Alain Musset is director of École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and honorary member of ain Musset is rectoof Écoldeaus acute;tudes enciceSocies (EHE) d norary memr Itit ivs master programme in Comparative Studies on Development and a PhD programme in Territori...
Paul Robbins, Director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin. Considered to be one of the most renowned researchers in the emerging field of political ecology.
Ei-ichi Negishi, winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Over 40 years ago, he discovered the cross coupling reaction catalysed by palladium, a method which revolutionised the world of organic chemistry and allowed for fundamental advances in the fields of medicine and health, agriculture and electronics.
Tim Allen is a theoretical ecologist at the University of Wisconsin (USA) pioneer in the so-called hierarchy theory. Taking advantage of his visit to the UAB, we ask him three questions on the inability of science to deal with environmental problems and on the contribution that this theory can make to overcome the...
The increasing mobility of university students and teachers has led to the emergence of new scenarios of language contact, while English has become the lingua franca for international activities in higher education. Researchers from the UAB have participated in a European...
Criticism of the journalistic practices related to the audiovisual representation of migration led to the creation of ethical recommendations and entities such as the Mesa per a la Diversitat en l’Audiovisual to regulate...
This doctoral thesis examines the existence of a series of activities that sought to sound out the inner side of prisoners of the Model Prison of Barcelona with the aim of correcting the thinking and behaviour of inmates. Analysis of the registry of...
With the arrival of people from other parts of the Spanish state, the towns of Badalona, Santa Coloma de Gramenet and Sant Adrià de Besòs underwent a large population growth starting in the 1940s. The fight against substandard housing and lack of...
In recent years many devices have been developed to detect very small concentrations of elements, compounds or substances, such as biosensors, which are based on biological recognition systems. The authors of this study have developed a particular type of biosensor, that uses aptamers, for...
Relations between groups or communities, especially economic, political and socio-legal relations, are a current topic but have a long history. The Research Group on Population Contact and Immigration Matters in Ancient Greece...
