International conferences
2025 Robotics to support ageing and social inclusion in nursing homes: MyRobot project, an ethical approach. Blanca Deusdad. Transforming Care Conference. Thematic Panel: 6. Digital technology and care: resources, rights and risks.Universidad de Helsinki. Helsinki, June, 25-27
2025 MyRobot. Human-Robot Interaction with older adults suffering from dementia: a methodological qualitative approach. Blanca Deusdad, Fernando Vida & Andreu Català. Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) International Conference, 2025. Gothenburg, June, 22-27.
2025 Conference of the Spanish Anthropologist Association (ASAEE). Implicaciones éticas y sociales del uso de robots con personas mayores con demencia: el proyecto MyRobot Ethical and social implications of using robots with people with dementia: MyRobot Project. Blanca Deusdad y Fernando Vidal. University of La Laguna. Tenerife, 2-5 September
2025 Chair on ‘Healthcare de-institutionalisation’ a the IX International Colloquium MARC (Medical Anthropology Research Center) Ageing and health: challenges and opportunities in ageing societies. Universitat Rovira I Virgili. Tarragona, 3-5 June.
2024 Blanca Deusdad. Adaptability of senior co-housing to the COVID-19 pandemic as anti-ageist practices. European Networking for Housing Research (ENHR) Annual Conference. Delft (The Netherlands).
2024 Service Learning Intergenerational Activity with older people with dementia. With Gerontologic Social Work students. (URV). Service-Learning project with URV students and the Association of Families with people of dementia in Tarragona. Social WG at the Catalan Geriatric and Gerontologic Association (SCGIG) Medical Academia, Barcelona.
2023 Blanca Deusdad. Housing and Ageism. European Networking for Housing Research (ENHR) Annual Conference. Lödz, (Poland).
2023. Blanca Deusdad. Digital co-creation as an innovation tool to face new long-term care needs for older adults in a context of Pandemic (COVID-19). The SoCaTel project (H2020)”. 8th Catalan Sociological Association International Conference. Barcelona.
2023 Coordination of a panel on the Social Working Group of the Association. 27th Conference of the Catalan Geriatric and Gerontologic Association.
2023 Coordination of a panel on Making visible older adults in our societies. 27th Conference of the Catalan Geriatric and Gerontologic Association.
2022 Karen A. E, Hall, Blanca Deusdad, Isabella Riccò and Marija Djurdjevic. Being a PhD student with functional diversity studying abroad during Covid-19. The CoE AgeCare’s Mid-Term Congress ‘Longer lives, better care?’, Tampere, Finland.
2021 Dr. Blanca Deusdad, Jon Switters, Oscar Zanutto, Marija Djurdjevic and Isabella Riccò. Digital Co-creation: the case of the SoCaTel project (H2020). European Sociological Conference: ‘Sociological Knowledge for alternative futures’. University of Barcelona
2021 Karen A.E Hall; Dr. Blanca Deusdad, Manuel; D’Hers Del Pozo and Prof. Ángel Martinez. Effects on People Ageing with Functional Diversity: Narratives of a Double Discrimination. European Sociological Conference: ‘Sociological Knowledge for alternative futures’. University of Barcelona.
2021 Josep Maria Ranchal; Blanca Deusdad and Isabella Riccò. The SoCaTel platform: co-creating long-term care services. IV International Conference of Social Work (CIFETS 2021) and XIII Conference of Faculties and Schools of Social Work: ‘Social Work in the digital Era: ethics and care’. University of Valencia.
2021 Blanca Deusdad. Building virtual communities to cope with ageing and care needs: the case of the SoCaTel platform European Sociaological Association Research Network on Ageing in Europe (RN01) Midterm Conference (Centre AgeCare. University of Jyväskylä, on-line)
2019 Blanca Deusdad and Virpi Timonen. Chair Thematic Panel 4: Technology for care and living: solutions and challenges. 4th Transforming Care Conference. VIVE. The Danish Centre for Social Science Reserach. Copenhagen (Denmark).
2019. Blanca Deusdad (URV), Luciana Lolich (TCD), Virpi Timonen (TCD), Isabella Riccò (URV), Austin Waters (HSE), Anne McDonald (HSE) and Josep Ranchal (Vilanova Municipal Social Services). Methodological developments and innovation in social work research, capacity building and co-creation of knowledge in social work research. European Conference for Social Work Research (ECSWR). Leuven (Belgium). European Social Work Reserach Association.
