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Digitalisation and Policy Research Group - DIGIPOL

The purpose of the group is to study the influence of digitalisation on citizens, actors, institutions and political processes. In this sense, it is proposed to analyse various phenomena such as:

 

  • The impact of digitalisation on citizen participation and democratic quality.
  • The transformations of digitalisation in the forms of organisation and functioning of political actors, particularly parties.
  • The regulation of the digital performance of political actors.
  • The different ideological conceptions linked to digitisation policies in different countries.
  • Public Administrations as well as their policy impact.
  • The impact of digitisation on public policy making and evaluation.
  • The study of the changes in power relations in different institutions, groups and social movements brought about by digitalisation.
  • Digitalisation and transformations in the functioning of political systems (representation, transparency, integrity, accountability).
Educational Transitions, Resistance, Gender Relationships, Exclusions and Health Research Group - TERRES

The research group TIERRAS (Educational Transitions, Resistance, Gender Relationships, Exclusions and Health) seeks to create and transfer knowledge, interdisciplinary, from a critical and inclusive epistemological position, which directs the gaze towards different cracks that in knowledge societies are revealed as relevant to understand and transform the social world. The lines of research in which we are seeking to jointly explore in greater depth are:

  • Study of pedagogical practice. Analysis of the processes of distribution and construction of legitimate knowledge in the pedagogical device. Pedagogical modes of delivery. Sociology of pedagogy.
  • Pedagogical identity in specific contexts: description and analysis of the social production of identity in the processes of educational and professional transition.
  • Bodies, genders and sexualities: representation and sexual practices. Social construction of health and illness.
  • Audiovisual co-education, gender, semiotics and cultural studies. Critical analysis of audiovisual culture and its co-educational dimension. Meaning and codification of gender in audiovisual discourses. Media interpellation: processes of identification and subjectivation.
  • Study of the processes of precariousness in social contexts discursively dominated by the knowledge economy.
  • Social politics analysis.

Regarding the training and research capacity of the group, the members participate in the third cycle training courses of:

  • Master’s Degree in Gender and Equality Policies.
  • Master’s Degree in Social and Educational Action.
  • Master’s Degree in Psychopedagogy.
  • Master’s Degree in Secondary Education Teacher Training.

We also participate in the Doctoral Programme in Education of the UV and in the Doctoral Programme of the Institute for the Study of Women.

LGTBIQ+ Education and Diversity Research Group - EDi

For decades, universities have progressively incorporated teaching and research structures related to affective-sexual diversity and gender identity. This trend soon spread beyond the English-speaking world to other cultural environments such as Europe and Latin America. The group Education and LGTBIQ+ Diversity (EDi) aims to fill a gap in terms of structures of this type at the UV, specifically in the educational field, and, on the other hand, is created with the intention of being an interdisciplinary research area for several people who have in common the concern for the educational world and the urgency of working (from research and practice) for a fairer and freer school, in which the diversity present in societies is reflected and valued.

The members of the group belong to different areas of knowledge linked to education. From general didactics and specific didactics, they participate in the training task in the degrees of Early Childhood Education and Primary Education of the UV and other universities in the state, in the Postgraduate Course in Reading and Literary Education in the 21st Century (UV), the Master’s Degree in Teacher Training (UV), the Master’s Degree in Research in Specific Didactics (UV), and the Master’s Degree in Psychology of Education and Human Development in Multicultural Contexts (UV-UASD), the latter taught in Peru and the Dominican Republic. The members of the group also supervise Degree Final Projects, Master’s Degree Final Projects and Doctoral Theses within the framework of the aforementioned studies.

Process and Effective Guardianship Research Group - PROYTEF

The research activity carried out by this group focuses on two essential and complementary aspects of legal activity. On the one hand, in the study of process as an instrument for obtaining effective judicial protection, when in the development of a legal relationship a conflict has arisen or a rule of a criminal nature has been violated, which compromises the essential values and principles of our society, producing in both cases an alteration of social peace and an affectation of legal security, which are essential for the progress of any nation. On the other hand, in the analysis of the complementary instruments to the jurisdiction capable of offering - or not - effective protection of the right and legitimate interests of individuals, when these are compromised in the different areas: civil, criminal, labour or administrative.

As a corollary, the research that this group is developing and will develop involves tackling Article 24 of our Constitution form an interdisciplinary, critical and broad position, which involves a review of constitutional jurisprudence in this respect and its extension to the international sphere, especially that of the EU. Thus, the members of this research group have been paying special attention to European and international law, through participation in various research projects, publications and courses on the procedural activity of international courts, the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments - or not - as well as international legal cooperation.

Religion, Law and Politics Research Group - REDEPOL

The research group “ReDePol” (acronym for “Religion, Law and Politics”) was created as a channel for the dissemination and intercommunication of all research and transfer activities related to the study of the legal regime of the religious factor - understood as an integral element of culture and collective identity - and its political and social consequences.

Despite the traditional difficulties in defining what is religious, it is undeniable that what is religious refers to man’s relationship with transcendence, a relationship that initially involves an act of rational and free acceptance by man, which is the act of faith. Thus the act of faith is the first and fundamental characteristic of the religious fact in today’s societies. Alongside this, religion has other essential components: doctrinal (beliefs), cultural (rituals) and moral (ethical behaviour). If we add to this the fact that the externalisation of human acts is an anthropological necessity, religion acquires a social dimension because it originates precisely in a human act (the act of faith). In other words, man has always proceeded in association for the expression and exercise of his religious feelings. Consequently, the religious phenomenon, which has its origin in an internal act, acquires a social or community dimension, which as such a society needs a juridical order to structure it [Ubi societas, ibi ius]. The juridical relevance of the religious fact is inscribed in its social significance. Religion operates in civil society, relates to other non-religious citizens, is subject to civil authorities... Consequently, the religious phenomenon is of public relevance for state law both in terms of foreseeing the civil consequences of religious behaviour, its relations with other members of the political community outside one’s own religion, or the subjection of confessions or groups of believers to state rules. This legal system is the object of study of the science of State Ecclesiastical Law. However, the religious phenomenon is not exhausted in its legal treatment, but must also be covered by the study of other social and human disciplines (psychology, anthropology, politics, philosophy, education, etc.). 

For this reason, this group was created with the aim of incorporating specialists from these disciplines, in order to complete a vision of the religious phenomenon from a global perspective.

Research Group in Linguistics, Discourse and Cognition - LINDICO

The Linguistics, Discourse and Cognition Research Group, LINDICO, assumes cognitive approaches to combine at all times strictly theoretical linguistic reflection with the necessary promotion of various applied fields, from the conviction that the ultimate goal of the (necessary) grammatical and pragmatic theory is to serve as a basis for subsequent applications and actions of scientific transferability to society.

Although the research caarried out by the members of the group in the different competitive R&D projects covers many fields, the most consolidated studies refer mainly to two lines of work: the field of clinical linguistics and the analysis of political and media discourse. Throughout its trajectory, the group has been consolidating its own theoretical model, with a pragmatic-functionalist orientation, which is framed within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics. Thus, the theoretical areas addressed include all the disciplines of linguistics: phonology, morphosyntax, semantics, pragmatics, typology and universals, psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics. The applied fields include, among others:

  • Analysis of discourse in the public sphere, according to different variables and context (politcal discourse, media discourse, digital discourse), with special attention to the argumentation and persuasion that pragmatically characterise the registers of the media and political issuers (parties and leaders) in the different media and communication channels (written press, social media, television, advertising and propaganda, etc.). 
  • Clinical linguistics: description of language (grammar and pragmatics) in different pathological situations based on ecological data. This line of research has resulted in initiatives such as 
    • the elaboration of specific corpora of child language and deficient language based on ecological data;
    • the description of the language of pathological situations such as aphasia, Williams syndrome, ADHD, Alzheimer's type dementias, or right hemisphere lesions;
    • the development of various language assessment tests and profiles, and of communication guides for interlocutors of speakers with deficits.

All these lines of research are complemented by the appropriate R&D&I dissemination and management activities, such as conferences, seminars, etc.

Research Group on Actors and Power Relations in Globalisation - GLOBACTOR

The activity of this group focuses on analysing and disseminating research on the political, economic and social characteristics and implications of the global economic order on different countries. In particular, the group’s research activity focuses on the analysis of the different actors that shape the global order. In other words, the group focuses its attention on the objectives, interests and strategies of multinational companies, international economic institutions, states and other actors that weave the web of power relations under globalisation.

In addition, it analyses the consequences of these behaviours on the everyday reality at national level. The dissemination of the group's activities is not limited to the publication of scientific papers in journals or books, but also includes other media such as the press, reports, social networks, etc.

Research Group on Analytic Philosophy - VLC_LAB

This is a research group working within the analytic tradition broadly conceived that is the product of the association of two Research Groups: Phronesis and Méthodos. Like other groups in Continental Europe, we focus on central issues in the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, the philosophy and methodology of science, logic, metaphysics and epistemology, but are also interested in ethics and aesthetics. One of our aims is to cultivate the kind of clear and rigorous research that is specific of analytic philosophy in fields traditionally reserved, in our institutional context, to continental approaches. We promote the interaction with other philosophers and groups within the analytic tradition.

 

Research Group on Applied Ethics and Democracy - ETIDEMO

The research group "Applied Ethics and Democracy" has been working together since 1991 in three areas: Foundations of Ethics, Political Philosophy and Applied Ethics. It arose from a core group of professors from the Academic Area of Moral and Political Philosophy, originally Adela Cortina, Jesús Conill, Domingo García-Marzá and Agustín Domingo, and has grown to the present day. 

At present, the group is made up of 1 member, who belong to 4 different public universities: the Universitat de Valencia, the Universitat Jaume I de Castellón, the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia and the Universidad de Murcia. 

At the institutional level, also the Étnor Foundation ("for the ethics of business and organisations") is one of the entities that supports the research and is interested in the transfer of knowledge and innovation of the group. 

Since 2003 the group has been recognised as a "Group of Excellence" by the Conselleria d'Educació i Ciència of the Valencian government. Initially, through the granting of aid to R+D+I Groups, reference Groups03/179. And, currently, through the PROMETEO Programme of Research Groups of Excellence. 

The group develops its research activity through joint research projects. So far, it has developed 9 national competitive research projects, 1 European project, and three projects funded by private institutions. With the aim of training new researchers, the core of the group runs a Doctoral Programme on "Ethics and Democracy", which began in 1986 and was recognised as a Doctorate with Mention of Quality and with Mention of Excellence, a recognition which it continues to receive today. Graduates of this doctorate achieve the highest scores in the evaluation of their research activity. It also offers a Master's degree in "Ethics and Democracy", with a research and academic profile, which enables those who enrol in it to train for research tasks in this area. The group disseminates the results of its research in the following ways: 

  1. Publications, both books, published by prestigious publishers, and articles, published in quality journals. 
  2. Organisation of congresses, some of which are held every two years, and also courses at other universities. 

It has established agreements and collaborations with a large number of institutions. It has established agreements and collaborations with a large number of institutions, such as the following: 

  • ÉTNOR Foundation for Business and Organisational Ethics.
  • Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences.
  • Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics (Oxford).
  • Neuroethics Programme CIF of Argentina.
  • Research Group "Evolution and Human Cognition" of the University of the Balearic Islands.
  • Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) (Germany).
  • Hans Jonas Zentrum / Freie Universität Berlin, Capability & Sustainability Centre (University of Cambridge).
  • School of Public Policy. Institute for Philosophy & Public Policy. University of Maryland (USA).
  • Official College of Psychologists of Catalonia.
  • Department of Philosophy and the Grup d'Estudis Humanístics de Ciència i Tecnologia of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
  • Institute of Philosophy (University of Bayreuth).
  • Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz.
  • And the universities of La República (Uruguay), do Porto, de Chile, Nacional Autónoma de México, di Bologna, Sidney, Salamanca, Complutense de Madrid, Munich, de Westminter, Universität Manheim, de California (Irvine), Aahrus (Denmark), etc.

It also receives researchers from other universities, mainly from abroad, who wish to carry out a postdoctoral research stay with members of the group.

Research Group on Climate, Culture, Leadership and Measurement in Organisations - CLIMO

The group's research activity is developed through the following work lines:

To identify and describe the processes of formation of the climate and culture of the organisations. To determine the influence that leadership has on the processes of formation of the organisational climate and culture, and on its average levels and variability. To determine the influence of the organisational climate and culture, and leadership, on key processes in the functioning of work units (e.g., conflict, communication, reflexivity). To estimate the indirect effects of climate, culture and leadership on the results of the work units (e.g., performance, quality of service) and the quality of working life of its members (e.g., psychological well-being, job satisfaction), through the processes indicated above.

To determine the influence that the composition of work teams based on demographic variables (e.g., gender, education, seniority) has on the processes and results of the teams. To develop and validate measurement instruments (e.g., tests, questionnaires, scales) to measure the variables listed above. To determine the invariance of the psychometric properties of these measures through demographic groups (e.g., men-women), languages (e.g., Spanish-Portuguese), and countries and cultural contexts.

Research Group on Community Social Services - SESOCO

The research group on the social cohesion and local dynamics is part of the social cohesion field of the Inter-university Institute for Local Development in the Universitat de València. The research on the community-based social work is still a recent new field at the Spanish university.

The SOCIAL-COM group aims to contribute to the knowledge and a research visibility of local dynamics that occur in Communities due to inequality, discrimination and social conflict, all of which hinder social cohesion. Generally, in all areas of local communities, but more deeply in social welfare services, human development is seen as a tool that reduces social inequalities and promotes social justice. The SOCIAL-COM Group of the Universitat de València is designed to increase knowledge of the social problems of the immediate environment, directing its action towards the local level to contribute to the development of social structures and the well-being of citizens, whose participation is a strategic element.

Ultimately, objectives of the SOCIAL-COM research group are aimed to participate in creation and development of new concepts, tools and evaluations in the area of municipal services, so that excellent and sustainable territories can be promoted effectively from perspectives of social spending and social welfare.

Research Group on Comparative Policy and Development - Polcomdes

The group focuses on the analysis of policies implemented in various countries and their impact on socio-economic and political change. The analyses are oriented towards the study of policy formation, whether current or historical, as well as specific state interventions, whether institutional, structural, conjunctural or legitimising-social. Particular relevance is attributed to the practical and comparative application of various historical experiences. In this context, research interests include analyses in historical perspective of the constitution and formation of public policies, but also more recent aspects of policy applications in different contexts, as well as their implications and impacts on the economic development of countries. Of course, an essential element of this research is its comparative dimension from which lessons are intended to be drawn for the formulation of innovative policies applicable to specific contexts.

