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.
GABRIELA FAUTH
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
PhD in Law. Expert in the right to the city, the city and the environment, vulnerability, social efficacy of the norm, legal pluralism and diffuse and collective rights.
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.
JOSEP VIVAS ELIAS
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
PhD in Social Psychology. Expert in city psychology, city space theory, qualitative methodologies for city research, urban ethnography, urban drifts, city observation.
MARIELA IGLESIAS
Independent researcher
Masters in Politics, Projects and City Management. Expert in public policies and urban planning, urban vulnerabilities and transformation of public spaces.
MIRELA FIORI
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
PhD in Management and Urban Evaluation. Expert in reconversion and rehabilitation of urban fabrics, especially historic centres; processes of revaluation and expulsion of populations; public space, habitability.
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