat processing plant have in common with a rest home?

2020 Reflections and analysis

Andrea García-Santesmases, Joan Moyà Kohler

Original article published in the blog of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ In an interview for the morning programme on Spain’s national radio station on 20 March, Carlos…

Webinar: “Aging-in-place and care: imaginaries, practices and technologies” by Daniel López

2020 Audiovisuals

Daniel López Gómez

El investigador Daniel López Gónez imparte el webinar Envejecimiento en casa y cuidados: imaginarios, prácticas y tecnologías en el que se indagó acerca de los distintos modos de “hacer casa…

‘I am sexy and I know it!’ Viktoria Modesta y el deseo sexual por los cuerpos amputados | by Andrea García-Santesmases

2020 Reflections and analysis

Andrea García-Santesmases

Viktoria Modesta es una estrella pop, guapa, rica y famosa, como todas las cantantes que llegan a su nivel. Pero tiene una peculiaridad: a los 20 sufrió la amputación de…

What would your life be like if you couldn’t masturbate? Sexual assistance, an essential support for people with functional diversity | by Andrea García-Santesmases

2020 Reflections and analysis

Andrea García-Santesmases

“How beautiful it is to touch myself”, said Sole, a woman with a disease named arthrogryposis multiplex congenital, when her sexual assistant guided her hand through her body, the first…

“To fuck you must have imagination” Postporn and functional diversity | by Andrea García-Santesmases

2020 Reflections and analysis

Andrea García-Santesmases

I am quoting Majo to title this article, one of the protagonists of the first story of the documentary Yes, we fuck! It tells the experience of a group of…

Presentació de “Cures en la convivència de persones grans”, publicació derivada del treball de relatoria que Lluvi Farré ha fet amb el grup de cohabitatge senior Can 70 (Sostre Cívic)

2020 Audiovisuals

Lluvi Farré

El passat 27 de febrer Lluvi Farré va participar en la presentació de la publicació ‘Cures en la convivència de persones grans’, sisena entrega de la col·lecció “Construïm habitatge cooperatiu”…

Exploring the digital and built environments of social connectedness in later life

2019 Audiovisuals

Daniel López Gómez

Daniel López Gómez presents the ethnographic study of older people’s digital life in the context of the research project BCONNECT@HOME. It is a brief introduction to the topic, the role…

Asun Pié and Andrea García Santesmases at the Betevé program “Trèvol de 4 fulles”

2019 Audiovisuals

Asun Pié Balaguer, Andrea García-Santesmases

The tv show shows the daily reality of people with functional diversity to subvert the paternalistic gaze that has often been directed towards the so-called “disabled” people. The program addresses…

CareNet seminar: “Design, materialities and popular demands for urban mobility” by Suelen Christine Caviquiolo, PhD in Technology and Society by UTFPR (Brazil)

2018 Activities

Daniel López Gómez

Every day, since the moment we get up until we go back to sleep, we interact with hundreds of material artefacts. Brushes, spoons, sidewalks, screens, buses and many other stuff…

CareNet seminar: “How about we stop calling it ‘egg donation’? From assisted reproduction techniques to reproductive capacity transfer”, by Sara Lafuente (CSIC)

2018 Activities

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Abstract Spain has become one of the leading international markets for assisted reproduction and one of the main destinations for so-called reproductive tourism in Europe in particular. For the most part, this…

Mobility for traineeships: Susanne Hirschman from TUM (Germany) is doing research on the remunicipalisation of water in Barcelona

2018 Research stays

Susanne conducts a research project on the remunicipalisation process of water supply in the metropolitan area of Barcelona. Her focus lies on how different actors frame responsibilities for water…

Andrea García-Santesmases participes in the BETEVÉ debate “Què en podem esperar del Pla Nacional per a les Persones Discapacitades que impulsa el govern?”

