The Social Studies, Intervention and Innovation Group GESinn is made up of teaching and research staff with extensive and wide-ranging professional experience, currently linked to the academic world.
Its main object of analysis is in the areas of Community Social Services; Childhood, Adolescence and Youth; Women, violence and gender studies; International Cooperation; Co-development and Community Intervention in rural areas; Action in the Social and Health Sphere; Poverty, delinquency and exclusion, and Globalisation and Urban Studies, always considering the gender perspective as a cross-cutting issue in all actions.
It is attached to the Inter-University Institute of Local Development of the Universitat de València and Jaume I of Castellón. It was created with a transversal vocation and among its main values is the experience of researching and investing in social reality from a critical and constructive perspective. The coordination and IP of this Research Group is rotating, attending to the horizontality of its members in the collective commitment.
- To analyse reality from the origin of problems in order to identify social needs with the aim of improving the quality of life of institutions and citizens.
- Lead and guide institutions and social groups in their development, updating and improvement processes.
- Investigate the current organisation of social services, both general and specialised, with their different groups.
- To validate programmes and services, the revision and updating of intervention protocols and all those issues that result in reducing the imbalances between wealth and poverty.
- To study the new adolescences from different intervention perspectives: prevention, protection and re-education, with the aim of helping in social development from the diagnosis of risks, preventing difficulties and promoting and strengthening social adjustment mechanisms for the development of a full life in a pro-social key.
- To innovate in social and educational intervention projects, counselling and research in the specific field of equality and gender violence.
- To develop lines of work with a vocation for transfer so that the results have a direct impact on the population and the improvement of living conditions and well-being.
- Social and health areas
The interrelationship between the social and health spheres is becoming increasingly evident. These areas are currently characterised by a rapid fluctuation and modification of their characteristics where interdependent factors play an important role that requires an integral study. For this reason, a commitment to the closest realities without losing the global perspective is GESinn's commitment, providing added value in the synergies that are close to us. We position ourselves in a model of applied research, in which innovation in social practices and the transfer of results that favour environments for coexistence and collective growth gain strength. Likewise, evidence-based practices allow us to achieve high levels of development in favour of quality Technical Advice and Consultancy in the following areas: Internal management: external management of work teams: updating of competences, diversification of intervention scenarios, audits and quality in social foundations and third sector entities, etc. Supervision and institutional response in the areas of social services, education, justice, community health, planning for the efficiency of services, articulation and management of good practices, organisational development, network management, etc. Diagnostic analysis: new human needs, social convergence processes, implementation of collective, participative, inclusion and prosocial development activities, evaluation and improvement processes...Auditing and Evaluation: in community development programmes, attention to specific population sectors and groups, socio-educational and psychosocial training and consultancy, promotion of welfare systems in the areas of social services, justice, education, employment, health, housing...
- Childhood, adolescence, youth and family relations
Children, adolescents and young people constitute the future of the new societies. Family relationships operate in unison with global changes: the family has lost the capacity to generate synergies on its own and needs guidance to overcome them. Family societies have lost the intensity they had in previous decades, due to the processes of individualisation and the loss of collective values. Therefore, it is a commitment of GESinn to analyse the socialisation processes of adolescents and the family networks of which they form part, to investigate their risks, to prevent difficulties and to promote and strengthen the mechanisms of social adjustment for the development of a positive life. The aim of the study is to investigate adolescence from different intervention perspectives: prevention, protection and re-education. The previous professional experience of the members of GESinn in the care of this group constitutes an added value to the empirical dimension.
- Women and gender studies
We consider it essential to work with a gender perspective, always bearing in mind equality between men and women in all our work. From this perspective, we integrate the study and application of the principles of equality in a transversal way in the social intervention projects, in the research we carry out and in the teaching programmes for the prevention of gender violence. We promote training, innovation in social and educational intervention projects, counselling, and research in the specific field of equality and gender violence in areas such as administration, adolescents, professionals from different backgrounds, and teaching staff.
- Welfare systems and social services
From this perspective, Social Services are constituted as a cornerstone that catalyses the areas of quality of life. Social Services, Education, Justice, Employment, Housing, Health are structures that maintain quality levels in people; but also Social Services allow minimising the difficulties of globalised and neoliberal societies. GESinn is committed to investigating the current organisation of social services, the validity of their programmes and services, the revision and updating of intervention protocols and all those issues that result in reducing the imbalances between wealth and poverty.
- Social innovation and knowledge transfer
Improving the living conditions of the population is accompanied by innovation processes, especially in the field of social sciences and education, where changes affect both structural and circumstantial dimensions. For this reason, we are committed to transferring the results of intervention and research to society so that it can replicate its experiences in other latitudes and generate new challenges in terms of development.
- Social intervention
GESinn researches on the particularities of social intervention, intervention with population groups, minorities, analyses instruments for decision-making and planning, protocols and processes of intervention, measurement, execution and evaluation of results, dimensions of the quality of social intervention and the dynamisation and participative action of the participating subjects. Social intervention is developed in collaboration with different groups: minorities, people with functional diversity, drug addicts, the mentally ill, the homeless, the unemployed... Analysing reality from the origin of the problem is our main calling card.
- NAVARRO PEREZ, JOSE JAVIER
- Alumn.-Servei de Formacio Permanent
- Director/a de Servei General
- BOTIJA YAGUE, MERCEDES
- Alumn.-Servei de Formacio Permanent
- CANET BENAVENT, ENCARNA
- PDI-Prof. Permanent Laboral Ppl
- CARAVANTES LOPEZ DE LERMA, GLORIA MARIA
- Alumn.-Servei de Formacio Permanent
- CARBONELL MARQUES, ANGELA
- PDI-Ajudant Doctor/A
- Coordinador/a Curs
- GALAN SANANTONIO, ALBA
- Doctorand.
- Alumn.-Servei de Formacio Permanent
- CAPELLA CASTILLO, SERGIO
- PDI-Ajudant Doctor/A
- ExpandirNAVARRO PEREZ, JOSE JAVIERAlumn.-Servei de Formacio PermanentDirector/a de Servei General
Partners
- Alessandra Carvalho De Sousa - Universidade Federal da Paraíba (Brasil).
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Av. dels Tarongers, 4b
46021 València (València)
- NAVARRO PEREZ, JOSE JAVIER
- Alumn.-Servei de Formacio Permanent
- Director/a de Servei General