Dra. Gualda Caballero, Estrella. Directora del Grupo de Investigación.

Full  Professor of Sociology at the University of Huelva (Spain), Full Member of the Academia Iberoamericana de La Rábida, and past President of the Andalusian Sociological Association (2018-2022). She holds  a  PhD  in Sociology  and  a  Master of Arts in  Political  Science and  Sociology  from  the  Complutense University of Madrid (Spain).

She develops her work at the Department of Sociology, Social Work and Public Health where is Director of the Social Studies and Social Intervention  Research Centre. She is also a member of the COIDESO Research Centre at the University of Huelva, a founder member of the Narratives & Social Changes – International Research Group, an Associate Researcher of the International Lab for Innovative Social Research, and a founder member of the Applied Computational Social Sciences Lab. In past times, she has also been a member of the Scientific Council at the Research Centre for Spatial and Organisational Dynamics at the University of Algarve (Faro, Portugal).

She has been Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economic and Political Science, based at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights; a Visiting  Scholar at Princeton University; at Arizona State University; and at Universität  Augsburg. She has been a member of the Management Committe (Workgroup: Social Media) in the COST Action: Comparative Analysis of Conspiracy Theories (COMPACT), CA COST Action CA15101 (2016-2020) funded by the European Union Framework Programme Horizon 2020, coordinated by the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Alemania), and integrated by 33 countries. She has recently got involved in other projects such as DIVERSE: Diversity improvement as a viable enrichment resource for society and economy (Ref. HOME/201213/EIFX/CA/CFP4000004248), funded by the EC Home Affairs.

Throughout her career Professor Gualda has managed  many  projects  and  published  several books,  book  chapters  and scientific  articles  in  the  fields  of  sociology,  social  exclusion,  migrations  and  minorities, cross-border  issues,  social  networks, social capital, and most recently on social media.

Current Interests:

She has a particular interest in transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to social, political, economic and cultural issues, advances in research methods, techniques and software for social and applied sciences, sociological and other social science theories, big data, social media, human rights, migrations, diversity, interculturality, intercultural mediation, intercultural dialogue, integration, borders, social justice, racism, xenophobia, exclusion, rumour, stereotypes, conspiracies, and connected issues. She is actually very committed with the develop of the Computational Sociology and the Computational Social Sciences.

Selected publications:

Mata-Vázquez, J., Pachón-Álvarez, V., Gualda, E., Araujo-Hernández, M. and García-Navarro, E.B. (2023). "Automatic Detection in Twitter of Non-Traumatic Grief Due to Deaths by COVID-19: A Deep Learning Approach," IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 143402-143416. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3343149

Azevedo, F., Pavlović, T., Rêgo, G. G. d., Ay, F. C., Gjoneska, B., Etienne, T.,…, Gualda, E., ..., Sampaio, W. M. (2023). Social and moral psychology of COVID-19 across 69 countries (reference number: SDATA-22-00565). Nature Scientific Data.  

Gualda, E. y Ibáñez Meseguer, J. (2023). "Diversity of Collective Memories and Identification Processes on Monuments: The Columbus Monument in Huelva, Spain, as a Case Study" (págs.37 - 54). Pocecco, A., Gualda, E., Mangone, E. (eds.) (2023). Collective Memory Narratives in Contemporary Culture. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41921-8 

Gualda, E.; Taboada, A. y Rebollo, C. (2023). “Big data y ciencias sociales: Una mirada comparativa a las publicaciones de  antropología, sociología y trabajo social”. Gazeta de antropología, 39, 1, pp.1-22. https://digibug.ugr.es/handle/10481/79779. https://doi.org/10.30827/Digibug.79779   

Pavlović, T.; Azevedo, F.;  De, K.;... Gualda, E.;...; Van Bavel, J. (2022). Predicting attitudinal and behavioral responses to COVID-19 pandemic using machine learning, PNAS Nexus, Volume 1, Issue 3, July 2022, , https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac093.

Van Bavel, J.J., Cichocka, A.,… Gualda, E… Capraro, V. et al. (2022). National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic. Nature Communication, 13, 517. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27668-9; pre-print: https://psyarxiv.com/ydt95/. 

