As part of the II Seminar on Mental Health, Human Rights and Minoritized Groups, we present the report “Bodies, Borders and Gender-Based Violence: Voices of Migrant Women Arriving in Andalusia by Sea”, a study conducted by Federación Andalucía Acoge and the Center for Research and Community Action of the University...
Between 24 and 28 November of last year, Blanca Vera Moreno and Rocío Garrido participated as lecturers in the course Critical Whiteness: Reflecting on Power and Taking Action in the University Context, a blended learning event organised within the framework of the ULYSSEUS programme and held at the University of...
The Non-Binary Democracy – Interdisciplinary Reflections conference was held on 11 December at the Faculty of Law, conceived as a space for critical dialogue from different disciplines on democracy, citizenship, and non-normative identities. As part of the programme, Blanca Vera Moreno took part in the second panel session with the...
The Department of Social Psychology of the University of Seville has awarded Elena Guichot Bordons the prize in the Bachelor’s Thesis (TFG) category as part of the First Award for Academic Excellence of Students, an initiative aimed at recognizing the academic, research, and social excellence of projects supervised by the...
On Friday, December 12, 2025, the II Seminar on Mental Health, Human Rights and Minoritized Groups was successfully held at the Assembly Hall of the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Seville. The event was organized by the Center for Research and Community Action of the University of Seville,...
Virginia Paloma participated as a speaker in the final seminar of the “Joint Stories: Journeys from Fear to Fair (JeS)” project, co-funded by the European Union’s Erasmus+ programme and led in Spain by INCOMA. The event was held in a hybrid format on 2 December 2025 in Helsinki, Finland. This...
Between October 28 and 30, 2025, we had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Òscar Prieto-Flores from the Department of Pedagogy at the University of Girona, within the framework of the PhD Program in Psychology. As part of his visit, he delivered a hybrid conference titled “The Role of Social Mentoring...
Between October 22 and 24, we had the pleasure of welcoming Professor Dr. Daniela Marzana from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, as part of the PhD Program in Psychology at the University of Seville. During her visit, she delivered the hybrid lecture “Participatory Methods as Tools for...
The 1st Co-creation and Knowledge Transfer Workshop, “Towards a Feminist and Anti-racist University: Co-creating Spaces of Care, Community, and Equity”, will take place on Thursday, November 6, in the Assembly Hall of the Faculty of Psychology, University of Seville. This workshop is conceived as a space for dialogue, reflection, and...
On Thursday, October 9, the event “Promoting Active Compassion towards Migrant Realities through the Multisensory Method” will take place at the Centro de Iniciativas Culturales of the University of Seville (CICUS) and at the Faculty of Psychology. The event seeks to promote active compassion towards diverse migratory realities through the...
From July 23rd to 25th, the city of Lisbon hosted the European Community Psychology Association (ECPA) Conference 2025, under the theme “Building Community Strength in Uncertain Times.” This international gathering brought together researchers, professionals, and activists to reflect on the crucial role of Community Psychology in a global context marked...
From the CESPYD research group, we joined the II Andalusian Forum on Cuidadanía on May 23rd and 24th —a space for dialogue and action promoted by the Aliadas por la Cuidadanía platform— where groups and individuals from different fields came together to reflect on the present and future of rights...
From July 1st to 4th, 2025, the 14th Conference of the International Society for Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP) was held at the University of Galway (Ireland). This event is a key international space for academic exchange from critical and transformative perspectives in health psychology. Within this context, Andrés Ruiz-Sánchez, PhD...
Renowned scholar Yolanda Suárez-Balcázar has been awarded the 2025 Seymour Sarason Award for Community Research and Action, granted by the Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA), Division 27 of the American Psychological Association. The nomination was submitted by CESPYD – Center for Community Research and Action at the...
On June 18th, 19th, and 20th, the Summer Course “Evaluation and Impact Measurement in Social Mentoring Projects” took place in Pamplona. The course was organized by the Social Mentoring Coordinator, the Public University of Navarre (UPNA), and the UNESCO Chair on Citizenship, Coexistence and Pluralism, with support from the Department...
The 23rd Annual Report of the Spanish Commission for Refugee Aid (CEAR) analyzes the situation of refugees around the world, in the European Union, and primarily in Spain. This Annual Report was presented in Seville on June 17 at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Seville. During the...
On May 16, 2025, Virginia Paloma participated as a guest speaker at the XIII Jornada de Salud Mental Perinatal organized by the Spanish Marcé Society (MARES). The event, held at the Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBIS) and also broadcast via streaming, brought together professionals and researchers in the field...
