Ageing and the promotion of personal autonomy. Reorientation of the tourism sector towards new consumers of products with special needs. Economic, environmental and social challenges of urban areas and their interrelationship, from an integrated and multidisciplinary approach.

The constitution of legal relations through the information society, telematic communications and the existence of conflicts whose agents operate exclusively in the digital sphere, requires that the means of protection of the subjects involved in this conflict be adapted to the same.

Study of the relationship between the socio-historical framework, historical memory and political culture.

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.

Study of the development of festive culture, the social role of cultural traditions and the processes of modernisation of festive events within the framework of the processes of cultural globalisation. Analysis of the processes of construction of cultural memory and cultural heritage.

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 field.

The most recent econometric methods to analise the economic theories of industrial organisation are applied in this area.

Audiovisual coeducation, gender, semiotics and cultural studies. Critical analysis of audiovisual culture and its coeducational dimension. Meaning and codification of gender in audiovisual discourses. Media interpellation: processes of identification and subjectivation.

Methodological developments and applications for the measurement of non-response in surveys and for the correction of their effects, especially the biases that can be introduced in the inferential process.

Care for people in situations of fragility and dependence. Bioethics in Paediatrics. Attitude towards children with functional diversity. Care of the elderly. Mental health. Suffering of patients and relatives at the end of life. Palliative care. Advance directives.

The analysis of biographical events and life trajectories from micro- and macro-analytical perspectives has as its areas of study education, emancipation, integration into the labour market, the formation and dissolution of unions, motherhood and fatherhood, family changes, gender gaps throughout life and in the private and public spheres, life episodes during old age.

The purpose of the economy and of business is to satisfy human needs with quality and justice. Business ethics understands that its responsibilities are not merely economic or legal, but also social and environmental.

Compilation of demographic data sources prior to the digitisation of current censuses and registers, production of socio-demographic data on the Valencian population and elaboration of demographic, resilience, social vulnerability and health indicators.

Analysis of the role of practices, methods and techniques in the field of social intervention in the production of identities and sexualities.

Research and innovation in literature aimed at the model reader, which is to be found in pre-school, primary and secondary education.

Analysis of the components of population dynamics such as birth rate, fertility, morbidity, infant mortality, adult mortality, mortality shocks, migration, and population structure.

Colloquial intonation, phonopragmatics: Spanish prosody and its role in the functioning of the language.

Social involvement processes should result in the self-development of these communities that have been subjects of training, monitoring and planning. The self-development methodology has proven to be a positive strategy to cement social change in the municipalities with high rates of poverty, vulnerability and social exclusion.Involvement, self-development, strategic planning, social change.

Social Services are part of public policies for local development because they facilitate the social inclusion of groups with subjective difficulties in integrating into the labour market. Active employment policies aimed at the population at risk of social exclusion are the target population of this line.Local development, community-based social services, inclusion of vulnerable groups, active employment policiesLocal development, community-based social services, inclusion of vulnerable groups, active employment policies

Comparison with democratic processes in Southern Europe and the United States.

Identification and policy development of the values pursued by the UN. Legal protection (at an international, European and national level) of these values. Identification and policy development of the values pursued by the European Union. Legal protection (at an European and national level) of these values.

In the last decades there has been a noticeable increase in the conceptual and methodological resources available to the scientist. Among those that are more widely applied it is worth mentioning the algorithms on model selection, Bayesian statistics, causal inference strategies from probabilities/frequencies, computer simulation, or the articulation of mechanistic models. 

The general aim of this line of research is to revisit the epistemological questions traditionally addressed by the philosophy of science (experimentation, confirmation, explanation, realism/anti-realism, objectivity & values,…) in the light of recent resources available to scientific practitioners. 

The group also studies contrastive linguistics and its application to translation at a lexical-semantic and pragmatic-discursive level between majority languages, e.g. Peninsular Spanish and English, in specialised fields such as health sciencies as well as in other academic and professional contexts.