Research Group on Conceptual History and Criticism of Modernity - HistConcep

Our research group builds on the competitive research projects on which we have worked so far. Our current research project, TOWARDS A COMPREHENSIVE CONCEPTUAL HISTORY: CULTURAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL TURNS (FFI2011-24473), continues the previous THEORIES AND PRACTICES OF CONCEPTUAL HISTORY: A CHALLENGE FOR PHILOSOPHY (HUM2007-61018-FISO), and aims to delve into the dimensions and limits of the different variants of Conceptual History –not only as a methodology but also as a theory of modernisation–, fundamentally in three major issues:

  1. The indeterminacy of language in reference to the world: Here the two traditionally confronted dimensions of the linguistic turn will be combined: the analytical –especially in the setting of the history of ideas by the Cambridge School, Q. Skinner and J. G. A. Pocock– and the hermeneutic. The iconic turn, which arises against the totemisation of language, will also have to be exploited. It is not only a matter of understanding images, but of understanding the world through images. The image is not only considered as an object of study, but also as a multi-faceted means of knowledge (e.g. as visual epistemology or political iconology). Image and concept are no longer opposites. In the contemporary philosophy of image, at least three orientations must be taken into account: The anthropological (homo pictorial or symbolic), the semiotic and the perceptual or phenomenological. The trail of Aby Warburg’s influential style of thought in human sciences deserves a rigorous scrutiny, which must cover from its mutual enrichment with the philosophy of culture of E. Cassirer and the iconology of E. Panofsky to its impact on the emerging science of image and the philosophy of media. Nowadays we speak in a very lax and frivolous way of the turns in the sciences of culture, which are gaining ground to philosophy. Among these turns, today we can identify: the interpretative, performative, reflexive, literary, postcolonial, translational, spatial, iconic, medial, memoriographic, metaphorological, etc. Beyond ephemeral trends, we will have to assess what each of these perspectives adds to Conceptual History, or whether they are merely decorative.
  2. The cognitive value of historicity: Here we will study the potential of Conceptual History to found a history of the present and the future, the relationships between prophecy and prediction, the affections and disaffections between history and memory, the chronological definition of modernity and its delimitation in relation to the Middle Ages, an era marked by the dying moments and eschatology, and in relation to the cyclical time of Antiquity. Germanic Conceptual History (either in the version of J. Ritter’s School: O. Marquard, H.Lübbe, either in that of R. Koselleck’s historical semantics, or in Gadamer’s hermeneutics) also serves as a theory of modernisation: Most of those who practise it counterpose an eschatological negation of the world (bad modernity) and a positive, compensatory statement of the present reality (good modernity), and take this Manicheism back up to the philosophy of history of the 18th century. The tendency to idealise Enlightenment is a threat to the current institutions, to the civility conquered by the Western liberal-democratic societies. This diagnosis of Conceptual History places Enlightenment in the field of humanist terrorism as the embodiment of the moral conscience that always condemns what already exists, and at the same time exonerates itself of any responsibility for the wrong course of things. Conceptual History reveres the period that goes from the French to the Industrial Revolution, which forges a new temporary grammar based on the ideology of accelerated progress.
Research Group on Constituent Power and New Constitutionalism - DEM+
  1. Promoting and conducting research in political theory, constitutionalism and democratic constitutionalism, including:
    1. The theory and practice of constituent power; constituent processes; legitimacy of power; democratic principle as legitimising political organisation; conditions for the exercise of popular sovereignty. 
    2. The legitimacy of power; the democratic principle as a legitimiser of political organisation; the conditions for the exercise of popular sovereignty
    3. The validity and characteristics of constituent power as an emancipatory force d. delimitation of the concept of democratic constitutionalism and new constitutionalism 
  2. Promoting and carrying out research on constitutional theory and democratic constitution, including:
    1. The origin and functions of the Constitution; the democratic Constitution through history and its present meaning 
    2. The democratic interpretation of the Constitution; the intangibility clauses 
    3. The relationship between constituent power and the Constitution; legitimacy and constitutional validity; democratic control; the validity of popular sovereignty in the Constitution. 
    4. The contents of the Constitution in constitutional history and in the new constitutionalism; minorities and oppressed groups
Research Group on Corporate Information: Transparency and Disclosure - INCOTRAD

The mandatory adoption of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in 2005 made it a priority in the European regulatory and institutional framework to address the analysis of the economic effects of IFRS. This involves examining the economic consequences of the accounting changes that occur when the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) issues new standards, as well as analysing the standard-setting process itself. A key aspect is to analyse how stakeholders, as well as standard-setters, interact and to analyse the extent to which there is compatibility between the objective of increasing the quality of information (transparency, relevance, reliability and comparability) to facilitate users' decision-making and the achievement of other objectives, such as financial stability. All this in a context with diverse institutional characteristics, which nevertheless directly affect accounting practices.

On the other hand, as a result of the changes in the attitude of organisations and stakeholders in relation to corporate social responsability, it is a priority to analyse how the new proposals on Non-Financial Reporting-NFR (which include social, environmental, intangible assets, staff, corporate governance, human rights, corruption and bribery aspects) derived mainly from Directive 2014/95/EU are going to be formalised and transformed into standards equivalent to those currently existing on financial information (IFRS) in the EU. These aspects are acquiring a significant importance, as revealed in the consultation paper “Sustainability Reporting” issued by the IFRS Foundation (2020), the IASB’s parent foundation. In relation to this type of reporting, we could compare the current situation with the one before 2005 when there were no single accounting/financial standards. The development of NFRs will depend on the steps taken in the coming years.

Research Group on Criticism and Sabotage - CCSS

This inter-university, international and interdisciplinary research group revolves around a theory and methodology known as "critique as sabotage" (cs). The starting point for this critical modality is to be found both in the work that M. Asensi has been publishing since 2007 (culminating in the 2011 book, Crítica y sabotaje, Barcelona, Anthropos/Siglo XXI), and in the group that came together in the monographic issue of the journal Anthropos. Cuadernos de cultura crítica y conocimiento, no. 237 of 2013, dedicated to this theory. 

In fact, it can be said that it was the latter event that consolidated the research group that we present. Before describing the group, it should be remembered that this group has its origins in a previous one, already registered at the University, called "Grupo de investigación Literatura Comparada", with the number UV751. A key activity at that time was the holding at the Universitat of the 1st International Congress of Comparative Literature, directed by M. Asensi and B. Ferrús, with the participation of E. Peláez, M. Richart, N. Calafell and M. Zabalgoitia on the scientific committee. Practically most of the research group we are proposing today took part in that congress, one of the panels of which dealt with "cs". One of the most notable events that took place during that congress, which was to determine the future composition of this group, was the participation of professors from Latin American and North American universities. The conference ended with the publication of the proceedings, which can be found on the website of the Asociación Valenciana de Literatura Comparada (Valencian Association of Comparative Literature). 

It can be said that the panel focusing on "cs" attracted the attention of many of the attendees, who proposed their participation in the project. Among them were people from the fields of literary theory and comparative literature, philosophy, anthropology, psychology, as well as history of literature. This initiated a series of scientific activities, seminars and conferences, which can be summarised as follows:

  • In June 2011 M.Asensi, B.Ferrús and M.Zabalgoitia carried out a research stay in Peru, at the Univ. Cat. de Lima and the Univ. de S. Marcos. At the former, M. Asensi gave the lecture: "Criticism as sabotage". In the second, the three professors participated as speakers at the "Congreso Internacional José María Arguedas: Los universos literarios", making applications of the theoretical foundations of "cs". 
  • In November 2011, coinciding with the publication of the book Crítica y sabotaje, these three professors travelled to Mexico to present the text at the FIL (Guadalajara International Book Fair), considered the most important in Latin America and one of the largest in the world. At the University of Guadalajara, Dr Asensi gave the lecture "Criticism and sabotage", as part of the seminar "Surroundings and Interiors of Literary Criticism". Also, at the Benemérita Univ. Autónoma de Puebla, at the invitation of Dr Felipe Ríos, Professor M. Asensi gave a postgraduate course on the dialogue between "cs" and deconstruction.

M. Asensi's book was also presented at this university, with new examples. A similar activity, involving a conference, presentation of the book and examples, took place at the University of Guanajuato. 

This same format of lectures and presentations was repeated in the framework of the Doctorate in Humanities programme at the Colegio de México. At the ITESO in Guadalajara, M. Asensi gave a two-day seminar for professors and postgraduates, where B. Ferrús and M. Zabalgoitia presented other examples. Dr. M. Asensi also participated as a guest at the openly organised ITESO Scientific Café, where his talk "Why deconstruct, why sabotage?" received a large audience and great recognition.

Research Group on Dangerousness criminal law - DERPEligro

The scientific debate on the legitimacy and limits of the criminal law of dangerousness has not ceased to grow in our country in recent years. And in this respect, the notable prominence that this model of approaching the fight against crime is acquiring in the framework of comparative law is undoubtedly a determining factor. Spanish criminal law is by no means alien to this trend, and a good example of this are some of the new features included in the LO 1/2015, reforming the Código Penal: 

  1. The scope of application of probation is extended.
  2. Relevant aspects such as the review regime of the new revisable permanent prison sentence are made dependent on parameters of dangerousness.
  3. The possibility of registering genetic profiles of persons convicted of serious crimes in the police DNA database is introduced as an accessory penalty, as long as it can be concluded that there is a serious risk of reoffending.
  4. The regime of suspension of the execution of the custodial sentence is revised, expressly conditioning the imposition of numerous rules of conduct to criteria of the dangerousness of the offender.
  5. Finally, some types of offences have been reformulated and others newly created have been incorporated - including offences that elevate mere preparatory acts to the category of a criminal offence - in which it is possible to detect a clear influence of the characteristics of the criminal law of dangerousness and so-called Preventive Justice. Along the same lines, Real Decreto (Royal Decree) 1110/2015 creates the Central Register of Sex Offenders.

The aim of the research group on the Criminal Law of Dangerousness is to study this growing political-legislative trend centred on the idea of public safety and the objective of combating the criminal dangerousness of offenders to the utmost with a predominance of innocuous mechanisms. To this end, we analyse, from a general perspective, the basis of this model and highlight its limits from the point of view of the guarantee principles that should govern the fight against crime in a State governed by the rule of law; and in turn, and on the basis of the above, we examine the various aspects and institutions of positive law already referred to that constitute manifestations of this criminal law paradigm.

The research initially focuses on the projection of this legislative trend in the framework of crimes against sexual freedom and gender violence, although it is subsequently extended to other areas of crime, such as crimes of terrorism or public disorder, which are also clearly affected by the criminal law model of dangerousness.
 
All of this is approached from a dogmatic and political-criminal perspective and without losing sight of the reference to comparative law, and specifically the Anglo-American, German and Italian criminal legal systems.

Research Group on Digital Content and Communication Flows - MEDIAFLOWS

Research group focused on the analysis of the changes and mutations caused by the digitalisation process in the contents and structures of the media and the public. The group arose from the activity of most of its researchers, since 2007, within the framework of the ‘Analysis Group of the Valencian Digital Media’ (since 2007), which has led to the achievement of three R&D projects (financed by the Generalitat Valenciana and the Universitat de València) and an annual congress (Digital Communication Congress in the Valencian Community), which began to be held in 2009. All this resulted in five monographs and an abundant number of partial publications in congresses, journals and book chapters.


In addition, the group has obtained a R&D project of the National R&D&I Plan, granted in the 2013 call, and which covers the period from 2014 to 2016. The title of the project is ‘Communication flows in political mobilisation processes: media, blogs and opinion leaders’ (reference CSO2013-43960-R). The research related to this project constitutes the critical point of the group's research. This group’s research mainly focuses on influence: who influences whom, in what way, and with what effects. We focus on the flows through which information circulates because they will allow us to see this process of translating messages and combining agendas, which all try to influence the public space. We seek to see which ones are more influential and in which direction, or directions, the flow of information transmission takes place.

Research Group on Digital Disconnection at Work - DESC.LABOR

Multidisciplinary analysis of the impact of digital disconnection within the framework of labour relations. The technological transformations that the current labour market is undergoing are causing significant changes in the sphere of workers and in business management. Without a doubt, this is a challenge for the agents involved in the workplace (workers, employers, Governments, trade unions and business associations) to strengthen the protective spirit of labour regulations and guarantee basic labour rights such as rest, health and safety at work, privacy, work-life balance, secrecy of communications and data protection. In this sense, the research group analyses the worker’s right to digital disconnection, as well as its possible impact on people management and business competitiveness. All this always pointing out that it is a labour right whose effectiveness ultimately comes both from a mechanism to enhance the freedom and self-determination of the worker’s plan, as well as a guarantee of effective, free and equal business competition within the framework of a social market economy. In this context, the research group clarifies a basic and fundamental labour right today, but with many edges that need to be polished. To this end, in line with its multidisciplinary nature, it deals with the legal assets protected in labour law: to a greater or lesser extent and directly or indirectly, health (art. 15 EC); freedom (art. 1.1 EC) - including freedom of enterprise and productivity (art. 38 EC) -; dignity and free development of personality (art. 10 EC); equality (arts. 1.1; and 9.2 EC); confidentiality and privacy (art. 18.1, 3 and 4 EC); honour (art. 18.1 and 4 EC); and family (39.1 EC). Succinctly, the group intends to deal with the exercise of the right, its legal-practical implications in labour relations (with special emphasis on telework), its current state in the world (with international studies of the law in other countries), its relationship with the prevention of occupational risks (computer fatigue and hyperconnectivity), as well as with gender perspective, diversity, confidentiality and privacy, work-life balance, video-surveillance and corporate control (the need for all kinds of digital software means that the control of workers is growing considerably) and the technological side of it, among other aspects: the BYOD ("bring your own device") study, internal protocols on the use of digital devices and work time management software available to private and public companies.

Research Group on Economic and social behavior - CES

The aim of the research group is to analyse the economic and social behaviour of economic and social agents, from an interdisciplinary perspective based on methodologies of economic analysis, game theory, quantitative, experimental and computational methods.

Research Group on Education in Reading, Literature, Linguistics, Culture and Society - ELCIS

The Elcis research group has carried out research into reading, literary, media and linguistic training in multicultural and multilingual contexts at different educational levels in both L1 and L2 and foreign languages. It began when we were awarded the research project "Globalisation, exclusion and multiculturalism in Children's and Young Adult Literature" (UV-AE-20060713) in 2006.

