Graduate (1996) and Doctor (2002) in Social Anthropology from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona) and full member of the Philosophy and Social Sciences Section of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans since 2021. He has been secretary of the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Valencia (2003-06), director of the official interuniversity master's degree in Cultural Management at the University of Valencia (2009-14) and vice-dean (2014-18) and dean (2018-2024) of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Valencia and member of the senate of the University of Valeicna (2005-08 and 2018-25). He has been predoctoral research fellow at the University of Nevada (Ren, 1999) and postdoctoral fellow at the Queen'#s University of Belfast (2003), the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Urbaine of the CNRS (Ivry Sud Seine, 2011), at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (Oxford, 2015) and at the Social Anthropology Department of the University of Barcelona. He is the author of several texts and has participated in various research projects on borders and national identities, intangible heritage, emigration of Spanish scientists, urban glocalisation, urban movements and coexistence and neighbourhood relations in multicultural neighbourhoods. He has taught various subjects of Social and Cultural Anthropology in the Degrees in Social Work, Sociology, Human Nutrition and Dietetics, Food Science and Technology and the Double Degree in Sociology and Political and Public Administration Sciences, in the University Master's Degree in Cultural Management and in the Master's Degree in Development Cooperation (specialising in migration). He has been a trainer for various university extension courses, including the Unisocietat and Nau Gran programmes and the course on SDGs and Heritage. In addition, he has participated as a trainer in courses on Intercultural Mediation with immigrants, in Psychosocial Intervention in Multicultural Contexts in Teacher Training Days of the Popular University of Valencia, course on Integration of Immigrants of the IVASP and various continuing education courses of the City Council of Valencia on mediation, social intervention with immigrants and intercultural competences for the attention to citizenship. He is a member and collaborator, respectively, of the research groups MIDICO (Migrations, diversity and Social Cohesion) and ANTROPIA (Anthropology, heritage and cultural imaginaries).

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Current work in the lines of research on citizen participation and social movements, local development and public social responsibility (social clauses).

Studies

• Degree in sociology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Bachelor's Degree Extraordinary Award (1999-2003)
• Erasmus grant - 1 year at the University of East London, UK (2001-2002)
• Master in gender at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Sussex University, UK (2005-2006). Fieldwork in Angola (2 months).
• PhD in international development at the IDS, Sussex University, UK (2012-2016). Fieldwork in Nigeria (6 months). Supervisors: Dr. Rosie McGee & Dr Patta Scott-Villiers. Examiners: Professor Rosalind Eyben (internacional development); Professor Donatella della Porta (social movements).
• Predoctoral scholarships: La Caixa (Master in UK); Mutua Madrileña (PhD in UK).
• Working languages. Advanced in English, French and Portuguese; native in Spanish and Valencian.

Research

• 1st six-year term certificate of research (by the Spanish government) – 2017-2022
• Reviewer in: African Identities, Arxius, Development Policy Review, Iberoamerican Journal of Development Studies, International Development Planning Review, Spanish Journal of Sociology
• Principal Investigator (PI) at the UV, 2025-2027 - "Citizen participation in rural areas of the Valencian Community: Open Councils and Rural Participatory Budgets" (Valencian Government, competitiva emergents, €20.000)
• Co-PI at the University of Castelló, 2022-2023 – “Citizen Participation in rural areas of Castelló” (Valencian Government, partnership, €20,000)
• PI in Milton Keynes at the Open University, postdoc, UK, 2020-2022, under the supervision of Professor Giles Mohan. Studies: “Citizen participation in fragile countries, Myanmar, Nigeria and Zimbabwe” (UKAid, competitive, £224,773) and “Feminist Agroecology in Sao Paulo Brazil" (British Council, competitive, £162,762).
• Full-time researcher in London in the research department of the NGO Christian Aid, 2016-2020. Studies: “Tax discrimination against female vendors in local markets in Nigeria” (Gates Foundation, competitive, £ 10,000); “Substitution models for coca in Peasant Reserve Zones in Colombia” (Christian Aid, own funds, £15,000) ; "Factors that contribute to the improvement of public services in remote areas of Sierra Leone” (UKAid, competitive, £15,000)
• Research member. Studies: "International municipal cooperation in the Valencian Community" with the University of Valencia (Valencian Fund); "Inequalities and youth emancipation - a global comparison" with Oxfam and the University of Lleida (Catalan Government).
• Research interests: citizen participation and deepening democracy (movements, associations, governments); international development; inequalities and poverty; participatory action research; university democratisation and university-civil society collaborations.

