Aitor Gómez
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590796 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aitor Gómez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aitor |
| FAMILY NAME | Gómez |
| SIGNATURE | GOMEZ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Rovira i Virgili |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8994-9885 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 173 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Impacting life expectancies of incarcerated people through dialogic scientific gatherings and dialogic scientific workshops in prisons
The scientific literature has presented evidence that participants in dialogic scientific gatherings (DSGs) transform their scientific interest in science. DSGs are based on a dialogical perspective, where egalitarian dialogue and the co-creation of knowledge are the two corner pieces that allow the development of new meanings for participants, improving their scientific literacy. There is a clear gap in scientific studies regarding DSGs in priso…
Scientific workshops with a dialogical approach: An effective tool for introducing science into vulnerable educational contexts
The literature shows not only that science communication excludes the most vulnerable groups in society but also that it is of the utmost importance to make it more inclusive and available to all citizens. However, the inclusive communication experiences that are having some impact on society by including vulnerable groups have yet to cover all aspects of the issue. This article shows the positive results of scientific workshops that take a dialo…
“If they made it, why not me?” increasing educational expectations of Roma and Moroccan immigrant families in Spain through family education
In Europe, Roma and immigrant students continue to experience great inequities, as they face the probabilities of educational failure, segregation, and early school leaving. Previous research has shed light on the multiple factors that perpetuate this situation. However, the role played by family involvement and family educational expectations have been considered to a lesser extent. This research delves into how Family Education programmes provi…
Why Don’t Heterosexual New Alternative Masculinities Choose Enchained Women for Either Sporadic or Long-Term Relationships
Research on the reproduction of disdainful and toxic models of heterosexual relationships shows their negative effects on people’s health status. Contrarily, the preventive socialization process illustrates the development of alternative relationships, which are directly related to egalitarian, passionate and non-violent values and have been demonstrated to produce positive effects on health. The present study focuses on the socialization process…
The Impact of One Book About Friendship in the Lives of Readers
Research shows the benefits quality friendships have throughout humans’ lives. Recent scientific literature focuses on social impact. However, the social impact of reading and dialoguing about a book about friendship is not explored. This study aims to analyze the impact of “Creative Friendships” in the lives of participants and their surroundings. Using communicative methodology, based on dialogical co-creation from the start, it includes 30 par…
An Instagram Hashtag Fostering Science Education of Vulnerable Groups during the Pandemic
Scientific literature presents young people as a vulnerable group at risk of poverty and social exclusion. One of the elements that have the most significant impact on reducing their vulnerability is promoting education. Little is known about how social networks can promote the education of young people. To address this, the present study aims to analyse how social networks, specifically Instagram, which is one of the most used by young people, h…
Without support, victims do not report”: The Co‐creation of a workplace sexual harassment risk assessment survey tool
Workplace sexual harassment (WSH) remains a common experience for many women worldwide. European policies and guidelines point to the need to establish comprehensive WSH prevention programs and strategies. One of the strategies contemplated is establishing risk assessment and monitoring systems to prevent and identify WSH situations. However, few WSH risk assessment tools are currently available to European organizations and companies. This artic…
Social Impact Ex-Post Evaluation Protocol
Measuring the societal impact of research has become a key issue in scientific research worldwide. Most competitive research funding agencies demand societal impact in research proposals. We must not only bring science closer to the public, but also make it improve the condition in which the science is found. But how can we measure the societal impact of a research once it has been completed? Through this article we present the Social Impact ex-p…
Egalitarian Dialogue Enriches Both Social Impact and Research Methodologies
For decades, qualitative research methodologies have incorporated the voice of the participants in their designs and developments. Now, the increasing importance of social impact of the research worldwide has created a new scenario for qualitative researchers, in which the egalitarian dialogue could be one of the key elements. The traditional incorporation of participants into research process is not enough; we need to incorporate new components …
Science With and for Society Through Qualitative Inquiry
This article is based on the keynote speech addressed by the author for the 15th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry that took place in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on May 16, 2019. It is presented as a part of the research work carried out first by my father who came to this Conference the first year and by my research center CREA (Community of Research on Excellence for All) in the last 25 years. I directly connect o…