Since then and until now we have been working on different research, cooperation and innovation projects. A determining factor for the consolidation and expansion not only of research lines, but also of members and collaborators was the award of the R+D+I project "Literary Education and Interculturality" of the Ministry of Science and Innovation (EDU 2008-01782/EDUC), National Programme for Fundamental Research in the framework of the 6th National Plan for Scientific Research.

We have taken part in other projects such as "Diversity and (in)equality in contemporary Spanish literature for children and young people" (UV-IMV-PRECOMP-13-115502), "Literary images of diversity: citizenship and identity through reading and literary education" (GV 2015-050). Or the centre innovation projects "Innovation, Research and Quality in Higher Education: Projects and Proposals in teaching research in the Complementary Activities Weeks" in different editions or "Work on the impact of the use of interactive whiteboards in the higher education of teachers of Infant, Primary and Secondary Education". As well as "Comparative study of DLL subjects in the new degrees of Early Childhood Education" project awarded by the University of Seville. Projects for Teaching Research (038-A6-2010) with researchers from the universities of Seville, Jaén, Granada, Valencia, Barcelona, A Coruña; the project DETERMINING FACTORS IN THE READING HABITS OF SECONDARY EDUCATION STUDENTS (PR2017-040) granted by the University of Cadiz. Or the cooperation project "Preparation of teacher training agents and institutional teams to enable innovation and improvement in research and teacher training in intercultural bilingual education in the Andean and Caribbean areas" of the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (D/030992/10); "Linguistic competences and cultural identity of students of immigrant origin - integration variables in immigration contexts" (APE/2015/004).

We have also been part of the project "MEDIATIC COMPETENCIES OF THE CITIZENSHIP IN EMERGING DIGITAL MEDIA (SMARTPHONES AND TABLETS): INNOVATIVE PRACTICES AND EDUCOMUNICATIVE STRATEGIES IN MULTIPLE CONTEXTS of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. National Programme for R&D Projects (EDU2015-64015-C3-1-R) with 40 researchers from 11 Spanish universities and 8 Latin American and European countries or the project "YOUTUBERS AND INSTAGRAMMERS: MEDIATIC COMPETITION IN EMERGING PROSUMERS" of the STATE RESEARCH AGENCY - 2018 Calls for Knowledge Generation R&D Projects and R&D Projects and RESEARCH CHALLENGES.

The Elcis group has also organised all kinds of scientific meetings related to our research: among others, the 3rd International Conference on Catalan Literature for Children and Young Adults (2006); and the International Conference on Literary Education and Society. The teaching of literature to young adults (2007); Interdisciplinary Conference on Women's Studies (2009); : 3rd Conference on Teaching Innovation in Higher Education (2014); 1st and 2nd International Conference Teaching Literature in English for Young Learners (2012) and (2015); 15th International Conference of the Spanish Society of Language and Literature Didactics (2014); Conference on Research, Innovation and Best Practices in Early Childhood Education (2014), (2015), (2016), (2017) and ((2018) or the Conference on Reading, Literary and Linguistic Education. They are currently part of the network of excellence of the project EXCELLENCE NETWORK IN MEDIATIC EDUCATION of the Ministry of Economy, Programme of Dynamisation Actions Networks of Excellence R+D (Action 2016) (EDU2016-81772-REDT) participating entities: 10 R+D IPs 10 Spanish universities.

Research Group on Educational Policies, Interculturality and Society - POLISOC

The Research Group on Educational Policies, Interculturality and Society (POLISOC) is attached to the Department of Comparative Education and History of Education of the Universitat de València-Estudi General and is closely connected to the Unit for Research in Educational Policy (UNIPE). It was created with the triple objective of, on the one hand, sharing ideas and joining forces to create a space for reflection on educational policy issues; on the other hand, to create a meeting place where different professionals concerned with its study can come together; in this sense, it is constituted as a space and open space for work and reflection on crucial issues of education in our time with the aim of making visible and recovering a space of its own for the Politics of Education. It therefore aims to reclaim political deliberation.

Research is, finally, another fundamental objective of POLISOC, which commits it to the development and consolidation of interdisciplinary research groups in the contents and competences of Education Policy. The research group is currently made up of lecturers and researchers from different departments of the Universitat de València and from Italian and Portuguese universities. Its composition will vary depending on the research projects in progress, and may include staff hired for projects and research, as well as teaching staff from other national and foreign universities.

POLISOC's research activity is reflected in the participation of its members in nationally and internationally competitive research projects, either as researchers or as principal investigators. Among the R&D projects in which POLISOC members have participated are "Decentralisation and social participation as indicators of quality in the project, management and evaluation in schools and the education system" (GV-3200/95), "Training of democratic citizens. Education as a builder of identity and civic competence" (CTIDIB/2002/307), "Education and socialisation in values" (GV04B-174). They teach in the subjects of educational policy in the undergraduate and official master's degrees "Policy, management and direction of educational organisations", "Secondary education teaching staff", "Educational social action", "Psychopedagogy", of the UV, "Social change and educational professions" (UMA), as well as in the PhD programme in Education of the UV. Some of its members have carried out predoctoral, postdoctoral, research and Erasmus PDI stays in prestigious foreign universities (University of California Davis (USA), University of Exeter (UK), Universities of Salento and Verona (Italy), University of Örebro (Sweden), Federal University of Alagoas (Brazil), El Colegio de México, IISUE of the UNAM (Mexico), CEDIGSO of the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo (Mexico), Complutense University of Madrid, UNAM (Mexico), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, UNED, Universidad de Loja (Ecuador), Universidad Federal de Alagoas (Brazil), Universidad Federal Fluminense (Brazil), Universidad Simón Bolivar (Colombia), Universidad de Norte (Colombia), Centro de Estudios Mundiales (Sorbonne Université, Paris), Université du Franche-Comté (France), Örebro University (Sweden), Universidad Agraria de La Habana, Universidad de Peruglia (Italy) and Universidad de Almería (Spain). It has organised or is preparing the following national and international seminars: National Seminar on Education Policy: teaching and research; International Seminar on Quality policies in the initial training of secondary school teachers and I and II Conference on Absenteeism in the Valencian Community. Likewise, members of the group have led and participated in Teaching Innovation Projects, and supervised pre-doctoral and post-doctoral stays. Another of its activities has consisted in carrying out reports, audits and advice to public and private entities. Some of the members of the POLISOC team also lead projects such as Refuteach: Applied Linguistics for the Inclusion of Refugees (UPM/University of Kent), and are also members of the following projects: EELISA: Opportunities for everyone (UPM/EU); Emancipatory practices and transformative decolonising methodologies (FLACSO); Grup d'Estudis Transversals (UA).

Some of the POLISOC group collaborators participate as members in the activities of the Grup de Recerca sobre Intervencions Socioeducatives en la Infància i la Joventut (GRISIJ, which stands for Research Group on Socio-educational Interventions for Children and Youth), of the University of Barcelona, having participated in the European Project PAGE (Parental Guidance and Education 2016-2018). Also noteworthy, and since the year of constitution of the group in 2017, is the participation of members of POLISOC in the research project: "Analysing the situation of students and the education system in compulsory education in the city of Valencia and its historical evolution, as well as the training of students in this area", a project drafted with the aim of developing the "School Map of the city of Valencia", and emerged at the initiative of the Department of Education of the City Council of Valencia, an initiative formalised through an agreement between the City Council of Valencia and the Universitat de València. The research team that has worked on the different reports of this project, disseminated in 2018 and in May and December 2019, was made up of fourteen professors of the Universitat de València from the faculties of Geography and History, Teacher Training, Philosophy and Education Sciences, Economics and Business Studies, and Social Sciences.

Among the projects currently underway or recently completed, the participation of POLISOC collaborators in the projects stands out:

  • "European Non-Territorial Autonomy Network. Reference: CA18114. Funding Entity: European Cooperation in Science and Technology. Call: 2018. Responsible researcher: Ivan Dodovski. Affiliation: University American College Skopje, North Macedonia Duration: 28/02/2019 - 27/02/2023. Amount: 300.000 €.
  • "The Spanish poetic engagement of the 20th century in the current academic canon (1975-2018). Referencia: PGC2018-093641-B-100. Funding entity: Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. Call: 2018. Researcher in charge: Miguel Ángel García. Affiliation entity: University of Granada, Spain. Duración: 01/01/2019-31/12/2021. Amount: €24,200.
  • "Reading and literary education: Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez and Federico García Lorca in Spanish and Latin American school culture. A historical and pedagogical study". Reference: RTI2018-098692-B-100. Funding Entity: Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. Researcher in charge: Juan Carlos González Faraco. Affiliation entity: University of Huelva, Spain. Duration: 01/01/2019-31/12/2021. Amount: 28.600 €.
  • PID2020-114249GB-I00, "El giro copernicano en la política de educación y ciencia en el desarrollismo franquista: de la subsidiariedad a la intervención estatal", funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation. Researcher Antonio Canales UCM, Duration 01/01/2021-31/12/2024. Amount: 31.800 €.
  • GV/2021/126, "Implentación del enfoque educativo STEM en el desarrollo de competencias (EDUSTEM)", funded by the Dirección General de Ciencia e Investigación de la Conselleria de Innovación, Universidades, Ciencia y Sociedad Digital de la Generalitat Valenciana. Researcher in charge: Laura Monsalve Lorente. Duration: 01/01/2021- 31/12/2022. Amount: €20,000.

Among the recently completed projects, in addition to those already mentioned: "A Global Youth in the Making: the 200,000 Residents of the Cité internationale universitaire in 20th-Century Paris" Reference: ANR-17-CE28-0005. Funding Agency: Agence nationale de la recherche, France. Researcher in charge: Guillaume Tronchet. Affiliation: École Normale Supérieurey Institut d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, France. Duración: 01/09/2017-31/12/2020. Also noteworthy is the approval in 2020, by the Equality Unit of the Universitat de València, of the project assigned to another researcher of the POLISOC group: Personal stories of civil and feminist commitment for social change, within the framework of the Programme of Grants for the organisation of activities to promote equality between women and men of the Universitat de València. The POLISOC group has also been the starting point for the ABSENTIS sub-group, which is part of it. The ABSENTIS/POLISOC group, which focuses on the study of the dimensions, causes and consequences of truancy, has been carrying out research, collaboration and knowledge transfer tasks in this field, collaborating with various entities specialised in the prevention of truancy. Thus, as part of the research project "Truancy in the Valencian Community" (UV-INV-AE18-784553), financed by the Universitat de València, and "Truancy and the right to education in the Valencian Community, (GV/20019/136)", various publications, conferences, seminars and training courses have been supported in collaboration with various public and private entities. In relation to this last subject, the 2nd Conference on truancy: a community challenge was organised and held in November 2021, with the participation of different educational centres, local and regional administrations, and members of the research group from the Universitat de València and other universities.

In addition, many other seminars and conferences have been held to disseminate the results of research carried out by POLISOC members, or by members of other research teams with which POLISOC maintains collaborative links, including the most recent ones:

  • "Lecture-seminar "School segregation, a human rights and social justice issue", by Javier Murillo, professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Director of the UNESCO Chair in Education for Social Justice at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), held in November 2021, in person and online.
  • "Lecture-seminar "Neoliberalism and the Spanish public university", by Alexandra Carrasco, in September 2021, offline and online.
  • "Conference: "Right to education and cultural identity", given on 20 May 2021, by the Professor of Theory and History of Education at the Universitat de València and director of the POLISOC group, Juan Manuel Fernández Soria. URL: https://youtu.be/R27Vz9YnTzg
  • "Teaching innovation project: Visibilising voices and cultures in higher education. Politics and education", presented by the researcher Sandra García de Fez, on 28 May 2021. URL: https://youtu.be/jJ9m_Bp1oXo
  • "Seminar: School absenteeism and social exclusion. A violation of the right to education", held on 18 December 2020, with the participation of: Mónica Añón Roig, technical advisor for Equality and Coexistence of the Regional Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, José Ignacio Cruz Orozco (UV), and Sandra García de Fez (UV). URL: https://youtu.be/pm4adyRVRxA
  • "Conference-seminar: "From our feet on the ground so as not to remain on our knees. Considerations on the education pact", held on 11 December 2020, with the intervention of Professor Antonio Canales Serrano (Complutense University). URL: https://youtu.be/YTiwSV3OnQ8
  • "The single school district: A segregative education policy in itself?", presented by the researcher Sandra García de Fez, in December 2020. URL: https://youtu.be/Sw-EsLMe5Kw
  • "Web seminar: "What does the General Education Act of 1970 tell us?", by Professor Diego Sevilla Merino, Professor of Educational Policy and Legislation at the University of Granada, held on 20 November 2020. URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nxZCoajw-0
  • "Round table: Women and interculturality. Personal stories of civil and feminist commitment for social change, held on 11 March 2020, and organised by professors Sandra García de Fez and Donatella Donato, with the participation of different social entities.
  • "Conference-seminar: "Cultural identity, citizenship and education" by Virginia Guichot, professor at the University of Seville, held on 15 November 2019.
  • "Conference: "Migrant minors and the right to education", held on 12 December 2018, with the intervention of Professor Jorge Cardona Llorens Professor of International Public Law at the Universitat de València.
  • "Seminar: "The governance of higher education in the Spanish context, Reflections on the influence of the European Union on the configuration of the Spanish university system", held on 12 January 2017, with Alexandra Carrasco, trainee researcher, as speaker.

Finally, it is worth mentioning the participation of the director of POLISOC, Professor Juan Manuel Fernández Soria, as a guest speaker at the International Colloquium: "Politiques éducatives et projets de société, discours et pratiques, 19e-21e siècles", held in June 2021 at the University of Orlèans, with the theme: "El discurso modernizador en la política educativa española del siglo XX" (The modernising discourse in 20th century Spanish educational policy).

