Nuria Codina Mata

Nuria Codina Mata is a Professor at the University of Barcelona, affiliated with the Department of Social Psychology and Quantitative Psychology within the Faculty of Psychology. She serves as Director of this department and leads the IP PsicoSAO Research Group focusing on Social, Environmental, and Organizational Psychology.

Education:

• Bachelor's in Philosophy and Economics (Psychology Section), University of Barcelona (1985)
• Bachelor's in Psychology, University of Barcelona (1986)
• PhD in Psychology, University of Barcelona (1990)

Research Interests: Her work centers on time management, autonomy development, and leisure studies, particularly exploring gender differences in leisure experiences, procrastination prevention, and psychosocial interventions. She emphasizes the interplay between cultural management and self-regulation strategies in educational and organizational contexts.

Grants & Projects:

• "Time management and autonomy in young people" (2019–2021, MICINN)
• "Measuring the Social Dimension of Culture (MESOC)" (2020–2023, EU)
• "TIMe experience in Europe's Digital Age" (2022–2025, MICINN)

Her research has addressed challenges in self-regulated time management and its impact on psychosocial health.

Teaching Focus: Courses include Management of Personal and Labor Time, Social Psychology, and Applications of Social Psychology to Cultural Management. She has directed innovative teaching projects like "The time management of university students" (2018–2019).

Advising: Supervised doctoral theses on topics such as video game satisfaction, leisure interventions for persons with disabilities, and perseverance in healthy lifestyles.