Research Clusters I+D+i

Research - Development - Public Advocacy

Interdisciplinary Studies in Social Work (NEITS)

This core promotes a reflective and critical perspective on Social Work. It seeks to deepen understanding of its foundations, tensions, and positions, contribute to a disciplinary historiography, and engage in dialogue with other social sciences to strengthen Social Work's contributions to social transformation. It focuses on professional training, epistemological debates, and intervention repertoires.

Líneas I+D+i:
  • Critical approaches and positions in Social Work.
  • Historiographies and studies of disciplinary memory.
  • Epistemic, political, conceptual, and methodological debates in Social Work.
2025 Projects
  • One Hundred Years and Counting.
  • The Echo of Other Voices.
  • Dealing with Implementation in Extremely Critical Contexts.
  • Care within the Framework of Severe Dependency.
Professors
Gabriela Rubilar Donoso Teresa Matus Paula Vidal Molina Gianinna Muñoz Arce Taly Reininger Víctor Orellana Bravo Carlos Andrade Guzmán

Featured Project

Centennial Journeys and Trajectories of Ideas: Geopolitics, Knowledge Production, and Research Agendas in Social Work

Professor: Gabriela Rubilar

This research proposal is developed a century after the event and uses the methodological coordinates of the biographical approach and longitudinal qualitative research (LQR) to address questions regarding the production of knowledge in Chilean Social Work on the eve of the profession’s centenary.

Partner: ANID/Fondecyt - Social Work Researchers Network.

Students: Isidora Apaolaza, Darío Campos, Andrea Rayenpan, and Irene Rodríguez (exchange).

Featured Project

Dealing with Implementation in Extremely Critical Contexts

Professors: Gianinna Muñoz and Taly Reininger

This project aims to examine how social program implementers face or deal with implementation processes in highly complex contexts—marked by conflict and fear—associated with “critical” or highly sensitive issues such as violence, organized crime, drug trafficking, among others, and where there is absence, precarious presence, or violent presence of the State.

Partner: FOSIS.

Students: Javiera Candia, Constanza Dionise Vargas, Víctor Valenzuela, Gaston Sánchez, Emilia Gutierrez, Trinidad Lara, Lisete Sepúlveda, Martin Celis, Francisca Espinoza, Paula Quiroz, Haillyn Vargas, Diego Escobar, Daniela Soto Bruce, Yarella Veas, Natalia Osorio, Maximiliano Cofré, Maryorie Molina, and Josefa García.

Featured Project

Care and Intradisciplinary Collaboration in Chilean Social Work: Characteristics and Development of Proposals to Improve Social Programs

Professor: Carlos Andrade

This project is based on the need to better understand the characteristics of care arrangements. The project focuses on care arrangements for people who provide care to those in situations of severe dependency.

Partner: CESFAM Santa Julia; Faculty of Medicine, UCHILE; Senadis.

Students: Ignacia Torres, Rodrigo Pérez, Lucas Castillo, Ana Sol Saldías, Josefa Durán, Daniela Olguín, Netochka Acuña, Romina Duarte, Vania Arriagada, and Renata Quijada.

Featured Project

A Secret Commitment to Encounter: Exploring Histories of Chilean Social Work

Professor: Victor Orellana

The project emphasizes the importance of a critical historiographical review of the discipline, on the occasion of 100 years of Chilean Social Work (1925-2025) and the 10-year anniversary of the reopening of the program at the University of Chile (2015).

Partner: Chilean Association of Schools of Social Work - ACHETSU.

Students: Paula Vilche, Martina Olivares, Cristóbal Olmos, M° Genoveva Espinosa, Javiera Quintanilla, Martina Munizaga, Ignacio Nauto, Carolina Castañeda, Giordano Fuentes, and Mario Miranda.

Other links:

Journal of Critical Proposals in Social Work

MAD Journal

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