Research team

Section

The Faculty’s Department of Communications is dedicated to research in journalism, audiovisual communication and advertising, and public relations. It places special emphasis on analysing the changes introduced by new technologies and studies the existing interactions between society and communication with the aim of understanding the current situation of the sector and setting future lines of the profession.

The team is composed of:

  • Dr Pilar Buil Gazol: Institutional communication / Contact person for DirCom and Communication Management for Sustainable Development
  • Dr Pere Buhigas Cardó: Treatment of Information in Television Media / Artificial Intelligence Applied to Communication / Content Verification / Transmedia Communication / Scientific Journalism / Mobile Journalism
  • Dr Maria Fitó-Carreras: Radio / Podcasting / Audiobranding / Audio Transmedia Storytelling  / Sonic Identity.
  • Dr Isadora García Avis: Narrative and Audiovisual Script / Transcultural Adaptations / Fiction Series Remakes / Television Formats / Transmedia Narratives and New Forms of Audiovisual Storytelling / Representation of STEAM Female Characters in Television Fiction Series
  • Dr Zahaira González Romo: Corporate Culture and Organisational Communication / Development of studies and analysis on Social and Environmental Responsibility Practices / New Trends in Communication, Digital Communication and Social Media / The Luxury Fashion Sector
  • Dr Carla Gràcia Mercadé: Creative Writing / Creative Process / Transnational Creative Writing / Biofiction / Historical Fiction / Relationship between Reality and Fiction / Storytelling
  • Dr Joan Hernández Serret: Communication Sociology / Language and Society / Computerisation and Social Sciences / Diversity Management in Open Societies / Globalisation, Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue
  • Dr Santiago Justel Vázquez: Digital Journalism, Web Analytics and Informative Agenda
  • Dr Iván Lacasa Mas: Media Management and Engagement / Impact of Technology on Journalism, Politics and Media Culture / Media Evolution and Audiences
  • Dr Paola Lagos Labbé: Contemporary Non-Fiction Cinema / Essay Film / Sound, Oral and Vocal Dimension in the Essay Documentary / Self-Representational Documentary (Autobiographical Cinema, Life Diaries, Self-Portraits, Filmed Correspondence) / Experimental, Domestic and Amateur Cinema / Chilean and Latin American Documentary.
  • Dr Lara Martín Vicario: Health Communication / Social Discourse on Obesity and Weight / Stigmatisation / Digital Media.
  • Dr Alfonso Méndiz Noguero: New Forms of Advertising / Advertising and Values / Advertising and Childhood / Influence of Audiovisual Media on Values and Lifestyles
  • Dr Núria Roca Trenchs: Digital Platform Analysis / Hate Speech and Disinformation/ Democracy / Young Audience in Social Media / Identity / Mental Health.
  • Dr Olga Roger-Loppacher: Sustainability and Environmental Communication / Environmental Communication / Communication and Non-Formal Education Management for a more Sustainable Society
  • Dr Pedro Sigaud-Stellos: Motivation of media professionals / Media Psychology (emotions) / Digital Leisure / Leadership, Media and Industries
  • Dr Isabel Villanueva Benito: Music / New Technologies / Audiovisual Communication / Advertising and Audiences
     

They are all professionals who combine teaching with research, allowing them to offer students the skills and knowledge needed to face the new information context and develop communication projects adapted to the characteristics of this new scenario.