Our research
The team at the Laboratory of Studies on Coexistence and Prevention of Violence (LAECOVI; HUM-298/ PAIDI), directed by Professor Rosario Ortega Ruiz, centres its attention on analysing the psycho-educational processes which occur in both formal and informal contexts, focusing in particular on the mechanisms underlying the networks of relationships among peers and the resulting problems of coexistence.
We are involved in researching school and youth violence and in looking for the best ways to build social and interpersonal bonds founded on the knowledge and recognition of other people as similar individuals whose identity and differences must be respected, and with whom it is possible to establish
systems of friendship and respect. Further information about our work can be ound here.
Recognition and awards
- Professors Rosario Ortega, Eva Romera, Izabela Zych and Olga Gómez are in the ranking of Spanish and foreign female researchers working in Spain published by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).
- Our doctoral student and Laecovi researcher, Ana Bravo Castillo, was awarded a Fulbright Pre-Doctoral Research Grant (2022-2023) to continue her training at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, under the guidance of Dr. Dorothy Espelage. Last academic year (2021-2022), our fellow student and doctoral candidate Joaquín Rodríguez Ruiz, was also awarded this prestigious scholarship, thanks to which he worked at Clemson University (South Carolina) alongside researcher Bryan Lee Miller.
- Dr. Antonio Camacho López, a LAECOVI researcher, was awarded the 2021-2022 Special Doctorate Award by the University of Córdoba. His doctoral thesis, which won him the award, is entitled: Motivational, cognitive, emotional and moral factors in bullying and cyberbullying, directed by Dr. Eva M. Romera and Dr. Rosario Ortega Ruiz.
- Professors Rosario Ortega and Izabela Zych are among the most prolific international authors in research on cyberbullying (period 2010-2021), according to an interesting bibliometric study (Achuthan et al., 2023) published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior.
- Professors Rosario Ortega-Ruiz and Izabela Zych also have the honour of being ranked, one year more, among the leading scientists in the world, according to the 2022 Standford ranking.
- Prof. Rosario Ortega-Ruiz received the 2022 Galileo Prize for Knowledge Transfer, awarded by the University of Córdoba, in recognition of her research career addressing innovation and the transfer of knowledge to society.
- Prof. Rosario Ortega-Ruiz appears in the first edition of the ranking of the leading Psychology scientists in Spain, published by Research.com, with h-index, citations and publications data, collected as of December 6, 2021.
- Prof. Rosario Ortega-Ruiz has achieved recognition in a relevant bibliometric study (Cretu & Morandau, 2022) as one of the leading authors on the international scene of research into bullying and cyberbullying. The news was published by the Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit of the University of Córdoba.
- Prof. Inmaculada Marín-López, a member of LAECOVI, received the 2020-2021 Special Doctorate Award, at the University of Córdoba, for her doctoral thesis Cyber behaviour and emotivity: social and moral emotions, social risks and cyberspace, directed by professors Dr. Rosario Ortega Ruiz and Dr. Izabela Zych.
- Prof. Rosario Ortega Ruiz was recognized by the scientific journal PSICOTHEMA for her contribution to the list of the 10 most cited articles published by that journal over the previous 10 years (2009-2019). The publication which mainly earned her this recognition was "Bullying and cyberbullying: Overlapping and predictive value of the co-occurrence" (2012; Psicothema, 24 (4), 608-613; cited 76 times). Authorship of the article was shared with Prof. Rosario Del Rey and Prof. Paz Elipe.
- Prof. Carmen Viejo, a member of LAECOVI, won the XV "Leocadio Martín Mingorance" Award for her study of violence in couple relationships during adolescence.
- Inmaculada Marín-López, FPU scholarship member of LAECOVI, won the Award for Best Oral Communication in the area of Social Sciences at the V Scientific Congress of Researchers in Training at the University of Córdoba.
