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Daniel López Gómez

Co-director · Associate Professor · UOC

Presentation

Daniel Lopez Gomez (UOC) is a Professor of Social Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology and Education and co-director of the CareNet research group at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3). Daniel works at the intersection of Science and Technology Studies and Aging Studies. His main area of research is the emergence of care infrastructures in a context of demographic transition and “care crisis”, particularly the development and consequences of the digitalisation of care (telecare, telemedicine, social media) as well as of new environments, living arrangements and long-term care facilities for the so-called ‘aging society’. More recently, he’s developing an interest in topics such as disasters and aging, which comprise the impact of disasters on older people as well as the imaginaries and practices of disaster preparedness in aging; more-than-human aging, particularly life-course transitions and care with companion animals; and aging infrastructures and maintenance, repair and discard practices.

Daniel has long experience as a researcher and principal investigator in national and international projects. It is worth mentioning EFORTT (FP7) and VALUE-AGEING (FP7), two projects devoted to the ethical and social consequences of e-health and telecare development for older people, the latter as postdoc Marie-Curie researcher at the Law, Science and Technology Studies (LSTs), Vrije Universitet Brussel (Belgium). He has also been involved in CUIDAR (H2020), a participatory project with children and young people on disaster risk reduction, and the Spanish coordinator of a project on smart technologies and Responsible Research Innovation, CANDID (H2020). In 2015, he was awarded a Leonardo BBVA Grant for talented researchers and artists to develop the first study of the senior cohousing movement in Spain (MOVICOMA). More recently, he has been principal investigator of BCONNECT@Home, a European JPI project on aging, social connectedness and digital life and led the qualitative study of RESICOVID-19, a project funded by the Catalan government about the impact(s) of the pandemics in the residential care system of Catalonia.

He has been visiting scholar at the Departament of Anthropology of the University of Copenhagen in 2019, at the Department of Sociology of the Universidad Andrés Bello (Chile), also in 2019, and at the Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process (CSISP), Sociology Department of Goldsmiths (UK) in 2011. He has been a board member of the Catalan Society for Geriatrics and Gerontology, a founding member of the Socio-gerontechnology network and the Spanish STS network and of the organising committee of the 2016 EASST/4s Joint Conference in Barcelona.

Research interests

  • Care
  • Science & Technology Studies
  • Ageing

PROJECTS

FIREPRIME

European Program for Wildfire-Prepared Communities

European Commission, DG ECHO (European Civil Protection Authority)
Competitius

Israel Rodríguez Giralt, Maria Cifre Sabater, Miriam Arenas, Daniel López Gómez

Actiu

CUIDAR

Cultures of Disaster and Resilience among children and young people

 European Commission 
Competitius

Miriam Arenas, Daniel López Gómez, Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Finalitzat
Finalitzat

ResiCOVID-19 

Evaluation of the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on care homes in Catalonia and proposals to improve the healthcare model

 Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR)
Competitius

Catuxa Maíz, Daniel López Gómez, Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Finalitzat

BCONNECT@HOME

Being Connected at Home: Making use of digital devices in later life

 Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad 
competitius

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

Finalitzat

VINCLES-COVID

VINCLES in times of pandemic: entertainment, social connectivity and support

Ajuntament de Barcelona | Departament de Promoció de Persones Grans Drets Socials, Justícia Global, Feminismes i LGTBI
contractes

Daniel López Gómez, Roser Beneito Montagut, Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Finalitzat

Accounting and facilitating the creation of a care model for the senior cohousing initiative Can 70

CareNet/IN3 and Sostre Cívic
contractes

Daniel López Gómez, Lluvi Farré

Finalitzat

Grassroots community care initiatives in Barcelona

Ayuntamiento de Barcelona
contractes

Joan Moyà Kohler, Miriam Arenas, Daniel López Gómez, Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Finalitzat

CANDID

Checking Assumptions and promoting responsibility in Smart Development

 European Commission 
Competitius

Daniel López Gómez, Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Finalitzat

MOVICOMA

The emergence of the senior cohousing movement in Spain

 Fundación BBVA 
competitius

Daniel López Gómez, Lluvi Farré

Finalitzat

PUBLICATIONS

2025 Journal of Aging Studies Articles

Daniel López Gómez

2025 Collaborative Housing, Ageing and Social Care: Lessons from Europe Capítols

Lluvi Farré, Daniel López Gómez

2025 Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies Articles

Daniel López Gómez

2024 Information, Communication & Society Articles

Daniel López Gómez, Israel Rodríguez Giralt

2024 More-than-human aging: Animals, robots and care in later life Capítols

Daniel López Gómez

2023 Digital Ageism: How it operates and approaches to tackling it Capítols

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

2023 Informes

Daniel López Gómez, Mònica Genover

2022 Sociology of Health & Illness Articles

Asun Pié Balaguer, Daniel López Gómez, Andrea García-Santesmases

2021 Informes

Daniel López Gómez, Roser Beneito Montagut, Israel Rodríguez Giralt

2021 Articles

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

2021 Socio-gerontechnology: Interdisciplinary Critical Studies of Ageing and Technology Capítols

Daniel López Gómez, Tomás Sánchez Criado

2020 Llibre Capítols

Israel Rodríguez Giralt, Miriam Arenas, Daniel López Gómez

2020 Tesis

Lluvi Farré, Daniel López Gómez

2019 The Routledge Companion to Actor-Network Theory Capítols

Daniel López Gómez

2019 Llibres

Daniel López Gómez

2016 Articles

Daniel López Gómez

2015 Aging and the Digital Life Course Capítols

Daniel López Gómez, Tomás Sánchez Criado

NEWS

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),…

Daniel López Gómez

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Daniel López Gómez, Israel Rodríguez Giralt

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

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…