The Centre for Community Research and Action (CESPYD) would like to congratulate our colleague Daniela Miranda, who has been awarded the University of Seville’s Extraordinary Doctoral Award, recognising the academic and scientific excellence of her doctoral research in the 2021–2022 award cycle. The award recognises the quality of her doctoral...
Seminar: “Community Advocacy: From Support to Defense” On Tuesday, October 6, the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Seville hosted a seminar titled “Community Advocacy: From Support to Defense—Psychosocial Support and Legal Self-Defense for Migrant and Racialized Individuals.” The event was organized by La Fragua Projects, the YILÓ Association,...
The University of Seville presents the awards for the first and second editions of the Sustainable Human Development Awards, which recognise academic work, cooperation projects and initiatives committed to building a fairer and more sustainable society. At CESPYD, we are particularly pleased to celebrate these awards, which highlight the work...
Next Tuesday, October 6, we invite you to join us for this event, a space to share experiences and reflect on psychosocial support and legal self-advocacy for migrants and racialised people. We will be joined by Virginia Paloma, Daniela Mirando, Paco Vargas and Pastora Filigrana, professionals with experience in different...
CESPYD is pleased to welcome back Elena Guichot Bordons, who will be joining us over the next two years as a research support staff member. Elena holds a degree in Psychology and is currently completing her Master’s Degree in General Health Psychology. She has previously collaborated with CESPYD through the...
On 25 June, Virginia Paloma participated in the event “Recipes of Hope”, held at Espacio Ecooo in Madrid and organised by the Jesuit Migrant Service (SJM) together with organisations from the Social Sector of the Society of Jesus. The event created a space for dialogue bringing together leading voices from...
As part of her international research stay at the Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga (UNAB, Colombia), Tatiana Duque, a researcher at CESPYD, participated as an external evaluator in a joint academic event for the courses Communication and Digital Citizenship and Transmedia Narratives. Her contribution focused on assessing the social reach and...
On May 29, 2026, we had the pleasure of welcoming Raquel Carrión, Director of the Social Mentoring Coordinator (CMS), to the Faculty of Psychology. This meeting took place within the framework of the collaboration established between CMS and CESPYD through the project “Promoting Psychosocial Well-being among Unaccompanied Migrant Youth: Assessing...
On May 27, Blanca Vera, CESPYD researcher and PhD student in Psychology, participated in the 1st Conference on Gender, Teaching, and University: Building Knowledge from Feminism, from Theory to Practice, organized by the University of Seville. The conference brought together faculty members, researchers, and students to reflect on the incorporation...
On May 6 and 8, CESPYD participated alongside Yiló and the project Los tres mil cuidados (“The Three Thousand Cares”) in the Seville Science Fair, held at FIBES as part of the Faculty of Psychology’s stand. Throughout both days, we brought into the public space a glimpse of the work...
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...
On May 5, the online conference “AUKERA: A Socioeducational Project between Young Immigrants and University Students through Service-Learning” was held within the framework of the Psychology Doctoral Program at the University of Seville and with the support of CESPYD. The session was delivered by Rubén Lasheras, Associate Professor in the...
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 makes available the MadresUP Implementation Manual, a practical guide for developing community-based interventions aimed at enhancing psychosocial well-being and empowering mothers in culturally diverse contexts. The manual is based on the experience of the MadresUP programme and is tailored to different groups, including migrant, refugee and Roma mothers, allowing...
Our colleague Virginia Paloma has been invited by the Mental Health Commissioner of the Ministry of Health to present the MadresUP Project during a seminar addressed to all Regional Health Departments of Spain’s Autonomous Communities. The seminar, held on March 24, aimed to showcase three best practices at the national...
On February 24, CESPYD took part in a particularly inspiring meeting at Espacio AMBAR, an initiative of Fundación SAMU, where we shared a close and enriching space for dialogue around work with migrant women in Andalusia. During the conversation, we were able to explore in greater depth the research project...
The MadresUP project promotes spaces for accompaniment and mutual support among culturally minoritized mothers in Spain, with the aim of strengthening their psychosocial well-being. We are pleased to share a series of videos presenting some of the experiences developed with three groups of participating mothers: African, Latin American, and Roma....
