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Current position:

Núria is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Information and Communication Sciences, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya since 2005.

Academic training:

European PhD in Information Science (Universitat de Barcelona, 2010), Ms degree in Information and Knowledge society (IN3-UOC, 2005) and BA in Information and Documentation (2003, UOC) and Journalism (1998, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, UAB).

Current research projects:

• Ageing+ Communication+ Technology project (ACT). Funding agency: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Reference: 895-2013- 1018. Total budget: € 2.100.000. Calendar: 2014-2021. IP: K. Sawchuk (Concordia University)
• Reinventing Democracy in Europe: Youth Doing Politics in Times of Increasing Inequalities (Euryka). Funding agency: EU, H2020. Ref:H2020-SC6-REV-INEQUAL-2016 Total budget: € 3.245.720. Calendar: 2017-2020. IP: M. Giugni (Geneva University)

Recent publications:

• Terren, L.; Clua, A.; Ferran-Ferrer, N. (2019). Falling on deaf ears? An analysis of youth political claims in the European mainstream press. American Behavioral Scientist, 64(5):608-619.
• Clua, A.; Ferran-Ferrer, N.; Terren, L. (2018). Youth impact in the public sphere: The dissolution of the Spanish Youth Council in the press and on Twitter. Comunicar, 55, 49-57.
• Fernández-Ardèvol, M.; Ferran-Ferrer, N.; Nieto-Arroyo, J.; Fenoll, C. (2018). The public library as seen by the non-users. El profesional de la información, 27(3), 659-670. doi.10.3145.
• Senabre, E.; Ferran-Ferrer, N.; Perelló, J. (2018). Participatory design of citizen science experiments. Comunicar, 54, 29-38. 
• Ferran-Ferrer, N.; Guallar, J.; Abadal, E.; Server, A. (2017). Research methods and techniques in Spanish library and information science journals (2012-2014). Information Research, 22(1), 741.
• Guallar, J.; Ferran-Ferrer, N.; Abadal, E.; Server, A.(2017). Cómo es la investigación en Información y Documentación en España: análisis de revistas. El profesional de la información, 26(5), 947-960. Sep.16
• Ferran-Ferrer, N.; Pérez-Montoro, M.; Minguillón, J. (2013). Key factors on the transfer of information-related competencies. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 64(6), 1112-1121.