Relevant links outside academia

Working with healthcare institutions (research on health professionals’ wellbeing, satisfaction and working conditions); prison, mental health and social care institutions (ethnographic research on care, vulnerability and artistic practices); municipalities and intermunicipal organisations (community development, social innovation and territorial studies); cultural associations and community groups (intangible cultural heritage, ageing and community wellbeing); renewable energy communities (citizen participation and social engagement); third-sector organisations (social intervention and community-based initiatives); local communities in low-density territories (participatory research on memory, care and cultural participation).

Expertise

• Pragmatic sociological analysis of vulnerability, recognition and moral life in institutional and community settings.
• Ethnographic and qualitative research on artistic creation, subjectivation and everyday experiences of care in contexts of social and health vulnerability.
• Investigation of ageing, dementia and care practices, with a focus on wellbeing, social participation and community resilience.
• Research on intangible cultural heritage, cultural participation and their contribution to community wellbeing and healthy ageing.
• Development of community-based and participatory research approaches in low-density territories, focusing on memory, identity and social cohesion.
• Application of qualitative, ethnographic and arts-based methodologies to the study of health, care and social intervention.