The READit research group is interested in the study of the neurobiological, cognitive and behavioural foundations of reading. The methodological focus is experimental psychology and the collection of electrophysiological (EEG) and eye movement measurements as correlates of reading behaviour at different levels: decoding, syntactic processing and comprehension. Under these parameters, different lines of research are articulated, dedicated to the study of reading acquisition in children with typical and atypical development, lexical access in different languages or research applied to everyday life activities, such as the comprehension of digital texts in adolescents or the reading of traffic signs while driving a vehicle.

READit seeks to relate its findings to current models of reading, reading literacy instruction and intervention in developmental disorders or psychopathologies that affect reading.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Art History Studies of the Contemporary World: Image and Representation; Space and Memory; Visibility and Modernity. 

The first axis investigates aspects related to individual, collective and serial human representation, as well as the importance of artistic literature. 

In the second, artistic circumstances are dealt with from a spatio-temporal perspective, the democratisation of public space, the construction of the modern city, the birth and influence of spaces of artistic and cultural sociability, as well as the foreign gaze of foreign travellers. 

And finally, the last axis explores the role of art institutions, official guidelines, the relevance of the female presence in the fine arts, the discovery of artistic manifestations by the public, art as collective memory (collections and museums) and the art-science relationship.

Improvements in health care during the 20th century, as well as in living conditions and quality of life, have led to a dramatic increase in life expectancy, among other things. This, together with the drastic drop in the birth rate, is leading to an ageing population. As a result, the elderly population segments are the fastest growing, and something that is becoming an indisputable reality is that we are heading towards an ageing population. This is why it seems necessary to discuss what kind of problems and challenges are faced by the elderly and what are their solutions.

In this way, we present a research group, focused on the analysis of cognitive and emotional aspects as well as on the intervention and development of the elderly, being able to distinguish two main lines of work, one focused on the aspects of so-called normal ageing and another line oriented towards aspects related to the cognitive pathologies associated with ageing, mainly mild cognitive impairment, dementia of the Alzheimer's type and other dementias and Parkinson's disease.

The first of the lines aims to analyse the basic processes of psychological ageing by studying aspects related to cognitive development such as cognitive reserve and brain plasticity, and in the social area, the type of relationships established in ageing and the changes and evolution of these relationships. Finally, in relation to emotions, the aim is to analyse the importance of emotion regulation as a basis for behavioural development and correct adaptation.

The second line, under an experimental methodology, is applying assessment systems for the detection of possible cognitive changes, as well as possible deterioration, by means of cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses. In addition, this line offers novel cognitive interventions based on cognitive stimulation, reminiscence therapy and the application of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). As a result of the verification of the efficacy of these interventions, various contracts have been signed with companies for the application of the same in patients with varying degrees of deterioration.

The research group participates in various master's degrees in the Faculty of Psychology and in the area of Health Sciences. The team's greatest participation is in the master's degree in Psychogerontology, where subjects related to cognitive ageing are taught, both in the normal population and in the elderly with dementia, as well as subjects related to social intervention. In addition, there is an important participation in the direction of Master's final projects. It also participates in the University Masters in General Health Psychology and in Psychological Intervention in Social Areas.

In relation to doctoral studies, the research team is fully integrated in the PhD in Psychogerontology: Life Cycle Perspective, where the line of Development and Optimal Ageing and Cognition is directed, from which there is an important production of doctoral theses.

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.

The audiovisual sector is immersed in a time of profound changes and transformations that are affecting technology, regulation, content and consumption. Within this process, television is undoubtedly the medium that is being most altered, to the point that at this point there are reasonable doubts as to whether it will be able to maintain its traditional position of privilege. This does not mean that the main players in the television system are resigned to the new situation. On the contrary, they are reacting and trying to adapt to a new situation in which economic and social conditions will never be the same as before.

Fundamentally, these changes are causing an exponential growth in the television offer. If we take the Spanish State as a reference, these changes have become more evident since the definitive implementation of Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) in 2010. At that date, the offer went from an offer centred on 7 or 8 free-to-air channels (depending on the territory) to being able to choose from almost 60, once all the channels had been activated. To the resulting figure, however, we must add the existing cable, satellite, ADSL, as well as the so-called "new screens", in reference to television via mobile phones or the network itself via IP. In short, an enormously competitive panorama, with multiple supports, which is changing audiovisual consumption. In this sense, the fragmentation of audiences is an obvious fact. Measured figures since 2008 have shown the progressive loss of audience share of the generalist channels, which are now struggling to achieve a 15% audience share, while years ago they were far exceeding these results. A trend that seems to have no brake if we pay attention to the constant migration of the younger population towards alternative screens (Internet, videogames, mobiles).

Despite the palpable increase in the offer, which is much more specialised and diversified, general national channels and regional and local television still account for the majority of television consumption. These data may be an indicator of how society perceives change and how these changes are slower than some would like. It is difficult to believe, therefore, that people will abandon the television set as the main distributor of audiovisual information and entertainment content in the medium or short term. What is more, since 2007, which was the record year for television consumption in Spain, with an average of 223 minutes per person, or, in other words, each person spending 3.7 hours a day in front of the television, television consumption, although on a downward trend, has stabilised. This data suggests that an increase in supply does not necessarily mean a decrease in television consumption, but rather that this circumstance is having the opposite effect.

This raises many questions about the future role of television, especially if it is considered a public service like any other. This would mean maintaining audiovisual content that is free and accessible to all, of proven quality, financially transparent and ideologically pluralistic, with particular attention to the cultural and linguistic diversity of the inhabitants living in its area of coverage. These areas of interest are the focus of the reflections of the CONTD (Contenidos para la Televisión Digital) Research Group at the Universitat de València, of which we form part, and which form the central part of the CONTD Conferences (www.uv.es/contd) that have been held here for the last VI editions. The aim of these meetings is, together with other researchers and professionals, to debate the future of the audiovisual sector and to share these concerns with the university community and society as a whole.

