The Territorial Studies Group (GET), created in 2012, is a research group of the Faculty of Sociology of the University of A Coruña specialized in social sciences applied to the study of territory, landscape and communities.

Our common commitment is the analysis, from a broad and integrative perspective, of the historical, cultural, environmental and socioeconomic conformation of the territory with the aim of building sustainable, resilient, inclusive and egalitarian societies in a participatory way.

It is a group that, from the interdisciplinary cooperation, integrates different areas of knowledge bringing together researchers from various fields, such as Sociology, History of Thought and Social Movements, Contemporary History, Social Anthropology, Tourism, Culture Studies, Architecture, etc.

The main purpose of the GET is the study, research, dissemination, knowledge transfer, as well as the exchange of ideas and proposals for the improvement of the relationship between the population and the territory.

The work we have been doing and publishing since 2012 tries to combine theoretical soundness with the handling of both quantitative and qualitative methodologies.

In this sense, we approach research from a perspective that combines methodological tools that inspire diverse participatory strategies of social and economic development and alternatives to strictly economistic models. 

To this end, we develop our research activity based on the collection of primary, qualitative and quantitative data (interviews, observation, surveys, focus groups, documentation) and secondary sources.

In addition, we have extensive experience in the analysis with spatial, statistical and ethnographic techniques.