2018 Audiovisuals

Andrea García-Santesmases

Andrea García-Santesmases, postdoctoral researcher of the IN3-UOC has added the need to think about accessibility, which benefits the whole society, and has raised what is the real problem to implement…

International Workshop: “Unsettling technogenarians: interferences and synergies at the crossroads of Age Studies and Science and Technology Studies”

2018 Activities

Daniel López Gómez, Roser Beneito Montagut, Lluvi Farré, Andrea García-Santesmases

An international workshop exploring the intersection of Science and Technology Studies and Age Studies, to be held in the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3/UOC) in Castelldefels (Barcelona) on the 21st-22nd June…

Second STS seminar with Anita Say Chan: “Of Data Cultures and Data F(r)ictions: Training, Transformation, and Decentering Data Futures from Latin American Startup Ecologies”

2018 Activities

The Care and Preparedness in the Network Society (CareNet) research group of the IN3, together with OSI (UOC) and STS-b (UAB) organises the research seminar “Of Data Cultures and Data F(r)ictions: Training,…

Israel Rodríguez-Giralt awarded with the international David Edge Prize

2018 Awards

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Israel Rodríguez-Giralt, coordinator of the UOC-IN3 CareNet Research group, was awarded the prestigious David Edge Prize for the article Healing, Knowing, Enduring: Care and Politics in Damaged Worlds published in The Sociological Review in 2017. The…

CareNet seminar: “The discursive and socio-material construction of pregnancy” by Nairbis Sibrian (Alberto Hurtado University)

2018 Activities

Daniel López Gómez

The Care and Preparedness in the Network Society (CareNet) research group of the IN3 organises the research seminar “The discursive and socio-material construction of pregnancy: Discourses and technologies that make up gestation…

Nairbis Sibrian Díaz, from Universidad Alberto Hurtado, is doing a 3 month predoctoral research stay with CareNet.

2018 Research stays

Daniel López Gómez

Doctor (c) in Sociology from the Alberto Hurtado University; Master in Communication and Public Policies of the University of Arts and Social Sciences, Chile; Degree in communication Social of the…

“Intimate Entanglements”, a Sociological Review Workshop organized by Joanna Latimer and Daniel López at The University of York

2018 Activities

Daniel López Gómez

The Sociological Review Foundation is delighted to bring this two-day workshop to you. Supported by the University of York’s Department of Sociology and organised by Professor Daniel Lopez and Sociological…

CareNet Seminar: “No heroics, please: mapping deceased donation practices in a Catalan hospital” by Sara Bea (University of Edinburgh)

2018 Activities

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

This talk will present an in-depth ethnographic mapping of deceased donation in a Catalan hospital. A unique site in terms of leading-edge technoscientific practices, high rates of donation and its…

Vídeo de las jornadas del proyecto MOVICOMA, estudio del movimiento de vivienda colaborativa de personas mayores

2017 Audiovisuals

Daniel López Gómez, Lluvi Farré

Vídeo de las jornadas del proyecto MOVICOMA que se celebraron en junio del 2017 en Barcelona. En este video explicamos brevemente el proyecto y recogemos intervenciones de algunos de los…

Interview with Israel Rodríguez, CareNet director, at the UOC R+I Talks

2017 Audiovisuals

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Published at UOC R&I Talks,19/12/2017. Tell us about your professional and academic career. I’m a psychologist, specialized in social psychology, although with my doctoral degree, and in the course of my…

Presentation of CANDID project at UOC Research Showcase 2017 by Sara Degli Esposti

2017 Audiovisuals

Daniel López Gómez, Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Public presentation of CANDID project at UOC Research Showcase 2017, conducted by researcher Sara Degli Esposti

Interview with Öznur Karakas, PhD candidate, at the UOC R+I Talks

2017 Research stays

Öznur Karakas

Published at UOC R&I Talks, 25/04/2017. Since September 2014, Öznur Karakas has been a doctoral student on the UOC’s doctoral programme in the Information & Knowledge Society. She has had the support…

The Radicalisation of Care: Practices, Politics and Infrastructures

2014 Activities

Daniel López Gómez, Israel Rodríguez Giralt, Blanca Callén

The concept of radicalisation is usually associated to a process by which groups or individuals come to adopt increasingly extreme or immoderate positions, ideals or aspirations. But it also speaks…