Imhoff, R.; Zimmer, F. …. Gualda, E. … Van Prooijen, J-W (2022). Conspiracy Mentality and Political Orientation across 26 countries, Nature Human Behaviour, 17 January. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01258-7. 

Gualda, E. (2022). Social big data, sociología y ciencias sociales computacionales. Empiria. Revista De metodología De Ciencias Sociales, (53), 147–177. https://doi.org/10.5944/empiria.53.2022.32631 

Gualda, E.; Krouwel, A.; Palacios-Gálvez, M.; Morales-Marente, E.; Rodríguez-Pascual, I.; García-Navarro E.B. (2021). “Social Distancing and COVID-19: Factors Associated With Compliance With Social Distancing Norms in Spain”. Frontiers in Psychology.  12:727225. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.727225/full 

Gualda, E. (2021). “Altruism, Solidarity and Responsibility from a Committed Sociology: Contributions to Society”. The American Sociologist (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12108-021-09504-1; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12108-021-09504-1; http://rabida.uhu.es/dspace/handle/10272/20280

Rodríguez Pascual, I.; Gualda, E.; Morales Marente, E. y Palacios Gálvez, M. (2021): “Is the Use of Digital Social Networks Associated with Conspiracy Theories? Evidence from Spain’s Andalusian Society” Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, nº 173, pp. 101-120. http://dx.doi.org/10.5477/cis/reis.173.101. http://www.reis.cis.es/REIS/PDF/REIS_173_06_ENG1607000114017.pdf

Gualda, E.; Checa, J.C.; de Miguel, V. y Soriano, R. (2022). Opiniones y actitudes sobre la inmigración en Andalucía. Fundación Pública Centro de Estudios Andaluces, Consejería de Presidencia. 

Gualda, E. (2021). “Ni de carne ni de pescao”: Experiencias de discriminación y auto-identificación nacional de hijos e hijas de inmigrantes en España”. En Aparicio, R. y Portes, A. (Eds.): Los nuevos españoles. La incorporación de los hijos de inmigrantes. Berraterra. Próximamente.

Arenas-Hidalgo, N. and Gualda, E. (Editors) (2022). Conspiracy Theories, fake news and disinformation in social networks. Universidad de Huelva. Próximamente. 

Adam-Troian, J... Gualda, E. … & van Prooijen, J.W. (2020). Investigating the links Between Cultural Values and Belief in Conspiracy Theories: the Key Roles of Collectivism and Masculinity”. Political Psichology. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/pops.12716

Martinez-Brawley, E. & Gualda, E. (2020). Transnational Social Implications of the Use of the “War metaphor" Concerning Coronavirus: A Birds' Eye View. Culture e Studi del Sociale. Vol 5 No 1, 259-272 (http://www.cussoc.it/index.php/journal/article/view/133). [ISSN: 2531-3975].

Gualda, E, (2020). “Social network analysis, social big data and conspiracy theories”. Butter, M. & Knight, P. (Ed.): Handbook of Conspiracy Theories. London: Routledge. En https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Conspiracy-Theories-1st-Edition/Butter-Knight/p/book/9780815361749.

Gualda, E. y Rebollo, C. (2020): “Big data y Twitter para el estudio de procesos migratorios: Métodos, técnicas de investigación y software”. Empiria. Revista de metodología en ciencias sociales, 46, 147-177 [ISSN: 1139-5737].  En http://revistas.uned.es/index.php/empiria/article/view/26970; DOI: https://doi.org/10.5944/empiria.46.2020.26970.

Gualda, E. (2021). "Metaphors of invasion: Imagining Europe as endangered by Islamization”, in Önnefors, A. & Krouwel, A. (eds.). Europe: Continent of Conspiracies. Conspiracy Theories in and about Europe. London: Routledge, pp.54-75.

Gualda, E. (2020). “Social network analysis, social big data and conspiracy theories”. Butter, M. & Knight, P. (Ed.): Handbook of Conspiracy Theories. London: Routledge. En https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Conspiracy-Theories-1st-Edition/Butter-Knight/p/book/9780815361749, 135-147 [ISBN: 9780815361749].

