News

We announce an Open Seminar co-organised by COALESCE Lab and INMIX - UAB Research Group featuring leading expert in migration studies Prof. Louise Ryan, Senior Professor of Sociology and Director of the Global Diversities and Inequalities Research Centre, London Metropolitan University.

We are excited to welcome three new members to the lab: Paul Schuler, Gonzalo Franetovic, and Chen Wang. We look forward to working together!

Two calls for competitive postdoctoral fellowships open in Spain this November—COALESCE Lab welcomes applications to collaborate on topics such as social networks, social cohesion, polarization, social inclusion, migration, and social science methodology.

We organized the final project meeting of the INCLUSIVITY project, which was held at the Hub Social in Barcelona from September 3-5, 2025. The project comes to an end in January, and we discussed our progress, the tasks that we need to complete, outputs, and future collaboration opportunities. 

The special issue we edited for the INCLUSIVITY project, “The Impact of Social Norms on Cohesion and (De)Polarization,” has just been published in the journal Social Inclusion. In a time of growing polarization, this collection explores whether—and how—social norms can shape intergroup dynamics in...