Our group has a long research history of 11 years, from our first national project BJU2003-07935 Contractual development of franchising networks, funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology, to the current CELDEFCOM Licit business coordination in competition law of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and PROMETEU/ 2015/019/FASEII Business networks and competition law of the Consellería de Educació Generalitat Valenciana. During this period we have obtained and developed a total of five national projects, two Prometeo projects, two contracts with the European Commission for the training of national judges in European competition law and we have also participated in two European research projects or contracts Inter-firm networks in the wine industry in Europe, VI Framework Programme, European Commission, led by Fabrizio Caffaggi (European University Institute), and 'Study on the legal framework covering business-to-business unfair trading practices in the retail supply chain' Tender MARKT/2012/049/E, DG-V OF THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN UNION.

The main focus of our group is, on the one hand, the legal analysis of business collaboration from a multi-faceted perspective, covering contract law - distribution, agency or franchise contracts -, company law - economic interest groupings, joint ventures, clusters or so-called coordination groups -, intellectual property rights - technology transfer or software licensing -, insolvency law - insolvency of a franchisee or car manufacturer and effects on its network of subcontractors or dealers - and competition law - legal framework for business cooperation, cumulative network effects in block exemption regulations, taking into account business networks in merger cases -.

During these years we have published a total of eight collective books, in addition to the six monographs by members of the group, and more than two hundred articles in national and international journals, not to mention the countless commentaries on European and national judgments, as well as the participation of our members in university activities of the EUIPO and the EIPTN. We have also organised a total of 23 national congresses or symposiums, as well as organising countless cycles of conferences and courses with the participation of speakers from other Spanish and foreign universities.

The members of our group have also been regularly invited by other European and American Universities and research groups, as well as having been speakers at more than one hundred conferences and symposia held in other Universities, Institutions or research centres and professional or business forums in our country or abroad.

Our members have spent several stays in prestigious foreign scientific institutions such as the European University Institute of Florence, the Max Planck Institute of Munich and Hamburg, the London School of Economics, Harvard University, Oxford University, the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, the Humbolt University of Berlin, Trinity College of Dublin, or the Università degli Studi di Firenze. Two of our members have received scholarships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. During this period, we have also read six doctoral theses supervised by members of our group.

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.

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.

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 on Critical Theory in social sciences and humanities. Research and translations are carried out on authors related to the Research Institute of the University of Frankfurt, home of the so-called Critical Theory in philosophy and sociology, such as: T. W. Adorno, W. Benjamin, J. Habermas, A. Honneth, S. Kracauer, etc., as well as its sources in the philosophy of Hegel and Marx. This research is applied to philosophical (aesthetics, philosophy of law, history of philosophy, theory of the arts) and sociological (sociological discourse analysis, discrimination, sociological theory) fields. 

The research group collaborates with the social science doctoral lines on social pathologies, pathologies of reason and social and sociological theory.

CREARI Research group on cultural pedagogies is dedicated to the study of cultural synergies and educational actions, incorporating advances in digital technologies and visual culture. We are interested in analysing and improving the conditions of the different audiences both in artistic manifestations and in the rest of heritage realities. We are involved in arts education in both formal and non-formal education settings, with a special focus on museums and heritage environments. We consider it essential to get involved in the training of educators, taking into account the new digital settings, prioritising the criteria of cooperation and making room for new educational models. We incorporate members of different backgrounds into the group, considering that interdisciplinarity is a fundamental aspect of our research idea. We have specialised in teacher training at all educational levels, favouring the integration of the teaching staff as a cultural element of prime importance. Our group is composed of a number of people linked to educational and research institutions, people interested in the promotion, development and innovation of educational projects in the field of museums, visual arts, music and contemporary culture. We want to generate international projects, particularly cooperation projects, both in Latin America and in Europe.

Research group on Curriculum, Resources and Educational Institutions (CRIE) already has a long history. It was established in 1991 within the Department of Education and School Management of the Universitat de València, with a group of lecturers from several universities. Over the years its objective remained unchanged: explore the policies and practices articulated in education systems, schools and classrooms. 

As members of the group, with specific academic interests, we share the motivation to advance in the knowledge of how new ways of becoming active subjects of citizenship, capable of actively moving through a plural world, apparently without borders, are being developed in the classroom. Along the way, we have been dealing with such complex objects of analysis as: reforms, teaching innovation, curriculum planning, evaluation, teaching aids, comprehensiveness, school leadership, organisation, participation, citizenship, diversity, technologies, etc. However, back then and now, the production of knowledge by participating in research projects does not meet the expectations of those of us who are part of CRIE. We want to socialise our achievements by training students interested in our lines of work; in fact, some of them are already active members of the group as interns, doctoral students or even PhDs. The presence of the research group in society is reflected in the publication of our work, our participation in forums and all kinds of events, as well as in institutions that invite us. We assume these aims with our enthusiasm, the energy of new members and renewing the website as a gathering place for those who share our interests and motivations.

The Research Unit on Design and Analysis in Applied Psychology / REsearch MEthods and design in applied psychology (REME) is a research unit directed by Professor Dolores Frías Navarro. This research unit was founded in 1994 as a research unit within the Department of Methodology of Behavioural Sciences at the Universitat de València, and has been present since 1997 on the website https://www.uv.es/friasnav/unidinves.html. The work carried out within the REME research unit is oriented towards the development, improvement and evaluation of quantitative methods and, in particular, research design issues and statistical analyses related to the field of applied psychology research are analysed together with the reflection and study of the essential elements for the psychology professional to approach their work from the perspective of Evidence-Based Practice.

Specific research areas refer to the study of statistical education and re-education, statistical cognition, causal inference, research design sensitivity and statistical conclusion validity, systematic reviews and meta-analysis (meta-analysis and network meta-analysis), meta-research and the development of new measurement tools to help the understanding of new social realities linked mainly to stereotypes and discrimination towards minority groups and human mobility issues (such as migration, human mobility, sexual diversity, same-sex parent families, internalised homophobia, micro-aggressions towards minority groups).

The Research Unit has been the cohesive element of the research team members who have participated in various research projects funded by the Ministry of Education and the Universitat de València.

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.

DIGIMK.COM as a research group of the UVEG, develops activities in line with methodological innovation and thematic study in digital marketing with special emphasis on communication, trying to make a contribution to the theoretical body of marketing. 