We are pleased to announce the launch of ΨΥΧΟCINE, a new initiative developed in collaboration with undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral students, and funded through the Participatory Budget of the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Seville. The project consists of five cinema-forum sessions, using film as a critical tool...
On May 19th, 2025, the Spanish Congress of Deputies hosted a commemorative event marking the 15th anniversary of the Equi Sastipen Rroma Network, coinciding with the 600th anniversary of the Roma people’s arrival on the Iberian Peninsula. The Ernest Lluch Hall became a space for dialogue and recognition of the...
On April 4th, our colleague Daniela Miranda, researcher at CESPYD (Center for Community Research and Action), participated as a speaker at the XIV Professional Convention of the Official College of Psychology of Western Andalusia, a landmark event in the field of professional psychology. Under the theme “The Interrelationship Between Psychology...
On March 13th and 14th, CESPYD participated in the IX Equality Meeting, organized by the Seville City Council as part of the commemoration of March 8th, International Women’s Day. Representing CESPYD, Blanca Vera Moreno, a PhD student, took part in the activities held during the event, where she shared our...
On March 7, in the town of Gines, the IV edition of the Commemoration of International Women’s Day, organized by the Association of Socio-Intercultural Women of Andalusia (ASIA) in collaboration with Claver ECCA Social Foundation, took place. During this event, Virginia Paloma, CESPYD Researcher and Coordinator, was awarded together with...
On January 23 and 24, 2025, CESPYD’s Roma research line, in collaboration with the Public University of Navarra, the Federation of Roma Associations of Navarra Gaz Kaló, the Yiló Association, and La Fragua Projects, organized a Discussion Forum in Pamplona. This event brought together activists, academics, and representatives of Roma...
On December 12th 2024, CESPYD members Valeria Terán-Tinedo and Belén Soto-Ponce participated in the panel “Digital Inclusion and Socio-Labor Integration of the Roma Population” at the VII Action-Research Conference with Roma Communities, organized by the Observatory of Social Exclusion at the University of Murcia. Valeria Terán-Tinedo focused on the crucial...
In the context of the European project Joint eStories: Journeys from Fear to Fair (JeS), funded by the Erasmus+ Call of the European Union, Virginia Paloma has been invited by INCOMA to participate in a training in the multisensory method from November 25 to 29, 2024 at Laurea University of...
We are thrilled to share that CESPYD has been recognized with the Innovative Initiatives and Practices in Social Intervention Psychology Award as part of the III ‘Decano Fernando García Sanz’ Awards for Excellence in Social Intervention Psychology, organized by the Andalusian College of Psychology (COPAO). The award ceremony, presided over...
NEXTROM has launched its own website to provide the academic community and the general public with direct access to its progress, activities, and resources. The website, accessible at institucional.us.es/nextrom/, will become the main hub for sharing information on the project’s achievements and advancements, as well as reflecting NEXTROM’s commitment to...
The Alliance for Migration Research is an international initiative led by the SAMU Foundation (Spain) and the SAMU Foundation (USA) through its SAMU Institute for Scientific Research. Its objective is to facilitate an international collaborative environment that fosters the development of studies on migration and its impacts. The Founding Meeting...
In the context of the Seminar on Mental Health, Human Rights and Minority Groups, on June 7, 2024, the Jesuit Migrant Service (SJM) and CESPYD held a public presentation of the report “An Approach to the Mental Health of Migrants in Spain’s Immigrant Detention Centers”. More specifically, Armando Agüero-Collins of...
On Thursday, June 6, 2024, in classroom 5 of the Faculty of Psychology, the kick-off meeting of the project “Empowering the Resilient Motherhood of Migrant, Refugee, and Roma Women for their Psychosocial Well-being (MadresUP)” was held. The members of the MadresUP team, together with community allies, met to share the...
On Friday, June 7, the seminar “Mental Health, Human Rights, and Minoritized Groups” was held successfully in the Salón de Actos at the Faculty of Psychology. This event was organized by the Center for Community Research and Action at the University of Seville as part of its projects MadresUP, AndaRomi...
El Español interviews the researcher Eleonora Viezzer, Full Professor of the Department of Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics at the University of Seville, and winner of the Princess of Girona Foundation award in the Scientific Research category in 2022, for her contribution to the global energy problem using nuclear fusion....
La Casa de los Sueños said goodbye last Thursday, 20th April, at the Factoría Cultural-ICAS in Polígono Sur with a meeting between YILÓ-CESPYD and guests such as Mar González, former commissioner of Polígono Sur and professor at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Seville; Yolanda Rueda, Magistrate of...
