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Social Sciences - 17.05.2023
Coercive policies are used predominantly with youth gangs despite their lack of efficacy, according to a UPF study
Coercive policies are used predominantly with youth gangs despite their lack of efficacy, according to a UPF study
Health - Social Sciences - 05.05.2023
A European project led by the University of Valencia explains how to prevent arterial hypertension in children and adolescents
A European project led by the University of Valencia explains how to prevent arterial hypertension in children and adolescents
The European project COST HyperChildNET, led by the University of Valencia and with the objective of preventing arterial hypertension in children and adolescents, has elaborated, in collaboration with
Social Sciences - Campus - 17.04.2023
Raewyn Connell, a reference in gender studies and an advocate for social justice, has been awarded an honorary doctorate by UPF
Social Sciences - 09.02.2023
Reading aloud: growing beyond reading
Reading aloud: growing beyond reading
Career - Social Sciences - 26.01.2023
The University of Valencia and Labora present two reports on the situation of teleworking and employment on digital platforms
The University of Valencia and Labora present two reports on the situation of teleworking and employment on digital platforms
Environment - Social Sciences - 19.01.2023
The University of Valencia participates in the program that unites science and politics in the face of the challenges of the green transition and sustainability
Social Sciences - Art and Design - 29.12.2022
Teaching students consider themselves feminists but have prejudices towards works of art based on the gender of the artist
Teaching students consider themselves feminists but have prejudices towards works of art based on the gender of the artist
Health - Social Sciences - 19.12.2022
Record fundraising for the Solidarity Basket
Record fundraising for the Solidarity Basket
Social Sciences - 13.12.2022
A seminar reflects on the intercultural cities experience in Spain and Italy
Social Sciences - Career - 12.12.2022
Josep Vicent Pérez Cosín, new director of IIDL
Social Sciences - Event - 25.11.2022
The IcMol of the University of Valencia participates in IgualmentFest, which celebrates gender equality with an artistic and social perspective
Social Sciences - 24.11.2022
The UB supports the homeless
Social Sciences - Campus - 22.11.2022
The UB mobilises against gender-based violence
Health - Social Sciences - 18.11.2022
First citizen science chatbot opens up research on mental health
First citizen science chatbot opens up research on mental health
More than 80 people gathered on Friday 18 at the Royal Academy of Medicine of Catalonia (Barcelona) for the first Mental Health Community Assembly of the CoActuamos para la Salud Mental project, in which the results of a collaborative process developed over the last three years were presented.
Health - Social Sciences - 03.11.2022
International study on COVID-19 offers practical recommendations to end this threat against public health
International study on COVID-19 offers practical recommendations to end this threat against public health
SARS-CoV-2 is still around us. Although some governments have turned this page, a study published today in the journal Nature states that efforts and specific resources are still necessary to save lives.
Social Sciences - Campus - 21.10.2022
Social sciences, from a gender perspective
Philosophy - Social Sciences - 19.10.2022
Publications and Editions publishes the first translation of philosopher and activist Jane Addams’ ’Democracy and Social Ethics’ into Catalan
Life Sciences - Social Sciences - 17.10.2022
Launched a research on adolescent stress taking into account the peculiarities in women
Launched a research on adolescent stress taking into account the peculiarities in women
Social Sciences - Psychology - 30.09.2022
Primatology: challenges and new frontiers of knowledge for the 21st century
Primatology: challenges and new frontiers of knowledge for the 21st century
Social Sciences - Event - 19.09.2022
The POLIBIENESTAR Institute celebrates its tenth anniversary with more than 55 million euros raised for research
The POLIBIENESTAR Institute celebrates its tenth anniversary with more than 55 million euros raised for research
Social Sciences - 14.07.2022
CHARM-EU signs European Universities Community’s Manifesto
Social Sciences - Pedagogy - 11.07.2022
Methodological tools developed to improve the integration of migrant origin students
Social Sciences - 17.06.2022
The session Memòries Subalternes addresses the struggles of the LGTB+ community
Social Sciences - 02.06.2022
Researchers design a game to collect information on children and adolescents in guardianship and foster care
Social Sciences - 02.06.2022
Rafael Castelló: ’If the middle class disappears or deteriorates, social life will be more conflictive and polarised’
Rafael Castelló, professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology of the University of Valencia (UV), has dedicated part of his career as a researcher to demographic issues and political sociology in the Valencian context.