The work of the group discover new research gaps motivated by the growing process of digitization of marketing and communication, the empowerment of consumers in marketing communications, under the so-called User Generated Content, UGC, and information processing in the new environment, which configures its main lines of research. The priority sectors of analysis are related to tourism and mass consumption.

The experience of DIGIMK. COM as a research group of the UVEG, develops its consolidation as a team, is supported by the participation of its members in various R & D projects funded in public calls and R & D contracts of particular relevance with companies and / or administrations, The quality of research and the importance of the results of the group, is evidenced by its many contributions to conferences (over 200) and research that has been published in international journals, many of them included in the JCR, in ISI databases, in the SJR or in databases such as ABI INFORM, EMERALD Reviews.

The coordinator of the group is Dr. Bigne, University Professor with 4 six-year periods awarded by the CNEAI and has led several projects on digital communications in social media, one of them from the National R&D Plan (2015-2017), has supervised 20 doctoral theses and 90 indexed publications and 120 publications in national and international conferences. He is editor of two journals, European Journal of Management and Business Economics and Revista de Análisis Turístico. He is a member of a dozen journal editorial boards.

The group is made up of teachers and researchers who have been jointly developing various projects aimed at studying the regulation of different sectors of economic activity, understood in a broad sense. The origin of these projects, generally from public law, focuses the work on the regulation produced by the existence of public interests, from the defence of competition in the market itself to the protection of other values (environmental, cultural, educational, social, pluralism, equality, persecution...), which justifies an intense legal intervention that goes far beyond what is usual in markets and sectors where these elements do not appear with such intensity.

To date, the most relevant activities of the research group are those developed around the work carried out in the context of various projects financed in competitive public calls for proposals or in preparation. These have dealt with issues related to the regulation of audiovisual markets, the regulation of certain cultural markets or the new regulatory challenges that appear with the emergence of business models based on the sharing economy.

The research develops within the framework of the evolution of human rights, particularly in the processes of implementation of economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR or social rights).

The research lines converge in two dimensions, the effectiveness and enforceability of these rights. In terms of effectiveness, the objectives of the research focus on determining the rights’ contents, the obligations they generate, the entitlement of rights, and the criteria for their interpretation and application. The enforceability dimension includes obligations related to compliance by duty-bearers and rights-holders, multilevel institutional mechanisms for the enforcement of normative, judicial and quasi-judicial rights, as well as access to justice. The approach to the principle of equality and non-discrimination and the gender perspective must be considered transversally to the dimensions of the effectiveness and enforceability of ESCR.

We are a multidisciplinary study and research group in the field of education at the Universitat de València. Although we carry out research on different topics, we have in common a critical and post-critical epistemological view of education. Taking these elements as a starting point, we have been moving towards a commitment to a different way of understanding research, clearly linked to social transformation. Cooperation, the exchange of scripts and proposals and the dialogic circle are the strategies that accompany us.

Our lines of research are directed towards the initial and ongoing training of educators in various socio-educational contexts. Narrative research, experience and the educational relationship are our tools for advancing research in the fields of education, knowledge and emancipation.

Academic production should free itself from an unhealthy individualistic tradition, therefore, we are committed to the creation of spaces in which to enable curating, reflection and collective creation. In this sense, the group reflects a diversity of situations and stages in research. Some of the members of the group have already defended their theses and others are in the process of writing them.

The coordination of the group is based, in particular, on defining the problems and difficulties in educational research.

This project analyses the linguistic mechanisms of persuasion in both English and Spanish and in verbal and non-verbal language. To this end, a review of the different linguistic (pragmatico-discursive) theories on persuasion, argumentation and rhetoric is carried out and different samples of business/institutional discourse are analysed to discover mechanisms of persuasion in each of the two languages. 

The results can demonstrate differences in the different mechanisms used in English and Spanish, which are therefore specific to each language, but also mechanisms that are comparable. These results will be basic to design ad hoc materials for the training plan of two different levels (ESO and University).

Since 2006, the EDIFICA group (Evaluation and dissemination of science, promotion of knowledge of research methodologies and academic communication) has been developing different lines of research, including the performance of scientometric and bibliometric studies for the evaluation of research, as well as the development of materials based on e-learning, with the aim of providing a reference framework to enhance knowledge of research methodologies and written and oral communication skills in the academic environment.

The EDIFICA group has developed an outstanding activity in relation to these lines of research, with the publication of numerous works that analyse the production, collaboration or impact of research activity at analytical levels (authors, institutions, disciplines or countries). Likewise, since 2012, different projects have been launched to deepen the knowledge of the phenomenon of scientific collaboration in order to better understand this phenomenon and provide relevant information to both institutions and researchers in order to enhance and manage cooperative practices; and in relation to the development of materials based on e-learning, in order to provide a complementary reference framework to the tutoring process for the development of the final degree project as well as in the development and collection of resources to enhance the skills of written and oral communication in the academic environment.

Likewise, the EDIFICA group has been characterised over the last few years by an outstanding activity of dissemination of Valencian cultural heritage, participating in exhibitions, conferences and through different informative publications, particularly of its native sport par excellence, Valencian pilota. The development of control indicators to identify unethical practices in research activities is the group's most innovative line of work.

The overall objective of the research is to develop and apply methodologies that improve and facilitate decision-making for both financial professionals and regulators. It also extends to the analysis and management of climate change risks based on the fundamentals of financial theory, applying quantitative finance techniques to energy commodity price series quoted in international financial markets (spot and forward).

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.

This Research Group focuses on the analysis of the strategic decision-making process and human resources strategy, relating it to organisational knowledge management, innovative employee behaviour, entrepreneurial behaviour and corporate sustainability. In particular, it studies how HR policies serve as key factors in facilitating the implementation of knowledge management processes (acquisition, creation, storage, sharing, application and distribution) in organisations, generating innovation and entrepreneurship-oriented behaviours of individuals.