On Friday, February 27, we held the Research Seminar “Cultural Adaptation of the mHealth e-Perinatal Intervention: Collaboration between the MadresUP and e-Perinatal Projects” at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Seville, with the participation of members from both research teams. This seminar is part of the study “Intercultural...
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...
The Faculty of Psychology of the University of Seville has awarded the Second Prize for Best Scientific Publication in Psychology with the participation of early-career researchers (2025) to Julia Jiménez-Ceballos, a member of CESPYD. The award decision was announced on December 5, 2025, following the evaluation of the twelve quarterly...
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...
Daniela Miranda Rojas participated as a keynote speaker at the THRIVE-CARE International Conference, held in Bologna, Italy, from September 29 to October 1, 2025, with her presentation titled “Alma-Ata to Today.” The event, organized by the Centro di Salute Internazionale e Interculturale (CSI) and funded by the European Union, brought...
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...
On July 21 and 22, Daniela E. Miranda participated in a working group organized by the Andalusian School of Public Health, within the framework of the joint action JAPreventNCD, coordinated by the Directorate General of Public Health of the Generalitat Valenciana. The meeting brought together experts in community intervention to...
As part of the summer school, our doctoral students presented the progress of their research. Wendy Tatiana Duque Moreno and Julia Jiménez Ceballos shared the advancements made within the MadresUP project. Andrés Ruiz Sánchez presented his work focused on the social determinants of mental health in the Nicaraguan migrant population...
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...
CESPYD is pleased to announce the launch of the MadresUP website, a space dedicated to sharing the progress, results, and activities of this important research project. What is MadresUP? This is a research and community action project focused on increasing the psychosocial well-being of Latina, African and Roma women through...
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...
Daniela E. Miranda, researcher at the Community Research and Action Center of the University of Seville (CESPYD), has been recognized with the Avanzadoras Prize, awarded by Oxfam Intermón and 20minutos, for her research in defending the rights of Roma women and girls. In an interview with 20minutos, she shares her...
On February 11, 2025, Prof. Manuel Garcia-Ramirez and Dr. Daniela Miranda, Principal Investigators of ANDAROMI and ROMACARE, met with the Andalusian Council of Social Inclusion, Youth, Families and Equality DG of Social Protection, Antonio Ismael Huertas Mateo, to enhance collaboration for project implementation. The meeting highlighted the role of the...
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 has been designated to lead the investigation of the project “THE MIGRATORY EXPERIENCE OF WOMEN IN THE US.” The University of Seville (US) has launched this initiative in response to the growing awareness of double discrimination and inequality faced by migrant women, both based on their gender and origin,...
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...
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...
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...
YILÓ received significant recognition for its work supporting Roma girls in the Torreblanca and Polígono Sur neighborhoods. Antonio Huerta from the Junta de Andalucía’s Ministry of Social Inclusion, Youth, Families, and Equality, and Jose Luis Garcia Martin from the Ayuntamiento of Sevilla, honored the association’s contributions to empowering Roma girls...
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...
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...
The intervention program “Promotion of Post-traumatic Growth in Migrant and Refugee Population”, developed by CESPYD in collaboration with CEAR and the Cepaim Foundation, has been recognized as a good practice by the European Website on Integration (EWSI). The program has demonstrated its effectiveness in increasing mental health indicators among the...
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...
The article “Community Participation and Subjective Wellbeing Among the Immigrant Population in Northern Italy: An Analysis of Mediators”, published in the American Journal of Community Psychology, has been recognised by Wiley as one of the 10 most cited articles published in 2022-2023. You can check this publication here: https://cespyd.es/en/publications/community-participation-and-subjective-wellbeing-among-the-immigrant-population-in-northern-italy-an-analysis-of-mediators/
On Friday 19th of April, Daniela Miranda, CESPYD Postdoctoral Research Fellow, was invited by Cláudia de Freitas from the Institute of Public Health at the University of Porto to present a seminar, titled “Promoting Roma Health Equity through Co-Creation: A Conceptual Framework and Methodological Strategies”. The seminar brought together researchers...
