UB - Universitat de Barcelona, Department of Social Psychology and Quantitative Psychology has high qualified staff members with competence in Social Psychology and researcher at the Observatory of the Penal System and Human Rights.
Moisés Carmona Monferrer
Spanish coordinator of the PROVA project
PhD in community psychology (University of Barcelona), and citizen participation postgraduate (Autonomous University of Barcelona). Lecturer on Community Psychologist and Applied Social Psychologist at UB. Researcher of community Development, citizens’ participations and the use of arts to promote citizens’ participation. He is the responsible for the programmer of the methodologies and tools for Psychological Intervention of Master’s in Psychosocial Intervention at UB. He has organized several workshops, work exchanges and study trips in the field of local, regional and national projects funded by Barcelona city Council, Catalonia Regional Government and the Spanish Government.
Ruben David Fernández
Senior researcher of PROVA project
Social Community Psychologist. Associate professor in the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Barcelona. Project Manager un Community intervention, social engagement and local development. Mentor in participatory action research in the masters course Participation and Local Policies, Autonomous University of Barcelona. He has expertise in community development and organising, empowerment, social development, community work, social engagement and social communication.
Javier Serrano
Senior researcher of PROVA project
PhD. Social Psychologist. Lecturer in Cultural psychology and Political psychology, at the University of Barcelona. How Culture constituted the human subjectivity is his main concern of study. Researcher of psychological factors involved in the ethical and political project of an intercultural society, is interested in emotional dimension of ethnic and cultural relations, particularly the role of fear in the social imagination. Another focus of research is the relation between democracy and mind, and how to develop a democratic mind in contemporary societies, and his psychological limits. As a coordinator of the Communitarian, Political and Cultural Study Group he is involved in promoting hermeneutics as an epistemological and methodological perspective for analysing cultural and psychological phenomena.
Josep García-Borés
Senior researcher of PROVA project
PhD in Social Psychology (University of Barcelona). Professor on Cultural psychology, Social Psychology and Criminology at the University of Barcelona. He is an active researcher at the Observatory of the Penal System and Human Rights (OSPDH).
Andres Di Maso
Researcher of PROVA project
PhD in Social Psychology (2009) and lecturer of applied social psychology, political psychology and cultural psychology at the University of Barcelona. And Lecturer in Psychosocial Intervention Master’s Degree (UB) and in Criminology and Sociology-Criminal Law Master's Degree (UB). He has been visiting research fellow at the University of Lancaster (UK) where he developed part of his PhD on the conflict in the public space and discursive strategies of legitimation and contestation of urban transformation. Currently his research focuses on two main lines of work: (1) daily political representation of public space (creation, subversion, transformation and visions and practices censorship regulations on the uses and management of public space) and (2) the rhetoric ideological role in legitimising territorial relations of exclusion and subordination (migration, xenophobia, nationalism.
Carmen González García
Researcher of PROVA project
Social and Community psychologist. Master Degree in Psychosocial Intervention. She is facilitating participatory action research processes and community actions. She is also involved in the evaluation of programs through the use of qualitative methodologies. Her research interests are citizens’ participation, community development, empowerment, social exclusion and public space.