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RELACIONS SOCIALS I VULNERABILITAT A CATALUNYA: UNA APROXIMACIÓ DES DE LES TEORIES DEL CAPITAL SOCIAL Lubbers, M. J., Molina, J. L., Ruiz Román, C., Valenzuela-García, H. (2026). In: Allepuz, R., Articles d’Investigació Social: Informe FOESSA sobre Exclusió i Desenvolupament Social a Catalunya (pp. 322-357). Càritas Catalunya, Barcelona. AUMENTAN LOS PROBLEMAS DE AISLAMIENTO SOCIAL Y SE DEBILITAN LAS RELACIONES SOCIALES Lubbers, M. J., Molina González, J. L., Ruiz Román, C., Valenzuela-García. H. (in alphabetical order) (2025). In: Flores Martos, R., Informe sobre exclusión y desarrollo social en Cataluña: Resultados de la Encuesta sobre Integración y Necesidades Sociales. (Informes Territoriales) (p. 229-260). Cáritas Española; Fundación FOESSA, Madrid. Publisher´s website SOCIAL NETWORKS AND THE RESILIENCE OF MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES Lubbers, M. J. (2022). In: Snijders, T. A. B., Lazega, E., & Wittek, R. (Eds.), Social networks and social resilience (pp. 1-15). Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham. Publisher's website (the chapter is open access) CHOOSE, BUY, PAY - PARADOXES OF SHAME-RELIEVING PROCESSES AMONG IMPOVERISHED SPANIARDS AFTER 2008’S GREAT RECESSION Valenzuela-García, H., Lubbers, M. J., Molina, J. L. (2022). Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 12 (1): 120-137. DOI THE ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF PERSONAL NETWORKS Lubbers, M. J., Molina, J. L. (2021). Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa, 2: 185-200. Publisher's website / Ask for a copy THE RELATIONAL VULNERABILITY OF PEOPLE EXPERIENCING MULTIPLE EXCLUSION HOMELESSNESS (MEH) IN SPAIN Valenzuela-García, H., Molina, J. L., Lubbers, M. J., Grau Rebollo, J. (2021). International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18 (19): 10275. DOI / Open-access PDF “SHE’S SURROUNDED BY LOVED ONES, BUT FEELING ALONE”: A RELATIONAL APPROACH TO LONELINESS Valenzuela-García, H., Lubbers, M. J., Molina, J. L. (2021). Social Inclusion, 9 (4): 350-362. DOI / Open-access PDF A PROPÓSITO DE LA VULNERABILIDAD RELACIONAL: REFLEXIONES PARA LA INTERVENCIÓN SOCIAL Molina, J. L., Valenzuela-García, H., Lubbers, M. J. (2021). Documentación Social: Revista para Pensar la Intervención Social, 7: 1-9. Open-access PDF
About COALESCE Lab
The COALESCE Lab is an interdisciplinary research group dedicated to advancing the understanding of social exclusion, cohesion, and polarization through the lens of social network analysis. These phenomena are inherently relational, yet they are frequently examined at the individual level or through social media data, resulting in significant gaps in our knowledge about how they emerge and persist in everyday life. The COALESCE Lab addresses these gaps by focusing on the everyday interactions among citizens and their societal consequences, aiming to bridge the divide between micro-level relationships and macro-level social outcomes.
To achieve this, the lab employs a mixed-methods approach that integrates qualitative research to explore interaction patterns, social boundary formation, their meanings for individuals, and the causal mechanisms behind their formation and dynamics; survey-based and computational network analysis for statistical inference of societal patterns; and agent-based modeling and simulation to investigate potential macro-level dynamics and outcomes in greater depth.
The lab, directed by Prof. Miranda Lubbers, is embedded in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). Within the anthropology department, in addition to contributing to personal network theory and empirical applications (e.g., in migration), the COALESCE Lab contributes to methodological development in techniques rooted in anthropology, such as cultural consensus analysis, the network scale-up method, and text analysis.
Feel free to get in touch if you have any question, or if you are interested in applying for external grants to join the lab (e.g., via the programs of the Spanish Ministry, named FPU for PhD students and Juan de la Cierva and Ramón y Cajal for postdocs, or via a Marie Curie grant).