The analysis of how HR policies and their joint or systemic consideration become a catalyst for the individual's creativity and interest in developing innovations (new products, new processes or even new business projects) at the organisational level, which can contribute to the achievement of sustainable competitive advantages. In addition, the implementation of sustainability-oriented HR practices will, at the same time, enable the development of individual and collective behaviours that meet the current challenges that organisations face in terms of social responsibility and business sustainability. Likewise, the fact that knowledge has recently become a strategic resource for organisations has highlighted the need to manage it actively and with a clear strategic orientation. Therefore, the study of all knowledge management processes and how they are affected by the organisation's HR strategy is a subject of study for this Research Group. In turn, these knowledge management processes are essential to create the necessary climate for employees and groups within organisations to develop innovative and entrepreneurial behaviours.

The research projects developed within the framework of the team have an academic and applied orientation, and focus on collaboration with companies and managers to improve their management, with special emphasis on the problems of SMEs.

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.

Individual and Family rights are two strongly connected areas of the legal system, which are undergoing an increasing evolution in modern societies, with great repercussions for people's daily lives and the free development of their personalities.

The importance of the subjects, that form the object of these disciplines and their continuous transformations, justify the existence of a Research Group aimed at studying them and transferring the results of the research carried out to society. 
The members of the Group have been involved in individual and family rights for many years, both individually and as a cohesive group.

They have thus participated in joint projects, under the co-ordination of the person in charge, such as "Daños en el Derecho de Familia", Thomson-Aranzadi, 2006; "Comentarios a las reformas del Derecho de Familia de 2005", Thomson-Aranzadi, 2006; "Veinticinco años de aplicación de la Ley Orgánica 1/1982, de 5 de mayo, de protección civil del derecho al honor, a la intimidad personal y familiar, y a la propia imagen"; Thomson-Aranzadi, 2007; "El derecho a la imagen desde todos los puntos de vista", Thomson-Aranzadi, 2011; "Responsabilidad civil en las relaciones familiares", Thomson-Aranzadi, 2012; "Derecho Civil I" (Individual rights), 2^nd ed., Tirant lo Blanch, 2021; "Derecho Civil IV (Family rights)", 4^th ed.,Tirant lo Blanch, 2021; "Tratado práctico interdisciplinar de las crisis familiares", Tirant lo Blanch, 2021; y "La compensación por desequilibrio en la separación y divorcio", Tirant lo Blanch, 2021.
They have participated as members of the Research Projects (of which the lead researcher is the head of the Group) "La protección del derecho a la propia imagen frente medios de comunicación y nuevas amenazas tecnológicas" (2009-14519-C05-05), MINECO; "Impacto social de las crisis familiares" (DER2013-47577-R.), MINECO; "Governing Inheritance Statutes after the Entry into Force of EU Succession Regulation" (764204 GoinEu); and "Justice Programme" (2014-2020), "Integration, migration, transnational relationships. Governing inheritance statutes after the entry into force of EU succession regulations" (796041 GoInEUPlus), "Justice Programme" (2014-2020).

They are currently participating in the following research projects (of which the lead researcher is the head of the Group) "La modernización del derecho de familia a través de la práctica jurisprudencial" (AICO/2021/0900), Generalidad Valenciana; y "Adaptation of rights in rem in cross-border successions within EU" (101007501 EU-ADAPT), JUST-JCOO-AG-2020.

Innovation is a fundamental factor in the growth of any organisation. Innovation implies a different way of thinking. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a series of beliefs, principles and values that emphasise a change in the entrepreneurial mentality towards innovation in value, without abandoning traditional technological innovation, which continues to be an essential factor in maintaining and increasing competitiveness. The aim is to go deeper into the clarification and structuring of the elements that articulate the entrepreneur's mentality in order to identify and take advantage of new opportunities for value creation. Focusing on the entrepreneur as a value innovator, i.e. one capable of identifying and satisfying an unmet need for an unattended market. The resources and capabilities available to organisations will be key to the successful development of all types of innovation.

The current crisis situation, the need to be sustainable in the use of resources and the appearance in recent years of an increase in open research through Open Science platforms, require a new vision in the creation of resources through the open space. In this open context of easy access to multiple resources and idle capacities, inefficiently applied or with excess installed capacity, the innovator's work as a coordinator of resources is key. Thus, capturing, organising and deploying resources in i-SPACE can lead to a revolution.

For its part, sustainability not only affects the generation of resources and capacities, but should also be the reason for developing sustainable business models from both a social and environmental perspective. In this way, we will explore social innovation as the process of designing, developing and growing new ideas that aim to meet social needs. Analysing and understanding the motivations of the entrepreneur, as well as the resources and contextual conditions necessary to develop sustainable business models from both social and environmental perspectives.

Technology-based entrepreneurship will also be approached by the group from a descriptive perspective of the current situation and by delving into the figures of the founding team of these companies. The business modality known as start-up will be analysed through its business model, target client and value proposition. Furthermore, the use and applicability of new management methodologies for these companies, such as the well-known Business Model Canvas and lean start-up approaches, will be examined in depth from a critical perspective.

It is important to stress that innovation capacity is one of the key factors of competitiveness. One of the lines will be aimed at investigating the implementation of key aspects in the management of business innovation at business or sectoral level at both regional and national level. These more territorial studies will focus on the European Union, based on data collected from official statistics such as Eurostat and CIS.

A complementary area will be the adjustment of Innovation with new ways of working, such as Smart Work, which will allow an increase in employee satisfaction, as well as improvements in the company's climate and economic ratios. In companies and environments where innovation is a priority, the generation of human resources policies that are aligned with the workers' interests and that achieve their commitment and loyalty becomes crucial.

The CVPP as well as the new work and professional approaches framed as Smart Work, which include the possibility of self-management of working time, the use of collaborative network services or the generation of virtual knowledge centres, will allow us to achieve the proposed objective.

The field of study of the research group is the internationalisation of enterprises from a broad perspective: SMEs and multinational companies, industrial and service companies. The influence of globalisation and territory as well as the cornerstone of strategic management are present in our research as a generic frame of reference.

