Associate Professor since 2004. Research interests: development, adaptation and validation of assessment instruments, structural equation modelling, alcohol consumption in adolescents, evaluation of selective prevention programs in alcohol consumption

Dolores Frías-Navarro is Full Professor of Research Methods and Designs in the Department of Behavioral Sciences Methodology at the University of Valencia, Spain. She doctor in Psychology. Its scientific production has been developed within the scope of research design and the application of statistical techniques. Statistical cognition, statistical re-education, effect size, meta-research, and the uses and abuses of statistical significance tests are prominent areas of her research unit. From the area of applied research, she has a long career in the study of minority stress (LGBT +, immigrants and other groups) and modern prejudice. Also noteworthy is the work she does on women in Science, the gender gap, the culture of research, the integration of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in university teaching together with the gender perspective and anxiety academic before the evaluation. From the field of teaching, he has carried out several teaching innovation projects making use of new tools for learning research design and data analysis such as cinema, analogies, exam wrappers and critical reading (active) of articles and research reports. She has developed measurement instruments to measure the variables linked to these themes.

Laura Galiana Llinares, with a degree in Teaching in the Field of English language, with Outstanding Graduation Award (2005), degree in Psychology with Outstanding Graduation Award (2010), Msc. degree in Psychogerontology (2012) and PhD in Health and Social Attention to Dependency and Autonomy Promotion with Outstanding Graduation Award (2015). She currently works as a Professor at the Department of Methodology of the Behavioral Sciences of the University of Valencia. She is a member of the research group ARMAQoL, focused on advance research and methodology applied to quality of life. Her research areas include structural equation modeling and their application to the fields of professionals' quality of life, palliative care, and elderly, among others. She has participated in local (Biomed, Valoritza i Transfereix, Universitat de València; Fisabio, Generalitat Valenciana), national (Retos, Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia) and international research projects (GendernetPlus), both as a member of the research group and as the leader researcher. She has several publications in prestigious journals, such as Structural Equation Modeling, European Journal of Psychological Assessment, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, Mindfulness, or Social Indicators Research. 

Fernando García, PhD, is Full Professor of Psychological Methods and Design of Research Studies in the Department of Methodology of the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Valencia, Spain, where he pursues a research agenda on methodology themes—robust statistics, power analysis, and confidence intervals—and measurement techniques of self-esteem and family socialization. He also has conducted research examining the cross-cultural validity of the four-typology model of parenting

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Sara Martínez-Gregorio graduated in Psychology from the University of Valencia (2018), where she continued her studies with the Master's Degree in Secondary Education Teacher, with the specialty in Educational Guidance (2019).  She is a researcher in Training at the University of Valencia (FPU18 / 03710), Doctor in Promotion of Autonomy and Socio-Health Care for Dependency (2023), Extraordinary Doctorate Award.

Her research combines instrumental topics such as the study and development of instruments for measuring and evaluating the effectiveness of interventions. At a substantive level, her research is aimed at the application of statistical techniques to establish explanatory models for the promotion of quality of life in the life cycle, and the promotion of academic success.

In this context, she has carried out research stays at the Università degli Studi di Cagliari (Italy) and Kyoto University (Japan). Likewise, she has been invited by the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) and the Wolaita Sodo University (Ethiopia) to teach courses on methodology and statistics.

Amparo Oliver, female. PhD in Psychology, Full Professor in Quantitative Methods Applied to Behavioral Sciences at University of Valencia, SPAIN. Head of the interdisciplinary PhD program in Promotion of Autonomy and Socio-Sanitary Care. Head of ARMAQoL research group (Advanced Research Methods Applied to Quality of Life, GIUV-2017-359). Four 6-year research periods acknowledged by ANECA. index h: 25, index i10 = 41.

Main domain: Research in advanced statistical models applied to quality of life and welfare promotion. Some particular fields with relevant gender perspective: successful aging; dignity & quality at the end of life (palliative care patients and professionals inner CV); gender violence (diagnostic and intervention); equity and entrepreneurship from education. About 120 publications in journals as Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Structural Equation Modelling, Social Indicators Research, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, European Psychologist, Work & Stress, etc.

