Investigando la investigación

About Investigando la investigación

“Investigando la Investigación” es un podcast que abre la caja negra de lo que significa investigar. Parte de la ciencia, pero se adentra también en humanidades, arte, filosofía y poesía, e incluso en lo cotidiano, donde habitan preguntas y aprendizajes. Va más allá de lo académico o industrial, explorando la curiosidad en todas sus formas. Con un tono espontáneo y conversacional, entre entrevistas y reflexiones en vivo, muestra que investigar es una forma de mirar, aprender y conectar con el mundo, desde el laboratorio hasta la vida común.

Publisher

Horacio Pérez-Sánchez

Category

science

Language

es

Explicit

No

First episode

21 Feb 2021

Latest episode

8 Nov 2026

Latest episodes

408 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Nov 2026

   415. Ho Hwi Chie: Big Five personality and technology acceptance. Can you trust a model that fits the data?

   Big Five personality and technology acceptance: can you trust a model that fits the data? With Ho Hwi Chie, an engineer who left the top of the car industry to study why people accept a technology and keep using it. Classic technology acceptance models describe one route for everybody. This study measured the Big Five personality traits, intention to use, social support and user experience in 584 users of urban trains, and tested the whole chain with structural equation modeling (SEM). The result: there is not one door, but several. Agreeableness, conscientiousness and neuroticism come in through the intention to use; openness through social support; extraversion through the experience itself. And the strongest link in the model is not about the technology: it goes from wanting to use the system to the help you get from other people. I talk with Dr. Ho Hwi Chie (Brigita), Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at BINUS University and first author of the study, published in 2026 in the International Journal of Technology. Before research she was CEO of Audi and Volkswagen Caravelle in Indonesia. The data come from public transport users in the Jakarta area, but the questions are for anyone who works with surveys and statistical models. In this episode: How an industrial engineer ends up measuring personality and social support. Why study whether people accept a train, and not only how many people it can carry. Several doors into technology acceptance, and why the idea is not to label people. Social support as a resource: Conservation of Resources theory and four kinds of help. 184 questions, 584 valid answers: the fieldwork and the most nervous moment of the project. Can you trust a model that fits? Why a good fit is where the next questions begin. A young sample and one single moment in time: what this study can and cannot say. Rigorous or just stubborn: when to change a model, and when not to. AI for non-native English speakers, and advice for engineers who want to work with human data. Recorded asynchronously: Brigita recorded her answers, and I recorded my questions separately. Guest: Ho Hwi Chie (Brigita), BINUS University Email: hhchie@binus.edu Email: hwichieho@hotmail.com Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=56154321100 Read the paper (open access): Distinct Pathways of Personality Traits in Technology Acceptance: The Mediating Role of Social Support and User Experience in Rail Public Transport (International Journal of Technology, 2026): https://doi.org/10.14716/ijtech.v17i3.8309 Chapters: 00:00 Intro: the same train, several doors 04:21 From the car industry to research 08:28 Public transport as a human problem 12:56 Several doors into technology acceptance 16:53 Social support and Conservation of Resources 22:06 The fieldwork and a model that had to fit 26:51 The hard questions: young sample, one moment in time 32:16 Rigorous or just stubborn? Teamwork, a normal week and AI 37:57 What she enjoys most and least, and her advice 42:39 Outro: four ideas to take away More: https://horacio-ps.com/en/principal-english If you found it useful, please like, subscribe or share it.

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   3 Nov 2026

   414. Lukáš Vartiak: Does social CSR pay off? Employees, HR management and economic value

   Does social CSR pay off? Corporate social responsibility (CSR), employees and HR management: what workers really see when a company says it cares, with Lukáš Vartiak. One factory in Slovakia, 51 answers, and a result that surprised me. Many companies have a CSR plan: a document, a report, a page on the website. But workers do not read the report. They see other things: training, health and safety, workload, work–life balance, and how their boss treats them. A team invited 115 employees of a Slovak manufacturing firm to a survey on the social pillar of CSR and its value for the business; 51 answered. Only 17 of the 40 workers with a university degree said the firm had an official CSR strategy for its people; among those without a degree, 10 of 11 said yes. I talk with Lukáš Vartiak, Associate Professor at the Institute of Mediamatics, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University Bratislava, and first author of the study, published in 2026 in the journal Interpersona. This episode is about the research process behind human resource management and CSR, and about what the data cannot prove. In this episode: How responsibility travels from a strategy document to a normal working day. What had to be given up: with a cross-sectional survey of 51 employees you see patterns, not causes. Why study one single company, and why it is a first step, not all of Slovakia. Getting access to a firm: management agreement, working time, no names, and whose voices are missing. What an "I don't know" answer really means in employee surveys. The next study: several factories over time, before and after a real change. Advice for the next five years: build a relationship that lets you go back and keep hearing honest answers. Recorded asynchronously: Lukáš recorded his answers in Slovakia, and I recorded my questions separately. Guest: Lukáš Vartiak, Comenius University Bratislava Email: lukas.vartiak@fses.uniba.sk Profile: https://fses.uniba.sk/pracoviska/ustavy/ustav-mediamatiky/pracovnici/lukas-vartiak/ ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lukas-Vartiak Academia: https://comeniusuniversity.academia.edu/Luk%C3%A1%C5%A1Vartiak Read the paper (open access): Human resource management and the economic value of social CSR: employee perceptions in a Slovak manufacturing firm (Interpersona, 2026): https://doi.org/10.54899/ijpr.v20i1.805 Chapters: 00:00 Intro: when a company says it cares, how do workers know? 03:44 Before the paper: from the document to the working day 05:26 What had to be given up: patterns, not causes 07:28 Why one single company 09:36 Getting into the firm: 51 answers out of 115 11:35 Four authors, one framing 13:40 What "I don't know" really means 15:31 What comes next: following factories over time 18:32 Advice for the next five years: trust 20:48 Outro: four ideas to take away More: https://horacio-ps.com/en/principal-english If you found it useful, please like, subscribe or share it.