CESPYD welcomes Sharlys Jardim da Silva Santos, a PhD student from State University of Northern Rio de Janeiro (UENF) in Brazil. He is conducting his doctoral thesis project under the title “The Construction of Romani Identity through a Comparative Perspective: Statements and Dilemmas of the Romani People in Brazil and...
We are honored to celebrate our colleague and founding member of the CESPYD team Prof. María Jesús Albar-Marín, Professor in the Nursing Department at the University of Sevilla. For many of us, she has been an inspirational source in our training as researchers and educators in the field of nursing,...
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...
On March 12th, the ANDAROMI Project successfully kicked off a collaborative space between researchers of the Department of Social Psychology and visiting researchers, Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar and Fabricio Balcazar from the University of Illinois Chicago to: (1) Strengthen research synergies among Department of Social Psycholgy members and promote an inspiring dialogue...
Daniela Miranda recently led a training for the Community of Practitioners on Accountability and Social Action in Health Europe Network (COPASAH). COPASAH brings together civil society actors and practitioners to promote and lead work aimed at community monitoring for accountability in health. The CESPYD research fellow, Dr. Miranda, implemented “Promoting...
CESPYD welcomes Nefeli Michalatou, a recent graduate of the Master in Social Psychology: Research Methods and Community Applications at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece). She is doing a five-month stay with our team, with Virginia Paloma as her tutor. In particular, Nefeli is going to take part in the...
As a result of a collaboration agreement between CESPYD and the Jesuit Migrant Service (SJM), a study has been carried out which has culminated in the publication of the report “An Approach to the Mental Health of Detainees in Immigration Detention Centers in Spain”. This report can be found here:...
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 welcomes Andrés Ruiz Sánchez, a professor and researcher from the University of Costa Rica. He is currently working on his doctoral thesis project, “A Human Rights-Based Approach for Mental Health of Nicaraguan Youth Migrants in Costa Rica,” under the guidance of Dr. Virginia Paloma. This project will be based...
Blanca Vera, a PhD student in Social Psychology, was awarded under the category ” Proyecto Entre Márgenes e Intersecciones ” as the best communication of the congress presented and defended by Andalusian students. Proyecto Entre Márgenes e Intersecciones focuses on incorporating the African perspective in university studies, promoting in-depth research...
On 29, 30 November and 1 December 2023, the 1st International Conference on African and Decolonial Studies: contributions to the deconstruction of academic thought was held at the Faculty of Psychology, where members of the CESPYD team participated as the organising committee and made scientific contributions. To overcome the...
Rocío Garrido and Blanca Vera, members of CESPYD, participants in the YOU.TH Project: “Tools for Inclusive” within the Digital Education Action Plan (2021-2027) funded by the European Union. This project aims to promote the use of digital and creative tools (mainly theatre) for promoting social justice and developing advocacy with...
The Jesuit Service to Migrants (SJM) has presented its Annual Report 2022 on Detention Centers for Foreigners (CIE) with the title “Differences that generate inequality”; in an event held in the Parliament of Andalusia on 13 June 2023. The first Vice-President of the Chamber, Ana María Mestre, was present to...
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...
La Casa de los Sueños is a sample of the heart of the women of Polígono Sur, in which they invite everyone, especially Roma girls, to dream, wish, and imagine their future goals. It is located in Factoría Cultural, in a space converted into a Roma house, whose routes are...
The article “The Roles of Settings in Supporting Immigrants’ Resistance to Injustice and Oppression: A policy Statement by the Society for Community Research and Action, Division 27 of the American Psychological Association”, published in the American Journal of Community Psychology, has been recognised by Wiley as one of the most...
On 16 March, the final conference of the European ATHENA project “Entrepreneurship as a Path to Socio-Economic Inclusion of Migrant Women” took place at the European Economic and Social Committee. The objective of the event was to present and discuss with the key stakeholders and European politicians the results of...
CESPYD welcomes Emma Kleinjan, a student of the Master in International Development at Wageningen University (The Netherlands). Under the mentorship of Dr. Bram Jansen from Wageningen University and Dr. Virginia Paloma from the University of Seville, Emma will carry out three months of fieldwork for her thesis on how the...
