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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Department of Social Psychology

Curriculum vitae of the director of the department

 

Miquel Domènech

University Professor
Director of the Department of Social Psychology

Short curriculum vitae

Teaching

  • Foundations of Sociology (Science, Technology and Humanities Degree)
  • Ethics (Degree in Artificial Intelligence)
  • External Internships (Degree in Psychology)
  • Master in Research and Psychosocial Intervention
  • Doctoral Program in Person and Society in the Contemporary World

Research

  • Research Lines: Science and Technology Studies, Technologies for Care, Social Robotics, Citizen Participation in Technoscientific Matters, Ethics of Technology
  • Coordinator of the Barcelona Science and Technology Studies Group (STS-b)

Selection of recent publications

  • Barat-Auleda, O. & Domènech, M. (2022) Stop burning garbage¿! Exploring an anti-waste-to-energy social movement and its effects on local politics in Spain. Energy Research & Social Science, 92: 102772. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102772
  • Argudo- Portal, V., & Domènech, M. (2022)‘We came here to stay’: Making biobanks worth maintaining in Spain. Sociology of Health & Illness, 44:328–344. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467- 9566.13420
  • Vallès-Peris, N., Argudo-Portal, V. & Domènech, M. (2022) Manufacturing Life, What Life? Ethical Debates Around Biobanks and Social Robots. Nanoethics, 16: 21-34 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11569-021-00390-y
  • Vallès-Peris, N., Barat-Auleda, O., & Domènech, M. (2021). Robots in Healthcare? What Patients Say. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(18), 9933. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18189933
  • Vallès-Peris, N., Domènech, M. (2021) Caring in the in-between: a proposal to introduce responsible AI and robotics to healthcare. AI & Society. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-021-01330-w
  • Moyà-Köhler, J.; Domènech, M. (2021). Autonomías precarias: un análisis sobre las tecnologías para personas con  diversidad  funcional  intelectual. Teknokultura.  Revista  de  Cultura  Digital  y  Movimientos  Sociales,  18(2),  127-135. http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/TEKN.74375
  • Aceros, J.C., Domènech, M. (2021). Private Issues in Public Spaces: Regimes of Engagement at a Citizen Conference. Minerva, 59: 195–215. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-020-09423-4

University management

  • Director of the Department of Social Psychology since June 2020
  • Coordinator of the PhD Program Person and Society in the Contemporary World (06-05-2014 to 10-01-2017)
  • Postgraduate Coordinator of the Department of Social Psychology (01-10-2013 to 04-06-2014)
  • Dean of the Faculty of Psychology (02-01-2006 to 04-15-2009)
  • Vicedean of Academic Planning of the Faculty of Psychology (15-10-97 to 03-06-1998)
  • Secretary and Vicedean of External Projection of the Faculty of Psychology (1-6-96 to 15-10-97)

Secretary of the Department of Health Psychology (1-6-91 to 29-10-93)