Kiko Tovar

Principal Investigator

Francisco-José (Kiko) Tovar is a Co-Principal Investigator for Fairwork Spain, alongside Alberto Riesco. For the Fairwork Project, Arturo coordinates the research methodology in Spain, adjusting Fairwork principles and fieldwork resources for interviewing workers and platform management; assessing platforms’ scores and disseminating the final results.

He is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology: methodology and theory at the Complutense University of Madrid, where he teaches the sociology of communication and socio-labour policies (among other things). 

His main areas of interest are the study of organisations and their implications for individuals; and the analysis and discussion of the key concepts which underpin European employment policies such as flexicurity, employability or activation. Similarly, Tovar has researched collective industrial identities in decline, as well as the characteristics and consequences of Industry 4.0. Such works have been published in International Sociology, International Journal of Heritage Studies, Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas or Les Politiques Sociales, among others.

A complete list of his publications can be found here.