Recording, transcription, elaboration, labelling and study of linguistic databases for the study of language.

Critical analysis of the legislative model aimed at combating the dangerousness of the offender by means of security measures and innocuous strategies that are cumulative to punishment and that disregard the limits of the criminal law of guilt.

Study and critical assessment from a multidisciplinary perspective of the introduction into the criminal justice system of alternative mechanisms for conflict resolution derived from restorative justice.

Scrutiny of modern political emblems and reflection on their genealogy and their conjunctural, epochal, disciplinary and ideological dependence.

Critical analysis of current trends towards the consolidation of a criminal law of authorship in various areas of criminal policy and its tension with fundamental rights, with special attention to the relationship between criminology and criminal law, and the introduction of algorithms and artificial intelligence in criminal decision-making on individuals.

Analysis of the mechanisms of taxation on incoming and outgoing products and services.

Article 24 of the Spanish Consitution is the article most frequently invoked in constitutional appeals, which contains the most important list of fundamental rights of a procedural nature in our legal system, and a study that updates its complex content in the light of case law is essential.

Relationship between democracy and anarchism in 20th century Spain.

To test whether, as some sectors of these political cultures argued, without gender equality a full transition to democracy was possible.

Relations between legality and legitimacy in the framework of democratic constitutions.

The aim of this line is to work together with educational centres to design, implement and evaluate innovative and effective educational interventions, and to establish processes to ensure their loyalty. The aim is to pay special attention to the contents of education for health and back health using socio-ecological educational models.

This line aims to provide valid and reliable instruments for measuring knowledge, habits and attitudes applicable to formal educational contexts based on the most evolved educational theories in order to provide solid ways of collecting evidence and assessing learning.

Impact of the concept of sustainable development on the various sectors of international law (international economic law, international environmental law, international human rights law, etc.). International and European conceptual and normative developments.

Protection of the worker’s health and personal sphere outside the workplace.

Impact of digitalisation on political groups: digital transformation of the organisation (digital platforms, financing, decision-making, programme development, integration of members); changes in the forms of communication and representation; adaptation of the forms of digital participation of members, changes in the forms of representation based on digital tools.

One of the challenges currently facing education at all levels is how to deal with ethnic, cultural, linguistic, affective-sexual (...) diversity in our classrooms and how to do so with some signs of success. The line of research tries to do it from the literary training.

Discovery of individual behaviours from aggregated information.

To explore the potential of the use of multimodal narration (visual-lexical-sound...) through the illustrated album as an innovative pedagogical resource in the field of art museums and in different regulated and non-regulated educational spaces (schools, art galleries, foundations, organisations...).

Quantitative analysis of factors determinative of elite and citizen votes in the national elections of their corresponding countries.

This line of research explores a series of discourses of special philosophical significance (such as the ones about states of affairs, material objects, mental and representational states, or evaluative judgments) in order to determine whether it is possible to coherently defend the view that the world as it is in itself, independently of us, does not contain the facts or properties presupposed in them. We focus, in particular, on the evaluation of three strategies that deny that the relevant discourses are true: eliminativism, fictionalism and expressivism.

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.

Study of the current situation of women's rights from a gender perspective: formal and material equality in the exercise of rights; integration of equality with difference; analysis of the co-responsibility model; debates around gender identity.

Ethics tries to clarify what morality is, how it is founded and how ethical principles are applied to everyday life. Political philosophy asks about political obligation, drawing on concepts such as power, authority, legitimacy, consent and mutual recognition.

Humour as the basis of a new ethical theory applicable to professions, organisations and citizenship. The ethics of humour applied to the health field. Philosophy of humour. Good humour. Intercultural humour. Style of humour and autonomy in decision-making at the end of life.

Analysis and assessment of the European security and defence policies, such as military and civil operations, geopolitics, the Global Strategy in security and defence of the European Union, regional strategies for the Mediterranean, Sahel missions, counter terrorist struggle of the EU in Sahel.

