Research projects
Current projects
Description:
This project seeks to understand how political and social polarization is generated in advanced democracies from the in-depth study of the Spanish case and in relation to an issue that is at the heart of the conflict expressed in the cultural dimension, the reforms of gender identity politics. The multidisciplinary approach from political science and sociology allows us to analyze the link between: 1) the demands advanced by political activism and social movements, 2) the response of the parties through legislative reforms, and, 3) the social values and political attitudes of citizens to these demands and reforms. And all this from a multilevel perspective that contemplates the existence of overlapping arenas of political competition (mainly autonomous and national, in addition to the European Union), which allows us to observe political reforms initiated at the regional level that culminate at the central level, as well as autonomous legislative developments that are different and/or at a different pace in relation to state legislation.
Financing Institution: Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (PID2023-148370OB-I00)
Lead researcher: Fabiola Mota Consejero y Gloria Martínez Cousinou
Sociology US Researcher: Gloria Martínez Cousinou
Description:
Study of the impacts of the platform economy on care work from a feminist approach.
Financing Institution: Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
Sociology US Researcher: Julia Espinosa Fajardo
Description:
El proyecto tiene como fin desarrollar líneas avanzadas e inter-disciplinares de prevención del delito. Se acoge en su inspiración al original paradigma de la nueva Criminología sensorial, centrada en la primacía categorial de la experiencia de los sentidos y la vivencia corporeizada del riesgo, la inseguridad, la criminalidad, y el daño, victimal o punitivo. En este caso, el objetivo es una mejora y “reformulación corpórea” de la prevención criminal, esto es, haremos una reivindicación, multidisciplinar, empírica y normativa, del rol de las experiencias senso-afectivas humanas. Así, se abordan las vivencias encarnadas en grupos o ambientes vulnerables (vivencias de fragilidad o de exclusión), en los contactos con el sistema penitenciario (vivencias de cuerpo confinado), en la ambivalente interacción humana con la tecnología (vivencia senso-tecnológica) las dinámicas judiciales y de praxis restaurativa (vivencia narrativo-reconstructiva). Los resultados se harán extensivos a las instituciones educativas, penales, penitenciarias y a la sociedad civil.
Financing Institution: University of Hong Kong General Research Fund (GRF 2023/24)
Lead researcher: Priya Goel La Londe
Sociology US Researcher: Antonina Levatino
Description:
The objective of this project is to test and refine the ‘shared accountability model’ through a participatory design strategy involving real school actors. This innovative approach, by fostering collaboration and awareness among schools within networks, holds the potential to bring about positive transformations across the entire educational system, with a specific emphasis on advancing the well-being of disadvantaged schools.
Financing Institution: European Research Council Proof of Concept (101123484)
Lead researcher: Antoni Verger Planells
Sociology US Researcher: Antonina Levatino
Description:
The action brings together an inter-disciplinary group of researchers to explore the shifting dynamics between the University, the nation-state and the European integration project. Through knowledge-exchange and collaboration, the network will converge diverse pan-European and interdisciplinary perspectives on the neonationalism-higher education relationship and accompanying geopolitical pressures.
Financing Institution: UE COST ACTION (CA22121
Lead researcher: Katja Brøgger
Sociology US Researcher: Antonina Levatino
Description:
The overall objective of the INCASI2 project is to establish a global cross-sectoral network of experts working on a joint research programme aimed at building a new analytical model of socioeconomic inequalities.
Financing Institution: Comisión Europea. Proyecto Horizon 2020 (GA-101130456)
Lead researcher: Sandra Fachelli y Pedro Roldán.
IP US: Ildefonso Marques.
Sociology US Researchers: Eduardo Bericat, Agustín Fleta, Manuel Herrera, Esther Márquez y Manuel Río.
Description:
The overall objective of this project is both exploring how diverse crises intersect, impacting migrants’ labour and family experiences from a gender, intersectional perspective, and conceiving new intra-EU mobilities at times of growing instability and precarisation, taking into account legal and policy frameworks.
Institución financiadora: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, PID2022-142080OB-I00
IPs: Anastasia Bermúdez y Montserrat Golías Pérez.
