Universitat de València

The University of Valencia (UVEG) is a five-century old university research-oriented and teaching in all scientific fields (social, economic, and legal sciences, experimental sciences, engineering, health sciences, educational sciences and the humanities).

UVEG interdisciplinary team involved in the MERGING project is formed by researches from the Social Sciences Faculty, experts in the social inclusion of refugees and migrants, and also from the Institute of Local Development, which is a research centre specialised in the theory and practice of local development in its broadest sense. One of its areas of expertise is in social cohesion, focused in fostering human development in situations of vulnerability and social exclusion by means of community-based interventions. Main research interests are migration, refugees, social equity, social precariousness and vulnerability, urban planning and social sustainability.

Carles X. Simó Noguera

WP2 Leader. Professor and researcher in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology

 

Ana Sales Ten

PhD in social Sciences. Social cohesion, migration, cultural diversity and human rights

Jordi Giner Monfort

Associate professor. PhD in Sociology 

 

Jorge Velasco Mengod

Graduated in Sociology and Political Science at the University of València. Master’s Degree in Social Research at the Complutense University of Madrid

Alicia Bañuls Millet

Law degree from the University of Valencia. PhD student 

Daniel Millor Vela

Architect from the University of Alicante, works as a co-director at the NGO Quatorze

Isis M. Sánchez Estellés

PhD in Sociology at the University of Essex

David Gil Solsona

PhD Student. Sociologist and Political Scientist

Elvira Mondragón García

PhD Student at Universitat de València. Graduated in sociology 

Joan A. Romero Crespo

PhD Student at Universitat de València. Graduated in sociology

Julia Salom Carrasco

Doctorate in Geography, professor. Economic Geography and Regional and Urban Development

María Dolores Pitarch Garrido

Director of the Inter-University Institute for Local Development. Associate Professor of Geography