CESPYD welcomes Monica Paradise, a PhD student in Educational Sciences and Psychology at the University of Florence (Italy). She is doing a six-month stay with our team, with Virginia Paloma as her tutor. In particular, Monica is going to research the sense of matter as a factor that promotes psychological...
On 8 February, Virginia Paloma, coordinator of CESPYD, took part as a speaker at the 15th Conference on “Citizenship and Migratory Movements: Proposals for Coexistence and Integration”, organised by the Acción Verapaz association and the parish of San Jacinto (Seville).
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...
CESPYD welcomes Cambri Driskell, a graduate student from the Department of Human Organizational Development at Vanderbilt University (USA). She is doing a 6-month internship with our team, with Daniela Miranda as internship mentor. In particular, Cambri will support the implementation of the Power2romi project as part of her training while...
On 19 December, the last session of the facilitators’ training course was held at the El Esqueleto civic centre in Seville. The process came to an end with a snack and a very enriching conversation among the participants. The participants will remain in contact with the project for various events....
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...
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...
We share the following information from the online discussion in which, in conjunction with EPHA, CESPYD participates within the 2022 Romani Week: Dear Roma Health Network members, With the 2022 Romani Week around the corner, we would like to officially invite you to take part in our event ‘Capacity Building...
“El texto que he escrito se debe a que un profesor de mi Erasmus, que se jubiló este año, quería tener un detalle compartiendo en su fiesta de jubilación cómo su alumnado ha acabado dedicándose a campos relacionados con los que él enseñaba. Compartir las historias de su alumnado le...
CESPYD asiste al Fundamental Rights Forum 2021 para hablar del rol de las niñas gitanas en la abogacía y la participación política el día 12 de octubre a las 14.30 horas (CET). Para más información, os dejamos el enlace de la sesión: https://epha.org/investing-in-roma-youth-for-advancing-fairer-and-healthier-european-societies/ Welcome to the Fundamental Rights Forum 2021...
The group of Roma women from Polígono Sur and Torreblanca, through their grassroots organization YILÓ, @somosyilo, is denouncing the constant problems in their neighborhoods due to the constant power cuts. They expressed this situation during a heat wave last August, now, in the middle of a cold wave, the cuts...
On World Children’s Day in the climate of COVID-19 we must highlight the urgent challenge to protect the rights of Roma girls across Europe. COVID-19 has marked a grim time in which Roma girls have experienced a significant loss in their closest networks, insufficient resources to continue their schooling at home, the...
A la opinión pública: El final del verano y el comienzo del otoño, que en muchos espacios se considera comienzo de nuevos proyectos y procesos, se presenta nefasto en general y especialmente denigrante para el colectivo de personas migrantes en España y Europa. Y aunque podemos seguir pensando que es...
Declaración de CESPYD sobre las condiciones inadecuadas de las viviendas de Torreblanca y Polígono Sur A través de esta declaración, desde el Centro de Investigación y Acción Comunitaria (CESPYD) de la Universidad de Sevilla, nos solidarizamos con la petición de la vecindad de la Plaza de Platanero de Torreblanca y...
En nombre de quienes componemos el equipo de CESPYD, queremos felicitar a la Red Equi-Sastipen-Rroma por el Premio Nelson Mandela de Promoción de la Salud 2020. El Premio Nelson Mandela de Promoción de la Salud se otorga a personas, instituciones, a organizaciones gubernamentales o no gubernamentales, que hayan hecho una contribución...
Seville, 16 May 2020. Following the meeting with the Mayor of Seville, Juan Espadas, on Wednesday 6th May, Roma women, CESPYD, Studio 41013 and other collaborators developed a policy brief with a set of recommendations that have been proposed to the City Council. Roma populations of Seville suffer a constant violation of their human...
Seville, 8 May 2020. CESPYD, together with a group of Roma women, leaders of community organizations, researchers and journalists are concerned about the consequences that the crisis of the coronavirus is having on the neighbors who live in the most unjust conditions during the confinement period in Seville (Spain). In...
