CESPYD researcher and PhD student in Psychology, Blanca Vera, has been selected as a recipient of the IMFAHE Excellence Fellowship 2026, a distinction aimed at promoting international academic mobility and strengthening scientific collaboration networks. This fellowship will support her upcoming research stay abroad, where she will continue developing her work...
Researcher Tatiana Duque is currently undertaking a three-month research stay at the TCP: Transdisciplinarity, Culture and Politics research group, affiliated with the Faculty of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts at the Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga. The stay is being carried out within the framework of the doctoral thesis “MadresUP:Empowering the...
On April 10, researcher Tatiana Duque was invited to present the report “Bodies, Borders, and Gender-Based Violence: Voices of Migrant Women Arriving in Andalusia by Sea” to Social Work and Law students in Bucaramanga, within the framework of academic discussions on human trafficking and the dynamics of vulnerability associated with...
Between March and May, Andrés Ruiz Sánchez, a CESPYD researcher and PhD candidate in Psychology at the University of Seville, is undertaking a research stay at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan, Italy). During this period, he is working under the supervision of Dr. Daniela Marzana in the Department...
CESPYD is pleased to welcome Yuan Uy, a senior at Vanderbilt University majoring in Human and Organizational Development. Passionate about social impact and global development, Yuan is currently collaborating with Dr. Daniela Miranda Rojas on the ANDAROMI and RomaCare project, which aims to strengthen the Roma mother-daughter alliance through entrepreneurship...
CESPYD welcomes Míra Karas from Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary, where she earned her Master’s degree in psychology with a specialization in counselling and school psychology. Under the mentorship of Virginia Paloma, Míra begins a five-month internship with our MadresUP team, a project focused on promoting the resilience and psychosocial...
From August 19th to November 16th, our colleague Belén Soto-Ponce is conducting a research stay at the College of Applied Health Sciences, at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar. The UIC team develops participatory research initiatives focused on the intersection of...
CESPYD welcomes Douglas Tomácio, a PhD student from the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil. He is conducting his doctoral thesis project under the title “Politically Taken Vitality: University Teaching in the Context of Violence and Suicide”, which aims to explore violence and suffering as socio-political categories. His phd...
CESPYD welcomes Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar and Fabricio Balcazar from the University of Illinois Chicago, Community Psychologists with international recognition for the contributions in advocating and empowerment for the rights, health and well-being of Latinx immigrant families in Chicago and youth with disabilities of color. Both professors have a long history of...
CESPYD had the visit of Aloe Cubero, a pre-doctoral researcher at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili during the months of September and November 2022. This stay was under the tutelage of our colleague Dr Rocío Garrido, who co-directs Aloe’s doctoral thesis together with Dr Barbara Biglia from the URV. The...
CESPYD welcomes Manuel Badino, researcher and professor at the School of Public Health of the National University of Córdoba (UNC, Argentina). This stay, supported by the Asociación Universitaria Iberoamericana de Postgrado, will take place under the tutelage of Dr Rocío Garrido between September and November 2022. The objective of this...
Desde el 21 de agosto y hasta el 16 de noviembre, nuestra compañera Rocío Garrido se encuentra realizando una estancia de investigación en el Center for Capacity Building on Minorities with Disabilities Research de la University of Illinois at Chicago (EEUU). Este centro y CESPYD mantienen una larga tradición de...
