Associate professor
PhD in Sociology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), with an academic career focused on social research methods. He has been a professor in the Department of Sociology at UAB since 1998 and is a researcher at the Centre for Sociological Studies on Everyday Life and Work (QUIT) and the Institute for Labour Studies (IET).
He is the coordinator of the Degree in Sociology, as well as the Double Degrees in Applied Statistics and Sociology, and in Political Science and Public Management and Sociology.
He is currently part of the project “Open Regime, Conditional Release and Resettlement” (2023–2026), which analyses the reintegration of formerly incarcerated people and the supervision of alternative sentencing.
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Departament de Sociologia
Campus UAB- Edifici B
08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès (Barcelona)
Spain
Despatx: B1-187
Areas of specialization
His research interests include social network analysis, social reintegration, social support, community development, citizen participation, employment, labour relations, migration, and public health. He has participated in several research projects, both national and international, with notable contributions in studies on social networks as mechanisms for youth job search and labour market integration, as well as for social support.
Selected bibliography
MartÃ, J., Albani, E., Ibà ñez, A., & Cid, J. (2019). Personal networks and desistance from crime in young offenders. European Journal of Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1177/1477370819842207
Vacchiano, M., MartÃ, J., Yepes-Cayuela, L., & Miquel Verd, J. (2018). Personal networks in job insertion among young adults in times of crisis: An analysis in Barcelona | Las redes personales en la inserción laboral juvenile en tiempos de crisis. Un análisis en Barcelona. Revista Espanola de Investigaciones Sociologicas, 161, 121–140. https://doi.org/10.5477/cis/reis.161.121
Cid, J., & MartÃ, J. (2017). Imprisonment, Social Support, and Desistance: A Theoretical Approach to Pathways of Desistance and Persistence for Imprisoned Men. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 61(13), 1433–1454. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X15623988
MartÃ, J., BolÃbar, M., & Lozares, C. (2017). Network cohesion and social support. Social Networks, 48, 192–201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2016.08.006
Cid, J., & MartÃ, J. (2016). Structural context and pathways to desistance: Research in Spain. Global Perspectives on Desistance: Reviewing What We Know and Looking to the Future. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315724423
MartÃ, J. (2016). Measuring in action research: Four ways of integrating quantitative methods in participatory dynamics. Action Research, 14(2), 168–183. https://doi.org/10.1177/1476750315590883
BolÃbar, M., MartÃ, J., & Verd, J. M. (2015). Just a question of time? The composition and evolution of immigrants’ personal networks in Catalonia. International Sociology, 30(6), 579–598. https://doi.org/10.1177/0268580915579925
MartÃ, J., & Cid, J. (2015). Imprisonment, family ties and recidivism. Exploring the limits of familism | Encarcelamiento, lazos familiares y reincidencia. Explorando los lÃmites del familismo. Revista Internacional de Sociologia, 73(1). https://doi.org/10.3989/ris.2013.02.04
Lozares, C., Verd, J. M., Cruz, I., & Barranco, O. (2014). Homophily and heterophily in personal networks. From mutual acquaintance to relationship intensity. Quality and Quantity, 48(5), 2657–2670. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-013-9915-4
Bolibar, M., Marti, J., & Lozares, C. (2013). Mixing methods in Social Network Analysis: Applications to the analysis of migrants’ personal networks | Aplicaciones de los métodos mixtos al andlisis de las redes personales de la población inmigrada. Empiria, (26), 89–115. https://doi.org/10.5944/empiria.26.7154
Cid, J., & MartÃ, J. (2012). Turning points and returning points: Understanding the role of family ties in the process of desistance. European Journal of Criminology, 9(6), 603–620. https://doi.org/10.1177/1477370812453102
