RESEARCHERS

Researchers

Daniel López Gómez

Co-director · Associate Professor

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

Míriam Arenas

Lecturer and Researcher

PhD in Sociology

Participation
Feminist Studies
Disability, Youth and Childhood

Roser Beneito Montagut

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

PhD in Fine Arts – MA Sociology

Digital Sociology
Ageing
Disasters

Maria Cifre Sabater

Researcher

PhD in Environmental Anthropology

Wildfires
Disasters
Climate change

Judith Igelsboeck

UOC Postdoctoral Research Fellow

PhD in Science & Technology Studies

Emerging technologies – Digital twins – Digital Humanities – Artistic Research Methods

Belén Jiménez-Alonso

Professor · Researcher · UOC

PhD in Psychology

Grief
End of Life
Digital tools
Social networks
Cancer / young cancer patients
Mediation
Cultural Psychology

Brigida Cristina Maestres Useche

Assistant Professor · Researcher - UOC

PhD in Social Psychology - Sociologist

Sensory Studies
Art Based Research
Aesthetic Epistemology
Phenomenology and Power
Biopolitics

Asun Pié Balaguer

Associate Professor · Researcher · UOC

PhD in Social Pedagogy

Critical Disability Studies
Queer Studies
Mad Studies
Ethics of Care

Tomás Criado

Ramón y Cajal Senior Research Fellow · UOC

PhD in Anthropology

Care
Science and Technology Studies
Urban infrastructures
Multimodal ethnography
Heat & shade

Rocío Thovar

Predoctoral researcher · FPU Grant holder · UB

PhD in Citizenship and Human Rights

Animal Rights Movement
Animal Ethics
Bioethics

Miguel Salas Soneira

Profesor lector

Doctor en Pedagogía

Estudios locos, pedagogía crítica, antropología médica

Predoctoral researchers

Pablo Alonso García

Predoctoral researcher · UOC grant holder

PhD Candidate in Society, Technology and Culture

Science and technology studies
Multispecies studies
Octopus culture

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

Catuxa Maíz

Predoctoral researcher · UOC

Doctoranda

Care
Public Health
Gender Studies

Isabeau Ottolini

Predoctoral researcher · MSCA-ITN grant holder · UOC

Doctor en Psicología Social

Communication
Socio-environmental conflicts
Rural communities
Living with fire

Miranda Pérez-Hita

Graphic Designer · Research Assistant · UOC

BA in Design · MA in Visual Culture

Graphic Design
Experimental publishing
Visual Thought

Former members

Private: Blanca Callén

Assistant Professor · UOC/UVIC-UCC

PhD Social Psychology

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

Private: Carmen Lozano Bright

Research assistant · UOC

MA in Anthropology

Borders
Migrations
Language and forms of expression
Commons

Private: Andrea García-Santesmases

Assistant Professor · UNED

PhD in Sociology

Disability Studies
Gender Studies
Sexuality Studies

Private: Alexandre Molina

Research assistant · UOC

Geographer and Licensed Sociologist

Conservation
Political sociology
Education
Heritage

Private: Álvaro Poo

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

Doctor en Psicología Social

Integrated land (and fire) management
Commmons
Rural communities

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: 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

Private: Álvaro Ramírez March

Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Research Fellow · UOC

PhD in Person and Society in the Contemporary World