Outreach and international experience

• Spain - Coordination of the "Strategic Plan of International Development 2024-2026" for the University Jaume I of Castelló, Vice-Rectorate of Equality, 2023.
• Spain - Courses on citizen participation for civil servants of the Valencian administration, UV, UJI, 2023.
• Various - Research officer and freelance consultant with NGOs and unions, 2006-2012 (6 years). Training and research experience in 23 countries, including Central America, Burundi, Colombia, Philippines, Ghana, India, Morocco, DRC, and Sierra Leone.
• South Africa - Research & Evaluation Officer, Development NGO SARN, 2008 (1 year) – creation of evaluation framework on popular education, multilingual in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish (financed by the Open Society Institute, dvv, ActionAid)
• Portugal - Research officer for the Feminist NGO UMAR, 2007 (1 year) – employment discrimination against women in fishing in the Azores (financed by the Fisheries Department, Government of the Azores)
• Burundi - Research Intern in the NGO CONCERN, 2006 (3 months) – study on catch-up classes in primary education in a postconflict context.
• Belgium, France & Portugal - Research Intern in popular education and gender equality with youth and feminist associations, 2003-2005 (2 years).
• Professional scholarships: Leonardo in Belgium (6 months); EU volunteering in France (1 year); Eurodysée in Portugal (6 months).

Teaching

• 2023-2024. Lecturer, University of València – teacher training, journalism/audiovisual comms, social work, sociology and politics, master in international development, postgraduate course in citizen participation
• 2022-2023. Lecturer, University Jaume I of Castelló – teacher training, audiovisual communication
• 2020-2022. Associate lecturer, University of Valencia – teacher training, social work, secondary school teacher training master
• 2012. Assistant lecturer, IDS, Sussex University, UK – master in participation, masters in international development
• 2008-2011 & 2020-2023. Assistant lecturer, Technical University of València – master in international development
• Teaching/thesis interests: political sociology; activism and social change; international development and decoloniality; poverty and inequalities; sociolinguistics; sociology of education; sociology of communication.

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Sociologist. Specialized in sociology of education, sociology of time and environmental sociology. Since 2018, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Valencia. I am also head of the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology and leader of the Research Group on School Health and Well-being (GISBE) that coordinates the International Workshop on Time Studies in Childhood and Youth. I am member of the Research Group of Schools for Health Europe (SHE), member of the European Sleep Research Society (ESRS), member of the International Association for Time Use Research (IATUR), member of the Spanish Comparative Education Society (SEEC), as well as member of different research committees at the International Sociological Association (ISA), the European Sociological Association (ESA) and the Spanish Sociological Association (FES).

At the moment I am leading the project ‘Student chronotype (mis)match with school time organisation: its effects on health, learning, time use and satisfaction [Kairos]’ project support by Grant PID2021-126846NA-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. My research interest is to shed new light into how time organization might be affecting the life of school age children. I am studying how different school time arrangements affects the life of school age children and their families. Our main assumptions are that 1) human’s social clocks can be better or worst synchronize with our biological clocks, the better synchronized the better our wellbeing, the more efficient we are and the happier we feel; 2) school time organization is the main influence in the time organization of school children, but parents work schedules also have an influence on children times arrangements; 3) human’s cognitive ability increases with age, as well as our capacity to concentrate for longer periods, however different school systems are more or less sensitive to this; 4) human’s circadian cycle delays towards adolescence, if the social clock doesn’t delay accordingly adolescents tend to desynchronize; 5) families have to cope with time organizations which can be more or less synchronized including work, school and the different members of the family circadian cycles, which are variable at different ages.