Study of the configuration of Spanish fascism, the Franco regime and the political cultures of the opposition to the dictatorship.

The limits that governments have in introducing measures to protect national security will be addressed. These measures are limited by fundamental rights.

Women and the labour market. Socio-economic situation of women. Equality policies. Labour insertion and unpaid work. Wage gap, labour segregation and glass ceiling. Co-responsibility. Budgets with a gender perspective. Gender, social sustainability and ICTs.

Study and assessment of the legal mechanisms aimed at combating gender-based violence introduced by the different criminal reforms carried out in recent years in this area, with special attention to LO 1/2004 on comprehensive protection.

Proposal of a psychobiological model of General Personality Factor (GPF). Creation of an instrument for measuring the GPF.

Study and analysis of today's global threats, from cybercrime, immigration, climate change, terrorism, transnational organised crime, disinformation, intelligence services...

Ethics in the health professions. Shared decision-making with the patient. Violence in the consultation room. Consultation time. Errors. Informed consent. Capacity. Confidentiality. Quality of life. Ethics of family therapy and mediation. Accountability. Ethics in research.

All types of health technology evaluation, taking into account the broad concept of health technology ranging from medicines and procedures to health technology and techniques.

Research on the transformation of legal and political structures over time; from the formation of the medieval peninsular kingdoms to the Spanish constitutionalism of the 20th century.

The ethics of human development understands development as a process that takes into account the unfolding of human capabilities of the entire population, the equitable distribution of socially produced wealth and respect for ecological balance.

The main challenge of law is the defence of the human being against the uncontrolled power of technology in various fields: ecology vs. anthropocene; finance vs. speculation and tax fraud; bio-law vs. transhumanism; the right to privacy and non-manipulation vs. GAF (Google, Amazon and Facebook)

To investigate illustrated albums, comics, graphic novels, audiovisual and film discourse as fundamental tools for the reading, literary, linguistic and media training of the new generations..

Analysis and evolution of the level of citizen and elite trust towards State institutions particularly in economic crisis situations.

The creation of legal relations in a standardised way, which is in turn a consequence of mass industrial production, generates conflicts in relation to a multiplicity of people who are affected by a common cause. The civil justice system must articulate mechanisms that allow it to provide legal protection to the citizen without undermining due process, while optimising the resources available to it to respond to this mass litigation.

The main goal of this line of research is to explore, from the perspective of Wittgensteinian philosophy, the question of what counts as intercultural understanding, by shedding light on the relation between its epistemic, ethical, anthropological and political aspects.

Cooperation for the improvement of human development rates and social cohesion. Methodologies for carrying out participative citizen diagnoses, their systematisation and the elaboration of public policies from the citizen's proposal. Analysis of Social Security Systems.Cooperación para la mejora de los índices de desarrollo humano y la cohesión social. Metodologías para la realización de diagnósticos ciudadanos participativos, su sistematización y la elaboración de políticas públicas desde la propuesta ciudadana. Análisis de los Sistemas de Seguridad Social.

Analysis and assessment of security policies, such as military and civil operations, geopolitics, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, economic sanctions.

Research on the intersectionalities between LGTBIQ+ diversity and other factors such as social class, exclusion, gender, ethnicity, culture, migration and functional diversity. This line of work addresses the complexity of bodies and lives from an intersectional point of view; that is, from the idea that we are traversed by different identities that shape and define us, and from the importance of this issue when addressing diversity in the classroom.

The group approaches language variation from different perspectives that integrate the multiple variables that interact in current communication. The predominant approach is the pragma-semantic variationist one, highlighting the interpersonal and multimodal versatility of communication and its influence on social, professional and educational transformations. In a pioneering way, the team approaches variation in all fields of applied linguistics from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Legal and criminological analysis of the problem, with a special focus on crimes of sexual assault and abuse, as well as crimes related to child pornography.