Publications 2021

  1. Doctoral theses
    1. Neoliberal policies as processes of privatisation and commercialisation of the public university in Spain. The role of the European Union and the Spanish case in the European context. Doctoral thesis by Alexandra Carrasco, FPU of the Department of Comparative Education and History of Education. Director: Juan Manuel Fernández Soria. Doctoral Programme in Education RD 99/2011, research line "Historical, political and comparative studies of education".
  2. Books and book chapters
    1. Cinema as a pedagogical resource in Compulsory Secondary Education classrooms. Mª José Ruiz Romero and Laura Monsalve Lorente. In: Nuevas coordenadas para la formación y el aprendizaje, 2021, pp. 241-250. https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=7953959
    2. Neoliberal logics and social education: a critical look at socio-educational intervention. Vicent Horcas López and Elena Giménez Urraco. In: Nuevas coordenadas para la formación y el aprendizaje / coord. by Pilar Sanz-Cervera, María Dolores Soto González, Juan García Rubio, 2021, ISBN 9788418627088, pp. 111-120.
    3. Neoliberal logics and social education: a critical look at socio-educational intervention. Vicent Horcas López and Elena Giménez Urraco. In: Nuevas coordenadas para la formación y el aprendizaje / coord. by Pilar Sanz-Cervera, María Dolores Soto González, Juan García Rubio, 2021, ISBN 9788418627088, pp. 111-120.
    4. The College of Spain in Paris: a Franco-Spanish cultural crossroads. Mora-Luna, Antonia M.(coord.), Granada, Comares, 2021 (in press).
    5. "La production littéraire au service de la nation. Notes/remarques pour le professeur de littérature espagnole", Mora-Luna, Antonia María. In: Guido Furci and Cyril Verlingue (eds.), Je est un autre Nous. Enonciations collectives et stratégies de résistance, Paris, Honoré Champion, 2021 (in press).
  3. Articles in specialist journals
    1. Career, work and pedagogical culture of Antonio Ballesteros Usano. José Ignacio Cruz Orozco. Perfiles educativos, vol. XLIII, núm. 173, 2021 doi.org/10.22201/iisue.24486167e.2021.173.59755 2
    2. Facing silent disentailment: Strategies of Spanish Catholic education, José Ignacio Cruz Orozco. Education XX1: Journal of the Faculty of Education, 2021.
    3. The modalities of teaching in the new normality for the academic year 2020-21 in Spanish public universities, Cristina Pulido Montes, and Santiago Mengual-Andrés. IJERI: International journal of Educational Research and Innovation, 2021.
    4. Privatising trends in the European higher education funding model: European Union proposals and analysis of affordable access, Alexandra Carrasco González. Spanish Journal of Comparative Education, 2021.
    5. Introduction: 50 years after the General Education Law of 1970, Juan Manuel Fernández Soria, and Diego Sevilla Merino. Historia y Memoria de la Educación 2021. 
    6. The General Education Law of 1970, a law for the modernisation of Spain?, Juan Manuel Fernández Soria, and Diego Sevilla Merino. Historia y Memoria de la Educación 2021.
    7. Validating the Gratifications Associated with the Use of the Smartphone and the Internet by 
    8. University Students in Chile, Ecuador and Spain, R. Tirado-Morueta, A. García-Umaña, and S. Mengual-Andrés. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research 2021. doi: 10.1080/17475759.2021.1898449
    9. Opportunities and Hazards of the Internet for Students with Intellectual Disabilities: The Views of Pre-Service and In-Service Teachers, E. Chiner, M. Gómez-Puerta, and S. Mengual-Andrés. International Journal of Disability, Development and Education 2021. doi: 10.1080/1034912X.2019.1696950
    10. Chatbot to improve learning punctuation in Spanish and to enhance open and flexible learning environments. Esteban Vázquez-Cano, Santiago Mengual-Andrés, and Eloy López-Meneses.
    11. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education 2021. doi: 10.1186/s41239-02100269-8
    12. Prevalence of sexting in young university adults: motivation and risk perception, Laura Monsalve Lorente and Enrique García Tort. Psychology, Sociology & Education 2021.
    13. The online classroom as a séance: Challenges and strategies in the face of pandemic pedagogies. Dulcinea Tomás Cámara. Atenas. Scientific-pedagogical journal, 4 (56).
    14. Undisciplined disciplines? Exercises in epistemic diversity for an inverse matrix pedagogy. Dulcinea Tomás Cámara. Trenzar. Revista de Educación Popular, Pedagogía Crítica e Investigación Militante, 6 (3), pp. 96-114.
    15. Education and literature in late Francoism and the Spanish democratic transition (II). Contenidos programáticos y experiencias editoriales (1982-1990)" Mora-Luna, Antonia María, History of Education & Children's Literature (2021) (in press).

Publications 2020

  1. Doctoral theses
    1. Discourses and non-explicit interests in Spanish educational reforms: the Organic Law on Education and the Organic Law for the Improvement of Educational Quality. Doctoral thesis by María Torres Pellicer, Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Sciences Director: Juan Manuel Fernández Soria.
  2. Books and book chapters
    1. School absenteeism and social exclusion, a violation of the right to education. 
    2. José Ignacio Cruz Orozco and Sandra García de Fez (Editors). Editorial Tirant Humanidades. 
    3. From apprentices to university students: The configuration of the teaching profession, Juan Manuel Fernández Soria. In: Investigación educativa y cambio social 2020.
    4. Language and technology: A collaborative platform for the teaching-learning of varieties of Spanish. Rocío Díaz Bravo, Silvia Acid Carrillo, and Juan Manuel Fernández Soria. In: Educational Research and Innovation: Trends and Challenges 2020.
    5. Educational policies for the integration of ICT in Spain and the Valencian Community. Laura Monsalve Lorente, Enrique García Tort, Miriam Elisabeth Aguasanta Regalado. In: Estrategias didácticas digitales. Encounters between research and practice. https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=7881751
    6. European Union strategies and gender equality initiatives in STEM. Laura Monsalve Lorente and Juan García Rubio. In: Pedagogy and cultural changes in the 21st century. https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=7226965
    7. Towards an inclusive and democratic education in the context of secondary education in Italy Mª Teresa di Piazza, Isabel María Gallardo Fernández, Laura Monsalve Lorente. In: Claves para la innovación pedagógica ante los nuevos retos https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=7758039
    8. Covidosofía. Philosophical reflections for the post-pandemic world. Dulcinea Tomás Cámara (Comp.) Barcelona: Paidós.
    9. Critical Thinking Lab: Maieutics for Millenials. Dulcinea Tomás Cámara. In E.J. Díez Gutiérrez and J.R. Rodríguez Fernández (Eds.), Educación para el Bien Común Hacia una práctica crítica, inclusiva y comprometida socialmente, pp. 242-251. Barcelona: Editorial Octaedro.
    10. Absenteeism at school and municipal intervention: an analysis of the Valencian Community. José Ignacio Cruz Orozco and Vicent Horcas López. In: Absentemo escolar y exclusión social: una vulneración del derecho a la educación / José Ignacio Cruz Orozco (ed. lit.) and Sandra García de Fez (ed. lit.), 2020, ISBN 9788418155857, pp. 55-78.
    11. " 20th century poetry and commitment in the Spanish school culture of the transition". Mora-Luna, Antonia María. In: Miguel Ángel García (ed.), El compromiso en la poesía española del siglo XX y el canon académico actual, Granada, Editorial Comares, 2020, pp. 275-306. ISBN: 978-84-1369-026-1
    12. Cruz Orozco, José Ignacio (2020), Pending revolution and socialisation of youth. The political utopia of the Spanish Falange in Bares, Juan de and Oncina, Faistino (coords.) Utopías y ucronías. Una aproximación histórico-conceptual, Barcelona, Edicions Bellaterra, pp. 229-250 Year:) ISBN: 978-84-7290-947-2.
    13. Monsalve Lorente, Laura (2020), Towards an inclusive and democratic education in the context of secondary education in Italy. In: Claves para la innovación pedagógica ante los nuevos retos: respuestas en la vanguardia de la práctica educativa / coord.. by Eloy López Meneses, David Cobos Sanchiz, Laura Molina García, Alicia Jaén Martínez, Antonio Hilario Martín Padilla, Editorial Octaedro, pp.... 545-553. ISBN 978-84-18348-22-8
    14. Monsalve Lorente, Laura, García Tort, Enrique and Aguasanta Regalado, Miriam Elizabeth(2020). Educational policies for the integration of ICT in Spain and the Valencian Community. In: Estrategias didácticas digitales: Encuentros entre la investigación y la práctica / coord. Diana Marín Suelves and José Peirats Chacón. Editorial Calambur. Pp. 43-62. ISBN 978-84-8359-499-5
  3. Articles in specialist journals
    1. Neoliberal higher education policies as a response to a new state model. Pro-market practices in the public university, Alexandra Carrasco González. Journal of Higher Education 2020.
    2. Structural model of extrinsic factors influencing flipped learning, Santiago MengualAndrés, Jesús López Belmonte, Arturo Fuentes Cabrera, and Santiago Pozo Sánchez. Education XX1: Journal of the Faculty of Education 2020.
    3. School absenteeism in Spain. Datos y reflexiones, José Ignacio Cruz Orozco. Contextos educativos: Revista de educación 2020.
    4. Cultural identity and the right to education, Juan Manuel Fernández Soria. Contextos educativos: Revista de educación 2020.
    5. Computational thinking and coding in primary education: scientific productivity on SCOPUS, Annalisa Piazza, and Santiago Mengual-Andrés. Pixel-Bit: Journal of media and education 2020.
    6. Internet and people with intellectual disability: A bibliometric analysis, S. Mengual-Andrés, E. Chiner, and M. Gómez-Puerta. Sustainability (Switzerland) 2020. doi: 10.3390/su122310051
    7. Computational thinking and coding in primary education: Scientific productivity on SCOPUS, 
    8. A. Piazza, and S. Mengual-Andrés. Pixel-Bit, Journal of Media and Education 2020. doi: 10.12795/pixelbit.79769
    9. Structural model of influential extrinsic factors in flipped learning, S. Mengual-Andrés, J. López Belmonte, A. Fuentes Cabrera, and S. Pozo Sánchez. Educacion XX1 2020. doi: 10.5944/educxx1.23840
    10. New learning ecologies in the curriculum, Laura Monsalve Lorente and Miriam Elizabeth Aguasanta Regalado. RELATEC: Latin American Journal of Educational Technology 2020
    11. Epistemologíx transmodernx: Alternative genealogies of thought in the face of the pandemic. Dulcinea Tomás Cámara. Cuadernos Abiertos de Crítica y Coproducción: Autores colectivos institución y coproducción, 2, pp. 10-23.
    12. The classroom as space of welcome: Exploration of the current challenges of teaching Spanish for refugees. Dulcinea Tomás Cámara. Culture and Education, 32(4), pp. 776-795.

Publications 2019

  1. Books and book chapters
    1. Teaching and learning the promotion of health education in schools. Laura Monsalve Lorente and Engracia Soler Pardo. In: Re-inventing research in health and education for a transcultural society. https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=7502710
    2. Emerging technologies and didactic trends in educational scenarios. Arturo Fuentes Cabrera, Eloy López Meneses, Jesús López Belmonte, Santiago Mengual-Andrés (coord.). Editorial Octaedro.
    3. "Miguel Hernández and Portuguese Neo-Realism: childhood in the literature of commitment". Mora-Luna, Antonia María. In: Carina Infante do Carmo and Violante F. Magalhães (coords.), NeoRealismo e Infância, Lisbon, Edições Colibri, 2019, pp. 181-195.ISBN: 978-989-689-839-7.
    4. José Ignacio Cruz Orozco, (2019, While we still don't like Spain, we can't have holidays. An approach to the camps of the Frente de Juventudes in the province of Valencia (1937-1955) in Mayordomo, A. and Paya, A, (eds.), Pedagogía. Thought, politics and practice. Historical readings in contemporary Valencian society, Valencia, Tirant humanidades, pp. 59-75.
    5. Laura Monsalve Lorente and Juan García Rubio. (2019). European Union strategies and gender equality initiatives in STEM, In: Pedagogy and cultural changes in the 21st century: rethinking education / coord. Laura Monsalve Lorente, Isabel Pardo Baldoví and María Isabel Vidal Esteve. Editorial Octaedro. Pp. 147-158 ISBN: 978-84-18083-18-1
  2. Articles in specialist journals
    1. When Franco falls: Educational proposals for Spain from exile (1945), José Ignacio Cruz Orozco, and Sandra García de Fez. History and Memory of Education 9, (2019) pp. 101-138.
    2. The destruction of republican modernity: No (...) reasons for the Spanish pedagogical exile, Juan Manuel Fernández Soria. History and Memory of Education.
    3. The pedagogical exile of 1939, Salomó Marquès Sureda, and José Ignacio Cruz Orozco. History and Memory of Education 2019.
    4. The Great Red Scourge. Arguments for the extension of Secondary Education in Spain (1953-1961), José Ignacio Cruz Orozco. Revista Complutense de Educación, vol.30, nº 4, (2019), pp. 983-996. ISSN: 1130-2496.
    5. José Ignacio Cruz Orozco, (2019), The proposal on education of the Commission for the Study of Spanish Problems (1945), History and Memory of Education, 9, pp. 669-710.
    6. Cruz Orozco, José Ignacio (2019), Two pedagogical models with and in nature: The Explorers of Spain and the Youth Front, Sarmiento. Revista Galego-Portuguesa de Historia da Educación, 22, pp. 37- 50.
    7. Cruz-Orozco, J.I.; Fernández-Soria, J.M. (2019), Conversations with Antonio Viñao. Formative years (1943-1982), Interuniversity Journal of the History of Education, (37) pp. 481-525. 
Research Group on European Security and Defence Studies - GEPOLCOM

The research is focused on the comparative analysis of democratisation and democratic quality processes in culturally, socially, economically and politically different countries and of the main threats to democratic stability in terms of both international security and the emergence of extremist groups within said democracies.

There is a collaboration with institutions such as the South African University of Stellenbosch's Centre for International and Comparative Politics and Military institutions of various countries.

Research Group on Global Security and Fundamental Rights - SGyDF

Currently, global security concerns (terrorism, disputes over natural resources, financial instability, organised crime, cyber-threats, etc.) have undergone a great transformation and are considered to be challenges to the security of states and to humanity, and are considered to be of similar importance to traditional military threats to international peace and security. There is growing and legitimate concern in countries and regions characterised by constitutional and democratic political systems (as it is the case in Spain and Europe) about the repercussions that this security transformation, and consequently the means that states are implementing to defend and protect their citizens from new threats, has on the citizens' and non-nationals' fundamental rights in the countries that adopt them.

This is a natural concern, since both security and freedom, the protection of individuals as well as compliance with the legal system and international rights obligations assumed by states, are common goods that must be preserved in a balanced way.

From this perspective, the research team presented here deals specifically with a real problem in our society, namely how states' responses to certain threats (specifically the responses - regulatory and political action - to armed conflict, terrorism, cyber-threats, organised crime and espionage) are affecting the guarantee of citizens' public liberties (specifically privacy, communications confidentiality, personal freedom and other related rights such as freedom from torture, freedom of expression, freedom of association, freedom to demonstrate and procedural laws). This is with the intention of carrying out a series of proposals for approaches, regulations and public policies aimed at contributing to the resolution of the problems that this affectation may entail, both for the protection and security of individuals’ effectiveness as well as for the constitutional guarantee of their rights. Keywords: rights and freedom.