La pandemia de la COVID-19 ha dejado al descubierto el alto precio económico y humano que soportan los colectivos en condiciones de mayor vulnerabilidad en Europa por la escasa inversión en servicios de prevención de la salud. El acceso desigual a los servicios sanitarios y de prevención, así como las...
Puedes firmar aquí. CESPYD ha apoyado esta acción. A la atención del Presidente Pedro Sánchez, Vicepresidente Pablo Iglesias, Ministra de Igualdad Irene Montero, Ministra de Trabajo y Economía Social Yolanda Díaz, Ministra de Inclusión Social, Seguridad Social y Migraciones José Luis Escrivá, Ministro del Interior Fernando Grande Marlaska y Defensor del...
Organizaciones ciudadanas, lideradas por el movimiento asociativo gitano, denuncian cómo se vive la crisis sanitaria en los asentamientos chabolistas de Sevilla Sevilla, 3 de abril de 2020. Las medidas de confinamiento, decretadas por el Gobierno para hacer frente a la crisis del coronavirus, han dejado al descubierto las extremas condiciones...
Ayşe Şafak Ayvazoğlu and Ozge Calhan, researchers at the Izmir Katip Çelebi University in Turkey, visited CESPYD from 10th to 20th September 2019. The visit was possible thanks to an Erasmus+ Mobility Agreement, Staff Mobility for Training. Among other activities, they visited a reception center for asylum seekers managed by...
Our colleague Rocío Garrido has been developing her work in an action-research stay at the NUH – Núcleo de Direitos Humanos e Cidadanía LGBT (http://www.fafich.ufmg.br/nuh/) from Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. This stay, held during August 2019, is part of the project “Diversity and Equity in Ibero-American Universities:...
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...
Virginia Paloma ha disfrutado de una ayuda del programa Staff Mobility for Teaching (Erasmus +) del 6 al 10 de mayo de 2019 en el Departamento de Psicología de la Universitá Cattolica del Sacro Cuore en Milán (Italia). Invitada por la Prof. Daniela Marzana, ello le ha permitido impartir docencia...
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...
The journal Psychosocial Intervention is now indexed and abstracted in the Clarivate Analytics’ Social and Behavioral Sciences Journal Citation Reports and Social Sciences Edition Social Sciences Citation Index. Psychosocial Intervention is included in the most influential and recognized international databases such as: Current Contents® (Clarivate), DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), Google...
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...
Congratulations to our colleague Virginia Paloma for her incorporation to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Community Practice! More information in: https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=wcom20#board
The contribution of our colleagues Guariso, Paloma, Arias, Garrido y García-Ramírez titled “Photovoice as a Research-Intervention Tool for Youth Neighborhood Activism in Societally Vulnerable Contexts” published in the Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice, has been highlighted in the SCRA’s website Community Psychology. More information in: https://www.communitypsychology.com/using-photovoice-as-a-community-building-tool/
During October-December 2017, CESPYD member Daniela Miranda was a visiting student at the University of Illinois at Chicago supervised by two minority advocacy experts, Professor Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar and Professor Fabricio Balcazar. This experience was enriching as it taught us about advocacy processes that a university-community based partnership have the capacity...
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...
Activity carried out in the Faculty of Psychology of the US, proclaimed Faculty Refuge. Photographs by Rocío Valerous.
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...
La Asociación Claver-Servicio Jesuita a Migrantes presentará su informe anual CIE 2016, titulado: “25,66 Media Diaria de Repatriaciones Forzadas” este martes 13 de junio a las 20:00 horas en la sede de Sevilla localizada en el Centro Arrupe (Avda. Eduardo Dato 20). Este informe aborda la situación en la que se encuentran las personas inmigrantes...
Today, FAKALI held a moment of silence in honor of three young Roma women who were victims of anti-gypsyism hate crimes. CESPYD members joined to denounce these hate crimes.
Este informe recoge los resultados del proyecto de investigación financiado por el Centro de Estudios Andaluces en la convocatoria 2014 denominado ‘Bienestar Inmigrante y Justicia Social en Andalucía: Generación de un Sistema Dinámico Multinivel’. Dirigido por la profesora del Departamento de Psicología Social de la Universidad de Sevilla, Virginia Paloma,...
