Josefa Ros Velasco

Josefa Ros Velasco is a postdoctoral researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid, where she is the PI of the project “Pre-bored. Well-being and prevention of boredom in Spanish nursing homes”, financed by the European program UNA4CAREER (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions/Horizonte2020/UnaEuropa), with which she seeks to research the causes and consequences of the experience of boredom in nursing homes in the Community of Madrid and propose solutions consistent with the needs of older adults and the resources of the institutions. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher for the Postdoctoral Research Fellowships at Harvard University for Distinguished Junior Scholars program (from September 2017 to August 2021). She is a specialist in Boredom Studies from a multidisciplinary perspective. She is also the founder and president of the International Society of Boredom Studies. She is the author of the book The disease of boredom, to be published by Alianza Editorial in April 2022, and editor of books such as Suicide in modern literature (Springer, 2021), The faces of depression in literature (Peter Lang, 2020), The culture of boredom (BRILL, 2020), or Boredom is in your mind (Springer, 2019). She is also a contributor to the CENIE blog “Aging in Society”, where she publishes informative articles on boredom and older adults, and she is a Certified Educator of La Alternativa Edén España. For her academic achievements, she has received distinctions such as the DomusVi National Media Award (2021), the Alumni-UCM Research Award (2021), the Julián Marías Award (2020) or the Lincoln Book Prize for Excellence in Teaching and Service from the Harvard University (2019), among others. Contact: josros@ucm.es | @JosefaRosUCM | www.josefarosvelasco.com