The team has participated in numerous projects signed with relevant business organisations both at the level of the Valencian Community and the Spanish State (ATEVAL, IMPIVA, COEVAL, Spanish Intertextile Council, Chamber of Commerce, Ministry of Industry, etc.) in which the international competitiveness of small Spanish enterprises and the challenges they face in this global environment are analysed.

In addition, the team has developed three competitive projects of the Ministry where the object of study has been multinationals and their international expansion processes. Specifically, (a) aspects related to the behaviour of multinational companies from different perspectives: modes of entry, organisational structure, coordination mechanisms, roles of subsidiaries and expatriates (SEC2003/06466, SEC2006/13889) and (b) the strategic role that Spain can play as a springboard country in the internationalisation processes of multinational companies towards Latin America (ECO2010/18583). 
Composition.

Most of the members of this project have internationalisation strategy as the focus of their research. The team is mainly made up of PhD tenured university professors and trainee lecturers of the Universitat de València: Dr. Esther Sánchez, Esmeralda Linares, Angels Dasi, Cristina Villar and Marimen Saorín and Dr. Fidel León and Anastasio Urra. The team also has the collaboration of professors and PhD students who are working on our line of research in Latin America.

The director of the group, full university professor José Pla Barber, has participated in numerous research projects as PI funded by public contributions (including three competitive projects financed by the Ministry, two by the Valencian government, two by the AECI and one by the Universitat de València). He obtained his PhD degree with the European doctorate programme and with an extraordinary PhD award. Professor Pla is a visiting lecturer at numerous international universities (Reading University, Norwegian School of Management, ORT Uruguay, ICESI Colombia, APEC Dominican Republic, among others). Together with other members of the team, he has published 46 scientific articles (27 in JCR journals), 19 book chapters and 4 scientific dissemination books. This activity has allowed him to obtain three research grants. Dr. Pla has nearly 800 citations in Google Scholar, an h-index of 13 and an ih-index of 17. Professor Pla has obtained 8 research awards, among them, the 1st prize Centre for Financial Studies “Accounting and Business Administration Modality” (9th Edition, 1999) and the research award “Juan José Renau Piqueras” (1st Edition, 1999).

In addition, the team incorporates as active members of the group professors Anoop Madhok (Schulich School of Business) and Torben Pedersen (Copenhagen Business School), internationally renowned authors in research on multinational companies. We also collaborate with two of the most prolific research groups in this field: the one led by professor Cuervo-Cazurra (which analyses the internationalisation of multi-Latin companies) and the group made up of professors García-Canal and Mauro Guillén (which focuses its study on the development of multinational companies in Latin America). International and formative nature of the research team. One of the priority objectives of the research group has been to have an international dimension.

The research group works on the dialogue between the different representative arts and literature through the semiotic and cultural transmission of literary topoi from and towards the Anglo-Saxon tradition. The group’s research focuses on the study of different cultural practices from the perspective of intertextuality, intermediality, semiotics, reception and adaptation. The period of study covers from the Middle Ages to the present day, with an exhaustive analysis of the creation map, transmission and influence of cultural, artistic and literary heritage in the Anglo-Saxon tradition. The group also works on investigating the impact of the objects of cultural consumption considered in contemporary societies. To this end, it carries out advisory and consultancy work for cultural agents, companies related to the performing arts, film, television and digital industries, as well as companies in the publishing industry and cultural centres interested in the production, conservation, teaching and dissemination of cultural products related to or originating from the Anglo-Saxon tradition.

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.

ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution) as a means of protection and access to justice. Analysis of ADR. Domestic and international perspective. From ADR to ODR in the 21st century. Mediation: principles and status of the mediator.

Types of mediation: civil and commercial, criminal and penitentiary, labour, administrative, consumer, special property, mediation in administrative matters, both domestic and international (cross-border). Analysis of mediation in comparative law, especially in Asia-Pacific, Europe and Anglo-Saxon systems Arbitration: birth and autonomy of will. Principles and development of the arbitration process. The award, challenge and enforcement.

Special arbitration: from the sectoral arbitration that emerged in the 1980s to the new dimension and trends of arbitration in the 21st century. International commercial arbitration. Recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards. Investment protection arbitration. Relationship between ADR and state courts.

International migratory flows in Spain correspond to the characteristics that Castles and Miller point out, in their now classic work "The Age of Migration", for the migrations of the 21st century. In fact, more belatedly than in the rest of Europe, the last two decades have seen an increase in migratory flows to our country from different countries and cultures. Not only are we witnessing an increasing heterogeneity of migration flows, but also an increasing diversity of migrants There are flows of workers for low-skilled jobs, but also migrations of highly skilled people; there are those who migrate to improve their quality of life, "lifestyle migration", and there are those who migrate to save their lives, asylum seekers and refugees; we have masculinised and feminised migrations, although the prominence of women migrants is increasing. Given the area of free movement that the European Union represents, another very relevant distinction is between internal migration within the EU and migration from third countries. Our group aims to respond to this heterogeneous reality through a variety of lines of research: Transnational mobility strategies; International Retirement Migration; Intra-European Migration; Skilled Migration. 

In Spain and in the Valencian Country, immigrants are present in all areas of social life, they have contributed to transforming our towns and cities, and they constitute another part of the population. In our group we study some of these areas, such as the labour insertion of immigrants, Migrations and the labour market, the characteristics of their inclusion in our cities, Urban insertion, and in our towns and rural areas, Globalised rurality. Whether in rural or urban areas, a basic dimension of our social life, often undervalued, is sociability, which is addressed by the line Dynamics of coexistence in multicultural spaces and environments. Although the social integration of immigrants usually starts precariously and improves with time and effort, we have, as in other European countries, immigrant groups at risk of exclusion (ethnic minorities, asylum seekers, unaccompanied minors...). This issue is addressed in the line Migrant groups in situations of exclusion. 

Migrations and the cultural diversity they entail are not the only, nor, dare we say, the main challenge facing social cohesion. In recent decades our societies have undergone intense socio-economic transformations, due to globalisation and neo-liberal policies, which have led to a polarisation of the labour market, an increase in inequality and a feeling of insecurity in previously protected sectors. In the case of Spain, these transformations have coincided with the arrival and settlement of immigrants and their families.