Regarding my previous research activity, I have worked in public entities of recognized prestige in the field of social sciences such as the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (INGENIO CSIC-UPV) or the Department of Applied Economics (UV). I have directed six research projects, and participated in several other projects, all of them in competitive competition (two European) and five research contracts. The result of my research activity is the co-authorship in ten monographs, twenty-six book chapters and thirty scientific articles. I have got recognized three six-year research periods (sexenios) from 2004-2009, 2010-2015 and 2016-2021.

I have enjoyed two contracts as a researcher and four research grants, all of them in concurrent competitive calls at national level except for an international one financed by PRIME network. I have done research stays at Utrecht University (NL), Tallinn Technical University (EE) and postdoctoral stays at Tallinn University (EE), Helsinki University (FI) and University of Oxford (UK).

As university teacher I have thirteen years of experience and three recognized five-year periods of approved teaching activity (quinquenios), in which I have taught more than 238 credits, a considerable part of them in English, both in regulated courses of BA, MA and post-graduate of different degrees and public universities, with positive scores in evaluations. I have been Erasmus Teacher at Helsinki University, Tallinn University, RANEPA and Lobachevsky University.

I have directed 9 master-thesis at the Master on Attention to Diversity and Inclusive Education (UV) and another 3 at the Master on Inclusive Education (UCV). I have directed 22 final degree works (TFG) at the Faculty of Teacher education, 7 at the Faculty of Social Sciences, 2 at the Faculty of Law (UV) and 1 in the Faculty of Biological Sciences (UV).

Jordi Giner Monfort holds a degree in Sociology and a PhD in Social Sciences. He has participated in various research projects and contracts, with more than 50 publications, including articles, book chapters and monographs. He has been a visiting researcher at Columbia University (New York, USA), the Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS) and the School of Social Policy (both of them in Birmingham, UK). His main line of research focuses on the migrations of the British nationals, with special attention to return movements towards the United Kingdom. In recent years he has started a new line of research on sociology and comics.

Full professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Valencia.

Director of the Institute of Educational Creativity and Innovation and of the Research Group on Critical Theory. 

President of DiscourseNet – International Association of Discourse Studies.

Más información: www.uv.es/herben

Anna Giulia Ingellis, Ph.d. at University 'La Sapienza', Rome - Italy- is associate professor at the Departments of Sociology and Social Anthropology, researcher at the University Institute of Creativity and Educational Innovation (UICIE) and Vice-Dean of Mobility and International Relations at the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Valencia-Spain. She teaches Contemporary Sociological Theory and Quantitative and Qualitative methods in Social Science. Her current research interests are: intra-EU migrations, gender inequality in Southern Europe, youth participation and social change. The great majority of her research has been done In Southern European Countries. She leads the research Group Jovenes, Cambio Social y trabajo (JOCASOT), is member of the Research group MIDICO about migration and coordinate the Migration Observatory of the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Valencia. She leaded the European Project “Free to choose” (February 2017-july 2019) about gender gaps and stereotypes in school-to-work transition in 5 South European countries and have been researcher multiples research projects. She was visiting researcher at the Instituto Gino Germani- (Universidad de Buenos Aires) 2023; CES (University of Coimbra) 2023; WOERCC-School Management (University of Sheffield) 2016. She is currently co-directing 3 Phd thesis about migration, youth precariousness and gender violence.

Monique Leivas Vargas holds a PhD in Local Development and International Cooperation from the Univeristat Politècnica de València (UPV) in 2022, an Official Master's Degree in Development Cooperation from the UPV - Specialisation in Project Management and Development Processes (2015-2017), a Degree in Sociology from the Universitat de València (UV) in 2015, a Diploma in Integration Policies, Advice and Provision of Services to Immigrants from the UV (2011) and a Higher Technician in Social Integration (2008-2010).