Gualda, E. y Rúas, J. (2019): “Conspiracy theories, credibility and trust in information”/ “Teorías de la conspiración, credibilidad y confianza en la información”.  Communication & Society, 32(1), 179-195. doi: 10.15581/003.32.1.179-195. [ISSN: 0214-0039. ISSN: 2386-7876]. En http://www.communication-society.com.

Mendoza, R.; Gualda, E. y Spinatsch, M. (Editores) (2019): La mediación intercultural en la atención sanitaria a inmigrantes y minorías étnicas. Modelos, estudios, programas y práctica profesional. Una visión internacional. Ed. Díaz de Santos, Madrid.

Gualda, E. y Vizcaíno Cruzado, E. (2019): “¿En qué crees tú?” Creyentes y no creyentes ante las Teorías de la Conspiración”. En Gualda, E. (Dir.): Sociedades y Fronteras. Actas del IX Congreso Andaluz de Sociología, Huelva 23-24 de noviembre de 2018. Huelva: Universidad de Huelva, 173-189.

Delgado-Parrilla, A.; Gómez-Rasco, T. y Gualda, E. (2019): “De mayor quiero y espero ser…”: Aspiraciones y expectativas educativas y laborales de adolescentes y jóvenes de origen inmigrante en Huelva desde una perspectiva género. En Gualda, E. (Dir.): Sociedades y Fronteras. Actas del IX Congreso Andaluz de Sociología, Huelva 23-24 de noviembre de 2018. Huelva: Universidad de Huelva, 377-388.

Rebollo, C. y Gualda, E. (2019): “Teorías de la Conspiración y creencias sobre la invasión del Islam”. En Gualda, E. (Dir.): Sociedades y Fronteras. Actas del IX Congreso Andaluz de Sociología, Huelva 23-24 de noviembre de 2018. Huelva: Universidad de Huelva, 389-402.

Rebollo, C.; Gualda, E. (2018): “La situación internacional de los refugiados y su imagen en Twitter. Un reto para la intervención desde Trabajo Social”. Documentos de Trabajo Social, nº59 ISSN: 1133-6552. eISSN: 2173-8246. 

González-Gómez, T. y Gualda, E. (2017): “Disclosing the Relational Structure of Institutional Cross-border Cooperation in Two Cross-border Regions in Europe”. Journal of Borderlands Studies, DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1399810. Publicado online: 17 Nov 2017, pp.1-17. ISSN: 0886-5655. eISSN: 2159-1229.

Gallego, M.; Gualda, E. y Rebollo, C. (2017): “Women and Refugees in Twitter: Rethorics of Abuse, Vulnerability and Violence from a Gender Perspective”. Journal of Mediterranean Knowledge, vol.2, nº1, pp.37-58. http://www.mediterraneanknowledge.org/publications/index.php/journal/article/view/65.

Gualda, E. y Rebollo, C. (2017). “Polarización de los discursos sobre refugiados en Twitter: nuevos desafíos para la integración”. En FAMSI (ed.) Migraciones, derechos humanos y servicios públicos locales para la inclusión social. Ed. Fondo Andaluz de Municipios para la Solidaridad Internacional (FAMSI), Sevilla, pp. 110-123. En https://issuu.com/andaluciasolidaria/ docs/derechos_humanos__migraciones_y_com. ISBN: 978-84-697-3865-8.

Gualda, E. y Rebollo, C. (2016): “Refugee crisis in Twitter: Diversity of Discourses at an European Crossroads”, Journal of Spatial and Organizational Dynamics. Volume IV, Issue 3, pp.199-212. En http://rabida.uhu.es/dspace/handle/10272/13624.

Gualda, E.; Borrero, J.D.; Carpio, J. (2015): “La ‘Spanish Revolution’ en Twitter (2): Redes de hashtags (#) y actores individuales y colectivos respecto a los desahucios en España”. Redes. Revista hispana para el análisis de redes sociales. Vol. 26 (1), pp.1-22. En http://revistes.uab.cat/redes/article/view/v26-n1-gualda-borrerodiaz-carpio (ISSN: 1579-0185).