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Art, creativity, education and digital environments

Educational, creative and artistic applications in different types of environments, including digital environments and the use of ICTs.

Advanced information management and exploitation systems

Systems for the collection, processing and statistical treatment of data. Advanced database management applications. DWH design and implementation. Re-engineering of systems and client/server architectures. Data modelling. Document management. Multimodal systems. Hospital management.

Air pollution and health line

Study of the relationship between air pollution and health effects, with multi-centre studies being carried out. Studies are also carried out to evaluate the impact of pollution on the health of populations.

Archaeology, social science didactics, education, museums and teacher training

Training in the teaching of social sciences for preschool and primary school teachers, for secondary school teachers, for university teachers and for educators in museums and heritage and other informal areas. To train educators and generate cultural criteria for application in institutional settings between archaeology, anthropology, education and cinema.

Art and arts teacher training

Training in the arts for preschool and primary school teachers, secondary school teachers, university teachers, museum and heritage educators and other informal areas.

Art, visual culture, education in sensitivity and creative aesthetics

Generate theoretical activity and experiences from art and visual culture.

Assessment of student progress

Analysis of results and evaluation through the design and application of rubrics in relation to the objectives and skills expected to be developed.

Atmospheric correction

Development of correction methods for atmospheric disturbance in the data provided by artificial satellites.

Audiovisual coeducation, gender, semiotics and cultural studies

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

Auditoria, gestión y estandarización de proyectos ITS y TIC

Technical audits of ITS and ICT systems. Secretariat and management of European projects. Representation of the administration in standardisation and normalisation committees. Translation and evaluation of standards. Traffic and transport, ITS and ICT consultancy studies.

Biographical events and life trajectories

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

Bodies, genders and sexualities: social representations and practices

Study of the effects of biopower applied to the analysis of bodies, genders and sexualities. Social construction of health and illness.

Calibration / validation

Calibration of remote sensing satellites by carrying out in situ measurements simultaneously with passing satellites. Implementation of in situ measurement stations in different parts of Spain (Doñana Natural Area, Almería, Barrax, etc.) and the world (Peru, Chile, etc.). Validation of algorithms.

Cataloguing and production of data and construction of demographic and social vulnerability indicators with historical and contemporary data

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

Childhood and environment line

Describe the level of exposure and pollution during gestation and early childhood, assess the role of common environmental pollutants and protective dietary factors on foetal growth and neuro-endocrine-immune development to develop health indicators.

Childhood and gender

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

Childhood, Art and Pedagogy in 21st century society

Research on the value of teaching-learning literacy and visual and aesthetic literacy (educating the gaze) and the development of critical and creative thinking in contemporary childhood.

Children's and youth literature

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

Classic demographic phenomena

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

Community Self-Development

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

Community Social Services of local authorities

Community Social Services are the gateway to the social welfare system and its different benefits and programmes that address the needs of the most vulnerable groups. Its analysis and evaluation allows to make improvements in local social welfare structures.

Community-led local development

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

Contrastive and cross-cultural linguistics. Corpus linguistics

It is based on the cultural and linguistic contrast, using corpus linguistics as a basis, between several modern majority languages such as Peninsular Spanish and English. The aim is to clarify concepts and look for practical applications both at a particular level between specific communicative communities and at a global level within the educational setting, as well as in social and professional communication, such as business communication. The tools of corpus linguistics, from a cross-cultural perspective, prove to be essential both for the collection of real data and compilation of corpora and for their analysis and application of results. In this team, the study of current social and professional communication is approached in symbiosis with the digital world, not only as a mediator, but also as a target for new generation applications.

Contrastive linguistics and languages for professional and academic purposes

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

Creative classroom, illustration and multiliteracity

Educate in and through the arts using the Arts in Education Approach/AiE. Explore the benefits of art and illustrated literature (illustration/multimodal storytelling).

Creativity, education and psychology

Train educators and generate cultural criteria for application in institutional settings between creativity, psychology, educational practices and teacher training.

Cultural heritage, reading, literary, digital and media literacy training

Cultural heritage, reading, literary, digital and media education and research as a way of understanding the world and forming critical, reflective citizens capable of dealing with any type of text, whether written or digital.

Development and innovation of curricular proposals and specific tasks in Primary, Secondary and University Education

Starting from the four components established by the Pedagogy of Multiliteracies for the development of knowledge (experience, conceptualise, analyse and apply), design and evaluate proposals in relation to literature, art and foreign languages.

Development of advanced web applications

WEB systems for access to databases. Semantic WEB, Ontologies and metadata. RDS dissemination systems and DATEX protocol data exchange systems. Development of WEB services. Mobile applications. Electronic forms, payment services and secure information processing.

Digital policies and the politics of digital

The regulation of digitisation processes in politics 
The different ideological conceptions linked to digitisation policies in the various public administrations and their political impact.
The impact of digitisation on the elaboration and evaluation of public policies.
Digitalisation and transformations in the functioning of political systems (representation, transparency, integrity, accountability).

Digital transformation of political groups

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

Diversity, identities, citizenship, interculturality and multilingualism in literary education

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

Education in museums through the use of illustrated literature and the approach to art

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

Geoportal

GEOPORTAL (http://ceosspain.lpi.uv.es/) providing historical (since 2007) and real-time (less than 5 hours) products of the SEVIRI and MODIS sensors.

IT security, data protection and privacy

Security analysis of computer systems, vulnerability detection, cryptography and secure communications. Mechanisms for the protection of personal data, traceability of information, privacy and security-oriented design. Data anonymization. Security audits. International regulations.