Research Group on Historical Studies for Democracy and Transitions to Democracy - GEHTD

Within the latest theoretical contributions of social and political history, this project aims to study in depth both democracy and the construction and evolution of modern Spanish political cultures, insisting on the complex relationship between the main political cultures of republicanism, anarchism, socialism and democracy. It will focus on three historical moments:

  1. The crisis of the parliamentary monarchy, 1900-1930; 
  2. Second Spanish Republic, Spanish Civil War and Early Francoism, 1931-1959; 
  3. Second Francoism, Transition and democratic consolidation, 1959-1986. 

The historical analysis will be carried out from within the three political cultures mentioned, in relation to Spanish nationalism and gender identities and from the comparative perspective with southern Europe and the United States. With this diversity of approaches and perspectives in three key historical moments, the mutual achievements and influences of this fruitful, but conflictive and difficult relationship at many moments in the 20th century will be seen. The project will focus primarily on three key historical moments:

  1. The first third of the twentieth century was interesting for observing the response of the different political cultures to the limits and possibilities of universal male suffrage and to the transition from elite politics to mass politics. This was also the time of the first wave of democratisation in much of Europe, so that the different political cultures found themselves at a crucial political moment, as the masses not only assumed the leading role in political life, but also, increasingly in more and more places, control of the levers of power.
  2. Spanish Second Republic, Spanish Civil War and early Francoism, in which attention will be paid mainly to the possibilities and influences of the first Spanish democratic experience, as well as to the attraction of revolution and reaction in a large part of the political spectrum, due to the growing influence of the anti-liberal and anti-democratic movements in the context of the inter-war period. To this is added the gender and national identity aspects of political cultures as a whole, and the analysis of the experience of the hardest years of Francoism (1939-1959) in the consideration of democracy as the central objective of the political cultures of the Spanish left (defeated in the civil war). Thus, the analysis of anti-fascism during the interwar period, as a mobilising mortar against the expansion of the enemies of liberalism and democracy and its main achievements (individual rights and freedoms, social reforms and gender equality), as well as the consequences of its triumph after the Spanish Civil War, especially in the form of repression from different perspectives, will be central elements of this group's research.
  3. Late Francoism and the Democratic Transition, periods in which all points of the political spectrum converged towards a Western European-style democracy, in such a way that both the clandestine revolutionary groups of the last years of Francoism, the main traditions of the Spanish left and the more moderate positions of the liberal and Christian Democrat right evolved until they contributed decisively to making Spain a consolidated democracy integrated into the European context.

The analysis will be carried out from different perspectives:

  1. From an internal analysis of left-wing political cultures, through which to observe their positioning in relation to the aforementioned processes (democracy, democratisation, transitional processes, gender and national identities).
  2. From a comparative and even transnational perspective that leads to highlighting the aspects and processes in which the political cultures of the Spanish left participated in connection with those of other geographies, mainly France, Italy and Portugal, due to their thematic and geographical proximity to Spain; as well as with the United States, for acting as a radiator of democratising ideals and formulas since the beginning of the first third of the 20th century due to its position as a hegemonic country in the international order.
Research Group on Human Rights and European Social Charter - CSE
  • Research on Human Rights from the perspective of the European Social Charter, officially since 2014 the "Social Constitution of Europe".
  • Analysis of the jurisprudence of the European Committee of Social Rights arising from the Conclusions of the Reports system and the Fund's Decisions arising from Collective Complaints.
  • Application by national courts of the rules of the Council of Europe, specifically the European Social Charter. Control of conventionality.
  • Study of the Law of Treaties and other International Agreements from the perspective of the European Social Charter and the consequences deriving therefrom.
  • Review of national regulations and determination of whether or not they are in line with the European Social Charter. Establishment of Spain's progress at European level with the ratification of the revised version of the European Social Charter and the Protocol on Collective Complaints.
  • Providing solutions to ensure that Spain complies with its international commitments to the Council of Europe.
  • Deepening the dissemination of a correct knowledge and application of the European Social Charter and its monitoring and control body.
  • Presentation of collective complaints by trade unions and social organisations, following the acceptance of the procedure by Spain.
Research Group on Human Rights and Globalisation - Derglo

This group, which is now applying for access to the register of research groups, has been developing for decades, based on the pioneering studies and research in the field carried out by Professor Jesús Ballesteros, several lines of research, prolonged and updated over time, on various facets of human rights, In recent years, these have focused specifically on issues related to international justice, with special attention to the challenges of peace and sustainable development, the most recent results of which are the following funded research projects, in addition to a significant number of publications and monographs in prestigious publishers and scientific journals: 

  • Prometeo Phase II project. Reference: PROMETEO II/2014/080. (From 1-1-2014 to 31-12-2017) The role of law in the fight against poverty and social exclusion. Grants for research groups of excellence.
  • Global Justice Programme (Diké). Grants to research groups for the constitution and accreditation of ISIC (Higher Institutes for Cooperative Research) networks of excellence. Reference: ISIC/2012/017 (From 1-1-2012 to 31-12-2015).
  • PROMETEO Programme for research groups of excellence. Generalitat Valenciana (Valencian Government). From 1-I-2010 to 31-XII-2013. Human rights, sustainability and peace. Main researcher: Jesús Ballesteros.
  • The MEC R+D+I Research Project, directed by Dr. J. Ballesteros: Globalisation and International Justice: human security, peace and sustainable development (SEJ-2007-67270/JURI).
  • The Generalitat's R+D+I project (2007-2008) directed by Dr. Encarnación Fernández: States in crisis and international justice (GV/2007/061).
  • The R&D&I project funded by the Generalitat Valenciana (Valencian Government), directed by Dr. Pilar González Altable: The theory of democracy in the face of contemporary challenges; civic competence and globalisation (GV00-158-08).

This research group also constitutes the core of professors responsible for a doctoral programme that has a long history dating back to 1989 with the doctoral programme entitled "Derechos humanos, ética y democracia" (Spanish for Human Rights, Ethics and Democracy). This programme was followed by "Human Rights and Current Problems" (an international programme in collaboration with the University of Palermo and with a mention of quality); at present, Professor Ballesteros himself directs the PhD programme entitled  "Sostenibilidad y Paz en la era posglobal" (Spanish for Sustainability and Peace in the post-global era)

The formal constitution of this group responds to an increasing demand for specialised studies and work, with a practical orientation, in the field of human rights, peace and sustainable development, which contribute new lines of action and suggest effective mechanisms for the protection and guarantee of rights in different fields in the face of the new challenges facing society. 

There is a broad social awareness of the need to deepen the idea of the indivisibility and interdependence of human rights, as a response to the terrible scourges (wars, underdevelopment and the indiscriminate and savage exploitation of natural resources) that plague humanity. Society demands to assume the perspective that gives primacy to the full realisation and fulfilment of all rights for all human beings (not only those of the first world) and to put the emphasis not only on economic growth but on a truly human and sustainable development (centred on the satisfaction of people's basic needs). From this perspective, it is possible to contribute to peace-building at the local level (countries devastated by conflicts of all kinds) and at the global level. In other words: peace, development and the realisation of rights can only be achieved together.

Research Group on Human Rights and Inclusive Democracy in a Global World - HURIGLO

The main research activity of the group formed under the name “Human Rights and Inclusive Democracy in a Global World”, under the direction and coordination of professor Javier de Lucas, aims to promote research in the different areas in which the members are experts and the transfer of knowledge to society through the publication of the results obtained in the field of human rights. 

The group has a strong expertise in issues related to the guarantee of human rights within the model of inclusive democracy and the challenges posed to this framework by a global world. A large majority of the members of the group have been involved in multiple research projects investigating these issues. The aim of the creation of this group is to continue developing the essential research on issues related to: the extension of the concept of citizenship; the political participation of the migrant population; the guarantee of social rights as a basis for the integration of the population; the construction of indicators for the evaluation of the development of public policies for the integration of people and the guarantee of their rights; the guarantee of fundamental rights in multicultural societies, among others, all of which are essential for the construction of an inclusive democracy. In this sense, and benefiting from the knowledge acquired, as well as from the wide network of knowledge exchange and synergies woven at national and international level, the group intends to continue analysing the new challenges that today’s society face with regard to the guarantee of rights.

Research Group on Innovation and Local Development - INNODES

The research activity of the Innovation and Local Development R&D Group (INNODES) belonging to the Inter-University Institute of Local Development (IIDL) of the Universitat de València and Universitat Jaume I, focuses on aspects related to economic geography, spatial planning and regional development, in particular on the analysis of urban and metropolitan systems, innovation processes, planning of public services, geography of well-being, social innovation, tourism and its territorial impact, sustainability and processes of resilience and local development; as well as in the analysis of social dynamics, population movements and development cooperation in diverse territories.

Research Group on International, Constitutional and Comparative Tax Studies - ETICCs

Legal analysis of national and international tax regulations from a constitutional, EU law and comparative perspective. Verification of the legality of the procedures for applying the taxes that form part of the tax systems.

Research Group on Management Teams, Business Strategy and Corporate Governance - TMT_BS

This research group focuses on the study of the characteristics, structure, processes and incentive systems of the management bodies of companies, and their relationship with the strategies they use, as well as with the results of the organisations.

The research team that makes up this group specialises in competitive and corporate strategy, as well as in the approaches of top management teams (Upper Echelons), Corporate Governance, and sustainable competitiveness (i.e. the balance between competitiveness, survival and Corporate Social Responsibility in a broad sense). 

In the field of strategy, this research group has carried out multiple research projects on competitive strategy (strategy clock and competitive positioning), strategic orientation of organisations, internationalisation strategies, diversification strategies, entry modes, mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, etc. These works have been published in both national and international academic journals, with considerable weight being given to those in the main international lists of research journals (i.e. JCR, Scopus, etc.).

Since 2002, much of this work has focused on the fundamental role of management teams and governing bodies in defining strategies and in the disposition of certain attitudes that are reflected in strategic decision-making. Market orientation, proactive, innovative and risk-taking orientation, open-mindedness, acceptance of change, self-confidence, optimism, complacency, globally responsible attitudes, ethics or personalistic and particularistic approaches are areas of interest in the research.

Among the aspects considered in relation to management teams and governing bodies, this research group pays attention to team composition, diversity, power and participation structure, hierarchical and horizontal role distribution, interaction processes, cognitive and affective conflict, shared values, incentive systems, as well as demographic and psycho-sociological characteristics of specific members of executvie management, such as General Management or certain functional or divisional managers.

Both antecedents and consequences of the above-mentioned variables and the relationships between them are of interest to us. With regard to the effects of these relationships on organisational performance, attention is paid to aspects such as competitiveness (profitability, growth, solvency, survival), reputation, value creation, etc. 

Our research is mainly carried out through the execution of competitive research projects, financed by the Generalitat Valenciana (Valencian Government) and the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, among others. However, this research group maintains close contact with the economic-business context, and carries out technical advice, training, diagnosis and technical studies and reports aimed at the practical application of our line of work.

 

 

Research Group on Modeling Complex Systems: Personality, Brain and Social Systems - MOSISCOM

For years we have been working and publishing on the biological basis of personality, especially the brain and genetic mechanisms that underlie human behaviour. In this process we have proposed a theory on the General Personality Factor, and we have created an instrument to assess it. We have also proposed and investigated psychological intervention techniques (based on classical conditioning and suggestion) to modify personality and emotional states. At the same time, we have created complex mathematical models to study the dynamics of personality in the face of external stimuli, especially drugs. In this sense, we have mathematically modelled brain reactions to different drugs as a function of individual differences, while at the same time we have created a dynamic model that explains drug addictions.

Research Group on Modern trends in Criminal Law and Criminology: Crime Prevention and protection of civil liberties - DPC

Criminal law has a two-faced character: on the one hand, it prevents the commission of crimes and thus protects the rights of all citizens, and on the other hand, it guarantees that the state's power to punish is exercised in accordance with a series of guarantees, which is why it especially protects the fundamental rights of the accused and convicted. It is from this tension between prevention and guarantees that dogmatics has traditionally studied the foundations and limits of the legal system. To this end, the central position of constitutional principles and the protection of fundamental rights has served to defend a political-criminal discourse in which respect for the general principle of freedom can legitimise the state's ius puniendi. However, the analysis of contemporary criminal law shows a marked tendency towards an increase in punitive rigour and towards the consideration of criminal dangerousness as a basis for criminal sanctions. This trend can be easily observed in the legislative reforms of the Spanish Criminal Code since its approval in 1995, being of particular importance the Organic Law 1/2015 on the reform of the Criminal Code, which introduces institutions of dubious constitutionality such as permanent revisable prison, as well as the expansion of security measures such as probation. In both cases, it is prognoses of criminal dangerousness that are the basis for the execution of sanctions.

The research group on "Crime Prevention and protection of civil liberties" aims to study this evolution, starting from respect for constitutional principles and the protection of fundamental rights as a methodological framework for research, in order to critically assess the inadequacies of these new political-criminal trends, using the training in Criminology of most of the members of the group to establish relations between Criminology and Criminal Law. The interdisciplinary nature of the research group will make it possible to study responses that can adapt the guarantee-based discourse to the implementation of effective preventive techniques in the face of the new political-criminal challenges of social change, as well as assessing the suitability of new forms of conflict resolution, such as restorative justice, to the criminal justice system, such as criminal mediation. Likewise, specific criminological phenomena will be studied, such as the prevention and treatment of sexual crime, as well as cybercrime cases where the criminal act presents a correlation with the advances derived from information technology.

In any case, the activity of the research group will seek to offer a perspective that integrates comparative criminal law, as well as international regulations, in order to reinforce the resulting lege lata and lege ferenda proposals.

Research Group on Multimodal Education and Multiliteracy through Literature, Art, Foreign Languages and Learning & Knowledge Technologies - LiTerart

This group brings together researchers from different universities and disciplines who share a common goal: to develop research aimed, firstly, at providing a comprehensive education that contributes to the personal, intercultural and social education of 21st century students and, secondly, at developing their reading, linguistic, critical and creative skills and abilities.

To this end, we combine educational research with didactic innovation to study the pedagogical value of the use and impact of multiliteracies and multimodal resources in the classroom, through the approach of several cross-disciplines related primarily to the humanities, art education, foreign language teaching and new technologies for learning and knowledge (TAC).