We are more fragmented societies, socially and culturally. Working for social cohesion, the construction of a common and at the same time plural "we", implies the implementation of general policies of inclusive citizenship, for natives and immigrants, in terms of employment, housing, security, and an adequate management of cultural diversity, the latter issue being addressed in the line of the same name. 

This diversity of research lines has a number of common transversal axes. In this presentation we will highlight three. Firstly, gender mainstreaming. Secondly, an intersectional perspective that considers the interweaving of social class, gender and ethnocultural factors. Thirdly, an orientation in line with the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals SDGs and, more specifically, with SDG5, gender perspective, SDG10, Reducing inequalities, SDG11. More inclusive, safe and sustainable cities and SDG16. Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies. 

Our research work is based on research projects and research contracts. The latter, carried out with public administrations, associations and companies, allow both knowledge transfer and sociological and anthropological research applied to the issues addressed here.

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.

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.

The members of this Research Group carry out relevant research, teaching and transfer work on the different dimensions of the social structure and its link to unequal access to resources and life opportunities in contemporary society. In this way, the influence of variables such as gender, national origin, linguistic uses, social class or family forms of coexistence on access to resources, both material and symbolic, has been analysed. 

The constitution of the group represents the convergence of these interests, as well as the formalisation of the research and transfer work that has been carried out up to now, and shows the express will to deepen the collaborative work. 

The group has two basic objectives. Firstly, to advance in the knowledge of the social structure and its different dimensions with the combination of different methodologies. Secondly, to transfer this knowledge to our society, both through teaching and advocacy in public debate, in order to propose and evaluate public policies. At the same time, it integrates two basic lines of work: the analysis of the variables that construct the contemporary social structure, especially social class and gender, as well as the analysis of the subjects and the social relations that are constructed; and the implementation of new methodologies to understand the impact of these variables, subjects and relations in people's lives. 

The group's research is therefore directed towards: 

1. The generation of knowledge on the processes of inequality that occur in today's society, especially in the Valencian Country, including classification systems. 
2. The development of new methodologies - quantitative and qualitative, but also socio-analytical and dialectical - that make it possible to capture the impact of inequality in today's society. 
3. The analysis, evaluation and proposal of public policies in terms of promoting equality and social transformation.

Overall, the research activity of our working group has focused on the assessment of cognitive functioning in patients with mental disorders, the development of alternatives to facilitate the assessment of their intellectual functioning, the specific study of implicit memory in these same patients to determine to what extent the types of tasks and the parameters used to assess the functioning of this memory system condition the results of such assessment and, finally, the evaluation of the effectiveness of rehabilitation programmes of cognition in mental disorders, especially in schizophrenia. This work has been carried out for more than two decades with the support of research projects funded by the Universitat de València, the Consellería de Educación, the Consellería de Sanidad and the Ministerio de Educación. This research has resulted in the publication of numerous works which are listed in the attached CVs.

More specifically, our research activity has been developed through the following lines of work:

1. Cognitive assessment in schizophrenia. This line of research focuses on the evaluation of neurocognitive functioning, including social cognition, in the mental disorder in order to determine the interrelationships that exist between the different cognitive domains, and to assess the extent to which they determine the social functioning of the patient. In the context of this line of research, our attention has focused on the neurocognitive domains of attention, episodic memory and executive functioning, and within social cognition, on the domains of emotional perception, theory of mind, social perception and attributional style. Although they could be framed within the field referred to in our research line nº1, our research team has been developing two more specific lines of research (lines nº2 and nº3).
2. Intellectual functioning in schizophrenia. This line of research focuses on the development of abbreviated versions of the classic tests used to assess intellectual functioning, with the aim of facilitating their use in patients with mental disorders and allowing rapid screening of the patient. 
3. Implicit memory in schizophrenia. In general terms, scientific evidence indicates that implicit memory functioning is preserved in mental disorder. However, sometimes the evidence is contradictory and the reason may lie in the disparity of tasks used in the assessment of implicit memory and in the methodological conditions that occur within each test. In this line of research, our work focuses on clarifying which tasks are the most appropriate and which methodological conditions should be considered within these tasks in order to validly assess implicit memory. Assessment of cognitive deficits in people with different diagnoses of mental disorder, basically schizophrenia, by means of tasks widely used in experimental psychology such as lexical decision and fragment completion. 
4. Psychological intervention in cognition in schizophrenia. In this line of research our work focuses on the evaluation of programmes focused on the rehabilitation of neurocognition and social cognition to improve the social functioning of people with mental disorders (e.g. IPT, Gradior, EMT).

The Psychology of Work and Organisations has a long research tradition into the problem of young people's employability, as well as the career that young people follow in the labour market. Among other topics, attention has been paid to career guidance prior to entering the labour market, vocational guidance when choosing training or integration itineraries, the qualifications and personal competences of young people, the difficulties and adaptation process of young people who have recently entered the labour market, as well as the consequences that a greater or lesser adjustment between the expectations and qualifications of young people and the labour demands and experiences lived during integration have on various aspects (job satisfaction, expectations for the future, work motivation, career development, etc.).

Likewise, the profound changes that the world of work and organisations have undergone in recent decades have had a major influence on the integration of young people into the labour market and their consequences on a large number of psychosocial variables (personal adjustment, psychological well-being, job insecurity, stress, etc.).

Furthermore, the labour force participation and employment rates of young people have recurrently shown significantly worse data than those of other groups, in different contexts and for many years now, regardless of fluctuations depending on the economic situation. The psychology of work and organisations has focused on the effects of youth unemployment, job discontinuity and difficulties in finding employment, as well as on variables related to job search, employability and psychosocial and environmental characteristics that can favour better labour market integration and reduce the adverse effects of situations such as unemployment, over-qualification or the mismatch between job expectations and job demands.

In this line, IDOCAL has participated in numerous studies and projects on this subject, from studies on the meaning of work and the socialisation of young people (WOSY Project, carried out from the end of the 1980s), to the collaboration with different projects developed in OPAL, and the participation in the Observatory for Young People’s Labour Market Integration (IVIE-Bancaja), which carried out six waves of triannual national surveys from 1996 to 2011. 