In February 2017, Open Society Foundation-Roma Integration Office’s planned a field visit to meet with CESPYD and FAKALI in Sevilla. RIO program officers had the chance to become more familiar with both organization’s work. RIO program officers visited both Polígono Sur Primary Healthcare Center and the Torreblanca Healthcare Center. We...
On February 2nd the official project kickoff meeting took place at the Universidad de Sevilla Nursing department. In this meeting partners presented the activities and objectives of each phase included in the project. Please see meeting agenda here: ROAD4HEALTH Kick-Off Agenda Fakali’s staff, the advisory board and student collaborators were invited...
La tesis doctoral “Diseño de un programa de alfabetización en salud para mejorar el acceso y utilización de los servicios sanitarios a población inmigrante” presentada por Martina Fernández Gutiérrez (Universidad de Cádiz) y co-dirigida por nuestra compañera M.ª Jesús Albar Marín y Pilar Bas Sarmiento (Universidad de Cádiz), ha obtenido...
On the 6th, 7th and 8th of June, the University Residence Flora Tristan of the Pablo de Olavide University hosted the IV European Meeting of “Mediation in Romany Health”, organized by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and CESPYD, in collaboration with the University Pablo de Olavide and the Office...
El Prof. Dr. Nabil Sayed va a participar como profesor en la asignatura “Migraciones, Diversidad y Salud Mental” del Máster de Migraciones Internacionales Salud y Bienestar los días 20 y 21 de abril de 17 a 21 horas y de 9 a 14 horas, respectivamente. Nabil es psiquiatra de la Unidad...
CESPYD asistió a la Jornada de Convivencia Intercultural de los pueblos que vivimos en Sevilla organizada por la Plataforma Somos Migrantes el sábado 12 de marzo en la Parroquia Blanca Paloma, en la barriada Los Pajaritos.
Ayer, 16 de febrero, CESPYD asistió al acto organizado por Médicos del Mundo Andalucía, titulado “Crisis humanitaria en el Mediterráneo: Intervención con población refugiada”. Intervinieron Teresa González Galiana, médico y experta en acción humanitaria; Manuel Blanco Fernández, Sargento de bomberos y voluntario de PROEM-AID en Lesbos; y Pablo Simón Lorda, médico y...
Desde CESPYD queremos felicitar a nuestro compañero Vicente Manzano Arrondo por la obtención del título de Doctor en Economía con la tesis titulada “Economía ciudadana de la liberación. Fundamentos, indicadores y soporte académico”. La defensa tuvo lugar el pasado viernes 29 de enero a la que se otorgó una calificación de sobresaliente...
OVERVIEW OF THE REFUGEE CRISIS The massive arrival of Syrians to the European borders has become a symbol of the suffering of the millions of persons displaced by the wars and generalized violence that devastates our planet. At this time, more than twelve million people need humanitarian aid in Syria....
La ONG ENTRECULTURAS organiza la exposición SOMOS MIGRANTES que tendrá lugar en el Rectorado de la US del 9 noviembre al 20 noviembre. Entreculturas es una ONG de desarrollo promovida por la Compañía de Jesús que cree en la educación como instrumento de desarrollo, transformación y diálogo entre culturas. Promueve la solidaridad con...
La crisis humanitaria que viven las fronteras europeas a consecuencia del éxodo sirio y otros países africanos y asiáticos ha hecho que la ciudadanía europea tome conciencia del sufrimiento de millones de personas que huyen desesperadamente de las guerras y la expoliación de sus países. La falta de respuesta de...
El Máster en Migraciones Internacionales, Salud y Bienestar: Modelos y Estrategias de Intervención es un programa de posgrado de un año de duración (60 créditos ECTS) que se imparte en la Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad de Sevilla. Tiene como objetivo formar científicos y profesionales competentes en servicios socio-sanitarios dirigidos...
La Plataforma Somos Migrantes, de la cual es miembro CESPYD, convoca junto con otros actores una concentración solidaria con la población refugiada. Ésta tendrá lugar el día 12 de septiembre a las 12:00h en la Puerta Jerez (Sevilla). ¡Os esperamos allí!
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...