Investigadora de SociologíaUS: Esther Márquez Lepe.
Description:
This project uses a mixed and interdisciplinary methodological approach to explore the impact of urban gentrification on the school and social experience of different social groups.
Financing Institution: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Lead researcher: Francesc Xavier Bonal Sarro
Sociology US Researcher: Antonina Levatino
Description:
This project aims to deepen the existing knowledge on the analytical capacities of the Public Administrations in Spain, and more specifically of the Autonomous Community Administrations (APAs), with two main purposes: 1) to draw up a general map of the analytical capabilities of the Autonomous Communities’ Public Administrations (APAs), with the aim of providing useful information for those in charge of the administrations concerned with a view to proposing organizational strategies for improvement; and 2) to offer a theoretical-conceptual framework that provides information to the existing theoretical knowledge on the role of analytical capabilities in the public policy process.
Financing Institution: Consejería de Universidad, Investigación e Innovación, Junta de Andalucía (ProyExcel_00629)
Lead researcher: José Real Dato
Sociology US Researcher: Gloria Martínez Cousinou
Description:
2021-2025. ENIS – European International Student Mobility Network: Connecting research and practice.
Financing Institution: UE COST ACTION (CA20115)
Lead researcher: Christof van Mol
Sociology US Researcher: Antonina Levatino
Description:
Analiza las dimensiones de la (in)movilidad actual de los jóvenes procedentes de España y Rumania. Se propone aportar elementos innovadores, adaptados a los cambios profundos ocurridos como consecuencia de la crisis sanitaria, y a los retos de la sociedad actual.
Financing Institution: CSIC. PID2021-122229OB-I00
Lead researcher: Silvia Marcu
Sociology US Researcher: Miguel Rodríguez Guerrero
2020-2024
Description:
Study of the policies in place to promote egalitarian masculinities. Call for papers.
Financing Institution: Instituto de las Mujeres, Ministerio de Igualdad
Sociology US Researcher: Julia Espinosa Fajardo
Description:
El proyecto estudia desde una perspectiva socio-jurídica el impacto en los derechos de las empleadas de hogar y de cuidados de la reforma introducida por el Real Decreto-ley 16/2022, de 6 de septiembre, para la mejora de las condiciones de trabajo y de Seguridad Social de las personas trabajadoras al servicio del hogar, que son mujeres en más de un 95%. En particular, el RD-Ley introduce cambios en 1) el área de la consideración de la relación laboral y sus condiciones básicas, 2) la extinción de la relación laboral por decisión de la parte empleadora y las prestaciones asociadas y 3) derecho a la salud y prestaciones.
Financing Institution: Ministerio de Igualdad (25-5-ID23)
Sociology US Researcher: Vicente Barragán Robles y María José Lozano Vega
Description:
It studies from a socio-legal perspective the impact on the rights of domestic and care workers of the reform introduced by Royal Decree-Law 16/2022, of September 6, for the improvement of the working conditions and Social Security of domestic workers, more than 95% of whom are women. In particular, the RD-Law introduces changes in 1) the area of the consideration of the employment relationship and its basic conditions, 2) the termination of the employment relationship by decision of the employer and the associated benefits and 3) the right to health and benefits.
Financing Institution:
OPN – Investigación de la Mujer – Proyectos. 25-5-ID23
Lead researcher: David Vila Viñas
Sociology US Researcher: María José Lozano y Vicente Barragán
Description:
The main objective of this project is to determine the impact of the Shock Plan and the Admissions Decree on the distribution of socially disadvantaged students among schools in the city of Barcelona, as well as to analyze the role of the different instruments included in these policies.
Financing Institution: Ayuntamiento de Barcelona
Lead researcher: Adrián Zancajo
Sociology US Researcher: Antonina Levatino
Financing Institution: Consejería de Fomento, Infraestructuras y Ordenación del Territorio (US. 22-12)
Lead researcher: Estrella Candelaria Cruz Mazo
Sociology US Researcher: Antonio Echaves García
Description:
This project aims to employ unique features (in the global context) of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area Victimization Survey and combine these with other sources of crime data, to advance our theoretical knowledge on the social geography of crime and to generate methodological knowledge that can be useful for crime prevention and public policy.
