2013 Best Paper Prize- Cambridge Journal of Education to Ramon Flecha and Marta Soler

The Cambridge Journal of Education has awarded the 2013 Best Paper Prize to Ramón Flecha and Marta Soler for their paper entitled ‘Turning difficulties into possibilities: engaging Roma families and students in school through dialogic learning’. Congratulations! Access the paper online here  Read More

ORCID meets SSH Workshops at the University of Barcelona

On the 15th of May, the University of Barcelona hosted a workshop entitled Social Sciences and Humanities meet ORCID: towards a fruitful collaboration, attended by more than 70 researchers from over 25 departments and diverse research groups in SSH with a focus on Law, Human Rights, Linguistics, Communication and Media, Education, Demographic studies, from 7 Catalan universities. The... Read More

Conference ‘Health Literacy and Social Justice’

Conference ‘Health Literacy and Social Justice’   BY PROFESSOR RIMA RUDD, SENIOR LECTURER ON HEALTH LITERACY, EDUCATION AND POLICY- HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, AND LEADING PROPONENT OF “HEALTH LITERACY”.   International Sociological Debates Universitat de Barcelona (ISDUB) Date: Tuesday 29th April Time: 11:00 h. Place: Aula Magna of the Faculty of Economics... Read More

Upcoming IMPACT-EV Kick-Off meeting

Past January 1st, the IMPACT-EV project was launched. The main goal of IMPACT-EV is to develop a permanent system of selection, monitoring and evaluation of the various impacts of Social Sciences and the Humanities (SSH) research. During the following four years (2013-2017) the team will expand existing knowledge on scientific, political and social impact in order to support SSH... Read More

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

CREA joined the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Plataforma contra les Violències de Gènere    Read More

Ramón Flecha receives from Griñan the Gold Medal of Merit in Education. Our most warm congratulations!

Photo: Europa Press New published in Europa Press: Griñán preside la entrega de los Premios al Mérito Educativo con un alegato contra el “disparate” de reducir becas Video is available in:  http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/presidencia/portavoz/080313 (from min. 31.30 al 37.30)    Read More

Support to Social Sciences and Humanities in Horizon 2020

Right now, the budget for the next Framework Programme for Research of the European Commission, Horizon 2020, is being discussed. The presence and specificity of our discipline in European research priorities had been questioned and, thanks to your letters, the European Parliament decided there had to be a specific Challenge on SSH. Now there is another key point: there is imminent... Read More

MICHAEL BUROWAY at UB, 7TH OF MARCH: “NEW SOCIAL THEORY FOR NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENTS”

Next Thursday March 7th, at 4 PM, at the Aula Magna of the School of Economics and Business, will be with us the professor MICHAEL BURAWOY, from the Department of Sociology at the University of California-Berkeley and currently President of the International Sociological Association (ISA), who will speak about:  ”NEW SOCIAL THEORY FOR NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENTS” Burawoy is known... Read More

Lídia Puigvert has been invited to an “Exposure Dialogue on Law & Informality” in Ahmedabad, INDIA from January 27-February 2nd., 2013.

Organized by the WIEGO network, HARVARD University –Jackie Bhabha, Lucie White and Marty Chen. which is also the International Coordinator of WIEGO Network and the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) of India.  The purpose of the Exposure Dialogue was to examine the legal framework and system through the lens of the lived reality of informal workers.  The participants... Read More

Check out the latest articles we have published in indexed journals in international rankings of quality, ISI JCR, ERIH and LATINDEX

You can check here the latest articles published in indexed journals of international ranking, such as ISI JCR, ERIH and LATINDEX. Scripta Nova (ISI JCR, Geography) Avalaible in: http://www.ub.edu/geocrit/nova.htm Special issue: “DEMOCRACIA PARTICIPATIVA E INNOVACIÓN SOCIAL EN EL TERRITORIO” Coordinator: Marta Soler Articles avalaible: Aubert, A., Serradell, O. & Soler,... Read More

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