Research visits & collaborations with Kenneth A. Bollen (UNC Chapel Hill), Alistair Cheyne (Loughborough University), Barry Schneider (University of Ottawa, currently Boston College); Julian Montoro (UNCC at Charlotte), Shane Sinclair (Calgary), Eve Ekman (San Francisco, USA), David Kissane (Monash University), Michael Silbermann (Middle East Cancer Consortium), in Brasil (CNPq) and Argentina (Prof. Gustavo de Simone, Pallium). Currently in a funded short research stay with Prof. Donna Hicks at Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Harvard (Boston, USA) an active center in Gender Studies (https://wcfia.harvard.edu/people/affiliates/weatherhead-initiative-gender-equity).

Research transference profile includes impact actions dealing to the Award in Research Transference 2016 given by Federation of Valencian Neighborhood Associations. Some nationwide contributions to quality of life promotion are audiovisuals evidence based for aging care: Tú que cuidas, cuídate (Caregiver self-care) and Buenos Recuerdos (Good Memories) on Early detection of Mild Cognitive Impairment. Intervention protocols as GES and KIBO at the end of life. In gender violence with ICT-enabled interventions on adolescence app Liad@s, and convicted abusers (Context Program with Prof. Lila). Finalist in International Documentary Film Festival MIRADAS.Doc 2013.

Publications:

1. Oliver, A. Tomás, JM, and Montoro-Rodriguez, J. (2017). Dispositional Hope and Life Satisfaction among Older Adults Attending Lifelong Learning Programs.  Archives in Gerontology and Geriatrics,72:80-85. doi: 10.1016/j.archger.2017.05.008. Q2
2. JM Tomás, P Sancho, L Galiana, A Oliver. (2016). A Double Test on the Importance of Spirituality, the “Forgotten Factor”, in Successful Aging. Social Indicators Research, 127 (3), 1377-1389. Q1
3. Fombuena, M., Galiana, L., Barreto, P., Oliver, A., Pascual, A., & Soto, A. (2016). Spirituality in patients with advanced illness: the role of symptom control, resilience and social network. Journal of Health Psychology, 21(12), 2765-2774. Q2.
4. Sansó, N., Galiana, L., Oliver, A, Pascual, A., Sinclair, S., & Benito, E. (2015). Palliative Care Professionals’ Inner Life: Exploring the Relationships Among Awareness, Self-Care and Compassion Satisfaction and Fatigue, Burn Out, and Coping with Death. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2015.02.013. Q1.
5. D Rudilla, L Galiana, A Oliver, P Barreto. (2016). Demoralization Scale in Spanish-speaking palliative care patients. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 51 (4), 769-775. Q1

Projects:

• PSI2014-53280-R. Longitudinal study of successful aging in learning programs throught life: impact on bio-psychosocial welfare. MINECO, I+D Social Challenges 2015-17. IP A. Oliver & JM Tomás.
• Ref: 154/12. Spatial epidemiology of gender violence and characteristics of neighborhoods: A pilot study in the city of Valencia. Institut for Gender Studies (Ministry of Equity & Social Affairs). IP Enrique Gracia, 2013-4.
• Research transference projects regarding Gender & Quality of Life Promotion: Development and validation of Liad@s, the first free psycho-educative App to prevent dating violence in adolescents. Valoritza 2015 I+D funding program. Development & validation of “app 50+”( http://www.app50plus.com/ promoting self-care integrating physical, social and psycho-emotional health in aging, 2018)
• Cross-cultural inner CV in palliative care professionals. IP of the International project, coordinating more than one thousand professionals from Spain, Brazil, Argentina and Chile diagnoses & intervention.

https://webgrec.uv.es/webpages/tmp/ang/H4293.html

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/AmparoOliver

https://www.linkedin.com/in/amparo-oliver/

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For public engagement please have a look at http://gendernet.blogs.uv.es

Alfonso Pitarque, born in Alcaniz (Teruel), graduate in Psychology (University of Valencia, 1984) and PhD in Experimental Psychology (University of Valencia, 1987). I currently work as Assistant Professor in the Department of Methodology at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Valencia, Spain.

