CareNet studies the social and material configuration of care and preparedness in the Network Society

We are a research group of the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Current Projects

BCONNECT@HOME – “Being Connected” at Home: Making use of digital devices in later life

Collaborative Medication Management: A research and participative action project in mental health

CANDID – Checking Assumptions and promoting responsibility in Smart Development

CUIDAR – Cultures of Disaster and Resilience among children and young people

Latest News

Nairbi Sibrian Díaz, from Universidad Alberto Hurtado (Chile), is doing a predoctoral research stay with us.

by carenet1126 | March 12, 2018 | Visiting scholars | 0 Comments

La investigadora Nairbi Sibrian Díaz de la Universidad Alberto Hurtado estará de estancia predoctoral entre el 12/03/2018 i el 12/06/2018

Intimate Entanglements

by carenet1126 | February 19, 2018 | Events | 0 Comments

"Intimate Entanglements", a two-day Workshop brought to you by The Sociological Review Foundation and The University of York’s Sociology Department The Sociological Review Foundation is delighted to...

CareNet Seminar: “No heroics, please: mapping deceased donation practices in a Catalan hospital” by Sara Bea (University of Edinburgh)

by carenet1126 | January 31, 2018 | Events | 0 Comments

Carenet seminar: “No heroics, please: mapping deceased donation practices in a Catalan hospital” by Sara Bea (University of Edinburgh). Date: 7/02/2018. Time: 12:00-13:30 h. Tony Bates room, UOC Tibidabo building

BCONNECT@HOME, new international research project about the digital life of older people

by carenet1126 | December 19, 2017 | New Projects | 0 Comments

BCONNECT@HOME is a 3 year project funded by the Spanish Research Council as part of the transnational joint programme MYBL: “Ageing and Place in a Digitising World”. We will work together with Utrecht University, Trent University (Canada) and KTH Stockholm.