What are Research Programs (RPs)?

They organize the networks of problems that the university investigates, grouping common interests of researchers.

Research Programs (RPs) are organizational structures attached to a department or center, which guide and promote research in that or several departments whose substantive task is to generate relevant knowledge, in accordance with the Mission and Fundamental Orientations (OFI) of ITESO.

Currently, ITESO has ten research projects distributed across eleven departments, encompassing 47 lines of inquiry, objects, or problems on which the university conducts research. These projects generate theoretical and practical knowledge in areas such as technological development; sociocultural production; human rights; democracy; human habitat; natural resources; the environment; psycho-socio-cultural processes; socio-educational practices; health; economics; marketing; business development; alternatives to social, environmental, economic, and political inequalities; and social practices that manifest the moral dimension of human life, among others.

Research Projects (RPs) are spaces that allow us to generate and share research across various fields of knowledge, thereby fostering interdisciplinarity and collaborative networks among researchers throughout the university. We aim to promote high-quality research that helps solve the problems we face as a society and enables networking with other universities.

Department of Sociopolitical and Legal Studies

Its Research Program has the general objective of influencing the transformation of the socio-political and legal environment through the generation of unprecedented and innovative knowledge focused on the analysis of three major contemporary problems:

a) Weak, limited and unequal access to justice.

b) The configuration of violence and the violation of human rights.

c) A deficient political system and a poor quality democracy.

Their lines of research with their specific themes are as follows:

1. Justice, Law and Social Transformation:

• Values and principles of the constitutional state
• Discrimination and exclusion
• Capabilities and performance of legal institutions

2. The configuration of violence and human rights violations:

• Institutions, actors and dynamics regarding violence
• Conflict transformation
• Human rights
• Human mobility in vulnerable groups

3. Democracy, governance and public policies

• Institutions and political participation
• Design and management of public policies
• Transparency, accountability and control of corruption
• Civil society and social movements

Program Coordinator:
Dr. Ilsse Carolina Torres Ortega
torresilsse@iteso.mx

• Dr. Santiago Aceves Villalvazo
  santiagoaceves@iteso.mx

• Dra. Azul Aguiar Aguilar (SNI Nivel I)
  azulaguiar@iteso.mx

• Dra. Stephanie Calvillo Barragán (SNI Nivel I)
  stephaniecalvillo@iteso.mx

• Dr. Marcos Francisco del Rosario Rodríguez
  marcosdelrosario@iteso.mx

• Dra. Adriana González Arias (SNI Nivel I)
  adri@iteso.mx

• Dr. Luis Antonio González Tule (SNI Nivel I)
  luis.gonzalezt@iteso.mx

• Dr. Alfonso Hernández Valdez
  alfonsoh@iteso.mx

• Dr. Jesús Ibarra Cárdenas (SNI Nivel I)
  jibarra@iteso.mx

• Dra. Sofía Andrea Meza Mejía (SNI Candidato)
  smeza@iteso.mx

• Dr. Carlos Luis Moreno Jaimes (SNI Nivel I)
  cmoreno@iteso.mx

• Dr. Radamanto Portilla Tinajero (SNI Candidato)
  radamanto@iteso.mx

• Dra. Ruth Elizabeth Prado Pérez (SNI Nivel I)
  reprad@iteso.mx

• Dra. Giovana Patricia Ríos Godínez
  giovanarios@iteso.mx

• Dr. Agustín Verduzco Espinosa
  ave@iteso.mx

• Dra. Enriqueta Benítez López
  enriquetab@iteso.mx

• Dra. Ilsse Carolina Torres Ortega (SNII Nivel I)
  torresilsse@iteso.mx

• Dra. Lorena Vázquez Correa
  lorena.vazquez@iteso.mx

• Dra. Paloma Sotelo Márquez
  palomasotelo@iteso.mx

• Mtro. Edgar Josué Ayón González
  edgar.ayon@iteso.mx