My research career has always focused on experimentation in human memory and healthy and pathological aging (see publications). From 1986 to 2013 (during ten consecutive research projects) I was a full-time researcher of the research team led by Prof. Salvador Algarabel at the Experimental Psychology Lab of the University of Valencia. During the 2014-2016 and 2017-2019 trienniums I was the full-time main researcher of the research projects PSI2013-43533-R and PSI2016-77405-R funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. During the 2020-2022 and 2023-2025 trienniums I am a full-time researcher of two research projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation directed by Prof. Dr. Juan Carlos Meléndez.

I have published more than 50 experimental papers about human memory and healthy or pathological aging in journals indexed in Web of Science (see publications), such as Neuropsychology (Q1), Neuropsychology (Q1), Psicothema (Q1), Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition (Q2), Consciousness and Cognition (Q2), Cognition and Emotion (Q2), Scandinavian Journal of Psychology (Q2), Memory (Q2), European Journal of Cognitive Psychology (Q3), The Journal of General Psychology (Q3), etc.

From 1990 to 2017, I was the editorial coordinator, secretary and associate editor of the journal Psicologica (https://psicologicajournal.com) with an impact factor in the JCR-SSCI of Web of Science since 2007 (section: Psychology, Experimental). Currently, Psicologica is the official journal of the Spanish Society of Experimental Psychology (SEPEX: https://websepex.com).

From 2006 to 2010 I was the secretary of the Spanish Society of Experimental Psychology (SEPEX: https://websepex.com).

I have positively evaluated 6 teaching quinquennia (the last for the period 2016-2020) and 5 six-year terms of research by the Spanish Commission to Evaluate the Research Activity (the last for the period 2016-2021).

Outside of my job, I am passionate about mountain biking, travel, and literature.

Juan Carlos Ruiz is Associate Professor in the Department of Methodology of the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Valencia. He teaches Estatistics II in undergraduate degree studies, in the Master's Degree in General Health Psychology and in the Master's Degree in Specialization in Logopedic Intervention. He also teaches in the Doctorate Programme in Clinical and Health Psychology.

   He is the director of the research group "Psychological assessment and intervention in cognition in mental disorder" (TMEIC) and his research activity focuses on the study of cognitive deficits in schizophrenia, the optimization of stimuli material for the study of implicit memory in these patients, and in the development of reduced forms of the WAIS for it's use in schizophrenia. He publishes in journals such as Behavior Research Methods, Frontiers in Psychology and Psychiatry Research. Here you can find some of his publications ORCID.

   He is member of the Spanish Society of Experimental Psychology (SEPEX) and reviewer of the The National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation of Spain (ANECA).

Dr. Jaime Sanmartín is a member of the Research Institute of Traffic and Road Safety of the University of Valencia (INTRAS-UV) and Full Professor of Methodology of the Behavioural Sciences at the University of Valencia. He has directed and authored numerous research studies in the development and application of quantitative methods, psychological tests and questionnaires for studying and evaluating human factors in traffic accidents and road safety. He has extensively worked at the university management staff as Vice-Dean of the Psychology Faculty, Vice-Chancellor of Planning at the University of Valencia, Secretary, Director and member of the foundation team of INTRAS-UV.

Inés Tomás Marco is Professor in the Department of Methodology of the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Valencia. She has a PhD in social psychology and work and organizational psychology, and she is member of the IDOCAL (Research Institute of Personnel Psychology, Organizational Development, and Quality of Working Life). She has published numerous research studies in the discipline in books and international scientific journals such as: Accident, Analysis & Prevention; International Journal of Testing; Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology; Journal of Safety Research; Journal of Vocational Behaviour; Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology; Risk Analysis; Safety Science; Structural Equation Modeling: A multidisciplinary Journal; The Service Industries Journal, etc. She collaborates in different research projects about topics such as demographic diversity and work teams’ performance, safety behavior in high reliability organizations, leadership, organizational climate, employability and overqualification, job quality, and managing and preventing careless responding. In the field of methodology, her main research interests focus on test validity and test fairness, the study of differential item functioning (DIF), and how to improve the quality of data in the field of psychological research by preventing and managing careless responding. She is member of the Advisory Board of Methodology, the official organ of the European Association of Methodology (EAM).