Transdisciplinary research on contemporary social challenges

People

We are a group of researchers and educators from different disciplines and areas of knowledge who converge in Nodes to carry out transdisciplinary research with a social perspective.


ADRIANA ORNELLAS

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
PhD in Education. Expert in emerging technologies for learning in contemporary society, ICT teacher training, new literacies, e-learning and computational thinking.


ALINE MARTINS

Escola Superior de Relacions Públiques – Universitat de Barcelona
PhD in Communication. Expert in advertising, digital marketing and digital media, with special emphasis on the interactions between gender communication, diversity and Human Rights.


AMALIA CREUS

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
PhD in Visual Arts. Expert in communication and education, cultural studies and visual culture. Specialist in narrative research methodologies and visual methods.


CRIS LADAGA

Universidad Nacional de La Plata
PhD in Communication. Expert in visual design, education, communication and new technologies, interaction logics and accessible digital resources.


GEMMA XARLES I JUBANY

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
PhD student in Educational Research. Expert on the intersection between education and social justice, online education, refugees and displaced people in education and democratisation of the internationalisation of HE.


INES MARTINS

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
PhD in Psychology. Expert in communication and design, semiotics and visual analysis, representation, diversity and gender studies.


ISAMÉLIA CARVALHO

Independent researcher
PhD in Social Psychology. Expert in city psychology, city space theory, qualitative methodologies for city research, urban ethnography, urban drifts, city observation.


PhD Students

Research training is a key activity of our group. Currently, the following doctoral students are developing their doctoral theses within the framework of Nodes research lines: 


QUIM DEZA ARTIAGA

Doctoral Programme in Humanities and Communication, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Title / thesis topic: The process of importation and consolidation of the Motoclub subculture in Spain. An ethnographic and semiotic study.

Director/s: Amalia Creus and Lluc Massaguer


CYRIL BLONDET VARGAS

Doctoral Programme in Education and ICT, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Title / thesis topic: The effect of feedback on the learning experience in a SPOC: a case study in higher education.

Director/s: Amalia Creus and Agustí Canals


MARTTA JOAN GIRALT-HERNÁNDEZ

PhD Programme in Society, Technology and Culture, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Title / thesis topic: Building social design co-creation methodologies, from an intersectional feminist perspective.

Director/s: Amalia Creus and Ines Martins


STEFAN REINDI

PhD Programme in Society, Technology and Culture, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Title / thesis topic: Asynchronous Online Learning in Higher Education: A study of diverse Students’ Experiences in their Technology-based distance-taught Degree Programs at a Chinese University.

Director/s: Amalia Creus


MARIA MÉNDEZ CAÑÓN

Doctoral Programme in Education and ICT, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Title / thesis topic: Design, implementation and evaluation of a conceptual and methodological framework for virtual service-learning in online university environments.

Director/s: Adriana Ornellas and Amalia Creus


FRANCISCO ROCA PÉREZ

Doctoral Programme in Education and ICT, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Title / thesis topic: The education of women managers in the sports industry: situation, challenges and scenarios for improvement in Spain.

Director/s: Adriana Ornellas


Contacto: nodes_grup@uoc.edu

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