Joan Guàrdia - CV
Education
Joan Guàrdia Olmos, born in Barcelona in 1958, studied Philosophy and Education Sciences (Psychology section) at the UB. He graduated in 1982 and gained a doctoral degree in 1986. He took a master’s degree in Statistical Data Analysis at the University of Essex in 1989.
He obtained the Chair in Methodology of Behavioural Sciences at the Faculty of Psychology in 2007.
He obtained the Chair in Methodology of Behavioural Sciences at the Faculty of Psychology in 2007.
Posts held and other management positions
While he was studying for the bachelor’s degree, he represented students on the Board of the Faculty of Philosophy and Education Sciences (Psychology section) and in the University Senate.
In 1984, he joined the UB as an assistant lecturer. Since then, he has combined teaching and research with numerous university management positions:
In 1984, he joined the UB as an assistant lecturer. Since then, he has combined teaching and research with numerous university management positions:
- He has been a member of the external evaluation committees of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport since 1992.
- He was secretary of the Academic Council of the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Barcelona from December 1992 to March 1995.
- He was head of studies for the degree in Psychology from 1995 to 1999.
- He directed the University Guidance Office under the Office of the Vice-Rector for Teaching and Students and the UB Technical Directorate for Teaching Management, from November 1997 to June 2001.
- He was the UB representative for the European Union ALFA project on management training for teachers, carried out during academic years 1996-1997 and 1997-1998.
- He was appointed by the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities (CRUE) as a consultant for the selection committees for the Interuniversity Cooperation Programme Spain–Latin America 1998 and 1999 for undergraduate and postgraduate university students.
- He was an evaluator for the National Evaluation Plan of the Council of Universities in 2000.
- He jointly directed the Teaching Innovation Group for the Learning of Statistics at the UB, recognised as such in 2001.
- He was UB Vice-Rector for Students from June 2001 to June 2005.
- He was a member of the Executive Committee of the University Network of Student Affairs (RUNAE) from December 2002 to June 2005.
- He was a member of the UB Governing Council, by appointment of the rector, from 2002 to 2005.
- He coordinated the RUNAE European Convergence group from March to December 2002.
- He was a member of the Plenary of the Spanish Committee for University Sports (CEDU) of the Secretary of State for Sports, Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, in June 2004.
- He has been a consultant for UNIDISCAT since 2005.
- He has been a member of the Executive Council of the UB Institute of Neurosciences since July 2009.
- He was an external evaluator for the Interuniversity Centre for Development (CINDA) for the faculties of psychology of Latin America during the two-year period 2010-2012.
- He was UB delegate for the School of Public Relations (ESPR) from 2010 to 2017.
Academic career and official recognition
His academic and research career has generated six national teaching premiums and five research premiums, as well as four teaching premiums from the Catalan government, three for research and two for university management. He has recently been awarded his first premium for transfer activities.
Teaching
From 1987 to 2009, he taught the subjects of Statistics Applied to the Human Sciences I, Data Analysis in Psychology, Epidemiological Studies, Statistics, Ethics and Principles of Statistics. Since 2009, he has mainly taught the subjects of Research Methodology, Research Techniques and Statistics.
Notably, he has taught the following subjects in doctoral programmes: Multivariate Data Analysis Techniques in Cognitive Neuroscience; Modelling in Psychology; Graph Analysis and Exploratory Data Analysis; Epidemiological Statistical Techniques; Introduction to the SPSS/PC Statistical Package; Research Methodology in Clinical Settings; Methodological Contributions in the Evaluation of Psychological Change; Advanced Statistical Techniques; Structural Equation Models; Academic Transitions; Log-Linear Models; Categorical Data Analysis; Construction Techniques for Measurement Instruments, Qualitative Techniques for Data Analysis in Geronotology and Brain Signal Analysis.
The areas he teaches in master’s degree programmes are in the same field of knowledge. Notably, he teaches the subjects of: Multivariate Statistical Techniques; Statistical Techniques for Clinicians; Research Methodology; Advanced Statistical Techniques; Application of Statistics in Health, Bioethics, Epidemiology; Applied Statistics and Multivariate Statistical Techniques; and Brain Signal Analysis. All of them are distributed between the UB (Faculty of Psychology, Faculty of Geography and History, Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology and the University School of Nursing, among others), the University of Granada (Faculty of Psychology), University of Guadalajara in Mexico ( Health Sciences), University of San Nicolás de Hidalgo de Michoacán in Mexico (School of Psychology), the University of Sonora in Mexico (School of Psychology) and the University of California in the United States (School of Psychology).
Notably, he has taught the following subjects in doctoral programmes: Multivariate Data Analysis Techniques in Cognitive Neuroscience; Modelling in Psychology; Graph Analysis and Exploratory Data Analysis; Epidemiological Statistical Techniques; Introduction to the SPSS/PC Statistical Package; Research Methodology in Clinical Settings; Methodological Contributions in the Evaluation of Psychological Change; Advanced Statistical Techniques; Structural Equation Models; Academic Transitions; Log-Linear Models; Categorical Data Analysis; Construction Techniques for Measurement Instruments, Qualitative Techniques for Data Analysis in Geronotology and Brain Signal Analysis.
The areas he teaches in master’s degree programmes are in the same field of knowledge. Notably, he teaches the subjects of: Multivariate Statistical Techniques; Statistical Techniques for Clinicians; Research Methodology; Advanced Statistical Techniques; Application of Statistics in Health, Bioethics, Epidemiology; Applied Statistics and Multivariate Statistical Techniques; and Brain Signal Analysis. All of them are distributed between the UB (Faculty of Psychology, Faculty of Geography and History, Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology and the University School of Nursing, among others), the University of Granada (Faculty of Psychology), University of Guadalajara in Mexico ( Health Sciences), University of San Nicolás de Hidalgo de Michoacán in Mexico (School of Psychology), the University of Sonora in Mexico (School of Psychology) and the University of California in the United States (School of Psychology).