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MARTINEZ-GARCIA Esteban



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ULB Interdisciplinary Research Institute for Sports

U-IRIS is intended to bring together research skills existing at ULB in the fields of sports and physical activity in order to stimulate collaboration and interdisciplinary research. The research carried out within U-IRIS could be the basis of evidence-based advice in various fields of sport and physical activity. ULB and each of U-IRIS partner groups, as well as their existing activities, platforms, infrastructures and collaborations, will gain in visibility, both internally and externally in a promising and rapidly evolving field.

The research carried out by U-IRIS is designed to be both fundamental and applied. It is developed around five major axes:
- clinics / sports medicine
- high level sports / performance
- rehabilitation / handicap and sports
- sports and society (including education through sports)
- prevention / public health / nutrition.

The groups participating in U-IRIS represent the Faculties of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Medicine, Psychology and Educational Sciences, Motor Sciences, the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, the School of Public Health, the Research Department, ULB-Sports and the Erasme Academic Hospital.

Projetcs

Sociological measurement and understanding of psychosocial risks: the case of the non-profit sector, Promotor : E. Martinez Garcia, PhD Student : L. Melon

This research project aims to contribute to the analysis of concepts of psychosocial risks as a collective formulation of manifestations of unease in the workplace expressed by employees on a personal and emotional level in terms of stress or harassment. This will involve going beyond individualized, psychological approaches to the phenomenon, and addressing the explanatory factors to be sought within organizational transformation and labour management. This objective approach combined with measurement of psychosocial risk factors is a good starting point for questioning organizational structures and encouraging public and social debate regarding the definition of quality of life in the workplace. The non-profit sector will receive particular attention, for while its foundations are old, there are major changes underway: the process of paying a salary marked by the precarious job market, confrontation of a relatively autonomous profession with the transposition of managerial and market logic, contracting,' In addition the interpersonal aspect of the work, which is one of the aims of social intervention, appears to be a major source of conflict and unease in the workplace. The central theme of this research project therefore relates to changes in workplace organization and social relations, which are characteristics of the non-profit sector, analyzed as a potential source of violence at work.

Sustainable Employment in the Age of Digitalisation : challenges, obstacles and opportunities SEAD

The main objective of this project is to assess the potential for sustainable work and employment in the digital era, by identifying challenges, obstacles and opportunities in new and changing labour market niches  We will inform policy answers aimed at optimizing opportunities and limiting vulnerability of workers...

Neoliberalism and working condition. A comparative analysis of the working conditions in the coalfields of Asturias and the steel industry in Liège. Cecile Piret. Promotor : Esteban Martinez

My research examines the transformation of the workers' identities and forms of collective claims in the mining industrial regions of Asturias and steel Liege. While major restructuring taking place in these areas, it aims to establish how certain elements of the neoliberal context, for example, the crisis of the criticism of the traditional left, influence the formulation and organization of protests, how they interfere with production possibilities of a workers' identity, it constitutes or not a resource in this context of ''crisis.'' My works are therefore situated at the crossroads of three major areas: working conditions, neoliberalism and collective action.

Evaluation de l'impact du travail syndical dans les entreprises.

Participation with the Ugent in the project: 'Evaluatie van de impact of union werking in ondernemingen' of KULeuven (sponsor: ABVV)

Study of the socio-economic situation of COCOF school transport coaches.

In order to better understand the socio-economic situation of COCOF accompanying persons, we will collect from the latter, the available administrative data, previously anonymized, concerning the employment conditions of the whole population (contractual terms, working hours). / salary, socio-demographic profile, family situation, ...).
The quantitative analysis of these data will provide an overview of the situation of school attendants and will provide a first set of lessons.

Unionism face of recent socio-political transformations: a comparative study between Argentina and Belgium on practices and union strategies.

Promoters: Esteban Martinez (Metices-ULB), Juan S. Montes Cato (CEIL-Buenos Aires) Sponsors: FNRS (Belgium) and CONICET (Argentina) - Exchange of Researchers Program

The daily mobility of city workers. The impact of inequalities in resources and activities daily on female urban mobility in Brussels.

The present research project concentrates on the daily mobility of workingwomen, based upon a case study of Brussels. Focusing on womenwith different professional profiles and hence different socioeconomicidentities, it aims to analyze how much social, economic andcultural capital have an impact on the mobility of working women. Byinvestigating the different experiences of these women in terms of mobility,the project wishes to explore the individual strategies and discourseswomen develop in order to manage their mobility within their respectiveconditions. The goal is to shed light on the interrelatedness of different kindsof inequalities ' notably those based on class and gender ' and to identifyand thereby explain how differences arise in terms of use of urban space,access to work, and life quality.

Survey of working conditions in the quarries sector.