Financing Institution:
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. (PID2020-114012GB-I00)
Lead researcher: Juan José Media Ariza y José Antonino Gutiérrez Gallego
Sociology US Researcher: Manuel Caro Cabrera
Description:
The main objective of this strategy-guide is to contribute to the integration of the 2030 Agenda in the formal university education space using Loyola University as a case study. The preparation of this guide was based on the mapping and diagnosis of the degrees, research groups, services and other administrative and management bodies of the three campuses of Loyola University. Since it is a smaller university than the public universities, it is an ideal case study for obtaining the required information in a timely manner.
Financing Institution: Agencia Andaluza de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (2020UF001)
Lead researcher: Gloria Martínez Cousinou (US) y Ana Hernández Román (Universidad Loyola Andalucía)
Sociology US Researcher: Gloria Martínez Cousinou
Description:
This project aims at exploring ways to train professionals to guide young people on a path of autonomy, resilience and empowerment, which starts at their entry into the reception structures or foster family, and continues even after their exit.
Financing Institution: Consejería de conocimiento, investigación y universidad, Junta de Andalucía (UPO-1380883).
Lead researcher: Jean-Baptiste Harguindeguy
Sociology US Researcher: Gloria Martínez Cousinou
Description:
This project analyzes the impacts of digitalization on women’s work from an intersectional perspective.
Financing Institution: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Sociology US Researcher: Julia Espinosa Fajardo
Description:
This project seeks to identify socio-environmental factors that contribute to the generation of gender vulnerability processes in order to implement specific actions that seek equality and equity between men and women in the coastal area of Celestún (Yucatán, Mexico).
Financing Institution: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (IN301116)
Lead researcher: María de Fátima Flores Palacios
Sociology US Researcher: Miguel Rodríguez Guerrero
Description:
This project, the result of a consortium between European academic institutions, has consisted of analyzing the intervention models that have been applied so far to trace the paths of autonomy in protection centers for minors who do not live with their families. From there, a tool is developed that will allow the analysis of the history and models of autonomy, resilience and empowerment of young people leaving the foster care system, identifying protection and risk factors, in order to develop a customized project. In addition, the project aims to establish the necessary foundations for the training of specialized personnel to support these former foster youth over 18 years of age who are facing the world as adults.
Financing Institution: Comisión Europea Erasmus + Key Action 2 (2019-1-IT02-KA203-063286)
Lead researcher: Isabel Inguanzo y Waldimeiry Correa da Silva
Sociology US Researcher: Gloria Martínez Cousinou
Description:
Diagnose the policies and practices of educational attention to diversity in the university, designing pilot proposals for institutionalization that contemplate actions in relation to the main indicators of implementation of attention to diversity in the university, in dialogue with all actors (institutional leaders, university staff, students, community agents.
Financing Institution: Ministerio de Economía, industria y competitividad (EDU2017-82862-R)
Lead researcher: José Luis Álvarez y María García-Cano
Sociology US Researcher: Esther Márquez Lepe
Description:
Analysis of facilitating factors and obstacles to the implementation of intersectionality in local public policies.
Financing Institution: Ayuntamiento de Madrid
Lead researcher: MariaCaterina La Barbera
Sociology US Researcher: Julia Espinosa Fajardo
Description:
This project investigates the history of Spanish Gypsies throughout the 18th-20th centuries from a transnational perspective. Its objective is to recover the plural past of a community punished by the absence of historical recognition and by a recurrent civic marginalization, under the assumption that both shortcomings are related.
Financing Institution: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad. HAR2015-64744-P
Lead researcher: María Sierra
Sociology US Researcher: Manuel Río Ruiz
2015-2019
Descriptio:
A study of participatory evaluation in Argentine and Latin American practice
Financing Institution: Secretaría de Ciencia y Técnica, Universidad Nacional de San Juan
Lead researcher: Esteban Capella
Sociology US Researcher: Julia Espinosa Fajardo
Description:
The purpose of this project is to promote in-depth, comprehensive and multidisciplinary legal reflection on anti-corruption strategies and, ultimately, to make proposals for specific reforms aimed at strengthening these strategies.
