The UOC Rural structures its lines of research between the different research missions of our university. It aims to be a meeting point for these missions and the units that form it, working transversally to achieve a framework of interdisciplinarity and broad collaboration.
Currently, we are working on the following lines of research:
- Regions in digital transition: socioeconomic, gender and environmental opportunities and inequalities created by global digitization processes
- Tourism, sustainability and regenerative processes in rural areas
- The role of tourism, art and culture in creating new narratives of rural realities
- Communities and participatory governance
- The role of artistic creation and art in mobilizing and empowering rural areas
- Housing in the rural world: factors and implications of rural depopulation and repopulation processes
- Social cohesion and equal opportunities from an intersectional perspective
- Employability and entrepreneurship: developing economic and social transformation processes
- The social and collaborative economy in the rural world
- Health, ageing and care in the rural world
- Digital literacy and the creation of connected and secure rural societies
- Configuration and impact of ecological and energy transitions in rural areas