Social Sciences - 01.06.2022
Women's higher commitment to taking kids to school hinders their integration in the labour market in Valencia
Women’s higher commitment to taking kids to school hinders their integration in the labour market in Valencia
Social Sciences - 22.05.2022
Teachers from one hundred Valencian schools will be trained against child sexual abuse
Psychology - Social Sciences - 12.05.2022
Amparo Luján: ’The addiction to technologies awakens the cerebral systems of pleasure, generates dopamine and makes the behavior repeat itself’
Amparo Lucía Luján Barrera is a researcher at the Department of Psychobiology at the University of Valencia and for years she has been treating addiction to technologies (mobile phones, video games a
Health - Social Sciences - 06.05.2022
10.3% of the Valencian population at risk of vulnerability with intestinal parasitic infections have diarrhoea or abdominal pain
10.3% of the Valencian population at risk of vulnerability with intestinal parasitic infections have diarrhoea or abdominal pain
Researchers from the University of Valencia have studied the presence of enteroparasites (digestive system parasites) in a vulnerable population in the province of Valencia.
Social Sciences - 05.05.2022
A seminar analyses the reality of 'experienced racism'
A seminar analyses the reality of ’experienced racism’
Social Sciences - 08.04.2022
The Valencian middle classes come closer to the lower classes and their living conditions worsen more than in the rest of Spain
The Valencian middle classes come closer to the lower classes and their living conditions worsen more than in the rest of Spain
Social Sciences - 04.04.2022
UC3M creates a new Chair on Sustainability, Social Inclusion, Diversity and Human Rights
Social Sciences - 24.03.2022
New web portal for the Equality Unit
New web portal for the Equality Unit
Social Sciences - 18.03.2022
The effects of the pandemic on cultural heritage
The effects of the pandemic on cultural heritage
Social Sciences - History / Archeology - 09.03.2022
Núria Sara Miras: 'Differences are a source of joy'
Núria Sara Miras: ’Differences are a source of joy’
Social Sciences - Politics - 28.02.2022
Researchers compile in a book the latest studies on racialization in contemporary Europe
UPF researchers compile in a book the latest studies on racialization in contemporary Europe -Racialized Citizenship in Superdiverse Europe-, edited by Zenia Hellgren and Bálint Ébel Bereményi, is an
Environment - Social Sciences - 28.02.2022
Droughts and rising sea levels are the impacts of climate change that will most affect the Mediterranean basin
Droughts and rising sea levels are the impacts of climate change that will most affect the Mediterranean basin
Human-induced climate change is causing a dangerous and generalized perturbation in nature and it is affecting the life of billions of people worldwide.
Social Sciences - Innovation - 07.02.2022
Does the use of social media affect adolescents’ welfare or is it the other way around?
The UPF researcher Isabel Rodríguez de Dios is to study the positive and negative effects of social media on adolescents through the YouthSM project, with the support of the -la Caixa- Foundation.
Social Sciences - Computer Science - 27.01.2022
UPF becomes the new ’hub’ of a management platform to improve the European Social Survey
Diana Zavala Rojas and Danielly Sorato, members of RECSM-UPF and the ESS Core Scientific Team are the principal investigator and software developer of myESS, respectively.
Politics - Social Sciences - 19.01.2022
Remittances sent by immigrants to their countries of origin, one of the most powerful weapons against dictatorships
A book co-written by Abel Escribà-Folch, a professor with the Department of Political and Social Sciences, recently published by Princeton University Press, documents how migrations around the world favour global democracy.
Life Sciences - Social Sciences - 10.01.2022
UPF is the Spanish institution to have received most European Starting Grants in 2021
Health - Social Sciences - 16.12.2021
Child maltreatment increases risk factors related to suicidal behaviour in adolescents
Child maltreatment increases risk factors related to suicidal behaviour in adolescents
An article published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine reveals child maltreatment increases some determining risk factors in adolescents' suicidal behaviours.
Social Sciences - Event - 14.12.2021
The CHIEF project wins one of the Educaweb 2021 awards for its applied research in the fields of culture and education
Pedagogy - Social Sciences - 26.11.2021
A tool to improve children’s cognitive development
In what skills are parent's most proficient in? How can we encourage them to better support children's cognitive, social and language development? We can find it out in no time with PICCOLO, the direct observation tool designed to assess and control the quality of parent-children interactions.
Campus - Social Sciences - 15.11.2021
Half of all students in Compulsory Secondary Education cannot differentiate ’fake news’
Innovation - Social Sciences - 28.10.2021
The CAC, UPF and six bodies from European countries offer schools a test to assess the skills in media and digital education of students aged 14 to 18
Social Sciences - 21.09.2021
Closing ceremony of the course on social and community cooking for youngsters from Zona Nord
Closing ceremony of the course on social and community cooking for youngsters from Zona Nord
Health - Social Sciences - 16.09.2021
Childhood maltreatment alters the HOA-axis activity in early stages of life
Childhood maltreatment alters the HOA-axis activity in early stages of life
A paper published in the journal Psychological Medicine confirms the existence of neurobiological alterations in early stages of life in minors exposed to maltreatment.
Social Sciences - Campus - 16.09.2021
Enlargement of the eutopia european university to three new institutions
Social Sciences - 12.07.2021
The UB starts a reformulation of the teaching model with a session open to the university community
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