Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Faculty Member, Psychology and Educational Sciences

Other Affiliations: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Anthropology

Profesor ayudante

Thesis Title: Las lógicas del telecuidado: La fabricación de la 'autonomía conectada' en la teleasistencia para personas mayores

About

In February 2011 I have joined UOC's Psychology and Education department in Barcelona to act as 'profesor ayudante', after a long time working as a researcher at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid's General Psychology and Social Anthropology Departments.

Besides my teaching duties, I am currently writing my PhD thesis (Las lógicas del telecuidado: La fabricación de la 'autonomía conectada' en la teleasistencia para personas mayores / The logics of telecare: The fabrication of 'connected autonomy' in telecare for older people), an ethnographic project on home telecare devices for older people in the region of Madrid (Spain).

In my PhD I focus especifically on the practices of implementation and use of home telecare devices through which certain articulations of subjects, social contacts and care spaces emerge out. 

Main research topics
- Science and technology studies
- Infrastructures of the everyday life
- Politics of care and social protection
- Embodiment and modes of subjectivation
- Dwelling practices and built environments

Research groups
- Member of ATIC (Social action and technology research group), Universitat Oberta de Catalunya: http://aticresearchgroup.net/
- Collaborator of GESCIT (Group for the Social Study of Science and Technology), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: http://psicologiasocial.uab.es/gescit/

Other research activities
From January 2009 to December 2010 I have been Student Representative Member of the EASST Council (European Association for the Study of Science and Technology - www.easst.net ). This has led me to be part of the Programme Committee of the forthcoming EASST_010 conference in Trento (Italy), co-ordinating the student activities: http://events.unitn.it/en/easst010

Between Octobter 2009 and January 2010 I have been visiting PhD student at the Centre for Science Studies, Dpt of Sociology, Lancaster University under the supervision of Maggie Mort: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/centres/css/

Since 2004 I am member of the Editorial Board of AIBR. Revista de Antropología Iberoamericana  (quarterly journal of Anthropology in Spanish): www.aibr.org

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