RESEARCHERS

Researchers

Daniel López Gómez

Co-director · Associate Professor · UOC

PhD in Social Psychology

Care
Science & Technology Studies
Ageing

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

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

PhD in Social Psychology

Social Movements
Science & Technology Studies
Disasters

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

Blanca Callén

Assistant Professor · UOC/UVIC-UCC

PhD Social Psychology

Science, Technology and Society (STS)
Collective Action
Material Cultures

Maria Cifre Sabater

Full time researcher · UOC

PhD in Environmental Anthropology

Wildfires
Disasters
Climate change
Cultural landscapes

Andrea García-Santesmases

Assistant Professor · UNED

PhD in Sociology

Disability Studies
Gender Studies
Sexuality Studies

Judith Igelsboeck

UOC Postdoctoral Research Fellow

PhD in Science and Technology Studies (STS)

Belén Jiménez

Professor · Part-time researcher · UOC

PhD in Psychology

Grief
End of Life
Digital tools

Brigida Maestres

Assistant Professor · Part-time researcher · UOC

PhD in Social Psychology

Embodied epistemologies
Biopolitics and vulnerability
Justice and victimization

Asun Pié Balaguer

Associate Professor · Part time Researcher · UOC

PhD in Social Pedagogy

Critical Disability Studies
Queer Studies
Mad Studies
Ethics of Care

Tomás Sánchez Criado

Ramón y Cajal Senior Research Fellow · UOC

PhD in Anthropology

Care
Science and Technology Studies
Urban infrastructures
Multimodal ethnography

Rocío Thovar

Predoctoral researcher · FPU Grant holder · UB

PhD in Citizenship and Human Rights

Animal Rights Movement
Animal Ethics
Bioethics

Private: Álvaro Ramírez March

Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Research Fellow · UOC

PhD in Person and Society in the Contemporary World

Predoctoral researchers

Pablo Alonso García

Predoctoral researcher · UOC grant holder

PhD Candidate in Society, Technology and Culture

Care
Science and technology studies
Multispecies studies
Coastal landscapes

Cristina Barrial Berbén

Predoctoral researcher · UOC

PhD Candidate in Society, Technology and Culture

Care
Labour
Collective Action

Pelin Çakir

Predoctoral researcher · UOC

Mobility
Vulnerability
Collective Care
Social Movements
Queer/Feminist Theory

Lluvi Farré

Predoctoral researcher · FI grant holder · UOC

PhD Candidate in Information and Knowledge Society

Older people
Design
Science and Technology Studies

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

Carmen Lozano Bright

Research assistant · UOC

MA in Anthropology

Borders
Migrations
Language and forms of expression
Commons

Catuxa Maíz

Predoctoral researcher · UOC

Doctoranda

Care
Public Health
Gender Studies

Alexandre Molina

Research assistant · UOC

Geographer and Licensed Sociologist

Conservation
Political sociology
Education
Heritage

Isabeau Ottolini

Predoctoral researcher · MSCA-ITN grant holder · UOC

Doctor en Psicología Social

Communication
Socio-environmental conflicts
Rural communities
Living with fire

Private: Álvaro Poo

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

Doctor en Psicología Social

Integrated land (and fire) management
Commmons
Rural communities

Former researchers

Private: Joan Moyà Kohler

Associate Professor · URL/UAB

PhD Social Psychology

Social Movements
Down Syndrome
Learning Disabilities
Care

Private: Nizaiá Cassián Yde

Professor · UOC

PhD in Social Psychology

Urban Studies
Feminist Epistemologies and Writing
Anti-racist fighting

Private: Öznur Karakas

PhD Fellow

MA in Philosophy

Social Movements
Feminist Science, Technology Studies
Body & Politics

Private: Péter Dunajcsik (Maxigas)

PhD in Information and Knowledge Society

Hacker Studies
STS

Private: Laia Ventura Garcia

Postdoctoral researcher · UOC

PhD in Anthropology and Communication

Health
Disasters
Social Inequalities
Sexuality Studies
Risk

Private: Clàudia Torrens

Research Assistant · UOC

MD Ecological Economics and Political Ecology

Ecological crisis
Social and solidarity economy
Global challenges