GRAFO

The general objective of the Research Group in Fundamental and Oriented Anthropology (GRAFO) is to contribute to the theoretical and methodological development of anthropology. It is a research group from the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona recognized as a Consolidated Research Group by the AGAUR (2017-SGR-1325).

The GRAFO research group was founded in 1999. During the first nine years, it was directed by the now emerita professor Teresa San Román and in the following nine years, from 2008 to 2017, by professor Aurora González Echevarría. Miranda Lubbers led the group during the 2018-2021 period and currently, the coordinator is José Luis Molina.

Internally, the group is structured around three research units. The three research units are getp-GRAFO ("Cross-cultural kinship studies"), coordinated by Anna Piella and Jordi Grau, egolab-GRAFO ("Laboratory of personal networks and communities"), coordinated by Hugo Valenzuela and Coalesce Lab ("Laboratory for the Computational Analysis of Egonetworks, Social Cohesion, and Exclusion") coordinated by Miranda Lubbers. These two teams take two complementary approaches to relatedness: while getp focuses on kinship relationships and extended childcare settings, egolab focuses on individuals' networks.

The group follows the UAB Code of Good Scientific Practices.

More information at grupsderecerca.uab.cat/grafo