Funded by Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Government of Spain

This project analyzes how language rationalization within business organizations shapes ethnic and gender relations. Language becomes a commodity and it is increasingly evaluated in economic terms. One notable aspect of globalization is the increasing importance of worker’s language skills and abilities. Language becomes a raw material in managerial programs. Decisions concern what language and what language properties and styles are essential to minimize transaction costs within the organization and to improve service quality and customer satisfaction. From a sociological approach, our main goal is to understand to what extent these processes of linguistic rationalization of work tend to reproduce social inequalities.

Funded by Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Government of Spain

The low level of intermediate skills, compared to OECD mean, and the predominance of small and medium scale companies (SMEs) in the industrial fabric are both important aspects of the Spanish economic model. Training and innovation (as well as relation between both of them) are part of the solution that has to be taken to respond to the current challenges. But how can this response be developed? How is it working nowadays training and innovation system? In which apects can them be improved? This project aims to com up with proposals to answer the previous questions.  

Funded by Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Goverment of Spain

This research project addresses the gender division of labour effects on the creation of spin-offs from universities. It aims to verify if differences found in self-employment by gender are the same in the creation of spin-offs and it wonders which role plays the university system in the production / reproduction of gender inequality.

Funded by Institut Català de les Dones

This research project addresses the effects of sexual division of labor on the creation of spin-offs in order to verify whether the differences in creating self-employment by gender are also manifested in the creation of spin-offs and which is the role played by the university system in the production and reproduction of gender inequalities.

Funded by Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación

The purpose of this research project is to analyze from a gender perspective, which is the logic behind the social processes of impoverishment and social exclusion that affect women in Spain and how their experience, ie, how they define poverty and its relations with the other elements around them: family, work, social groups, housekeeping, care of dependents. The central focus of research is to compare poverty and differences in the processes of impoverishment and social exclusion among women and men in Spain.

Funded by Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación

This research project addresses, from an interdisciplinary perspective, poverty and exclusion of young people in Spain. The purpose of this research is to figure out the logic behind the processes of impoverishment and social exclusion affecting young people, and how the young people affected live their experience. The nature of social processes we investigated involved the triangulation of data and methods. The results of this research design are subjected to mechanical tests.

Funded by Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Goverment of Spain

The theory of national / regional innovation systems emerged strongly in the nineties. This theory points to the importance of social factors (organizational, institutional, cultural) in the process of creating and applying knowledge. At the same time, some doubts about the technology transfer policies based on 'supply model' developed from the 80 appeared. The objective of this project is to analyze the processes of innovation in Spanish  SMEs, with special attention to the relations with its environment or regional innovation system.

Funded by AGAUR - Generalitat de Catalunya

This research project addresses the role of the Catalan language in the social mobility of children of immigrants living in Catalonia. Given the relative newness of the inclusion of children of immigrants (whether born in Catalonia or coming for porposes of family reunification), the aim of this research is to identify the main trends in order to establish proposals actions on equality and the accommodation of this group. Our starting point is that knowledge of the Catalan language has positive effects on social mobility, which explains the instrumental value of this language.

Funded by Instituto de la Mujer - Ministerio de la Igualdad

This research project adresses the effects of the sexual division of work in the self-employement from an interdisciplinary perspective. About this issue, we wonder to what extend are the inequalities produced in self-employement. The investigation was held in the Mediterranean area of Spain, including four regions: Catalonia, Comunitat Valenciana, Murcia and Andalusia.

Funded by Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad

This research project "Languages and markets: social and linguistic efficiency in European Integration" adresses the relationship between internationalization of economic activity, linguistic capital and social inequality. This relationship can be observed in the Economic and Monetary Union, where not all the companies have the same appropriate linguistic capital to access to the opportunities offered by the free movement of labor, capital, goods and services.  The purpose of the project is to understand the problems of economic efficiency and distribution of resources among social groups in a context of increasing linguistic complexity.