A Citizen's Claim: Science With and for Society
Social science research has been attacked by neoliberal thinkers who allege that such research lacks economic objectives. In the face of neoliberal and positivist criteria for evaluating the social impact of social science inquiry, social science researchers are developing qualitative evaluation methodologies through which we can have direct contact with citizens. These qualitative methodologies declare our social responsibility as social researc…
Covid-19 infodemic: More retweets for science-based information on coronavirus than for false information
The World Health Organization has not only signaled the health risks of COVID-19, but also labeled the situation as infodemic, due to the amount of information, true and false, circulating around this topic. Research shows that, in social media, falsehood is shared far more than evidence-based information. However, there is less research analyzing the circulation of false and evidence-based information during health emergencies. Thus, the present…
What do we Want for the Next 10 Years: Different Actors of the Icqi Community Answering This Question Within the Framework of the 10th Anniversary of Icqi
This article introduces the special issue to celebrate the 11th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry at Urbana-Champaign in 2015. The theme of the congress was “Constructing a New Critical Qualitative Inquiry.” The best way to introduce this special issue is with a T.S. Eliot quote Norman Denzin used to welcome the ICQI participants to the congress in 2015: “We shall not cease from exploration/And the end of all our exploring/Will be to …
Social and Political Impact through Communicative Methodology: Working with the Roma Community
Research in social sciences and humanities (SSH) have suffered a crisis since its utility and impact in the citizenry has been questioned. This questioning appears at a European level, but also worldwide. In this framework, the 7th Framework Program from the European Commission (EC) approved the project “IMPACT-EV: Evaluating the Impact and Outcomes of EU SSH Research.” The main objective of this project is to define a monitoring and evaluation s…
Radical Love: Remembering Freire, Joe, and Pato
This article introduces the readers to the notion of radical love that Paulo Freire, Joe Kincheloe, and Jesús Gómez (Pato) conceptualized at the end of the 20th century and at the beginning of the 21st century. The theory of radical love by Pato was published at the beginning of 2015, and it has had a great and positive repercussions in different fields of research. We will explain how this concept could be constructed in an active dialogue among…
Tu enfoque determina tu realidad”: Una vida dedicada a unir teoría y práctica en la investigación cualitativa
La dicotomía teoría-práctica ha sido uno de los debates que han marcado el desarrollo de la investigación cualitativa. Desde diferentes enfoques se ha abordado el cómo poder unir praxis y teoría, y les ha dado voz a los participantes en los procesos de investigación. En este artículo, vamos a abordar las principales contribuciones de José Juan Barba Martín, marcadas todas ellas por la necesidad de transformar la educación. Esta perspectiva transf…
Ten Years of Critical Qualitative Research at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry
Communicative Methodology: Researching “With” Rather Than “on” the Romà Community
While a part of the international scientific community has just ignored the Romà, another part has researched about their social exclusion but has excluded their voices. This fact, far from contributing to the social improvement, has only promoted prejudices and racist stereotypes, increasing their exclusion. Romà reject the exclusionary inquiries that exclude them. The communicative methodology of research (CMR) includes the voices of the group …
Luisa, Transforming Personal Visions to Ensure Better Education for All Children
The biography of Luisa, a teacher participating in the dialogic pedagogical gatherings of Valencia, allows us to analyze those elements associated with these Dialogic Gatherings (DGs) that made it possible to radically transform Luisa's feelings and thoughts, becoming a protagonist in the socio-educational movement in Valencia. This biographical study under a communicative approach shows how the gatherings led Luisa to initiate a process of trans…
The Pink-wheeled Bike—Takes Two, Three, and Four
This is a collaborative postdoctoral story. We were visiting scholars at the International Institute of Qualitative Inquiry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Our stories are about the bike with the pink tires that we shared to ride around campus. We thought while we rode and reflected upon our different realities in our countries, our research work, and our dreams. We constituted a safe and inspiratory network, and this has had a…
New Developments in Mixed Methods With Vulnerable Groups
How Friendship Generates Key Research Questions That Help to Overcome Gender-Based Violence: A Personal Narrative
The concept of new alternative masculinities (NAM) is an alternative to the dominant traditional masculinity (DTM) and oppressed traditional masculinity (OTM) concepts. The difference between these three concepts is that while the NAM constitutes a way to overcome gender-based violence, the OTM and DTM lead to its perpetuation. This ideal typology emerges from decades of interdisciplinary research. The three concepts were articulated in the first…
Beyond Action Research: The Communicative Methodology of Research
In this article we show how the communicative methodology of research (CMR) makes it possible to implement evidence-based policies to improve people's lives. Drawing on theories and methods developed under other paradigms and based on dialogue, the CMR is now a solid body of theory that researchers can put into practice. As researchers engage in egalitarian dialogic interactions with the members of society who are engaged in the research with the…
