Department: SOCIOLOGIA II

Institute: I. INTERUNIVERSITARIO DE DESARROLLO SOCIAL Y PAZ

Area: Sociology

Research group: Critical Socioeconomics and Territory (CRITERI)

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Email: luis.catala@ua.es

Personal web: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lluis_Catala_Oltra

Doctor by the Universitat d'Alacant / Universidad de Alicante with the thesis Fonaments de la identitat territorial amb especial atenció a la identitat nacional. El cas valencià: discursos polítics sobre la identitat valenciana entre els militants de base del Bloc, EUPV i PSPV-PSOE 2012. Supervised by Dr. Andrés Piqueras Infante, Dr. Clemente Penalva Verdú.

PhD in Sociology (University of Alicante) and postgraduate in Continuous Improvement Systems (Open University of Catalonia). For more than 20 years I had worked as a consultant at the same time as associate professor in the University of Alicante. From 2018 to present, I'm a full time professor. My regular university teaching focuses on research techniques. Main research lines: identity, sociolinguistics, the relation between socioeconomics and territory, and citizen participation in the local field. Seminaire and courses in the Università degli Studi di Genova, University of Social Sciences and Humanities of Ho Chi Minh City/Vietnam National University, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno (Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia), Universitat de València, Universidad de Valladolid and Universitat Jaume I. Director of the journal Disjuntiva-Crítica de les Ciències Socials.