She is an assistant lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Valencia. She is a collaborating lecturer in the Master in Development Cooperation (UPV), in the Postgraduate in Innovation for Social and Environmental Transformation of the Universitat Politècnica de València and in the Diploma of Specialisation in Promotion of Citizen Participation of the Universitat de València. She teaches contents directly related to the different paradigms of social research and transformative participatory methodologies that contribute to justice and epistemic liberation in university-society relations, such as participatory video, social mapping, photovoice, collective mapping, among others. She is an expert in educational innovation projects and co-production of knowledge with different social actors and educational institutions at primary, secondary and university level. Some experiences to highlight: ‘From the Body to the City: rethinking our territories from collective research with social mapping’ and Learning in Action developed within the framework of the Master's Degree in Development Cooperation at the UPV.

She is also a collaborating researcher at the INGENIO Institute (CSIC-UPV) from 2015 to date with the collective social innovation team. She started doing her curricular and extracurricular internships in Sociology in the framework of the project ‘Toma Social: creating videos for change’ and, subsequently, she was a Type B Collaboration grant holder for R&D&I activities in the framework of the ADSIDEO Programme (2015) and in the project ‘New Perspectives for rethinking climate change from grassroots social innovation: approach from human development, learning and citizenship (2016-2017)’ funded by the Spanish State Research Agency (Agencia Estatal de Investigación). In the last five years, while developing her doctoral thesis, she participated in different research projects, being hired in the framework of the project ‘Digital social innovation for a participatory, sustainable and inclusive smart city’ funded by the State Research Agency (2021) and in the co-design study of the Engaged Citizen Audit mechanism provided to the Generalitat Valenciana (2022). She is also a researcher in the Multibien Network funded by Cyted.

Her areas of expertise are: citizen participation; transformative participatory methodologies; engaged citizen audit; educational innovation; participatory action research; epistemic justice in higher education and in processes of knowledge co-production between university and society; critical and liberating university extension; education for critical global citizenship; just and eco-social transitions; glocal development and international cooperation.

In these areas she has published articles in scientific journals and book chapters in prestigious national and international publishing houses; she has participated in local, national and international research projects; she has participated as a collaborating researcher in three agreements between the Generalitat Valenciana and the INGENIO Institute (CSIC-UPV) co-designing the mechanism of committed citizen audit and facilitating two pilot projects to evaluate public services and policies at the autonomous level; and she regularly carries out training, dissemination and scientific dissemination activities together with social organisations, universities and public institutions in the Global North and South.

She has carried out internships at the Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica (UNA), the Universidad de Antioquia in Colombia (UdeA), the University of the Free State in South Africa (UFS) and the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Brazil.

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Professor of the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Valencia. 

Doctor in Sociology (2006), with a thesis on the professionals and organizations of the third sector dedicated to the labor insertion of vulnerable population: "Logics of justification in the associative space: an analysis based on the discourse of professionals of the job placement".

Graduate in Sociology and Psychology.

Develops its teaching in the field of sociology of education, especially in the degrees of Teacher, Social Education, Pedagogy, Master of Social Economy (in the specialty of non-profit entities) and the Master of Secondary Teacher Training.

Member of the research group "Transition between training and employment in contexts of social vulnerability TRANSITIONS)", of the University of Valencia OTRI ref. GIUV2013-093), since 1998. Since this, has participated in several research projects, around policies for the social and labor insertion of young people, the Third Sector of social action, social insertion companies, school dropouts, vocational training and transition processes between training and work.

Jordi Mas Grau holds a degree in Sociology and a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Barcelona, with a doctoral thesis entitled “Subjetividades y cuerpos gestionados. Un estudio sobre la patologización y medicalización del transgénero”.

His areas of academic specialization include the study of gender, sexualities and sexual and gender violence. He has carried out several publications and research - both national and international - in the areas of LGBTQphobia, hate speech and hate crimes and social exclusion.

Albert Mora holds a PhD in Sociology, has one degree in Sociology and another one in Social Work, all of them coursed at the University of Valencia. He has worked in several non-governmental organizations and some public administrations, such as Doctors of the World in the Valencian Community (where he was the coordinator of the Center for Health and Social care for Immigrant People) or the CeiMigra Foundation (where he was head of the Intercultural Citizenship School). He has also worked as practitioner trainer in the field of migration, cultural diversity management, interculturalism, and citizenship participation.

