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  CATALA OLTRA, LUIS

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Catala Oltra, Luis

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Current professional activity

Position:
PROFESOR/A TITULAR DE UNIVERSIDAD
Dept.
SOCIOLOGIA II
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Academic background

  • Técnico en gestión de sistemas de mejora contínua
    Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (01/04/2014)
  • Doctor en Sociologia
    Fac. d`Econòmiques i Empresarials - Universitat d`Alacant (12/12/2012)
  • DOCTORADO EN SOCIEDAD Y CULTURA CONTEMPORÁNEAS
    Centro de Estudios de Doctorado y Posgrado (12/12/2012)
  • Sociología
    Universitat d`Alacant (30/09/1994)

PhD in Sociology (University of Alicante), with a thesis on territorial identity, and postgraduate in Continuous Improvement Systems (Open University of Catalonia). For more than 20 years I had worked as a consultant at the same time as adjunct professor in the University of Alicante. From 2018 to present, I'm a full time professor. My regular university teaching focuses on subjects of research techniques and social structure. Main research lines: identity, sociolinguistics, the relation between socioeconomics and territory, and citizen participation in the local field. Publication in prestigious journals such as Ethnicities, International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Foods, HERMES-Journal of Language and Communication in Business, International Journal of Society, Culture and Language, Business and Politics, Health and Adictions, Papers, AGER-Journal of Depopulation and Rural Development Studies, Treballs de Sociolingüística Catalana, among others. Seminaire and courses in the Università degli Studi di Genova, University of Social Sciences and Humanities of Ho Chi Minh City/Vietnam National University, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno (Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia), Universitat de València, Universidad de Valladolid and Universitat Jaume I. Evaluator of the Spanish State Research Agency and Le Studium Loire Valley Institute for Advanced Studies. Director of the journal Disjuntiva-Crítica de les Ciències Socials. Executive producer of the documentary 1873 La Revolució del Petroli and director of the documentary Ser a la frontera sud.