Reviewing activities and scientific evaluation
Reviewing activities and scientific evaluation
2025 Program Board Member of the HCI International 2026. ITAP: 12th International Conference on Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population (please see: https://2026.hci.international/itap ) Montreal, July, 26-31.
2024-25 Assigned Expert Project Reviewer. Research Executive Agency, REA, European Commission
Expert Evaluator for Horizon Europe, European Commission
Expert Evaluator for Fulbright Fellowships, Spanish Commission
Expert Reviewer for high-impact scientific journals
2024-25 Guest Editor of a special issue for the International Journal of Housing Policy
2024- Member of the Ethical Committee for Research into People, Society and the Environment (CEIPSA) at Rovira i Virgili University (URV).
2023-24 Guest Editor of a thematic issue for the Journal of Care and Caring. Bristol University Press 2022- Expert evaluator for EC (REA) for the programme: Horizon Europe
2024 Member of the Jury for the Young Sociologist Award from the Catalan Sociological Association
2016 Expert evaluator COST Action, European Commission
2015-16 Guest Editor of a special issue for the Journal of Social Service Research
2006- Expert evaluator for PhD Fulbright Fellowships
Supervision of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows
2024-25 Giuseppe Gaballo. University of Foggia (Italy). Supervision of his secondment on ageing studies
2022-23 Hosting and supervising, the Ph D Student, Caterina Filareti, in her Ph D dissertation about patient experience during oncologic treatments.
2020-23 Supervision of PhD student Karen A. E. Hall, Fellow of the program Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 713679 (CO-FOUND SoCaTel H20202 GA No 769975) for people with special needs. Dissertation: Thriving in confinement with functional diversity: the role of technology and autoethnography (Defence: 18.01.23), URV
2022 Hosting and supervising an international postdoctoral researcher: Dr Luca Benvenga. Università del Salento, Italy (1st-30th March 2022)
2021– Currently supervising four PhD students, one from the Anthropology PhD program and three from the Social Work PhD program
2017 Hosting and supervising a CONACYT fellowship master’s student from the Benemérita Autonomous University of Puebla, BUAP, Mexico (6th March-4th June 2018), URV, Spain
2016 Hosting visiting scholars: Professor Anneli Anttonen from the University of Tampere (17th-26th February 2016)
2016 Hosting visiting scholars: Prof. Sigurveig Sigurdardóttir, Dean of Social Work at the University of Iceland (17th October-1st December, 2016) at URV
2014 Hosting and supervising Gábor Zsüdi from the University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovakia. Fellow of the program Short-Term Scientific Mission from the project COST Action IS1102 Social services, welfare states and places (April 2014)
2011-14 Supervising PhD student Didem Doganyilmaz AGAUR fellowship (Catalan Research Agency). Dissertation: How far religious freedom goes in a laic state: alevis of Turkey. (Defence: 18.03.14), URV
2013 Mentoring two postdoctoral researchers to be fellows in the program Short-Term Scientific Mission from the project COST Action IS1102 Social services, welfare states and places at the University of Leeds and at the Università degli Studi Milan-Biccoca.