Currently, he teaches sociology, methods and techniques of social research, and cooperation development at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology of the University of Valencia (Spain). He is member of the Human Rights Institute of the University of Valencia and has been researcher at different projects funded by the Spanish Government:

• Racism and discrimination: human rights under threat. 2020-2023.
• Diversity and conviviality: human rights as guidelines for action. 2016-2019.
• Human rights, multicultural societies and conflicts. 2013-2016.
• Migration, integration and public policies: rights guarantee and its evaluation. 2010-2013.

He has also been in charge of different research projects commissioned by public administrations, among which stand out the following:

• Design of the Inclusion Plan 2022-2025 of La Vall d´Uixó. La Vall d´Uixó Municipality, 2021.
• Socio-legal report on the situation of immigrant people at the Valencian Community. 2016-2017
• Project on Community Dynamization at the Vallet neighbourhood. Puçol Municipality, 2016-2017.
• Design of the Coexistence and Integration Plan 2016-2019 of La Vall d´Uixó. La Vall d´Uixó Municipality, 2016.

He has been visiting scholar at the Andean Program of Human Rights (Andean University Simón Bolivar of Ecuador, 2010), the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies (University of Copenhagen, 2017 and 2021), the Research Unit on Citizenship and Integration (Aarhus University, 2018), and the Malmö Institute for Migration Studies (Malmö University, 2024). 

Its mains research interests are focused on integration policies, intercultural coexistence, racism and discrimination and guarantee of human rights in multicultural societies.

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Graduated in Social Work and Sociology at the University of Valencia (UV), Víctor Soler Penadés obtained a pre-doctoral grant for the training of research staff from the Generalitat Valenciana from 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2013 (file BFPI/2009/154) which led him to obtain the Diploma of Advanced Studies and the title of Doctor with international mention and cum laude from the same university in 2015.
Specialised in qualitative research and in processes of school success and failure, his doctoral thesis was entitled ‘Deconstructing and reconstructing school success and failure in Compulsory Secondary Education’, under the supervision of Carles Xavier Simó Noguera and José Beltrán Llavador. He has authored numerous publications focusing on the field of early childhood, primary and secondary education, while being a speaker at numerous sociology and education conferences, both nationally and internationally, and participating in various national and international research projects.

In 2012 he carried out an 8-month pre-doctoral stay at the Paulo Freire Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA, USA), under the tutelage of the distinguished Professor Carlos Alberto Torres. Accredited as a doctoral assistant since 2017, he has developed his teaching and research activity at the University of Valencia (UV) from 2009 to 2015, resuming it from 2016 to 2024 at Florida Universitaria (Catarroja), a centre attached to the UV. In October 2024 he obtained a position as assistant doctor for the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology of the UV.
In the field of education, the following aspects stand out in his career (among others):
- Teaching for 8 years at Florida Universitaria (and prior to that, two more years at the UV, as a researcher in training), specifically in the Bachelor's Degrees in Early Childhood Education and Primary Education, teaching the modules of Social Structure and Education and Sociology of Education, as well as tutoring a large number of students in School Internship I, School Internship III and Final Degree Project, as well as in the Master's Degree in Secondary Education, where he has directed numerous Final Master's Degree Projects.

- Teaching carried out at the UV on the Bachelor's Degrees in Early Childhood Education and Primary Education and on the Master's Degree in Secondary Education Teacher Training.
- In-depth study of the notions of success and failure at school as long processes that go beyond the secondary level, as well as their causes, analysing real school trajectories.
- The approach to school well-being and global competence, especially in its sociological sense and from a critical viewpoint aimed at rethinking the school and its objectives as a social institution and transforming agent.
- The exploration of the elements of social stratification within the educational world, as well as the economic costs of phenomena such as school failure, repetition or school dropout in the different stages that make up the educational system.
- Research into alternative methodologies to the traditional teaching-learning model, from a sociological approach.

- Research and participation in projects on children's rights and on the phenomenon of gender violence in adolescence, generating prevention resources for town councils and secondary schools in the Valencian Community.