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Emilia Mataix holds a PhD in Roman Law and Archaeology. She joined UIC Barcelona this academic year 2024-2025 as a lecturer in Roman law and as a researcher, with a Ramón y Cajal contract. She previously worked as a María Zambrano researcher at the University of the Basque Country and has worked in Palermo, Lyon, Southampton and Helsinki, to name a few. We interviewed her to find out more about her professional career, her current research and her work as a lecturer at the UIC Barcelona Faculty of Law.

An academic article by Lara Martín Vicario, lecturer at the Faculty of Communication Sciences at UIC Barcelona, has found that mobile weight loss applications contribute to the stigmatisation of overweight people, as their language associates thinness with good health and overweight with bad habits.

Researcher Isabella Meneghel leads the MedMind project, which seeks to improve emotional well-being in the healthcare sector through the use of advanced technology.

For the fifth year running, the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC Barcelona) has taken part in this world sustainability ranking for universities and has achieved 297th place out of 1,477 universities

María Fitó, lecturer from the UIC Barcelona Faculty of Communication Sciences, has published an article in the magazine Austral Communication about the phenomenon of activity-focused brand playlists and marketing strategies to capture audience attention.

As part of the conference series organised by the Faculty of Humanities and Cases Singulars, lecturer Anna Pou gave a talk titled, “Visionary and Transgressive: Women Artists of Modernity”

The well-known neuropsychiatrist was patron for the first graduating class of the postgraduate programme in Family Coaching and Guidance of the Institute for Advanced Family Studies (IESF). Some thirty students, from more than ten nationalities, received their diplomas in a ceremony that took place in the UIC Barcelona’s Aula Magna lecture theatre

Miguel Ángel Sánchez Huete, professor at the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Tax Law expert and PhD from UIC Barcelona, participated as a speaker at the Molins Chair Social Breakfast on May 8. Sánchez Huete addressed different aspects of taxation in relation to family policies  

Sara Eltokhy is a PHD student through the RMIT European Doctoral Innovators (REDI) Programme, funded through the European Union’s Marie Curie COFUND Grant Programme. The project is led by RMIT Europe, the European hub of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University) and coordinated by UIC Barcelona School of Architecture professor Dr. Carmen Mendoza-Arroyo. Sara Eltokhy shares the research she is currently developing in UIC Barcelona School of Architecture about the urban inclusion policies in European cities and the crucial role they have for refugee woman.