The aim of Lit(T)erart is to deepen the contribution of these areas, mainly in teacher training and in the development of curricular proposals that promote the cognitive, conceptual, socio-cultural and aesthetic dimensions, and then focus on the design of an evaluation system based on the creation of rubrics that show the progress of students and the validity of the proposed methodology.

In line with the EHEA guidelines, we propose to build a didactic scaffolding based on the pedagogy of multiliteracies that not only considers language as an exclusive form for the construction of meanings, but also incorporates multimodality as a mode of representation for creating and expressing ideas.

Research Group on Music Education and Creativity - IEMC

With regard to the motivations of this group for research into music teaching and learning processes, it should be noted that the practical music teaching institutions have been distanced from research into specific music teaching and learning processes. This has not been so much due to their own decision or to the lack of research training of Spanish conservatory teachers -which is a fact-, but rather to the scant importance given to music studies in the different reforms of the Spanish educational system until the LOGSE, as well as to the traditional separation between music practice and research, the former being relegated to music conservatories and the latter to the university. What is more, after the establishment of the so-called Higher Artistic Education within the European Higher Education Area, neither the LOE -and even less the LOMCE- have established effective mechanisms for the research training of music conservatory teachers. As a result, there is a lack of research in conservatories and, as a consequence, little knowledge of what really happens in the teaching and learning processes.

We believe that this is a very important area of expertise in the training of individuals, in addition to its importance in the training of musicians and music teachers. The members of this research group have a long-established track record in different fields of music. Thus, research has been carried out on training processes in music education; on the influence of the use of score editors on the formation of mental images of sound in students; on the effect of multimodal presentations of musical information versus unimodal presentations; on the effects of different modes of information presentation on the learning of musical parameters (texture, melody, rhythm.... ); on the creation of specific software for certain musical tasks and its effects on musical learning; on the influence of music in the media on the stereotypes of primary school pupils; on the use of technology as a mediator in the development of musical skills. All this is materialised in an extensive quality scientific production (publications in impact journals indexed in JCR and Scopus) in the sub-disciplines of music technology, music education, musical creativity, musical performativity and musical cognition. They have also executed European, American (Organización Estados Americanos, CONICYT), national (Plan Nacional i+d+i, FNEA, FONDEF-TIC-EDU (Chile), Fondo Nacional de la Cultura de Chile) and regional (C.Valenciana, Gobierno de La Rioja, Gobierno Vasco, Junta de Andalucía) projects. The members of the group have directed doctoral theses and works related to the aforementioned fields, including works derived from the training capacity of the groups executing R&D projects.

The lines of the group are related to training processes for music education teachers; music education processes in non-formal contexts; dynamisation processes in socio-educational projects through music; technology in music education; software design for music education; science-art interaction; musical performativity and creation. 

The master's degrees and postgraduate and doctoral programmes in which members of this group have participated are: Postgraduate course of musical specialisation: ENSENYAMENT MUSICAL MIJANÇANT L'ORDINADOR (UPV-GVA); Postgraduate course of musical specialisation: INFORMÁTICA MUSICAL (Xunta Galicia-U. de A Coruña); Postgraduate course of musical specialisation: LENGUAJE MUSICAL Y EDUCACIÓN AUDITIVA (Gobierno de La Rioja-U. de La Rioja); university postgraduate course of musical specialisation: TEACHING MUSICAL EXPRESSION (Diputación Gral. de Aragón); doctorate course: RESOURCES FOR TRAINING AND CHANGE. TEACHING AND INNOVATIVE STRATEGIES within the Doctorate Programme of the Department of Human Sciences of the University of La Rioja; I University Expert in DESIGN AND CREATION OF VIRTUAL TRAINING ENVIRONMENTS (2004-05. U. of Malaga); II University Expert in Design and Creation of Virtual Training Environments (2005-06. U. of Malaga); II University Expert in Design and Creation of Virtual Training Environments (2005-06. U. of Malaga); III University Expert Course in Design and Creation of Virtual Training Environments (2005-06. U. of Malaga); III University Expert Course in Design and Creation of Virtual Training Environments (2005-06. de Málaga); III University Expert Course on Methods and Resources in Music Education (2005. u. de La Laguna); Doctorate Programme on Methods of Educational Research and Innovation (2005. u. de Málaga); I Master's Degree in New Technologies Applied to Education (U. de Málaga); IV University Expert Course on Methods and Resources in Music Education (2006. u. de La Laguna); II Master's Degree in New Technologies Applied to Education (U. de Málaga); IV Expert Course in Virtual E-learning Environments (U. de Málaga); Master's Degree in Musical Pedagogy (2009. U. de Valencia); Master's Degree in Research in Specific Didactics (University of Valencia. 2010 editions to date); Doctorate in Specific Didactics (U. de Valencia. From 2010 to the present); Master of Research in Musical Skills Development (2010. U. Pública de Navarra); Doctorate Course in Technology and Musical Learning Processes (U. Nacional Autónoma de México. 2011); Master of Research in Musical Skills Development (2011. U. Pública de Navarra); Master and Doctorate Programme in Music. Course on Technology and Musical Learning Processes. (U. Nacional Autónoma de México. 2012); Master of Research in Musical Skills Development (2012. U. Pública de Navarra); Master in Secondary Education Teaching (U. de Valencia. Several editions to date).

Research Group on New conflicts and judicial process - NCPJ

The research activity to be carried out by the "New Conflicts and Process" Research Group focuses on the study of the constant adaptation of procedural rules to the new conflicts generated in society, both by the economic crisis - which requires an interpretation of the legal system in accordance with the context in which it is applied - and by the growing evolution of legal relations through the information society, and, in general, by the massification of litigation.

 The procedural instrument must be adequate to enable both individuals who bring cases before the courts and the courts to obtain and grant, respectively, judicial protection of rights and legitimate interests. The lack of adaptation of procedural rules to the new conflicts generated by today's society can be an obstacle to obtaining effective judicial protection (art. 24 EC), one of the fundamental rights enshrined in our Constitution. In civil proceedings, for example, there is an increasing tendency to socialise them, moving from individual proceedings between two opposing parties to proceedings for the defence of collective interests of general scope, the defence of which cannot, for practical reasons, be the responsibility of individual parties. As far as criminal proceedings are concerned, the planned reform of these requires the incorporation of the doctrine developed by the TC - and which has been the subject of detailed study by this research group. 

This research group already has a long track record, backed up by nationally and internationally subsidised research projects, which have analysed issues such as techniques to improve the effectiveness of certain rights; the reform of civil procedure and its current application by legal professionals; the system of appeals before the high courts of justice, the reform of criminal procedure or the right to appeal in criminal procedure, the latter being the subject on which it is currently working.

Research Group on Public Instruments of Social Protection and Inclusion Policies - INCLUSIVE

The constitution of the research group stems from a history of collaborations in an area of common interest such as the study of social policies in general and in particular those instruments of public social protection aimed at covering situations of need whose central point is work (or rather its absence) and the consequences that this fact has on people’s lives, generating a space of exclusion from which without the help of public support it is very difficult to get out. In this sense, most of the researchers in this group are currently participating in an R&D, MINECO of which I am the PI, with the title “Los instrumentos de protección social pública en la gestión del cambio laboral”, DER2014-52549-C4-4-R (National R&D&I Plan, “Research Challenges”, Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness). This is a project in the modality of Coordinated Projects, in which the coordinating project is being developed by the University of Seville, under the guidelines of Professor Cruz Villalón, with the title “Retos de la gestión del cambio en la empresa desde la perspectiva laboral y social”, DER2014-52549-C.

Among the objectives of this group:

  1. To analyse from an international and local perspective the effectiveness of employment policies in ensuring citizens’ access to quality employment that guarantees a dignified existence away from poverty and the capacity of such policies to rescue people who have been excluded from employment and society and are part of vulnerable groups, in a situation or at risk of socio-occupational exclusion. In short, the aim is to identify employment policies that generate inclusive labour markets.
  2. To study the impact that the socio-occupational changes, which have taken place in recent years, have had on the adequacy in terms of coverage and intensity of the benefits of the social protection system and to identify its deficiencies as an additional manifestation of the rebalancing of interests derived from the processes of change in the business reality. The analysis covers both contributory and welfare unemployment benefits, minimum income for inclusion, as well as social action and social assistance measures.
  3. To study the issues surrounding the sustainability of the public social protection system and to explore the possibilities of achieving its rebalancing through the generation of quality jobs in productive and competitive companies.
  4. To analyse the structural conception of labour change in the company, balanced in the consideration of the different interests present in it, designed from the initial consideration of the Spanish legal system but conceived in the context of European policies, from comparative premises and eventually from other European legal systems. 
  5. To assess the role of FOGASA in situations of extreme need of companies (insolvency and bankruptcy) and evaluate the possibilities of using wage credit protection formulas to finance the compensation for termination of contracts, as well as its reuse in the achievement of training and employment itineraries or access to partial retirement. 
  6. To analyse the vocational training system for employment, pointing out its shortcomings and deficiencies, and to formulate proposals for improvement so that it adapts to the demands of the business world and, at the same time, contributes to increasing the employability of workers. 
  7. To examine the role of public employment services as agents of labour intermediation and to explore measures that contribute to their modernisation and improvement and, ultimately, to increasing their effectiveness and efficiency in the placement of unemployed people. To assess the effectiveness of economic incentives in creating and maintaining employment, in particular with regard to the vulnerable.
Research Group on Public Opinion and Elections - POpE

The research group in Public Opinión and Elections aims at analyzing, studying and finding solutions to all issues and questions related to electoral processes and/or the measurement and monitoring of public opinion, applying the most advanced quantitative techniques.

The most relevant research fields of the group include (but are not limited to) the following: the generation of electoral predictions, inference of individual voting behavior, analysis of polls and surveys, the search of new methodological approaches to improve (reducing costs) the quality of sampling methods, semantic analysis of opinions and monitoring of the internet sentiment, the study of the consequences of non-response and of the biases introduced during the whole inference process, the solution to the gaps in the databases, the integration and pooling of local and global information to obtain multilevel responses, and the development of statistcal theory and methodology.

The approach used in the research group in Public Opinión and Elections is open, not being limited by any particular methodological tendency, and makes extensive use of whatever sources of information. Thus, we use classical and Bayesian techniques, we apply from simple linear regression models to complex approaches based on neural networks, wavelets or auto-binomial models, we use the spatial and/or temporal component of the data explicitly, we perform simulation via Markov chain Monte Carlo or directly by Monte Carlo methods, and we introduce in our models survey data, reported election results, news reports, internet messages and/or official statistics.

The members of the group are open to working with other research groups, companies and institutions and encourage interested parties to contact us in order to explore possible avenues of collaboration.

Research Group on Social Welfare Policy - Polibienestar

The Social Welfare Policy Research Group, belonging to the Universitat de València (Spain), is an international reference group specialised in social research, innovation and technology, technical advice and training in the field of social policies. We develop basic and applied research with an interdisciplinary and holistic approach on economic, social, political and technical sustainability of welfare systems, advising the Administration and companies in the design, planning and implementation of resources and policies of social welfare and sustainability.

 

The group is made up of an interdisciplinary team led by Jorge Garcés Ferrer, Prince of Asturias Professor at Georgetown University in Washington DC (USA) and 20 researchers from different disciplines at the Universitat de València. In turn, the group collaborates with entities and universities in the European Union, the United States, South America and Africa.

Vision: to improve the well-being, sustainability and quality of life of society.

Mission: to achieve greater effectiveness and efficiency in public policies, private entities and the third sector, by means of innovative, integral and inter-institutional proposals through a team with an interdisciplinary and multi-centre approach.

Challenge for 2030: to innovate public policies through information and communication technologies, ICTs.

The Research Group offers the best service in the area of public policy and to do so uses an interdisciplinary team, connected internationally and with a great knowledge of each area of work. Not only its source of knowledge and capacity, but also its cohesion, dynamism and way of working, allow the Group to continue growing towards excellence. The team teaches on degree courses of the Universitat de València, official Universitat de València master's degrees, own master's degrees and postgraduate courses, as well as other training courses.

Research Group on Socio-Economic Inequalities and Public Policies with a Gender Perspective - GENDESPOL

Analysis of gender inequalities in the socio-economic field, both in the area of public policies and in the relations between private subjects and within organisations, using the methodological tools of legal science, sociology, economics and social work.

Research Group on Spanish parliamentarism in the first Liberalism - PEPL

The aim is to identify the legal concepts of the so-called Ancien Régime that are discussed in the liberal courts from the beginning of the 19th century onwards.

From their discussion in the Spanish parliament, we seek to know to what extent all these elements are replaced by a new legal and doctrinal formulation. We are interested in seeing to what extent and to what extent the substitution of a regime which, contrary to what is sometimes thought, we believe remained, on many occasions, unalterable or with slight modifications over the years, is effectively carried out.

On the occasion of the first liberal courts, legislators turned their gaze towards political and legal institutions that were almost obligatory or which, with the new times, they would reinterpret in an ideologically interested or, at least, updated way, that is, from a new construction of what power and its legitimacy were. But the social and economic context was very different, and its imprint on the letter of the law was inevitable; it only remains for us to specify to what extent.

What we want to do is to identify these legal and political reinterpretations and their manifestations in the new codifying legislation.

It is therefore a field of study that is not very clear-cut, since the reformulation of the entire system did not entail its repeal or replacement, but rather, at times, its complete maintenance, albeit in new forms. As for the content, we will have to see what its transition to the new wording will be.

From these difficult frontiers, we will delve into both institutions and law, both public and private. That is to say, we are interested in both the reformulation of what the parliament itself is, and the legislation that emanates from it, both for the construction of a new justice and a new administration in its various territorial demarcations. Therefore, we will study both substantive, civil, administrative or constitutional law, as well as organic and procedural procedural law.

Research Group on Spine Health Education - Spine-EDU

The research group on education for back health has a long history with studies published as early as 1997. The educational aspect of the group was set up in 2011 and was formalised as a group within the Universitat de València in 2020.

The group is interdisciplinary and aims to develop quality research that delves into issues of health education. Its work is oriented to the development of research on educational interventions at different levels of the compulsory education system, loyalty of educational implementations, research in teacher training on pedagogical knowledge of content, evaluation of educational methodologies and research and development of instruments for reliable documentation used in decision-making by teachers in educational contexts, research in evaluation of the educational system and the development and implementation of a curriculum that considers health and back care as fundamental aspects in improving the quality of life of citizens.

The aim of the group is to provide evidence of the need for health education from an early age, to develop knowledge and curricular material adapted to different ages and educational contexts, to design, develop and evaluate interventions in compulsory education, to train teachers in the development and application of interventions in educational centres. The group also aims to connect knowledge and scientific method with educational practice through the development of research and innovation projects with educational centres using socio-ecological models.

