RESEARCHERS

Principal Investigators

Asun Pié Balaguer

Associate Professor · Part time Researcher · UOC 

  • Disability
  • Queer Studies
  • Care
BJ

Belén Jiménez

Professor · Part-time researcher · UOC

  • Grief
  • End of Life
  • Digital tools

Brigida Maestres

  • Embodied epistemologies
  • Biopolitics and vulnerability
  • Justice and victimization

Carmen Lozano Bright

  • Borders
  • Migrations
  • Language and forms of expression
  • Commons

Daniel López Gómez

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

  • Care
  • Science & Technology Studies
  • Ageing

Israel Rodríguez-Giralt

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

  • Social Movements
  • STS
  • Disasters

Joan Moyà Kohler

Associate Professor · URL/UAB

  • Social Movements
  • Down Syndrome
  • Learning Disabilities
  • Care

Nizaiá Cassián

Professor · UOC 

  • Urban Studies
  • Feminist Epistemologies and Writing
  • Anti-racist fighting

Öznur Karakas

  • Social Movements
  • Feminist Science, Technology Studies
  • Body & Politics

 

Péter Dunajcsik (Maxigas)

  • Hacker Studies
  • STS

 

Rocío Thovar

  • Animal Rights Movement
  • Animal Ethics
  • Bioethics

Roser Beneito Montagut

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

  • Digital Sociology
  • Ageing
  • Disasters

Tomás Sánchez Criado

  • Care
  • Science and Technology Studies
  • Urban infrastructures
  • Multimodal ethnography

Postdoctoral Researchers

Laia Ventura Garcia

Postdoctoral researcher · UOC

  • Health
  • Disasters
  • Social Inequalities 
  • Sexuality Studies 
  • Risk 

Maria Cifre Sabater

Postdoctoral researcher ·   UOC  

  • Wildfires
  • Disasters
  • Climate change
  • Cultural landscapes

Predoctoral Researchers

Alexandre Molina

Early Stage Researcher · UOC

  • Conservation
  • Political sociology
  • Education
  • Heritage

Catuxa Maíz

Predoctoral researcher · UOC

  • Care
  • Public Health
  • Gender Studies

Cristina Barrial Berbén

Predoctoral researcher ·  UOC

  • Care
  • Labour
  • Collective Action

Isabeau Ottolini

Predoctoral researcher · MSCA-ITN grant holder · UOC

  • Communication
  • Socio-environmental conflicts
  • Rural communities
  • Living with fire

Lluvi Farré

Predoctoral researcher · FI grant holder · UOC

  • Older people
  • Design
  • Science and Technology Studies
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Mònica Genover

Predoctoral researcher · FI grant holder · UB

  • Ageing
  • Care
  • Queer Theory and LGTBQ ageing
  • Institutional ageism
  • New attention models
  • Participatory Methods

Pablo Alonso García

Predoctoral researcher · UOC grant holder

  • Care
  • Science and technology studies
  • Multispecies studies
  • Coastal landscapes

Pelin Çakir

Predoctoral researcher · UOC

  • Mobility
  • Vulnerability
  • Collective Care
  • Social Movements
  • Queer/Feminist Theory

Research assistants

Andrea García-Santesmases

Assistant Professor · UNED

  • Disability Studies
  • Gender Studies
  • Sexuality Studies

Blanca Callén

Assistant Professor ·  UOC/UVIC-UCC   

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

Clàudia Torrens

Research Assistant · UOC

  • Ecological crisis
  • Social and solidarity economy
  • Global challenges

Miriam Arenas

Assistant Professor · Part-time researcher 

  • Feminism & Disability
  • Social Movements
  • Participatory Methods