Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Professor Agregat IN3 - Internet Interdisciplinary Institute

Expert in::

  • Disaster Risk Reduction
  • Qualitative methodologies
  • Disability studies
  • activism
  • science technology and society
  • crisis communication
  • collaborative methodologies
Research group
CareNet
Area
Social sciences
Area of specialization
Digital health, Network society, City and Community,
Membership Center
Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3)
UNESCO codes:
6114, 63
Collaborates with
e-Health Center

ODS:

  • 10 - Reduced inequalities
  • 11 - Sustainable cities and communities
  • 13 - Climate action
  • 3 - Health and well-being

Israel Rodríguez Giralt is an associate professor and coordinator of the CareNet research group at the UOC's Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3). He has a PhD in Social Psychology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). His research focuses on forms of activism, public participation and debate in situations of great uncertainty, such as ecological crises, disasters and pandemics. His recent projects deal with the relationship between care and disasters, focusing particularly on those who are habitually disadvantaged in crises and emergencies, such as the elderly, people with disabilities and young people. During the COVID-19 pandemic he was a member of advisory groups working with the Government of Catalonia. Israel Rodríguez Giralt is the editor of the books Children and Young People's Participation in Disaster Risk Reduction (Policy Press, 2020), Reassembling Activism, Activating Assemblages (Routledge, 2019) and Disasters and Politics: Materials, Experiments and Preparedness (Wiley/Blackwell, 2014).