The teaching staff of the research group is part of the teaching staff of the Teaching Faculty of the Universitat de València, participating in the Master's Degree in Teacher Training in Secondary Education, specialising in Physical Education and in the Master's Degree in Research in Specific Didactics, specialising in Physical Education, teaching and directing final master's degree projects. He also participates in the Doctorate in Specific Didactics, supervising doctoral theses.

Research Group on Support for Research in Language Variation Analysis - SILVAGroup

The concept of “language variation” is key for the study of the evolution of languages and of social, professional and educational communicative systems. Social, cultural, health, economic, technological and educational transformations are developed, conveyed and reflected through their linguistic and communicative manifestations. The aim of the group is to study the progress that current society is undergoing through the analysis of the essential linguistic variables that are involved and interact in human communication. These variables depend on the profiles of speakers (e.g. idiolectal, dialectal variation, according to gender, age, social status, level of education, etc.) and on the uses they make of language according to the interpersonal identities they adopt (i.e. register variation), the codes they use to communicate (i.e. variation of mode), the different textual platforms they use (i.e. variation of discursive genre) and the different persuasive strategies with which they convey their intention and image (i.e. stylistic variation). The analysis of these variables requires approaching the study of communication at different scales, from its macro and hyper discursive aspect (e.g. interrelation between the variables that interact in business or academic communication, or the complexity of multimodal communication of social media and digital platforms) and also of its micro discursive components (e.g. variation of phonetic, morphological, lexical and syntactic units). As highlighted by experts in language variation (Bayley, 2013; Chambers and Schilling, 2018), in order to address comprehensive and innovative studies in this field, it is necessary to keep up to date the methodology needed to define and classify the categories, criteria and parameters essential to understand and analyse these variables and their interrelation.

Some of these have been extensively studied (e.g. dialectal variation) and others are currently being studied (e.g. variation of discursive genre), but there are still many ambiguous and controversial aspects of other relevant variables, such as those involved in communicative register variation. This type of interpersonal and contextual variation covers the whole spectrum of human interaction, from that which takes place in the most sophisticated and conventional contexts to that which takes place in the most intimate and familiar settings. There are different degrees of dependence and interrelation between various registers in the same communicative act, which has posed a difficult challenge for experts, particularly when it comes to accessing real data and compiling large and representative corpora. Moreover, throughout history, its study has been approached from many different perspectives, including heterogeneous, ambiguous and confusing variables that have generated controversy within this field of research. This theoretical heterogeneity and methodological complexity have hindered the development of in-depth and wide-ranging studies on this language variety, which could effectively transfer their results to society and the labour market, offering practical methods and tools for understanding, learning and mastering it. There are other variables in a similar situation (e.g. idiolectal variation, stylistic variation, genolects, chronolects, etc.). 

With the aim of contributing to the advancement of this field, the main objectives of the SILVAGroup are the following:

  1. To delve into the fundamental categories, criteria and parameters for the study and analysis of language variation, and the factors involved in its current behaviour in the English language and other majority languages, such as Spanish and German.
  2. To investigate language variation from a comprehensive pragmatic approach, highlighting its interpersonal and multimodal dimensions in its fluctuation throughout everyday communication from public to private settings.
  3. To work from emerging technologies, corpus linguistics and other multidisciplinary fields of human communication, contrasting advances and results between languages.
  4. To design methodologies for the study of language variation, useful in the search and detection of distinctive features that shed light on definition and typology of its parameters of analysis, and also practical for learning and mastering them, especially at a social and professional level.
  5. To participate in platforms and projects for the dissemination of research, especially in international conferences and impact publications, in order to encourage further study of RV and to publicise the results of the group’s activity.
  6. To constitute a national and international support platform for research in this field and for its dissemination.

The group’s research activity will be structured from the IULMA, based at the Universitat de València, to which most of the members of the group belong, and is made up of a multidisciplinary team of both young and experienced researchers from the UV, UPV and UA.

All the members of the group share the essential research lines for the study of RV: language variation, corpus linguistics and contrastive linguistics. The group also has experts in other relevant research lines. This multidisciplinary nature provides this team with the advantage of approaching language variation from different but complementary areas of knowledge and research lines, allowing an innovative depth and perspective and results that can really bring a significant advance in the field.

Research Group on Sustainable Development, Global and Regional Governance, Contemporary International and European Order - DSGMROIEC

The Research group to which this application refers is called “Sustainable development, global and regional governance, contemporary international and European order and values.” This is a subject on which the applicant Research group has been working for several years with the support of various regional, national and international research grants and projects.

In the current phase of development of the Research group’s activities, the focus is broadening from the perspective of environmental protection to the wider aspects of sustainable development, which includes three pillars: economic, social and environmental. This is an essential concern of contemporary international and European communities, whose constitutional foundations for the coming years have been set out in the document entitled “The Future We Want”, adopted at the Rio + 20 Summit on Environment and Development, held on June 2012 under the auspices of the United Nations. The main elements of the Research group’s activity, as its name suggests, are four.

Firstly, contents related to the paradigm on sustainable development in its international and European dimension, including, among other issues: the legal nature of the concept of sustainable development, the content of the notion of sustainable development in its economic, social, cultural and environmental aspects, the basic characteristics of the criterion of sustainability, issues linked to disparities in the development of peoples, the concept of common but differentiated responsibilities, the notions of developed countries, developing countries and emerging countries, as well as intergenerational justice.

Secondly, it will examine all the issues linked to global governance in the field of sustainable development, paying particular attention to the evolution of the international institutional framework, both at global level (institutions of the United Nations Organisation system) and at a regional level (Latin America, Africa, Asia, Antarctica, Arctic), proposals and implementations in the economic, social and enviromental fields in order to achieve sustainable development. In this context, particular attention will be paid to developments within the European Union and the Council of Europe.

Thirdly, as the Research group is mainly composed of internationalists specialised in Law and International Relations, particular attention will be paid, among other issues, to the impact of the concept of sustainable development in the various sectors of International Law (International economic law, International human rights law, International environmental law, International labour law), conceptual and normative developments at international and European level,  with particular attention to new legal instruments that have been recently adopted and those that will be adopted in the coming years. The results of the research will be issued in scientific publications, whether articles in national or international indexed journals, or monographs published by publishers of excellence.

Fourthly and finally, we will analyse the values that both the international community and the European Union consider necessary to govern their relations and therefore worthy of legal protection, both at international, European and national levels.

Continuing the tradition of the Research group, our activities will also include: participation in various research activities at transnational level, organisation of and participation in scientific conferences at international, European and national level, participation in the Meetings of the Parties on the International Conventions for the protection of the environment, contribution to the development of legal instruments in the status of international experts, membership in various bodies linked to the effective implementation of international and European standards in the field, etc.

Research Group on Transformations of the Labour Law and Social Protection - LABORUM3.0

Legal analysis of the new realities and challenges in the world of employment and social protection. Based on the evidence that the world of work is in constant transformation and the impact of new technologies applied to production systems and the relationships that develop in this area, the group aims to investigate these and their consequences from an exclusively legal perspective.

The specific objective is therefore focused exclusively on the examination of transformations and new legal-social phenomena, with special emphasis on those of greatest public importance. In this sense, the group's activity will focus on analysing the legal reforms that occur in the labour law, reflecting on their practical application through the study of judicial doctrine and forensic practice.

The group is born with the vocation of transferring the results of the research to society, with special emphasis on the practical application of its conclusions. To this end, in addition to the research activity, special attention will be paid to the preparation of opinions or reports, the organisation of conferences and seminars, and the publication of the results of the research.

Research Group on Transitions from Education to Work in Contexts of Social Vulnerability - TRANSICIONS

TRANSICIONS is made up of teaching staff from different areas of knowledge and departments of the University of Valencia: Didactics and School Organisation, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology and Sociology and Social Anthropology. It is formally attached to the Department of Didactics and School Organisation. All its members are staff of the Universitat de València or have obtained their doctorate there, although they all maintain contacts with teaching and research staff from other Spanish and foreign universities. It is a multidisciplinary group that has participated since 1996 in several works and researches, in which several members of the group have taken part.

TRANSICIONS has maintained and continues to maintain collaboration, through research contracts or collaboration agreements, with the Federation of Business Associations of Insertion Companies (FAEDEI), and the Spanish Association of Second Chance Schools, and has carried out commissioned work for Forem-PV, the UAFSE, the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, BankiaDualiza or Cedefop. The group has also participated in the organisation of regional and national meetings and conferences with professionals in the field of socio-labour insertion, and has organised two editions of international congresses and seminars on vocational training at the UV.

TRANSICIONS aims to understand the educational, organisational, evolutionary and psychosocial processes that affect and optimise transitions between the educational and productive system for young people and young adults, as well as people in vulnerable situations, with difficulties of socio-occupational integration and a history of school failure. The group is aware of the centrality of work in adult life, as well as the need to approach its study from multidisciplinary approaches in order to holistically address the understanding of the reality that interests and concerns us, and for this reason several members of the group collaborate in IUDESCOOP activities.

Its mission is to contribute, from the University, to identify the mechanisms that guarantee the rights to education and work, from the conviction of the relevant role they play in the promotion of social justice.

TRANSICIONS seeks to carry out empirical research in which the participants are also subjects of the research processes, hence a methodological approach in which qualitative methods are an important part and which allows, as far as possible, to interact with reality and also contribute to facilitate its transformation through the link it has and seeks between its research and the return of the results to professionals and entities that work in practice, as well as in making the results available to interlocutors with political responsibilities. Thanks to this dialogue, it evaluates its research to try to adjust it to the needs that arise and to the search for social change that it jointly pursues.

To this end, the TRANSICIONS group believes that it is advisable to seek funding for research work in public calls for proposals. The academic pillars on which its work is based can be traced in its publications: Emilia Serra, Francesca Salvà, Claudia Jacinto, María Teresa González, Juan Manuel Escudero, Michael W. Apple, Michael Eraut, Quim Casal, Philipp Gonon, Basil Bernstein, Robert Castel, Serge Paugam, Luc Boltanski and José Gimeno are some examples.

Research Group on Universitat de València's Bioethics - GIBUV

The Bioethics Research Group of the Universitat de València (GIBUV) works in an interdisciplinary way on the new ethical challenges that arise in health care and life sciences. It is currently made up of 39 researchers from various disciplines, including philosophy, medicine, nursing, psychology, law, pedagogy, social work and chemistry, and is open to the participation of researchers from other fields.

Among the entities represented, in addition to the Universitat de València (with the participation of five different faculties), are a number of hospitals and health centres in the Valencia region and central services. 
GIBUV was officially born in January 2004, when Juan Carlos Siurana, then Ramón y Cajal researcher, registered at the Universitat de València the group he coordinated with research fellows interested in bioethics from the Doctoral Programme in Ethics and Democracy. The registration reference is UV-0283. Shortly afterwards, its website was created and contacts with other researchers were initiated. Since then, the group has grown to take on the broad and diverse form it has today. It has developed five research projects funded by competitive calls, among which we highlight the following: The new challenges for bioethics: fundamentals of bioethics, ethics of the environment and biotechnologies, ethics of health organisations and clinical ethics, reference GV04A309, funded by the Generalitat Valenciana (Valencian Government); Reciprocal recognition as a basis for intercultural bioethics, reference: FFI2008-06133/FISO, funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation; and Els efectes del bon humor en el grau d'autonomia dels pacients en la fase final de la vida (Valencian for Good mood effects on the degree of autonomy of patients in the final phase of life.) reference PCC-8/13, funded by the Generalitat Valenciana. 
It has also developed two other funded projects on ethical aspects of health care for immigrants and the elderly, and is carrying out its own project on the reciprocal recognition of capacities for the sustainability of health care. 
The projects involve foreign researchers. Its members have spent several stays in foreign centres in Europe, America and Asia. They have published their results in quality indexed journals and books in prestigious publishing houses. Since 2004 they have been holding the Permanent Bioethics Seminar of the University of Valencia, which has already held more than 50 conferences.

The group has co-organised the I and II International Congress on Bioethics, held in Valencia in 2010 and 2012, with great success in terms of participation and international impact, and which continues to be held every two years. 

The GIBUV currently coordinates the Ibero-American Network of Bioethics Research Groups - RIGIB, which has obtained recognition and funding from the Ibero-American University Association of Postgraduate Studies (AUIP). The participating entities are currently the following: Universitat de València, Spain (coordinator); Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina; Universida de Federal da Paraíba, Brazil; Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia; Universidad de Ciencias Médicas Serafín Ruiz de Zárate, de Villa Clara, Cuba; Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua, Nicaragua; Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Paraguay; Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru; Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal; Universidad de la República, Uruguay; Fundación Fernando Rincón Canaán, Universidad del Zulia-Escuela de Medicina, Venezuela. The Ibero-American network RIGIB is made up of 171 researchers. GIBUV receives foreign researchers for postdoctoral stays.

Research Group on Valencia Colloquial Spanish - Val.Es.Co.

Introduction
The aim of the Val.Es.Co. research group is to describe and explain colloquial Spanish at its different levels of analysis on the basis of a basically oral corpus, obtained directly from spontaneous conversation and other types of discourse. The initial hypothesis of this research project, confirmed by the analyses carried out so far, was that the functioning of colloquial conversation could be explained, not as a transgression of orational grammar, but as a set of structures and strategies, pragmatically based, constituted in the process of interaction. In order to test this hypothesis, it was essential to have a representative corpus of conversations, transcribed by means of a system capable of representing the conversational events which were the object of our study. The elaboration of a representative corpus was considered as a preliminary to the analysis. Two compilation volumes of this corpus have already been published (Briz, coord., 1995 and Briz y grupo Val.Es.Co., 2002), versions 2.0 and 2.1 of the web, and version 3.0, developed in 2021. The work carried out over these years has led to the creation of the following lines of work:

Characterising the colloquial register

On the one hand, through the analysis and explanation of the linguistic aspects and communicative strategy that generally identify this register of speech (Briz, 1996 and 1998, Ruiz Gurillo 2006) and, on the other hand, with the more specific description of various linguistic phenomena, such as word order (Padilla, 2001), intonation (Hidalgo, 1997, 2002 and 2019; Cabedo 2006 and 2007), the relations between prosody and (dis)politeness (Hidalgo 2009:; Hidalgo (2013; Hidalgo and Cabedo 2014) story sequences (Baixauli, 2000, Briz 2016), phraseology (Ruiz Gurillo, 1997 and 1998), connection (Pons, 1998; Estellés 2006; Montañez 2015; Hidalgo 2015), intensification and attenuation (Briz, 1998, 2007 and 2017; Albelda, 2004 and 2007, Briz and Albelda 2013; Albelda et al. 2014; Estellés and Cabedo, 2017-2018), linguistic borrowing (Gómez Capuz, 1998), the presence of slang (Sanmartín, 1998b), everyday metaphors (Sanmartín, 2000), direct style (Benavent, 2016), suspended structures and other syntactic issues (Hidalgo and Pérez Giménez, 2004; Pérez Giménez, 2015; Briz, 2018), humour (Ruiz Gurillo 2012, 2019), irony (Ruiz Gurillo and Padilla Coord. 2009), segmentation of conversation into its units of analysis (Grupo Val.Es.Co. 2014, Pons Coord. 2014), substructural elements (Pascual 2020), experimental validation of research on markers (Salameh 2021), research on approximatives (Pardo 2021), etc.