Contribuyendo a la transformación social a través de la Metodología comunicativa de investigación
Tradicionalmente, las investigaciones realizadas sobre colectivos que sufren desigualdades no han tenido en cuenta sus voces en los procesos de investigación. Al no contar con ello han llegado a conclusiones que han provocado la reproducción de la situación de exclusión social en la cual se encuentran éstos. La metodología comunicativa de investigación potencia la participación de estos colectivos en todas las fases de investigación. Esa particip…
Critical Communicative Methodology: Informing Real Social Transformation Through Research
The critical communicative methodology (CCM) is a methodological response to the dialogic turn of societies and sciences that has already had an important impact in transforming situations of inequality and exclusion. Research conducted with the CCM implies continuous and egalitarian dialogue among researchers and the people involved in the communities and realities being studied. To this dialogue, researchers bring existing scientific knowledge,…
Critical Communicative Methodology: Informing Real Social Transformation Through Research
The critical communicative methodology (CCM) is a methodological response to the dialogic turn of societies and sciences that has already had an important impact in transforming situations of inequality and exclusion. Research conducted with the CCM implies continuous and egalitarian dialogue among researchers and the people involved in the communities and realities being studied. To this dialogue, researchers bring existing scientific knowledge,…
Covid-19 infodemic: More retweets for science-based information on coronavirus than for false information
The World Health Organization has not only signaled the health risks of COVID-19, but also labeled the situation as infodemic, due to the amount of information, true and false, circulating around this topic. Research shows that, in social media, falsehood is shared far more than evidence-based information. However, there is less research analyzing the circulation of false and evidence-based information during health emergencies. Thus, the present…
Egalitarian Dialogue Enriches Both Social Impact and Research Methodologies
For decades, qualitative research methodologies have incorporated the voice of the participants in their designs and developments. Now, the increasing importance of social impact of the research worldwide has created a new scenario for qualitative researchers, in which the egalitarian dialogue could be one of the key elements. The traditional incorporation of participants into research process is not enough; we need to incorporate new components …
A Citizen's Claim: Science With and for Society
Social science research has been attacked by neoliberal thinkers who allege that such research lacks economic objectives. In the face of neoliberal and positivist criteria for evaluating the social impact of social science inquiry, social science researchers are developing qualitative evaluation methodologies through which we can have direct contact with citizens. These qualitative methodologies declare our social responsibility as social researc…
New Developments in Mixed Methods With Vulnerable Groups
Without support, victims do not report”: The Co‐creation of a workplace sexual harassment risk assessment survey tool
Workplace sexual harassment (WSH) remains a common experience for many women worldwide. European policies and guidelines point to the need to establish comprehensive WSH prevention programs and strategies. One of the strategies contemplated is establishing risk assessment and monitoring systems to prevent and identify WSH situations. However, few WSH risk assessment tools are currently available to European organizations and companies. This artic…
Luisa, Transforming Personal Visions to Ensure Better Education for All Children
The biography of Luisa, a teacher participating in the dialogic pedagogical gatherings of Valencia, allows us to analyze those elements associated with these Dialogic Gatherings (DGs) that made it possible to radically transform Luisa's feelings and thoughts, becoming a protagonist in the socio-educational movement in Valencia. This biographical study under a communicative approach shows how the gatherings led Luisa to initiate a process of trans…
Participación en escuelas de éxito: Una investigación comunicativa del proyecto Includ-ed
Este artículo presenta los resultados de una investigación dentro del Proyecto Integrado Includ-ed. Estrategias para la inclusión y la cohesión social en Europa desde la educación del VI Programa Marco de la Comisión Europea. Includ-ed es la investigación de mayor nivel científico y de mayores recursos existente en Europa sobre educación escolar. Su valoración como proyecto de excelencia se basó fundamentalmente de la metodología comunicativa crí…
How Friendship Generates Key Research Questions That Help to Overcome Gender-Based Violence: A Personal Narrative
The concept of new alternative masculinities (NAM) is an alternative to the dominant traditional masculinity (DTM) and oppressed traditional masculinity (OTM) concepts. The difference between these three concepts is that while the NAM constitutes a way to overcome gender-based violence, the OTM and DTM lead to its perpetuation. This ideal typology emerges from decades of interdisciplinary research. The three concepts were articulated in the first…
Does a Southern European Model Exist?
The difference between welfare system and welfare state lies in the fact that the welfare state refers only to the public sphere, while the welfare system or regime covers all agencies, public and private (family, third sector, voluntary services, market, state) which distribute resources that individuals can access. Attention is focussed on how the different agencies act and interact.
