Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Social and Cultural Transformations (UOC-TRÀNSIC), Estudis de Psicologia (UOC).
Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Social and Cultural Transformations (UOC-TRÀNSIC)
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Rambla del Poblenou 156, 08018 Barcelona
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Irra Rodríguez Giralt
Co-director · Associate Professor
Presentation
I’m currently an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and a Senior Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Social and Cultural Transformations (UOC-TRÀNSIC) at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). My field of research is the so-called STS (Science and Technology Studies) and the study of new forms of technical democracy (social experimentation, public debate and mobilisation). I’m particularly interested in understanding the role of technoscience in new health and social care activism and in public engagement and participation in disaster situations.
In these fields, I have led the Spanish partner in projects such as CUIDAR (H2020), RESIST (EU Mission), and FIREPRIME (DGECHO), as well as R&D projects from the Spanish National Plan: CONDEPCIU and EXPDEM. As a researcher, I have also participated in numerous other competitive R&D projects at the national and international levels (e.g., WUICOM-BCN, EduFire Toolkit, Pyrolife, CANDID, BCONNECT@Home).
I hold a degree in Psychology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (with honours). I received my PhD from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (with honours) for the PhD thesis entitled: “The symmetrical turn in the study of collective action: the ecological controversy of Doñana”.
I have been a visiting researcher at Loughborough University (2002), Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process, Goldsmiths College, London (2009; 2010-2012) and Instituto de Sociología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2015).
I am a member of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) & of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). As a member of the Local Committee, I recently co-organised the 2016 EASST/4S Joint Conference in Barcelona.
In 2014, I received the Amsterdamska award from the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology for the book: “Disasters and Politics: Materials, Experiments and Preparedness” (Wiley/Blackwell, 2014), co-edited with Manuel Tironi and Michael Guggenheim. In 2018, I received the David Edge Prize from the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) for the article “Healing, Knowing, Enduring: Care and Politics in Damaged Worlds” published in The Sociological Review in 2017.
Research interests
- Social Movements
- Science & Technology Studies
- Disasters Studies.
PROJECTS
The RESIST Project
FIREPRIME
EduFire Toolkit
WUICOM-BCN
PyroLife
ResiCOVID-19
Dialogues on the management and communication of chemical risk in Tarragona
BCONNECT@HOME
VINCLES-COVID
Grassroots community care initiatives in Barcelona
CUIDAR
CANDID
EXPDEM
PUBLICATIONS
Maria Cifre Sabater, Irra Rodríguez Giralt
Irra Rodríguez Giralt, Maria Cifre Sabater
Daniel López Gómez, Irra Rodríguez Giralt
Irra Rodríguez Giralt, Míriam Arenas, Laia Ventura Garcia
Catuxa Maíz, Irra Rodríguez Giralt
Irra Rodríguez Giralt, Míriam Arenas
Daniel López Gómez, Roser Beneito Montagut, Irra Rodríguez Giralt
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Irra Rodríguez Giralt
Irra Rodríguez Giralt, Míriam Arenas, Daniel López Gómez
Míriam Arenas, Isabeau Ottolini, Irra Rodríguez Giralt
Tomás Criado, Irra Rodríguez Giralt
Tomás Criado, Irra Rodríguez Giralt
NEWS
Tomás Criado, Irra Rodríguez Giralt
Daniel López Gómez, Tomás Criado, Irra Rodríguez Giralt, Judith Igelsboeck, Alexandre Molina, Blanca Callén
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Daniel López Gómez, Irra Rodríguez Giralt, Roser Beneito Montagut, Andrea García-Santesmases
Daniel López Gómez, Irra Rodríguez Giralt
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Tomás Criado, Daniel López Gómez, Irra Rodríguez Giralt, Blanca Callén