Phraseological units and idiomatic expressions from the lexicon and the incorporation of newly created words into the Spanish lexicon.

Estudi de les aplicacions de la lingüística a l'avaluació i el tractament de les patologies del llenguatge. Contribució al disseny d'instruments per a l'avaluació i rehabilitació de conducta verbal i les capacitats comunicatives generals en subjectes amb alteració patològica.

Mathematical modelling of electroencephalographic (EEG) brain activity in relation to drug effects and from the paradigm of individual differences.

Study and analysis of forced mobility flows, for reasons of work or study, using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), to help decision making in territorial planning, from a socioeconomic perspective, and the provision of and access to services and facilities. Study of the transport flows of people and goods from a perspective of multiscale analysis of networks as a determining element of urban hierarchy and regional development.

The purpose of this line is to investigate educational processes in relation to musical performance, improvisation and creation, in particular the types and processes of memory involved in performance and improvisation, study strategies, stage fright, motivation, the role of ways of presenting information, differences between formally trained musicians and non-formally trained musicians (self-control, self-esteem, discipline, trainable skills such as the number and size of saccades or saccadic movements through eye-tracking, etc.).

Study of the construction of national and regional identities in Spain and Europe.

Neuroscience ethics develops an ethical framework for regulating conduct in neuroscientific research. The neuroscience of ethics refers to the impact of neuroscientific knowledge on our understanding of ethics itself. Neuropolitics analyses the brains of voters.

To analyse the characteristics of the multimodal mind in the 21st century and the need to establish new coordinates of cohesion and develop new forms of discourse and narrative.

Applied research, dissemination and training on changes in labour law and social protection.

It investigates the processes of formation of the climate and culture of the organisations, as well as the effects of the climate and culture on the functioning, results, and quality of working life of the organisations and their units.

Critical examination, based on various legislative models of comparative law, of the main features that characterise contemporary criminal policy in the light of the latest reforms and, in particular, of the so-called criminal law of the enemy and of public safety.

During the 20th century, communitarian personalism, a philosophical horizon and a movement for action, has made a valuable contribution to the development of this tradition of humanism and to the process of building European political unity in recognition of diversity and respect for human rights.

Analysis of the different models, structures and governance of universities in both international and national contexts, specifically in the study of university funding policies, management and allocation of resources, and policies on access to higher education.

This line of research will focus primarily on contemporary challenges to the liberal democratic model, analysing essential values such as justice, freedom, human rights and addressing issues such as political participation, contemporary theories of justice.

Political and institutional systems: governments, parliaments, autonomous communities, judiciary, constitutional court.

It focuses on the impact of policies on countries' development.

Pedagogical relations in contexts of social and educational exclusion (poverty, ghettoisation, ethnic minorities). Analysis of policies to combat failure and early school leaving. Curricular justice and educational equity. Childhood and RECE.

Linguistic and paralinguistic mechanisms for expressing (dis)politeness in Spanish; delimitation of the concept of linguistic intensification and study of the linguistic mechanisms that make it up, and delimitation of the concepts of irony and humour as linguistic phenomena. History of Spanish language.

This line of research will deal with complementary means -mediation, arbitration and conciliation-, from a strictly procedural perspective. Firstly, it will analyse their compatibility with the right to judicial protection, their inclusion in the different processes and their impact on them.

Enquiry into the characteristics of musical learning processes in non-formal education contexts, mainly in music schools, band students and amateur training in general (cognitive strategies, study strategies, intrinsic-extrinsic motivation, self-regulation, and other constructs).

Application of psychological intervention techniques (self-regulation therapy) to modify personality and drug management.

To analyse in what ways left-wing political cultures have or have not collaborated in the dissemination of Spanish national identity, creating new referents and/or adapting pre-existing ones.

Study and transfer of results on the social relations between law, religion and politics.

Research on techniques and methods of analysis based on statistical data as well as discursive and textual data.