Participación en escuelas de éxito: Una investigación comunicativa del proyecto Includ-ed
Este artículo presenta los resultados de una investigación dentro del Proyecto Integrado Includ-ed. Estrategias para la inclusión y la cohesión social en Europa desde la educación del VI Programa Marco de la Comisión Europea. Includ-ed es la investigación de mayor nivel científico y de mayores recursos existente en Europa sobre educación escolar. Su valoración como proyecto de excelencia se basó fundamentalmente de la metodología comunicativa crí…
Ten Years of Critical Communicative Methodology
The critical communicative methodology has been developed by the Center of Research in Theories and Practices that Overcome Inequalities, CREA, as a research response to the dialogic turn of societies and sciences. It stresses that egalitarian dialogues between the scientific community and the lifeworld of the researched subjects are necessary to reach greater levels of social justice. For this dialogue to occur, the critical communicative method…
Critical Communicative Methodology: Informing Real Social Transformation Through Research
The critical communicative methodology (CCM) is a methodological response to the dialogic turn of societies and sciences that has already had an important impact in transforming situations of inequality and exclusion. Research conducted with the CCM implies continuous and egalitarian dialogue among researchers and the people involved in the communities and realities being studied. To this dialogue, researchers bring existing scientific knowledge,…
Contribuyendo a la transformación social a través de la Metodología comunicativa de investigación
Tradicionalmente, las investigaciones realizadas sobre colectivos que sufren desigualdades no han tenido en cuenta sus voces en los procesos de investigación. Al no contar con ello han llegado a conclusiones que han provocado la reproducción de la situación de exclusión social en la cual se encuentran éstos. La metodología comunicativa de investigación potencia la participación de estos colectivos en todas las fases de investigación. Esa particip…
Beyond Action Research: The Communicative Methodology of Research
In this article we show how the communicative methodology of research (CMR) makes it possible to implement evidence-based policies to improve people's lives. Drawing on theories and methods developed under other paradigms and based on dialogue, the CMR is now a solid body of theory that researchers can put into practice. As researchers engage in egalitarian dialogic interactions with the members of society who are engaged in the research with the…
The Pink-wheeled Bike—Takes Two, Three, and Four
This is a collaborative postdoctoral story. We were visiting scholars at the International Institute of Qualitative Inquiry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Our stories are about the bike with the pink tires that we shared to ride around campus. We thought while we rode and reflected upon our different realities in our countries, our research work, and our dreams. We constituted a safe and inspiratory network, and this has had a…
New Developments in Mixed Methods With Vulnerable Groups
How Friendship Generates Key Research Questions That Help to Overcome Gender-Based Violence: A Personal Narrative
The concept of new alternative masculinities (NAM) is an alternative to the dominant traditional masculinity (DTM) and oppressed traditional masculinity (OTM) concepts. The difference between these three concepts is that while the NAM constitutes a way to overcome gender-based violence, the OTM and DTM lead to its perpetuation. This ideal typology emerges from decades of interdisciplinary research. The three concepts were articulated in the first…
Luisa, Transforming Personal Visions to Ensure Better Education for All Children
The biography of Luisa, a teacher participating in the dialogic pedagogical gatherings of Valencia, allows us to analyze those elements associated with these Dialogic Gatherings (DGs) that made it possible to radically transform Luisa's feelings and thoughts, becoming a protagonist in the socio-educational movement in Valencia. This biographical study under a communicative approach shows how the gatherings led Luisa to initiate a process of trans…
Ten Years of Critical Qualitative Research at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry
Communicative Methodology: Researching “With” Rather Than “on” the Romà Community
While a part of the international scientific community has just ignored the Romà, another part has researched about their social exclusion but has excluded their voices. This fact, far from contributing to the social improvement, has only promoted prejudices and racist stereotypes, increasing their exclusion. Romà reject the exclusionary inquiries that exclude them. The communicative methodology of research (CMR) includes the voices of the group …
What do we Want for the Next 10 Years: Different Actors of the Icqi Community Answering This Question Within the Framework of the 10th Anniversary of Icqi
This article introduces the special issue to celebrate the 11th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry at Urbana-Champaign in 2015. The theme of the congress was “Constructing a New Critical Qualitative Inquiry.” The best way to introduce this special issue is with a T.S. Eliot quote Norman Denzin used to welcome the ICQI participants to the congress in 2015: “We shall not cease from exploration/And the end of all our exploring/Will be to …
Social and Political Impact through Communicative Methodology: Working with the Roma Community
Research in social sciences and humanities (SSH) have suffered a crisis since its utility and impact in the citizenry has been questioned. This questioning appears at a European level, but also worldwide. In this framework, the 7th Framework Program from the European Commission (EC) approved the project “IMPACT-EV: Evaluating the Impact and Outcomes of EU SSH Research.” The main objective of this project is to define a monitoring and evaluation s…
Radical Love: Remembering Freire, Joe, and Pato