Illustrated albums, comics, graphic novels, audiovisual and film discourse in literary education

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

Insurances

The research covers both the insurance contract, insurance distribution and supervision of insurance companies.

Language variation

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

Location, transaction and mobile communications systems

Electronic toll collection systems and mobile vehicles. Satellite and telephony location systems. GPS and GSM applications. V2V, V2I and I2V communication systems. Bluetooth, RFID and WIFI detection systems. Cooperative systems. Dynamic navigation.

Mobility and transport

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

Monitoring systems, control and advanced representation of traffic flows

Traffic monitoring, vehicle magnetic fingerprint identification systems, DAI systems, applications for route and/or time optimisation, travel times, O/D matrices, GIS applications, geographic data representation and virtual simulation. Emergency management plans.

Multi-temporal monitoring

Use of time series of satellite images from 1981 to the present to study the Earth's surface dynamics.

New approaches to digital education and the use of social media for sustainable education

Digital humanities and education with digital formats provide us with many opportunities to improve many aspects that can be changed by digital technologies.

New forms of storytelling (narrativities) in the 21st Century

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

New precariousness in knowledge societies

Study of the processes of precariousness in social contexts discursively dominated by the knowledge economy and which particularly involve people with higher education qualifications. Phenomena: entrepreneurial activation, new forms of vital precariousness and the role of higher education institutions.

Parameter estimation from satellite data

Development of algorithms to estimate physical and biophysical parameters from satellite data, such as temperature, albedo, reflectivity, land surface emissivity, thermal inertia, evapotranspiration, atmospheric water-vapour content.

Pedagogical identity in transition

Analysis of the production of pedagogical identity in specific contexts of educational and professional transition from a Social Justice perspective. Construction of the social positioning of young people in institutional transition processes. Analysis of Educational Policies from a critical perspective: conservative modernisation.

Pensions

Study on pensions and their viability.

Polítiques familiars en l'àmbit local

Les polítiques de protecció a la família són una assignatura pendent per al sistema de benestar social espanyol. A més, tenim constància que són en les entitats socials on es poden generar resultats d'investigació aplicats a la solució de les problemàtiques de família i de conciliació entre vida laboral i familiar.

Poverty, ghettoisation and ethnic minorities

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

Processes of distribution and construction of legitimate knowledge

Study of pedagogical practice based on Basil Bernstein's theory. Analysis of the processes of distribution and construction of legitimate knowledge in the pedagogical device. Pedagogical modes of transmission. Sociology of pedagogy. Critical pedagogy and critical table.

Research in qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis for the study of the population

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

Research methodologies and innovation in Language and Literature Didactics

Work on the main lines of research and innovation being developed in literature and language didactics.

Strategy and decision-making

Corresponding to its complexity and wide range, it focuses on studies and developments concerning strategy (including tactical and operational levels) and all the components involved in the decision-making process, based on normative or descriptive models (mathematical versus psychological), as well as at the individual and group level.

Studying and promoting the didactic potential of Learning and Knowledge Technologies (TACs)

To propose and assess collaborative tasks that allow future teachers to progress gradually from the mere instrumental use of TACs (Learning and Knowledge Technologies) to the development of a more critical awareness of them.

Territorial development, institutional networks and socioeconomic innovation processes (Industrial Districts)

Analysis of the innovation flows that take place in a geographically localised production system, taking into account the concentration and cooperation of SMEs, social cohesion and interactions between companies, as well as formal and informal institutional relations.

Territorial diagnoses: inclusion and social cohesion plans, equality plans, work-family life conciliation plans

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

The narrative perspective in community-based development

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

Traffic and Road Safety

The topics of research and development are very broad and include epidemiological studies, accident research, causes of accidents, risk factors, risk groups, vulnerable users, driver behaviour, basic psychological processes, attitudes, motivations and values underlying behaviour, the special case of offenders and repeat offenders, as well as autonomous driving.

In addition to the human factor, the subject of study includes the roads (with special attention to black spots and accident hotspots, as well as signage, which is particularly variable), vehicles, and the condition of all of them.

Training in literature and the arts for foreign language teachers

To establish a list of essential literary and artistic contents to improve the competence of teachers when working with multimodal resources. To create a framework of basic theoretical concepts that can be used in primary, secondary and university education.

Transport and Sustainable Mobility

The research and development topics are very broad and include studies of the travel habits or needs of users of a given territory or means of transport, user satisfaction, public transport, the impact of changes in supply, soft modes, freight, logistics, last mile, fares, accessibility, inclusiveness, gender, environment, electric mobility, etc.

Likewise, and even more so in the case of Road Safety, Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) are the object of study and development, as well as other means of land transport, such as rail, tram and metro, as well as maritime and air transport.

Urban structure, mobility and new data sources for Geography

Study of the relation between urban structure and the mobility of people in urban areas. Use of new data sources mainly from information and communication technologies for studying different spatial dynamics. Evaluation and management of the territory from a social, environmental and economic perspective.

Urban systems

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

Visual Culture and arts education

Development of visual culture and arts education for both children and adults, promoting the relationship with other fields of study.

Weather, climate and health line

Evaluation of the relationship between climatic factors and weather variables, especially ambient temperature and health, as well as public health measures that can minimise the impact of foreseeable future climate changes.

Welfare Geography

Welfare state, Public services, social innovation and Tourism.

Welfare

Study of welfare issues that go beyond the above, such as dependency or annuities.