Analysis of the role of universities in the next current technological context, challenges, perspectives and trends. Roles in the dissemination of knowledge. Policies and strategies for building open science, new paradigms and tools.

Public services in rural areas (education, health, social services, commercial activity, infrastructures, leisure, tourism and cultural facilities, etc.) as factors of demographic attraction, economic dynamization (incomes and labour market) and social cohesion. 

Adequacy in terms of coverage and intensity of the benefits of the social protection system and identification of its deficiencies (unemployment benefits, contributory and welfare benefits, minimum income for inclusion as well as social action and social assistance measures).

Theorisation on models of social innovation, the processes of exaptation and institutionalisation of social innovations, the relationship between social innovation and social movements, territorial innovation systems and their social innovation processes deployed in the territory.

Methodological developments and applications for active listening on the Internet, favouring the identification of feelings and authors to convert the huge flows of data and opinions into information.

Spoken language in ELE (Spanish as a foreign language): the oral-colloquial applied to the teaching of Spanish as a foreign and second language. Tools for the application and development of technology for the study of the spoken Spanish language.

LGTBQI+ studies and their link to the educational world, Queer and Crip theories and their educational implications, the changes of recent years and the latest research on these issues in the international academic spehere. It is also interested in the changes brought about by equality laws and their consequences in schools, and in the ideas and beliefs of teachers and university students about diversity in the classroom.

Research is carried out on the instruments of legislative quality as a mechanism to improve legal certainty and thus enhance democratic quality, especially in the field of private law.

Analysis and preparation of opinion surveys and polls.

The socio-technical processes applied to the sustainability of integrated social and health systems are investigated, based on the principles of user satisfaction and system efficiency.

This line involves different lines of work:

• research on the effectiveness of modes of presentation in uni- bi- and multimodal music information systems in music teaching and learning processes using technological mediators and digital objects;
• design of learning materials through the use of digital learning objects;
• design of music learning software.

Municipal public policies require a territorial analysis to be able to implement plans, programmes and projects adapted to the emerging priority needs for citizens. The participatory action research methodology has been identified as strategic to provide a solution to this type of policy and relevant results have been produced in this regard.

The constructivist paradigm is gaining ground among qualitative researchers and new methodologies such as the narrative are opening up for research in local communities. Especially on problems that are not usually visible and that, through the recognition of the strategy of the citizens’ involvement in the solution of them, it is possible to plan processes of social change that recognize the need to generate public policies of community development.

Electoral regulations, parity, political parties. Study on the behaviour of political parties in the design of electoral lists. Positions held by women in politics, parties and institutions.

Knowledge of the theories of justice defended throughout history allows us to design an idea of universalist justice that is appropriate to our times, to achieve peaceful coexistence between members of different cultures and traditions, and to confront the phenomenon of globalisation.

Study of the relationships among the characteristics and processes of the top management teams and the adoption of different strategic options in organizations.

This line is related to the investigation of the ways in which teachers in initial teacher training construct meanings in relation to music. If these ways of meaning music are known, the processes of construction of musical knowledge (procedural and declarative) can also be known, and contributions can be made to the knowledge of initial and continuous teacher training, as well as to the training processes from pedagogy and didactics.

Turancy, the unjustified and repeated absence from school of children of compulsory school age, is and educational and social problem. Little studied, focused on certain scools and neighbourhoods, its analysis and study allows us to improve the application of the right to education.

Study of cities in their relation with other cities and with the rest of the territory. Their specialised functions and global relations are analysed, as well as their provision of public and private services and their appropriate planning by means of Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

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.). This line of research is based on the application of the social networks approach to the health field, with particular reference to rural areas. 

Research is conducted on: the improvement of the quality of life of people with disabilities (intellectual, brain damage, illness, autism spectrum disorders, attention deficit and hyperactivity), the educational response to their special needs, and on the psychosocial impact on families.