Mayo Fuster Morell is the lead researcher of Dimmons Research Group of the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute of the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). In addition, she is a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society – Harvard University and at the Government and Public Policies Institute (IGOP) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB).
She is the director of the Barcelona UOC Chair in digital economy: for a sharing economy focused on people’s welfare and the Right to the City gathering the Open University of Catalonia, the Barcelona City Council and Barcelona Activa.
She is the UOC’s lead researcher of the European projects PLUS: Platform Labor in Urban Spaces. She also was the lead researcher of the european project DECODE Citizens Owned Data Ecosystem and at the IGOP’s European Project: P2Pvalue: Techno-social platform for sustainable models and value generation in commons-based peer production in the Future Internet.
In 2010, she concluded her PhD thesis at the European University Institute in Florence on the governance of common-based peer production, and has numerous publications in the field.
@lilaroja // mfuster [at] uoc.edu // Publications // Website
Ricard Espelt is a senior researcher specializing in social and solidarity economy studies and the digital sphere.
He is an interdisciplinary researcher and academic with expertise in action research across the social sciences, humanities, and digital domains. Dr. Espelt holds a Doctorate in Information Society and Knowledge, as well as an Industrial Doctorate in social sciences and humanities. His academic background is diverse, including a degree in Fine Arts. Currently, he serves as a Senior Researcher at Dimmons, located at the IN3 (UOC), and is a visiting researcher at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) in Berlin.
He is responsible for the MatchImpulsa project, which is associated with the Open_Chair initiative, promoted by Dimmons (UOC), Barcelona City Council, and Barcelona Activa local economic agency. His research contributions are extensive, with numerous publications in high-impact journals, conference proceedings, book chapters, and action-research books. He has also actively engaged in teaching and supervision, holding positions at different educational levels and contributing to various academic programs and institutions.
@ricardespelt // Personal research website // ricardespelt [at] uoc.edu // Publications
Ricard Espelt is a senior researcher specializing in social and solidarity economy studies and the digital sphere.
He is an interdisciplinary researcher and academic with expertise in action research across the social sciences, humanities, and digital domains. Dr. Espelt holds a Doctorate in Information Society and Knowledge, as well as an Industrial Doctorate in social sciences and humanities. His academic background is diverse, including a degree in Fine Arts. Currently, he serves as a Senior Researcher at Dimmons, located at the IN3 (UOC), and is a visiting researcher at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) in Berlin.
He is responsible for the MatchImpulsa project, which is associated with the Open_Chair initiative, promoted by Dimmons (UOC), Barcelona City Council, and Barcelona Activa local economic agency. His research contributions are extensive, with numerous publications in high-impact journals, conference proceedings, book chapters, and action-research books. He has also actively engaged in teaching and supervision, holding positions at different educational levels and contributing to various academic programs and institutions.
@ricardespelt // Personal research website // ricardespelt [at] uoc.edu // Publications
Elsa Soro: Sharing Cities Task Force coordinator – Barcelona UOC Chair in Digital Economy.
She has a post-doc researcher at the University of Turin where she also lectures on the Semiotics of Tourism.
She has lead the MA Event Tourism program at Ostelea Tourism Management School, in Barcelona. Previously she had developed and led courses at both the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the IED European Design School.
After obtaining her Ph.D in Science of Language and Communication from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, in international co-tutorship with the University of Turin, she worked as strategic advisor at European Capital of Culture Program (European Union) in Italy and Romania and I have since collaborated with Barcelona City Council and was involved in the development of Barcelona Tourism Strategic Plan 2020.
Enric Senabre Hidalgo, researcher in co-creation methodologies
Enric is a postdoctoral research fellow at UOC. His work at Dimmons connects collaborative research practices with ethnography, community-based science and participatory design. He’s also a member of the Peer-Produced Research Lab (U1284 INSERM – Université Paris Cité) led by Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, dedicated to the implementation of commons-based peer production in citizen science and personal science.
President of the Platoniq Foundation and co-founder of the open source Goteo.org platform for civic crowdfunding. PhD in Sociology on the Information and Knowledge Society from the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute under the direction of Mayo Fuster Morell. Previously postdoctoral researcher at the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities (Austrian Academy of Sciences), research fellow at CECAN (University of Surrey), vice-president of the Observatory for CyberSociety and associate professor of software studies at the UOC’s Faculty of Computer Science and Multimedia. Certified Scrum Master by the Scrum Alliance, co-creation facilitator in international projects like Europeana Creative or the Connected Action for the Commons network of the European Cultural Foundation.
Personal website // esenabre [at] uoc.edu
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Susana Galán, researcher in gender studies and the digital sphere
She has a PhD in Women’s and Gender Studies from Rutgers University. Her research adopts an intersectional, interdisciplinary, transnational and social justice approach that draws upon feminist and queer theory, feminist media studies and feminist geography.
Her work has been published in the Journal of International Women’s Studies, the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Kohl: A Journal for Body and Gender Research, the Observatori del Conflicte Social and the books Freedom Without Permission: Bodies and Space in the Arab Revolutions and Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings.
She has served as co-editor for “Third Space” at the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies and has co-edited special issues for Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society andAl-Raida.
She has a Master in European Studies from the Europa-Universität Viadrina and a BA in Journalism from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
sgalanj [at] uoc.edu // Publications