This collaboration has produced numerous publications on the problems of young people’s labour integration: the work values and expectations of young people in the period of their entry into the labour market, the different pathways of integration that young people follow, the degree of psychosocial adjustment that results after said integration, the meaning that young people attach to work in the context of their lives and their conception of it, as well as its evolution over time, the flexibility of young people in entering the labour market, over-qualification, job insecurity, the influence of the labour market situation and unemployment rates on young people's psychological well-being and their perceptions of employability, their coping mechanisms in such situations, as well as the psychological variables that favour work motivation and job search, such as self-efficacy, proactivity or self-regulation.

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.

The main research aim is the quality of accounting information for decision-making and the effects that information can have on the redistribution of wealth, financial stability, and the functioning of markets and the economy in general. There are different research lines within this main objective. The first one is the analysis of those aspects of international accounting regulation. The standardisation process, lobbying interests and the changes and effects of international regulatory changes. The second research line is related to the effect of the characteristics of the entities and their environment on the quality of the accounting information they issue, including aspects pertaining to their corporate governance, management and internal control mechanisms and their institutional environment. The third research line focuses on control mechanisms, including auditor characteristics, audit quality, as well as institutional supervisors.

In the context of Social Psychology, a solid knowledge of the methodological aspects of research is becoming more necessary. Indeed, the analysis of social reality from the psychologist’s standpoint must be based on an understanding of concepts such as effect size, power or new techniques of statistical analysis. Likewise, the social psychologist must be guided in their research by firm foundations of design that guarantee the validity of the conclusions they reach.

On the other hand, the publication criteria of journals in the field of Social Psychology are increasingly stricter in this respect, and it is becoming more pressing and necessary for any type of social research to be clearly defined from the outset, as this ensures reliable results. Moreover, and given the heterogeneous nature of the causes of human behaviour, especially social behaviour, the members of the Unit are recognised specialists in different perspectives of analysis (from the handling of large samples, to the use of qualitative information, environmental studies, bio-physical analysis of behaviours, etc.) of people’s social behaviour. Thus, the objectives of this Research Unit are the analysis and study of the different research designs and techniques in order to establish clear and useful conclusions regarding their use in each of the different aspects of Social Psychology. 

We believe, therefore, that this is a field of research which, although in most cases theoretical, can be eminently useful and have a beneficial effect on the advances of studies in Social Psychology.

The group is made up of a group of researchers in experimental science didactics.

Our main objective is to diagnose problems in the teaching and learning of science and to propose treatments that can contribute to overcoming them, both in formal and informal science education. To this end, we research on teacher training, developing proposals for improvement; on the skills to be acquired by young people and teachers in Education for Sustainability and Health Education; on argumentation and critical thinking in science teaching; in the use of STS science-technology-society relations, CSC socioscientific issues and the history of science in science education; in the use of inquiry-based methodology in science teaching from the early stages of formal education; and in the application of neuroscience to science education.

The Sport Psychology Research Unit (UIPD) is an interdisciplinary group made up of specialists in Social Psychology, Clinical and Health Psychology, Psychological Assessment and Sport Sciences. In this way, the research carried out by this Unit is carried out from a multidisciplinary perspective.

The UIPD studies the psychosocial correlates of the optimal development of people, especially children and adolescents, in two main contexts, sport and education. The interrelationships between different psychosocial variables (i.e., motivation, self, values, self-efficacy, attribution) and some indicators of optimal development (i.e., lifestyles related to health, well-being, and performance) are analysed.

The main objective of this research group is to study the motivation of individuals in achievement contexts. More specifically, to explore the processes that favour both involvement in and adherence to activities and the development of well-being. Ultimately, we work to bring theoretical and research knowledge closer to the applied world by developing tools that enable the creation of positive climates that favour optimal development and well-being.

This research group was recognised as a group of excellence (after passing an evaluation by the Agencia Nacional de Evaluación y Prospectiva). Reference GR00-221. 

GRECO aims to be an area of creation, transfer and learning in Strategic Management, within which projects and contracts of fundamental and applied research, technology transfer and generation of competences can be developed, aimed at improving the capacity of management teams and the competitiveness of companies.

GRECO's Work Programme currently revolves around five lines of research, all of them positioned in the field of Strategic Management. The research in these five lines is strongly related, so that an important part of the projects developed and the works published explore the relationships between the phenomena analysed in several of them. 

The project approved for 2013-2016 aims to advance in the identification of the main dynamic capabilities based on a review of the literature, especially the existing literature on knowledge management processes, in order to establish the conceptual boundaries between knowledge acquisition, creation and absorption capabilities, innovation capabilities and learning capabilities. A deeper understanding of the structure of the 'dynamic capabilities' basket case should help to better understand the processes that facilitate their creation and renewal.

Specifically, this research examines how the implementation of organisational practices influences the building of dynamic capabilities. Specifically, the study differentiates five different types of practices according to their focus on processes, people, groups/teams, products and knowledge. The analysis looks at how these different practices condition dynamic capabilities in two particular contexts:

1. When practices are introduced individually.
2. When practices are implemented in coordination with the format of organisational forms, in order to exploit the value creation potential inherent in complementarity.

The starting hypothesis is that, except when capabilities rest with one agent or a small group of individuals, the development of knowledge-based capabilities requires complex coordination and integration of practices of different types.

While exploring the role of managerial practices as antecedents to dynamic capabilities, this research also explores the relationships between dynamic capabilities and business performance. Progress in demonstrating the direct effect of knowledge creation, acquisition, absorption and application capabilities on performance has overlooked the possible existence of other mediating variables. The project aims to explore the role of innovations in managerial practices through which management seeks to strengthen its stock of dynamic capabilities. 

In this way, a circular process is introduced into the research process, where management practices play two roles in different phases of the value creation process:

1. Organisations develop dynamic capabilities through the introduction of practices.
2. Moreover, thanks to the capabilities they have accumulated, they can deploy innovations in organisational practices that help strengthen their competence to innovate and deliver outstanding results by producing sustainable competitive advantages.

The demonstration of this preliminary premise requires the development of empirical work involving panel data.

