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Announcement for CIEAEM 72
Restricted (scientific) meeting on 12th of May
Talk by Sandra Racionero-Plaza and Aitor Gomez Gonzalez: Communicative Methodology: researching with rather than on Roma community.
Abstract:This lecture illustrates why and how we work with and for Roma community through
Communicative Methodology. If we want to have a positive impact working with vulnerable
groups, as for instance the Roma Community, we need to develop methodologies to assess to
what extent social science research is having direct impact on improving those groups’ living
conditions. Many social science researchers are developing methodologies through which we
can directly work with citizens, constructing together deeper knowledge and, in so doing,
transforming the reality for the better. Within a communicative perspective and applying
communicative methodology, knowledge is constructed in close and egalitarian
intersubjective dialogue with the potential participants from the very beginning of the
research process until the end. Through this lecture we will show how by applying
communicative methodology in different research processes the last 20 years with and for the
Roma community, a great scientific, political and social impact has been achieved. We will
highlight how these researches were organized, and in particular, how this knowledge was
built based on the application of communicative data collection techniques and
communicative data analysis.
CVs:Sandra Racionero
Sandra Racionero-Plaza (h index = 18) has a double doctorate in Psychology and Curriculum as a
Fulbright scholar from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which awarded her the 2011 Academic
Achievement Award, being the only European to receive such distinction. She has been director of
the Department of Psychology at Loyola University Andalucia (2015-2018), vice-director of the Loyola
Leadership School for the area of psychology, and founding member and secretary of the Loyola Ethics
Committee. Former Ramón y Cajal researcher (competitive 5 year research contract from the Spanish Ministry
of Science), Racionero is currently associate professor at the University of Barcelona, developing
scientific research in the field of socio-neuroscience on how adverse life experiences and social
interactions impact the brain and influence autobiographical memories.
She has been researcher of the Community of Researchers on Excellence for All (CREA), University of
Barcelona, since 2003, where she has participated in two projects of the European Union's H2020 Research
Framework Programme: INCLUD-ED (6FP), IMPACT-EV (7FP), as well as in several R+Ds of the National Plan.
She has been Principal Investigator of the R+D project: MEMO4LOVE: Social interactions and dialogues that
transform memories and promote affective-sexual relationships free of violence in adolescence. This project
studies how interventions based on reflection, dialogue and interaction raise awareness of feelings, emotions,
thoughts and memories from which the person can choose to transform and redirect them in a way that supports
free and healthy development.
Racionero-Plaza’s work has been published in several indexed journals, including AIMS Neuroscience, BMC Women’s
Health, and Frontiers in Psychology, and she is co-author of books that have been reviewed in indexed journals.
Sandra Racionero-Plaza is also co-editor of the International Journal of Educational Psychology, a journal indexed
in Scopus (Q3) and in the ESCI (WoS). She serves as an expert in review panels of COST and is a current member of
the Research Ethics Committee of the Community of Researchers on Excellence for All (CREA).
Aitor Gomez Gonzalez
Aitor Gomez Gonzalez is a professor at the University of Rovira i Virgili, Facuty of Psychology and educational
sciences at the Department of Pedagogy. Please find Aitor Gomez Gonzalez's CV here.