2019 Blanca Deusdad and Isabella Riccò SoCaTel and digitalizing co-creation. PUBSIC Conference. Innovation in Public Services and Public Policy. Bocconi University. Milano (Italy).
2018 Blanca Deusdad, Isabella Riccò and Josep Ranchal. Digitalisation of the Spanish long-term care Act (LAPAD): profesional perception, informal caregivers and older adults. Spanish Network of Social Policies. Red Española de Políticas Sociales, REPS. Zaragoza, Spain.
2018 Participation in the Kick-off Conference of the Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care (CoE AgeCare), University of Jyväskyla (Finland).
2018 Blanca Deusdad. Participation in the seminar: ‘Towards new perspectives of co-creation in public services’ Organised by H2020 CoSIE at the Committee of Regions, Brussels (Belgium).
2017 Blanca Deusdad. SoCaTel. A multi-stakeholder co-creation platform for better access to social services. International Federation of Social Work Conference. Marginalisation and social work in a changing society. University of Iceland. (Reykjavik, Iceland)
2017 Blanca Deusdad and Outi Yolanki. Collaborative Housing. European Networking for Housing Research (ENHR) Annual Conference. POLIS University. Tirana (Albania).
2017 Dolors Comas d’Argemir, Blanca Deusdad and Natalia Alonso. Male caregivers of their wives-. VII Catalan Conference of Sociology. University Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Spain)
2016 Blanca Deusdad. Challenges of ageing-in-place in urban places: the case of the city of Tarragona at the symposium: ‘Ageism and the city: Representations of older people in urban development’. Good aging-better society. The 23rd Nordic Congress of Gerontology (23 NKG). Tampere, Finland.
2016 Blanca Deusdad. Long-term care in Spain: The Impact of the Economic Crisis on Social Policies and its effects on older adults with care needs. Annual Conference of the Anthropology Association of Ireland. Caring cultures Maynooth University (Ireland).
2014 Blanca Deusdad. Caring for older adults, solidarity responses facing the economic crisis. International Conference of Faculties and Schools of Social Work: Social Work challenges in front the crisis. University of Murcia (Murcia, Spain)
2014 Blanca Deusdad. Language Codes and Production of Meanings in Emergency Calls of Domestic Violence. XVIII ISA Conference. International Sociological Association Conference: “Facing and Unequal World: Challenges for Global Sociology”. Yokohama, Japan.
2013 Blanca Deusdad. Elderly on the Move: Health Equity and Care Citizenship. EASA Medical Anthropology Network. AAA Society for Medical Anthropology Encounters and Engagements: Creating New Agendas for Medical Anthropology. Rovira i Virgili University (Tarragona, Spain).
2012 Blanca Deusdad. Gender Violence and migrant women at the American boarder: El Paso (TX, USA). IX Conference of Faculties and Schools of Social Work: Social Work in front of a changing world.
2012 Blanca Deusdad, Joaquim Prats and Concha Fuentes. Stereotypes built through image and gesture. The Second ISA Forum of Sociology (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
2011 Blanca Deusdad. Intercultual Eduation in Catalonia (Spain): Integration and Ethnicity. ENSACT (European Network for Social Action). Sustainable Social Development and Economic Challenges. Université Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels, Belgium)
2011 Blanca Deusdad. Intercultural Education in Catalonia: Ethnicity and Gender. Conference: Multiculturalism and Gender in France, Catalonia, Britain, Canada and the United States (Le Havre, France)
2011 Blanca Deusdad. Intercultural Education in Catalonia: Ethnicity and Integration American Sociological Association (ASA). Annual Meeting. Social Conflict Multiple Dimensions and Arenas (Las Vegas, USA)
2011 Lecture on Intercultural Education in Catalonia: Finding in a new social reality at the Dept. Anthropology and Sociology, University of Texas at El Paso, UTEP (TX, USA).
2011 Blanca Deusdad. Intercultural Education in Catalan High Schools: ethnographies hidden. XII Spanish Conference of Anthropology (FAAEE). Places, times and memories. (León, Spain)
2010 Blanca Deusdad. Intercultural education in Catalonia: The Moroccan community. XII Encuentro del Foro de Investigadores del Mundo Árabe y Musulmán (FIMAM), University Autonomous of Barcelon (Bellaterra, Spain)