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   28 Oct 2026

   413. Santiago Ramón y Cajal: el Nobel que vio las neuronas

   Santiago Ramón y Cajal y Camillo Golgi miraron las mismas neuronas, con el mismo método, y vieron dos cerebros distintos. Esta es la vida de Cajal, el Nobel que demostró que las neuronas están separadas, contada a ocho voces. Un episodio coral, grabado por WhatsApp entre España, Colombia y Nicaragua, que mezcla biografía, ciencia y metainvestigación. Del niño al que metieron en la cárcel de Ayerbe con once años al telegrama de Estocolmo de 1906, que escondía un nombre: Golgi. En este episodio: • El padre que le prohibió dibujar y le enseñó anatomía con huesos del cementerio. • Cuba, la malaria y un médico militar que vuelve en los huesos. • Silveria Fañanás, la casa-laboratorio y la revista que pagaron de su bolsillo. • La reacción negra de Golgi: un método que funciona justo porque solo tiñe unas pocas neuronas. • Berlín, 1889: cómo un investigador de la periferia se hizo ver ante Kölliker. • Estocolmo, 1906: un Nobel compartido entre dos rivales y dos discursos opuestos. • Del microscopio electrónico a las sinapsis eléctricas: quién tenía razón, y por qué ninguno lo veía todo. Para investigadores: los datos no hablan solos, la herramienta no es la interpretación, a veces hay que ver menos para ver mejor y un buen rival te hace más riguroso. Capítulos: 00:00 Intro 00:24 Madrid, 1906: llega un telegrama 02:35 El niño, el cañón y el padre 08:33 Zaragoza, el gimnasio y Cuba 11:13 Silveria Fañanás y la casa-laboratorio 14:56 La reacción negra: ver menos para ver mejor 20:07 Berlín, 1889: hacerse ver desde la periferia 24:25 Estocolmo, 1906: el nombre que faltaba 29:34 Mismo método, otra mirada 32:42 Sinapsis eléctricas: ni el que ganó lo veía todo 35:22 Mientras tanto, hoy: el legado de Cajal 35:41 Créditos Voces: • Horacio Pérez Sánchez: narrador • Manuel Medina Cruz (aparato digestivo, Hospital Virgen Macarena, Sevilla): Santiago Ramón y Cajal • María Araceli Pérez García (psicóloga, Universidad de Almería): Silveria Fañanás • María de las Mercedes Capobianco Uriarte (Universidad de Almería): la voz de los documentos • Johanna Flórez (química, Universidad del Magdalena, Colombia): la voz de la ciencia • Francisco Palencia (médico epidemiólogo, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia): Camillo Golgi y el revocador de Ayerbe • Alexander Sosa Cano (profesor de literatura, Nicaragua): Justo Ramón, el padre • María Dolores Hernández Coronado (profesora del IES Ramón y Cajal): «Mientras tanto» Fuentes: Santiago Ramón y Cajal, «Recuerdos de mi vida» (Project Gutenberg); conferencias Nobel de Golgi y Cajal, 11 y 12 de diciembre de 1906 (nobelprize.org). Música: Sanctuary, Intervention, Reawakening, Ice Cream, Cicadas, Resolutions, Passage of Time, Nightfall, Effervescence, The Long Way Home y Meanwhile, de Scott Buckley (www.scottbuckley.com.au), licencia CC BY 4.0. Foto de portada: Kaulak (1909), Biblioteca Nacional de España, vía Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0. Comunidad: https://horacio-ps.com/comunidad Newsletter: https://horacio-ps.com/newsletter Si te ha hecho pensar, cuéntamelo. Y si te ha resultado útil, dale like, suscríbete o compártelo.

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