Highlights

Interview
Social Polarisation, by Míriam Juan Torres
Míriam Juan Torres, researcher at the Othering & Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley and senior advisor at More in Common, tells us all about so-called 'social polarisation' and why it exists.

Activity
Cryptocurrencies and NFTs. The new digital gold
There is a lot of talk about cryptocurrencies and NFTs, but do we really know what they are and what they mean for society in the future? In this series of seminars we will be analysing this question in depth.

Article
Desertified Spain
Some 17.5% of rural territory is exposed simultaneously to high rates of depopulation and of aridity. This study analyses how some factors for mitigating depopulation can have undesired effects, of both a social and an environmental nature.

Article
A systematic review of the research on rural vulnerability
This article presents a systematic review of the literature on rural vulnerability research in order to identify the different trends related to the sources of socio-environmental vulnerability in rural Spain.

Interview
Boredom, by Josefa Ros
Josefa Ros, philosopher and researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid, shares some important information about an experience that everyone has gone through: boredom.

Interview
Identity, by José Carlos Ruiz
José Carlos Ruiz, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Córdoba and science writer, offers his analysis of how we construct our identities in the digital age.
Last publications

Article
The impact of gender-based violence on sons and daughters: the role of schools according to the pupils
Some 93% of children have heard of gender violence. Their preferential source of information is the school setting but, if faced with a situation of gender-based violence, they are unsure whether it would be the place to find help.

Article
The STEM field is failing to attract female talent
In Spain, only 16% of STEM professionals are women. We analyse this gender gap.

Dossier
Research and Innovation in Spain and Portugal
What are the factors that define a country’s research and innovation system? The eleventh Dossier from the Social Observatory of the ”la Caixa” Foundation analyses the case of Spain and Portugal in international comparison.
Conference series
Activity
Preventing violence against children
One of the biggest obstacles in the fight to prevent violence exercised against boys, girls and teenagers is that it is an invisibilized practice. For this reason, this series of sessions coordinated with the Save the Children Foundation aims to raise the visibility of this reality and share initiatives relating to best practices for reducing such violence.
Activity
How to transform a broken migration model
How do we protect workers in the 21st century workers and guarantee their safe mobility? In this series of activities coordinated by the Social Observatory and the porCausa Foundation, we will hear the voices of experts who are proposing new migration models.
Activity
Education of the future. Challenges and proposals of today
How can we effectively reach a competency-based education? Quality, inclusion and educational equity are the goals pursued by the education of the future. This series of seminars on education, co-organised by the Social Observatory and the UPC’s Institute of Educational Sciences, focuses on pupils, teachers, curriculums and schools in order to provide significant responses.