From the present and towards the future

At the moment, the almost thirty people who, in one way or another, collaborate in our group, are organised around the following lines of work:

  1. Val.Es.Co. Corpus 3.0
    Version 3.0 of the Val.Es.Co. corpus adds to, and to some extent recasts, the previous versions. A new editing website has been built, a bijective correspondence has been established between the old transcription signs and the TEI tags that identify them, a new search system has been designed and, in addition, a reduced subcorpus, consisting of fifteen conversations, has been segmented into units and subunits following the theory of units developed by our group. It is thus demonstrated that the residue-free segmentation of colloquial conversation on the basis of pragmatic principles is possible (an answer, deferred in time, to the question posed by Antonio Narbona at the end of the seventies about "the syntax of spoken Spanish").
  2. Ameresco Corpus
    The objectives and working methods of our team have been extended to other research groups through the AMERESCO project, which has collected similar corpora of Spanish spoken in different cities of the Hispanic domain. It currently comprises more than 50 conversations from Spain (Valencia and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria), Mexico (Monterrey, Mexico City and Querétaro), Argentina (Buenos Aires and Tucumán), Cuba (Havana and Santiago), Colombia (Barranquilla and Medellín), Chile (Iquique, Santiago) and Panama. The samples are representative of sociolect socio-cultural level, age and gender.
  3. The Dictionary of Discursive Particles of Spanish (DPDE)
    Markers and particles are described in this collective work, developed over more than fifteen years, in which the leading specialists in the field in the Hispanic domain have collaborated. Its new version, developed over the last two years, has added an editing website, converted the initial format into a database and added information on the position and discourse units in which all the dictionary's markers appear. In this way, a uniform description of the interrelationship between the positions and functions of all Spanish markers is provided in a new way.
  4. Tecnolingüística, S.L.
    This company, which was born as a spin-off of the group's research activity, is today a private entity that makes the transfer of the knowledge generated within the group its hallmark. With clients such as the RAE, the Ministry of Justice, different Spanish and foreign universities and some of the most prestigious Spanish law firms, our company demonstrates that it is possible to develop an economically profitable activity by offering the results of the research produced in the university departments as commercial services. This work of transferring research aims to promote, by example, other business initiatives of former students and to make visible in society the need for expert advice on linguistic issues.
  5. The Val.Es.Co. model of conversational units
    Since its first version in 2003, this model has been extended with new units, new positions and, above all, a large number of developments which demonstrate its explanatory capacity: studies on the correlation between the functions of discourse markers and the position/unit binomial, applications to its diachronic evolution, its cognitive basis, the combination of markers, the study of direct style or approximatives are some of its ramifications.
  6. Studies on attenuation and evidentiality
    Much of the group's efforts have been devoted to the characterisation and development of the pragmatic category attenuation, as well as to the study of evidentiality in Spanish. The projects Es.Var.Atenuación and Es.Vag.Atenuación are a good example of this.
  7. Studies on the diachrony of the 20th century
    The 20th century is the first synchronic slice for which spoken registers exist. Such registers constitute invaluable material for the diachronic study of spoken Spanish. This opens up a field of work, still in its infancy, which poses methodological challenges and theoretical considerations, most of which have yet to be explored. And, undoubtedly, this means adding a new perspective to the study of colloquial Spanish.
Research Group on Valencian Autonomous Political Observatory - OPAVAL

This research group focuses its activity on the analysis of political reality, specifically of political parties, new social movements and interest groups, political elites, ministers, regional ministers, MPs, electoral systems, elections and electoral behaviour, political institutions, democracy and the quality of democracy. The group carries out different types of activities: from the organisation of research conferences and seminars, through the development of different types of training programmes, to the holding of debates (physical or virtual through social media), workshops, implementation of papers and working documents, development of research projects, and relations with other research groups and networks.

Research Group on analysis and demographic research on the Valencian population - DEMOVAL

The area of work of this group is demographic studies aimed at the Valencian population. This group investigates classic demographic phenomena such as birth rates, fertility, marriage and the formation and dissolution of unions, ageing, morbidity, reproduction and migrations with special interest in their evolution from the existence of the first modern demographic sources to the present day and including projections of future developments. These studies focus on the population located in the Valencian territory, looking to locate it in the territorial breakdowns that go from the census section, the smaller entities, the municipalities and the counties.

In addition, this group carries out research on life trajectories or life courses. The life course perspective is applied to study life processes such as, for example, emancipation, entry into adulthood, training and work episodes, maternity-paternity or retirement. The analysis of life course trajectories takes into account temporal dimensions such as age, generation and time, gender and social class, origin and language. The object of study is also specific populations whose socio-demographic characteristics and social importance in the structure and change of Valencian society require specific analyses. Specifically, populations in situations of social vulnerability from a multidimensional perspective.

The group combines the production of data on population through the design of demographic surveys, the cataloguing of existing secondary data on the Valencian population (registers and population stocks from survey data), the cultivation of statistical modelling techniques, the calculation of indicators, the collection of discourses on life events and trajectories.

Both for the information it collects and for the analysis it carries out, DEMOVAL provides the business fabric, the administration at all levels and the third sector with valuable knowledge of the demographic, cultural and social characteristics, forecasts, diagnoses, situation in the territory, etc., related to the Valencian population. With all this, DEMOVAL potentially represents a substantial improvement in market studies, public policies, and social actions and interventions.

Research Group on the Centre for the Study of Culture, Power and Identities - CECPI

The research centre studies culture in a broad sense and from a multidisciplinary perspective, incorporating contributions from sociology, anthropology, history and cultural studies. In particular, it would aim to analyse the relationships between cultural practices, power, identities and social change. The centre's research objectives are the following: 

  1. Analysis of culture, cultural practices and social change: study of the transformations of contemporary society from the perspective of the sociology of culture, the emergence of new creative practices, the cohort effect in the change of cultural practices, the emergence of new communities of cultural consumption and the expansion of these patterns towards other social spheres (artistisation) or the entry of logics from other fields into the cultural sphere (digitalisation, politicisation, etc.). 
  2. Analysis of sport and leisure practices: study of new patterns of sporting practice, the relationship between social change, social cohesion and sport, the relationship between institutions in the field of sport and the political and economic fields. Research on the transformation of urban space into a space of leisure and of cities as settings and producers of new social practices that reconfigure urban structures and their uses. 
  3. Analysis of power and intellectuals: Study of the relationship between power and culture as a mechanism of control and normalisation and hierarchisation or the dynamics of cultural resistance of old and new social movements. Research into the interrelationships and dependencies between the political, intellectual and cultural fields and their role in social reproduction and change. 
  4. Analysis of festive culture and cultural heritage: study of the development of festive culture, the social role of cultural traditions and the processes of modernisation of festive events in the context of cultural globalisation processes. Analysis of the processes of construction of a cultural memory and the valorisation of cultural heritage in terms of the construction of local and territorial identities, especially in contexts of cultural plurality. 
  5. Analysis of culture, territory and national identities: study of the relationship between national and cultural identities, cultural political configurations, sub-state politics and federalism, as well as their role in economic and social development and the generation of territorial brands in a globalised framework (place branding), applied especially to the Valencian country. 
  6. Analysis of political culture, historical memory and identities: Study of the relationship between the socio-historical framework and political culture. 
  7. Analysis of cultural policies, institutions and organisations: study of territorial and local cultural policies as systems of governance and interrelation between cultural agents and their role in the configuration of collective identities and as mechanisms for the development of artistic districts, the empowerment of sectors and the promotion of creative professions. Study of the discourses and praxis of public, private and third sector cultural institutions and, in particular, of museums and other entities representative of the autonomous field of culture. 
  8. Analysis of the impact of new technologies on culture: Study on new cultural practices in the digital framework. Study of the impact of new technologies on the mechanisms of power and social and cultural control.
Research Group on the Social and Cultural History of the Contemporary World - HISCUCON

The research group brings together the consolidated trajectory of researchers with decades of accumulated experience, as well as promoting the already outstanding training capacity of young researchers. The basic defining axis of this group's research is the application of the perspectives of social history and cultural history to the study of contemporary Spain. This area is approached, however, from a comparative perspective and with attention to transnational processes and phenomena, particularly in relation to Europe and Latin America. 

The research group aims to deepen the study of 19th and 20th century Spain by opening up new approaches that transcend the traditional compartmentalisation between political, social and cultural history and address in all its complexity both the transformations of contemporaneity and the study of historical subjects, both individual and collective, and their relationship with nation-states. The aim is to apply renewed perspectives to the study of the social transformations of the Spanish 19th century and their relationship with the emergence of the new institutions of the national state, to the analysis of the changes linked to the emergence of mass society in the transition from the 19th to the 20th century, and to the understanding of the changes and crises of the inter-war period, which open up the configuration of the societies of the second half of the 20th century. 

The study of these problems is based on the development of various analytical perspectives. Firstly, through the study of so-called political cultures, a concept that encompasses not only the analysis of political ideologies but also the social history of politics, forms of sociability and associated cultural practices. In this sense, the possibilities of its application to the study of the political cultures of nineteenth-century liberalism as well as the cultures linked to its questioning will be developed. For the twentieth century, the emergence of new democratic forms of mass politics and their questioning by reactionary nationalism and fascism will also be addressed. Secondly, based on a methodological approach that relates perspectives of social and economic history with the institutional analysis of politics and its cultural dimensions, the analysis of the formation of the Spanish nation-state from below will be developed. The aim is to establish a periodisation of the major stages of the relations between the national state and civil society in nineteenth-century Spain, including an analysis of the trajectory of the notion of the economic subject in the liberal public space and the discursive and political strategies with respect to individual rights and their practical realisation. The third axis is articulated around the study of individual and collective identities. On the one hand, the analytical potential of biographical history will be explored with the aim of providing a complex interpretation of experience, identity, subjectivity and representativeness, all understood as an opportunity for the joint renewal of historiography and conventional biography. It will also address the study of collective identities in 19th and 20th century Spain, paying special attention to the national dimension and the processes of construction of regional and local identities in interaction with the national framework, as well as the study of gender identities. Finally, the forms of construction of cultural representations by literary, cinematographic and artistic materials will be specifically studied, integrating them into the historical analysis. From the approaches of the most recent socio-cultural history, its role in the construction of political and social imaginaries will be addressed, as well as reflection on the relationship between history and fiction.

Research Group on the Unit for Rural Development and Evaluation of Public Policies - UDERVAL

The group works on the following lines of research:

  1. Social capital and territorial development: social networks, power elites and leadership in rural areas. In this line of research, the Social Media Analysis approach is used. This line of research is completed by the subject of crisis and resilience in local communities. 
  2. Policies and strategies for local and territorial development in rural areas: socioeconomic transformation processes, new activities, actors in territorial management and territorial development policies.
  3. Business network and socio-productive systems in rural and intermediate areas: culture and business networks, innovation processes, social media and, generally speaking, factors that contribute to social and territorial capital and to the social and economic transformation processes. 
  4. Public services in rural areas (education, health, social services, commercial activities, infrastructures, leisure, tourism and cultural facilities, etc.) as factors of demographic attraction, economic dynamization (incomes and labour market) and social cohesion. 
  5. Vulnerabilities, social exclusion and (new) poverty in rural areas as a result of the crisis and the Welfare State withdrawal (reduction and/or disappearance of the social benefits, privatization and/or deregulation of public services, etc.). 
  6. Social networks in the health field, with particular reference to rural areas. 
Social Economy, Cooperatives, Social Innovations and Public Policies Research Group - CONCORDIA

This research group develops theoretical and applied research articulated around three fields of study: private sector, social innovation and public policies. Although the research carried out focuses on economics, the projects and collaborations are interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary in nature. It collaborates regularly with scientific associations such as CIRIEC, with university research institutes such as IUDESCOOP, with public administrations such as the European Economic and Social Committee and the Spanish Ministry of Labour, and with business associations and social entities such as the Spanish Third Sector Platform, CEPES and Social Economy Europe.

It carries out five scientific and technical activities:

  1. Basic research based on the development of knowledge on Social Economy, Third Sector, Cooperativism, Social Enterprises, Common Good and Collaborative Economy. It contributes to the development of theoretical constructions that explain the logic of these private phenomena of a markedly social nature.
  2. Basic research on social innovation deployed from civil society and from territorial innovation and production systems. Special attention is given to territorial innovation systems based on cooperative unions, such as as the Mondragon group of cooperatives and the agricultural cooperative group Anecoop.
  3. Research on public socio-labour policies with a special focus on budgetary policies and those aimed at cooperatives and the third social sector. Economic policy measures, support structures, new regulatory measures linked to the deployment of social welfare services such as social clauses, social policy aimed at social, cultural and sport NGOs (associations and foundations) are analysed. Finally, policies aimed at cooperatives, worker-owned companies and other social entities such as Special Employment Centres and Insertion Companies are evaluated from an economic perspective. The comparison is made from a multi-level perspective (regional, state and EU).
  4. Research training of young researchers in social sciences and economics, through the official doctoral programme in social economy belonging to the research institute IUDESCOOP of the Universitat de València, in which the members of this group are particularly active, even assuming the coordination of the programme.  Collaboration with other young researchers from the rest of Spain and abroad by dynamising the REJIES network - of young researchers in social economy.
  5. Promotion of strategic resources linked to research in social economy, economics and social sciences, actively participating in the development of scientific journals in their edition/coordination, in the management of a documentation centre specialised in social economy and social sciences such as the CIDEC of the Universitat de València and in the systematised articulation of a network of inter-university research groups throughout Spain through the RedEnuies network, which includes 21 centres, company chairs and university institutes of each university.

The research and research advocacy activity of the members of this group has a history of more than 25 years.