RESEARCHERS

Faculty

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Co-director · Full time Researcher  · Associate Professor · UOC

PhD in Social Psychology
  • Social Movements
  • Science & Technology Studies
  • Disasters

Daniel López Gómez

Co-director · Full time Researcher · Associate Professor · UOC

PhD in Social Psychology
  • Care
  • Science & Technology Studies
  • Ageing

Asun Pié Balaguer

Associate Professor · Part time Researcher · UOC 

PhD in Social Pedagogy
  • Critical Disability Studies
  • Queer Studies
  • Mad Studies
  • Ethics of Care

Miriam Arenas

Assistant Professor · Part-time researcher · UOC/UB

PhD in Sociology
  • Feminism & Disability
  • Social Movements
  • Participatory Methods

Roser Beneito Montagut

Associate Professor · Part-time Researcher · UOC/Cardiff University

PhD in Fine Arts – MA Sociology
  • Digital Sociology
  • Ageing
  • Disasters

Brigida Maestres

Assistant Professor · Part-time researcher · UOC

PhD in Social Psychology
  • Embodied epistemologies
  • Biopolitics and vulnerability
  • Justice and victimization

Andrea García-Santesmases

Assistant Professor · UNED

PhD in Sociology
  • Disability Studies
  • Gender Studies
  • Sexuality Studies
Belén Jiménez

Belén Jiménez

Professor · Part-time researcher · UOC

PhD in Psychology
  • Grief
  • End of Life
  • Digital tools

Blanca Callén

Assistant Professor · UOC/UVIC-UCC

PhD Social Psychology
  • Science, Technology and Society (STS)
  • Collective Action 
  • Material Cultures

Researchers

Maria Cifre Sabater

Maria Cifre Sabater

Full time researcher · UOC

PhD in Environmental Anthropology
  • Wildfires
  • Disasters
  • Climate change
  • Cultural landscapes

Tomás Sánchez Criado

Ramón y Cajal Senior Research Fellow · UOC

PhD in Anthropology
  • Care
  • Science and Technology Studies
  • Urban infrastructures
  • Multimodal ethnography
Álvaro Ramírez March

Álvaro Ramírez March

Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Research Fellow · UOC

PhD in Person and Society in the Contemporary World
Judith Igelsboeck

Judith Igelsboeck

UOC Postdoctoral Research Fellow

PhD in Science and Technology Studies (STS)

Rocío Thovar

Predoctoral researcher · FPU Grant holder · UB

PhD in Citizenship and Human Rights
  • Animal Rights Movement
  • Animal Ethics
  • Bioethics

Predoctoral researchers

Private: Álvaro Poo

Private: Álvaro Poo

Phd student · Grant – holder at MSCA – ITN · UOC

Doctor en Psicología Social

Integrated land (and fire) management
Commmons
Rural communities

Lluvi Farré

Predoctoral researcher · FI grant holder · UOC

PhD Candidate in Information and Knowledge Society
  • Older people
  • Design
  • Science and Technology Studies
Mònica Genover

Mònica Genover

Predoctoral researcher · FI grant holder · UB

PhD Candidate in Social Organizational Psychology
  • Ageing
  • Care
  • Queer Theory and LGTBQ ageing
  • Institutional ageism
  • New attention models
  • Participatory Methods

Cristina Barrial Berbén

Predoctoral researcher ·  UOC

PhD Candidate in Society, Technology and Culture
  • Care
  • Labour
  • Collective Action
Isabeau Ottolini

Isabeau Ottolini

Predoctoral researcher · MSCA-ITN grant holder · UOC

Doctor en Psicología Social
  • Communication
  • Socio-environmental conflicts
  • Rural communities
  • Living with fire

Pelin Çakir

Predoctoral researcher · UOC

Predoctoral researcher · UOC
  • Mobility
  • Vulnerability
  • Collective Care
  • Social Movements
  • Queer/Feminist Theory

Alexandre Molina

Research assistant · UOC

Geographer and Licensed Sociologist
  • Conservation
  • Political sociology
  • Education
  • Heritage

Catuxa Maíz

Predoctoral researcher · UOC

Doctoranda
  • Care
  • Public Health
  • Gender Studies

Pablo Alonso García

Predoctoral researcher · UOC grant holder

PhD Candidate in Society, Technology and Culture
  • Care
  • Science and technology studies
  • Multispecies studies
  • Coastal landscapes

Carmen Lozano Bright

Research assistant · UOC

MA in Anthropology
  • Borders
  • Migrations
  • Language and forms of expression
  • Commons

Former researchers

Joan Moyà Kohler

Associate Professor · URL/UAB

PhD Social Psychology
  • Social Movements
  • Down Syndrome
  • Learning Disabilities
  • Care
Nizaiá Cassián Yde

Nizaiá Cassián Yde

Professor · UOC 

PhD in Social Psychology
  • Urban Studies
  • Feminist Epistemologies and Writing
  • Anti-racist fighting

Öznur Karakas

PhD Fellow

MA in Philosophy
  • Social Movements
  • Feminist Science, Technology Studies
  • Body & Politics

 

Péter Dunajcsik (Maxigas)

PhD in Information and Knowledge Society
  • Hacker Studies
  • STS

 

Laia Ventura Garcia

Postdoctoral researcher · UOC

PhD in Anthropology and Communication
  • Health
  • Disasters
  • Social Inequalities 
  • Sexuality Studies 
  • Risk 

Clàudia Torrens

Research Assistant · UOC

MD Ecological Economics and Political Ecology
  • Ecological crisis
  • Social and solidarity economy
  • Global challenges