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RELACIONS SOCIALS I VULNERABILITAT A CATALUNYA: UNA APROXIMACIÓ DES DE LES TEORIES DEL CAPITAL SOCIAL Lubbers, M. J., Molina, J. L., Ruiz Román, C., Valenzuela-García, H. (2026). In: Allepuz, R., Articles d’Investigació Social: Informe FOESSA sobre Exclusió i Desenvolupament Social a Catalunya (pp. 322-357). Càritas Catalunya, Barcelona. AUMENTAN LOS PROBLEMAS DE AISLAMIENTO SOCIAL Y SE DEBILITAN LAS RELACIONES SOCIALES Lubbers, M. J., Molina González, J. L., Ruiz Román, C., Valenzuela-García. H. (in alphabetical order) (2025). In: Flores Martos, R., Informe sobre exclusión y desarrollo social en Cataluña: Resultados de la Encuesta sobre Integración y Necesidades Sociales. (Informes Territoriales) (p. 229-260). Cáritas Española; Fundación FOESSA, Madrid. Publisher´s website SOCIAL NETWORKS AND THE RESILIENCE OF MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES Lubbers, M. J. (2022). In: Snijders, T. A. B., Lazega, E., & Wittek, R. (Eds.), Social networks and social resilience (pp. 1-15). Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham. Publisher's website (the chapter is open access) CHOOSE, BUY, PAY - PARADOXES OF SHAME-RELIEVING PROCESSES AMONG IMPOVERISHED SPANIARDS AFTER 2008’S GREAT RECESSION Valenzuela-García, H., Lubbers, M. J., Molina, J. L. (2022). Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 12 (1): 120-137. DOI THE ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF PERSONAL NETWORKS Lubbers, M. J., Molina, J. L. (2021). Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa, 2: 185-200. Publisher's website / Ask for a copy THE RELATIONAL VULNERABILITY OF PEOPLE EXPERIENCING MULTIPLE EXCLUSION HOMELESSNESS (MEH) IN SPAIN Valenzuela-García, H., Molina, J. L., Lubbers, M. J., Grau Rebollo, J. (2021). International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18 (19): 10275. DOI / Open-access PDF “SHE’S SURROUNDED BY LOVED ONES, BUT FEELING ALONE”: A RELATIONAL APPROACH TO LONELINESS Valenzuela-García, H., Lubbers, M. J., Molina, J. L. (2021). Social Inclusion, 9 (4): 350-362. DOI / Open-access PDF A PROPÓSITO DE LA VULNERABILIDAD RELACIONAL: REFLEXIONES PARA LA INTERVENCIÓN SOCIAL Molina, J. L., Valenzuela-García, H., Lubbers, M. J. (2021). Documentación Social: Revista para Pensar la Intervención Social, 7: 1-9. Open-access PDF
About COALESCE Lab
The COALESCE Lab is an interdisciplinary research group dedicated to advancing the understanding of social exclusion, cohesion, and polarization through the lens of social network analysis. These phenomena are inherently relational, yet they are frequently examined at the individual level or through social media data, resulting in significant gaps in our knowledge about how they emerge and persist in everyday life. The COALESCE Lab addresses these gaps by focusing on the everyday interactions among citizens and their societal consequences, aiming to bridge the divide between micro-level relationships and macro-level social outcomes.
To achieve this, the lab employs a mixed-methods approach that integrates qualitative research to explore interaction patterns, social boundary formation, their meanings for individuals, and the causal mechanisms behind their formation and dynamics; survey-based and computational network analysis for statistical inference of societal patterns; and agent-based modeling and simulation to investigate potential macro-level dynamics and outcomes in greater depth.
The lab, directed by Prof. Miranda Lubbers, is embedded in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). Within the anthropology department, in addition to contributing to personal network theory and empirical applications (e.g., in migration), the COALESCE Lab contributes to methodological development in techniques rooted in anthropology, such as cultural consensus analysis, the network scale-up method, and text analysis.
Feel free to get in touch if you have any question, or if you are interested in applying for external grants to join the lab (e.g., via the programs of the Spanish Ministry, named FPU for PhD students and Juan de la Cierva and Ramón y Cajal for postdocs, or via a Marie Curie grant).