Financing Institution: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (CSO2016-78016-R)
Lead researcher: Xavier Coller Porta
Sociology US Researcher: Gloria Martínez Cousinou
Description:
This project focuses on the reflection and analysis of different strategies for democratic regeneration to redefine the public space and politics, with constitutional or legal reforms to improve political representation, democratic functioning and citizen participation, with special reference to the fight against corruption. The objective is to incorporate an in-depth, comprehensive and multidisciplinary legal reflection on anti-corruption strategies and, ultimately, to offer proposals for specific reforms aimed at strengthening these strategies.
Financing Institution: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (DER2014-53159-P)
Lead researcher: Mª Carmen Gómez Rivero y Abraham Barrero Ortega
Sociology US Researcher: Gloria Martínez Cousinou
Description:
Development of tools for measuring and evaluating the situation of the child population.
Financing Institution: Plan Andaluz de Investigación. Junta de Andalucía
Sociology US Researcher: Julia Espinosa Fajardo
Description:
This project is aimed at studying the impact of the 2008 economic crisis on the health of Andalusians, taking Spain and Europe as a comparative frame of reference. Starting from this context, the objectives of the project have been the following: (1) to identify, through the use of geographic information systems, how the impact of socioeconomic status (SES) on health has varied according to the different territorial areas; (2) to study the relationship between cuts in Welfare State policies and their possible effects on the relationship between SES and health; and (3) to contribute to the design of more complex and realistic causal models of analysis, through the use of first-hand data that will be obtained from a survey specially designed for this case study.
Financing Institution: Centro de Estudios Andaluces (PRY120/14)
Lead researcher: Javier Álvarez Gálvez
Sociology US Researcher: Gloria Martínez Cousinou
Description:
Trafficking for sexual exploitation is one of the most dramatic forms of slavery in the 21st century. The aim of this project has been to analyse the life trajectories of female victims and/or potential victims, as well as the elements that have led them or not to become victims of trafficking networks for sexual exploitation, placing special emphasis on the importance of social networks, friendships and interactions.
Financing Institution: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (FEM2013-46670-R).
Lead researcher: Lidia Puigvert Mallart
Sociology US Researcher: Gloria Martínez Cousinou
Description:
Development of evaluation methodologies to capture structural gender change in universities.
Financing Institution: VII Programa Marco de Investigación, Unión Europea
Sociology US Researcher: Julia Espinosa Fajardo
Description:
This project explored and constructed complex indicators of social quality for European countries in areas as diverse as gender and class inequalities, subjective well-being, social and political participation, democratic quality, consumption, employment, age, social control and crime, access to health care, etc.
Financing Institution: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad. CSO2012-35032.
Lead researcher: Eduardo Bericat
Sociology US Researcher: Manuel Caro, Manuel Herrera-Usagre e Ildefonso Marqués
Descripción:
Analysis of evaluative approaches in the field of gender equality public policies.
Financing Institution: Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
Lead researcher: Maria Bustelo
Sociology US Researcher: Julia Espinosa Fajardo
Description:
This project investigates inclusion and the perspective of social housing as a social service of general interest. The ultimate goal was to be able to model an intervention process aimed at establishing minimum standards of action that contribute to improving the processes of participation and social integration of the people who benefit from this subsidized housing.
Financing Institution: Consejería de Obras Públicas de Andalucía. GGI3002/IDIP-UH.
Lead researcher: Octavio Vázquez Aguado
Sociology US Researcher: Miguel Rodríguez Guerrero
Description:
Both the degree of effective redistribution and popular support for redistributive policies vary considerably from one country to another, which raises the question of the factors that explain the demand for redistributive policies. This project is based on the idea that the degree of effective redistribution that occurs in a society can be explained by the distributive conflicts that characterize it. Therefore, the variability that we observe empirically in distributive policies is essentially due to the nature of these conflicts. In other words, there are divides in the social structure that generate opposing political preferences, and from this opposition different institutional models with differentiated distributive policies emerge.
Financing Institution: Ministerio de Innovación y Ciencia (CSO 2011-29346)
Lead researcher: Antonio M. Jaime Castillo
Sociology US Researcher: Gloria Martínez Cousinou