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.

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.

The Two Cultures Observatory is a multidisciplinary research group made up of science communication researchers. Its main objective is to analyse the treatment of science in the media from the point of view of two opposing visions in society: the scientific and the humanistic. The Two Cultures Observatory was set up by the team of the journal Mètode, with the aim of uniting the practice of science communication with the study and reflection on it. The journal Mètode, a quarterly publication edited by the Universitat de València and directed by the journalist and biologist Martí Domínguez, was born in 1992 with the aim of bringing science to society, encouraging debate and critical reflection on current scientific issues.

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.

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.

This group is made up of several academics who have been working on different lines of research related to highly topical aspects of labour and taxation that revolve around company law.

The research of each academic member of the group, as well as the group as such, highlights a strong interest in the current problems facing the law in an environment of strong social, economic and technological change, leading to innovative formulas for entrepreneurship and business. An example of this is the group's numerous publications in the field of the digital, social and collaborative economy. Most of these publications are the results of research projects awarded in public and competitive calls for proposals. The group intends to leave open the possibility of extending its activities to other legal areas of business activity, such as commercial aspects, administrative law, or others.

GIPOS investigates the interrelationship between the internal processes of service organisations (climate, justice, emotional labour, conflict, etc.) and variables that have to do with the performance and well-being of workers, as well as results in terms of customer satisfaction, quality of service and quality of life of users. It also explores the shared or divergent views of the actors involved (users, workers and managers). The research is carried out mainly through field studies in sectors such as hotels, restaurants and care centres for people with intellectual disabilities, among others. Experiments are also carried out both in the field and in laboratory contexts, and interventions related to the "survey feedback" methodology and group workshops on creativity and improvement are carried out.

The MEDHISMO research group is the result of a long researcher career, founded thorugh competitive research projects of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and coordinated from the Department of Modern History of the Universitat de València, thanks to the management work carried out by several of its members. 

The research work carried out focuses on social history research, incorporating the methodological innovation that have yielded the best results in recent years. Instead of considering social groups as static wholes over the long term, it gives priority attention to the study of the relationships and strategies adopted by individuals in pursuit of their personal, family or collective goals. 

As a result of the group’s research work, various databases have been compiled (from knights in the habit of a military order to craftsmen), and the individual careers of members of the various social categories have been traced. This is a task that requires continuity, as the aim is to study in greater depth the new perspectives opened up by the work already carried out. 

The methodology to be applied will combine the use of macro and micro-historical approaches. But its main added value is the use of the comparative method, analysing the trajectory of the Hispanic Mediterranean territories in a comparative framework, both nationally and internationally, especially in the Kingdom of Valencia and Sardinia. The dynamism experienced by both geographical areas favoured the process of social mobility, despite the restrictions derived from the dominant value system in the estates’ society, although its frequency and intensity was very different depending on the different opportunities and conditions that existed in each of them. Obviously, mobility was not only upward, since the aforementioned transformations were detrimental to several sectors that experienced a process of social regression and deterioration of their living conditions, which stimulated their resistance to the changes that were being experienced. 

The variety of lines of research addressed by the different approaches of the project members has allowed us to gain a deeper understanding of the social, economic, political and cultural transformations in these regions; in short, the historical evolution of the territories on the Mediterranean periphery of the Hispanic Monarchy, within a comparative framework, which needs to be further explored. 

The group’s research activity is carried out within the framework of three main lines of study: 

1. Labour and market relations in the urban world.
2. The study of social elites and their relationship to service to the monarchy.
3. Minorities, the marginalised and the conflicts associated with them.

e-MARKETING, as a research group of the UV, develops activities in line with methodological innovation and thematic study in Marketing and New Technologies, trying to understand consumer behaviour in social media and mobile marketing and paying special attention to viral marketing. The group’s work addresses calls for research in these fields by choosing retailing, tourism and the education sector as priority application sectors. These topics make up its main lines of research.

The e-MARKETING experience and its consolidation as a team is endorsed by the participation of its members in more than 20 different R&D contracts of special relevance with Companies and/or Administrations in which trust seals in e-commerce, analysis of the implementation of ICT in retail trade, value creation through mobile applications, etc. have been proposed.

The quality of the group’s research and the importance of its results can be seen in its many contributions to conferences (more than 150). More than 100 research papers have been published in indexed journals, many of them in the JCR (i.e. Online Information Review, Journal of Services Management, Industrial Management and Data Systems, etc.) in ISI databases, in the SJR or in databases such as ABI INFORM, EMERALD Reviews, etc. The coordinator of the group, Dr. Ruiz, is accredited as professor by ANECA, has 2 six-year research periods, has supervised 6 doctoral theses in the core research lines of eMARKETING and is Associate Editor of the Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (ECRA) and member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Product and Brand Management, Online Information Review and Electronic Commerce Research and Applications. She as been a member of the Board of Directors of the Spanish Marketing Association (AEMARK). She has been the main researcher of 6 research projects related to the group, one of them (not completed) of the Spanish National Plan (eWOM: neuroscientific and experimental analysis in services); she is also director of 5 educational innovation projects, one of the consisting of the creating of an international network of universities for the exchange of teaching experiences. Research areas:

• Information processing To study the determining variables in the processing of advertising information and the exchange of commercial information between individuals on social media and their impact on purchase, loyalty and recommendation.
• Mobile marketing. To analyse the perceived value drivers in mobile communications as well as the drivers of mobile commerce. To identify the motivation and brakes in viral marketing through mobile devices (smartphones and tablets).
• Complaint behaviour in social media. Research on the motivations for complaints, switching suppliers, anti-brand communities, boycotts and negative word-of-mouth communications in social networks Educational innovation and ICT.
• Study of new collaborative learning methodologies that incorporate new technologies (Ted lessons, gamification, etc.) and their impact on student satisfaction, perceived quality and relational variables. Viral marketing.
• Study of the background and consequences of viral marketing in digital channels with special emphasis on influencers. Influence of viral marketing on consumer perceptions, attitudes and purchasing behaviour. Analysis of the elements that generate a viral impact in communication campaigns.