Research line 1: Evidence-based Practice, Models, Leadership and Results in Health and Social Sciences.

Coordinated by Emilia Chirveches Pérez

This research line is intended to evaluate person-centered care and to provide evidence to improve management outcomes and clinical practice. It’s integrated by 13 members and 2 external collaborators, mainly from nursing sciences but also from other disciplines like computing sciences.

Research line 2: Social and Emotional Wellbeing, Bioethics, Arts and Humanities

Coordinated by Laura Coll Planas

The research line “Social and emotional wellbeing, bioethics, arts and humanities” is formed by M3O researchers based at UVic-UCC with expertise in those different topics, hence finding bridges and synergies among these areas.

  • Social and emotional wellbeing: in this area we focus on understanding what generates wellbeing at an emotional and a social level, as well as on promoting it along the life course through interventions at micro (intrapersonal), meso (interpersonal) and macro-level (community). Research in this area includes mental health, loneliness and social connection, nature as a source of wellbeing and social policy.
  • Arts in health: This is an emerging research line in Arts in Health, focusing on the integration of artistic practices into healthcare and wellbeing contexts. This initiative aims to explore the impact of the arts on physical, mental, and social health through interdisciplinary collaboration. Among its core activities, the research team offers support and expertise in the design, implementation, and evaluation of Arts in Health initiatives, fostering evidence-based approaches and innovative methodologies.
  • Humanities: in this area we are exploring the intersections between medicine, culture, and the human experience, integrating insights from cinema, TV series, literature, history, and philosophy, to enhance empathy, communication, and ethical understanding in healthcare; aiming for an interdisciplinary approach that enriches health sciences education and fosters holistic care. 

Podcast related to loneliness: “A la recerca de la soledat“, enriched with music and film recommendations.

Research line 3: Nutrition, eating behaviour, gastronomy and sustainability 

Coordinated by Miriam Torres-Moreno

The research carried out in the line of research on nutrition, eating behaviour, gastronomy and sustainability focuses on the knowledge and improvement of the population’s eating habits to achieve a positive impact on their health, quality of life, as well as in the health of the planet. For this reason, research is being carried out both in the prevention and promotion of health and in the treatment of pathology in the field of community nutrition, clinical nutrition, mass catering and the food industry.

The projects that are being developed focus on: the study of eating patterns and the determinants of eating behaviour in different population groups and their impact on the nutritional status, health and well-being of people; the design and evaluation of interventions to promote healthy and sustainable eating in different problem groups; healthy and sustainable dietary adaptations in situations of diversity and complexity; food reformulation and the development of new healthy and sustainable food products; the analysis of the physico-chemical and sensory properties of food; the nutritional assessment of diets and menus aimed at different communities; as well as the design of healthy and sustainable gastronomic solutions adapted to different population groups and their application to collective catering; and ultimately to scientific communication in nutrition, food, gastronomy and sustainability.

Research line 4: Healthy Ageing and Functional Diversity

Coordinated by Javier Jerez-Roig

This research line studies Healthy Ageing and Functional Diversity from a multidisciplinary and integrated point of view. It consists of 14 members and 6 collaborators from different disciplines: physiotherapy, occupational therapy, nursing, odontology, medicine and psychology. At the present, this group of researchers have obtained 4 predoctorate or posdoctorate grants for research stages and are conducting several research projects. Among the latter, it is worth highlighting its participation in 3 projects funded by the Catalan Board of Physiotherapists and 1 Industrial Doctorate funded by the Government of Catalonia.