Roger Soler-i-Martí

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, where I also serve as Vice-Dean for Political Science and Public Administration. My research explores young people's relationship with democracy, focusing on how social and environmental changes influence their political attitudes and behaviour. I also examine how public policies and welfare systems address youth issues, as well as the role of young people in social movements, particularly the climate movement. In my research, I seek to integrate both quantitative and qualitative methods. My work has been published in journals like Social Movement Studies, Journal of Youth Studies, Government & Opposition, Sociological Review, or Social Inclusion.

Prior to joining UPF, I was a a Maria Zambrano postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Government and Public Policy-IGOP at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2022–2024) and visiting research fellow at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Aston University in Birmingham (UK). I also held a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellowship at the Youth, Society, and Communication Research Group at the Department of Communication at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2019–2021). Between 2008 and 2017, I worked at the Catalan Youth Observatory within the Catalan Government.