
Josep
Vivas Elias
Associate Professor
Department: Psychology and Educational Sciences Department
Unit: Culture, creativity, social justice, critical thinking, humanities
Research group: CitiesLab CitiesLab. Interdisciplinary urban studies laboratory
Email: pvivasi@uoc.edu
Doctor by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona with the thesis La Cerdanya, una ciutat al tombant del mil·leni? Metamorfosi de lespai, la identitat i el paisatge cerdà 2006. Supervised by Dr. Lupicinio Íñiguez-Rueda.
Associate professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences (UOC). PhD in Social Psychology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2004). Master's degree in Environmental Intervention, University of Barcelona (1999). His academic and research endeavours explore city psychology from a critical perspective and the use of qualitative techniques for the study of urban environments. Researcher of the Research Group on Interaction and Social Change (GRICS) of the University of Barcelona and in the Interdisciplinary Urban Studies Laboratory (CitiesLab) of the Open University of Catalonia. He is a member of the editorial committee of URBS. Journal of Urban Studies and Social Sciences and, also, of the editorial committee of the Athenea Digital. Journal of Thought and Social Research. His research interests are linked to forms and processes of social, economic and political organization in today's cities, while undertaking critical reflection and problematization.