This article introduces the readers to the notion of radical love that Paulo Freire, Joe Kincheloe, and Jesús Gómez (Pato) conceptualized at the end of the 20th century and at the beginning of the 21st century. The theory of radical love by Pato was published at the beginning of 2015, and it has had a great and positive repercussions in different fields of research. We will explain how this concept could be constructed in an active dialogue among…
Tu enfoque determina tu realidad”: Una vida dedicada a unir teoría y práctica en la investigación cualitativa
La dicotomía teoría-práctica ha sido uno de los debates que han marcado el desarrollo de la investigación cualitativa. Desde diferentes enfoques se ha abordado el cómo poder unir praxis y teoría, y les ha dado voz a los participantes en los procesos de investigación. En este artículo, vamos a abordar las principales contribuciones de José Juan Barba Martín, marcadas todas ellas por la necesidad de transformar la educación. Esta perspectiva transf…
A Citizen's Claim: Science With and for Society
Social science research has been attacked by neoliberal thinkers who allege that such research lacks economic objectives. In the face of neoliberal and positivist criteria for evaluating the social impact of social science inquiry, social science researchers are developing qualitative evaluation methodologies through which we can have direct contact with citizens. These qualitative methodologies declare our social responsibility as social researc…
Covid-19 infodemic: More retweets for science-based information on coronavirus than for false information
The World Health Organization has not only signaled the health risks of COVID-19, but also labeled the situation as infodemic, due to the amount of information, true and false, circulating around this topic. Research shows that, in social media, falsehood is shared far more than evidence-based information. However, there is less research analyzing the circulation of false and evidence-based information during health emergencies. Thus, the present…
Science With and for Society Through Qualitative Inquiry
This article is based on the keynote speech addressed by the author for the 15th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry that took place in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on May 16, 2019. It is presented as a part of the research work carried out first by my father who came to this Conference the first year and by my research center CREA (Community of Research on Excellence for All) in the last 25 years. I directly connect o…
The Impact of One Book About Friendship in the Lives of Readers
Research shows the benefits quality friendships have throughout humans’ lives. Recent scientific literature focuses on social impact. However, the social impact of reading and dialoguing about a book about friendship is not explored. This study aims to analyze the impact of “Creative Friendships” in the lives of participants and their surroundings. Using communicative methodology, based on dialogical co-creation from the start, it includes 30 par…
An Instagram Hashtag Fostering Science Education of Vulnerable Groups during the Pandemic
Scientific literature presents young people as a vulnerable group at risk of poverty and social exclusion. One of the elements that have the most significant impact on reducing their vulnerability is promoting education. Little is known about how social networks can promote the education of young people. To address this, the present study aims to analyse how social networks, specifically Instagram, which is one of the most used by young people, h…
Without support, victims do not report”: The Co‐creation of a workplace sexual harassment risk assessment survey tool
Workplace sexual harassment (WSH) remains a common experience for many women worldwide. European policies and guidelines point to the need to establish comprehensive WSH prevention programs and strategies. One of the strategies contemplated is establishing risk assessment and monitoring systems to prevent and identify WSH situations. However, few WSH risk assessment tools are currently available to European organizations and companies. This artic…
Social Impact Ex-Post Evaluation Protocol
Measuring the societal impact of research has become a key issue in scientific research worldwide. Most competitive research funding agencies demand societal impact in research proposals. We must not only bring science closer to the public, but also make it improve the condition in which the science is found. But how can we measure the societal impact of a research once it has been completed? Through this article we present the Social Impact ex-p…
Egalitarian Dialogue Enriches Both Social Impact and Research Methodologies
For decades, qualitative research methodologies have incorporated the voice of the participants in their designs and developments. Now, the increasing importance of social impact of the research worldwide has created a new scenario for qualitative researchers, in which the egalitarian dialogue could be one of the key elements. The traditional incorporation of participants into research process is not enough; we need to incorporate new components …
Impacting life expectancies of incarcerated people through dialogic scientific gatherings and dialogic scientific workshops in prisons
The scientific literature has presented evidence that participants in dialogic scientific gatherings (DSGs) transform their scientific interest in science. DSGs are based on a dialogical perspective, where egalitarian dialogue and the co-creation of knowledge are the two corner pieces that allow the development of new meanings for participants, improving their scientific literacy. There is a clear gap in scientific studies regarding DSGs in priso…
Sociology (24 works) · Inclusive Education and Diversity (15 works) · Political science (15 works) · Social science (15 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Pedagogy (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Engineering (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Public relations (7 works)