Raúl Limón, a journalist from the Science section of El País, also visited La Casa de Los Sueños to report on the work carried out in the [J]ITANA and Power2Romi projects, coordinated by CESPYD and Yiló’s career. To do so, she relied on the voices of the women and...
La Casa de Los Sueños, organised by Yiló-CESPYD, has obtained a wide repercussion at the local and national levels. RTVE covered the opening of the exhibition La Casa de los Sueños on the Radio 5 programme “En Primera Persona”, hosted by Sandra Camps. In this programme, the challenges faced...
CESPYD, in collaboration with the Haurralde Foundation and the Asociación Afro y Defensoras de Derechos Humanos (Colombia), has held the first preparatory meeting of the “III Ibero-American Permanent Forum of Afro-descendant Women and Human Rights Defenders”. This preparatory meeting took place in the Faculty of Psychology of the University...
Our colleague Virginia Paloma participated on 10 November 2022 as a speaker at the round table “Building Alliances between Universities and NGDOs” at the “I International Congress: Andalusian University Development Cooperation Committed to the SDGs”. This congress was organised by the University of Malaga in consortium with the rest of...
Desde CESPYD nos complace invitaros a la Jornada que hemos organizado junto con INCOMA y la Plataforma Somos Migrantes de Sevilla para conmemorar la celebración del Día del Refugiad@, en el marco del proyecto europeo Erasmus+ RE.INCLUSION. Tendrá lugar el próximo martes 18 de Junio por la mañana en el Aula de Grados de la Facultad de...
Comienzan el proyecto “LIBERARTE II: Creando espacios para la diversidad a través del arte y la psicología comunitaria”, financiado con los Presupuestos Participativos de la Facultad de Psicología US, coordinado por Rocío Garrido (CESPYD) y liderado por un grupo de estudiantes de la Fac. de Psicología. La primera actividad será...
El encuentro será el jueves 16 de mayo en La Insumisa.
Our colleague Virginia Paloma visited Stockholm University (Sweden) last week thanks to the invitation of Prof. Sirkku Männikkö Barbutiu, from the Dept. of Computer and Systems Sciences at this University. During her visit, Virginia presented her current research in the seminar organized by the above department with the work “Constructing Useful...
El pasado viernes 15 de junio se celebró en el salón de actos de la Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad de Sevilla el acto de graduación de los posgrados oficiales de esta disciplina: Máster en Psicología de la Educación, Avances en Intervención y Necesidades Educativas Especiales; Máster en Psicología...
During 6-8 June, the 26th International Conference on Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services took place in Bologna, Italy, with the theme “Health Promotion Strategies to Achieve Reorientation of Health Services: Evidence-based Policies and Practices.” Manuel García Ramírez presented two papers: Struggling for equity in sexual and reproductive healthcare for...
Last May 8th, our colleague Virginia Paloma was invited to participate in a debate session promoted by the journal IDescubre from Descubre Foundation in Andalusia. The objective was to debate about how scientific knowledge can contribute to overcome prejudice and to promote equity and coexistence. Virginia Paloma shared dialogue together with...
On May 17, 18 and 19 took place in Edinburgh, Scotland, the 1st World Congress on Migration, Ethnicity, Race and Health. CESPYD was present at the event with two contributions: the poster “A multi-level advocacy framework for Roma health: a scoping review” by Daniela Miranda, Irene Oreja, Claudia de Freitas...
Desde CESPYD reconocemos y apoyamos públicamente la labor de PROEMAID, especialmente la realizada por los voluntarios Manuel Blanco, José Enrique Rodríguez y Julio Latorre, a quienes se les acusa injustamente de tráfico de personas. El próximo 7 de mayo se enfrentan en Grecia a una pena de cárcel de 10...
This conferences weas organized by FAKALI (Federation of Gypsy Women’s Associations), CESPYD (the Research and Action Center of the University of Seville) and the Gypsy Association UNGA of the Equi-Sastipen-Rroma Network, with co-financing from the Open Society Foundations and the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality. The objective of...
On November 10th 2017, our colleague Rocío Garrido obtained her PhD with her work entitled “Competences for Equity in Culturally Diverse Communities: Conceptualizing and Measuring Community Cultural Competence”. Her work was codirected by Prof. Manuel García-Ramírez (Universidad de Sevilla) and Prof. Fabricio Balcázar (University of Illinois at Chicago). She graduated...
University of Sevilla’s Vicerrector of Social and Community Service, Ana López Jiménez, committed to signing an agreement to amplify Fakali’s presence within the University, not only as an organization that provides annual extended studies courses and practicum opportunities for students, but as an organization with capacity to influence within the...
