Uxía Hadaly Romero Bouzas
A social educator specialising in social integration projects with families and adolescents in vulnerable situations. I am also a doctoral student on the Equity and Educational Innovation Programme.
My academic and professional journey has been marked by the essential link between socio-educational intervention and community participation in social movements, thereby shaping a perspective where collectivity and political action are structured as fundamental elements for social change. To this is added the need to work through an intersectional framework, understanding marginalisation as an inherent consequence of capitalism, colonialism and cisheteropatriarchy.
In this sense, my participation in ECIGAL emerges as a new way of breaking down the immovable barriers of university academicism and bringing research and social action methodologies closer to various collectives and communities; thereby materialising as another strategy in the fight against exploitation, inequality and injustice.
About me
Graduated in Social Education from the University of A Coruña, where I also completed the Master’s in Social Policies and Socio-Community Intervention with a specialisation in Gender and Equality. In both cases I received awards for academic excellence, as well as distinctions of honour in both the undergraduate thesis “Being a Woman in Prison: A Perspective from the Professionals” (which won the prize at the 8th edition of the Social Educators’ College Competition) as well as the TFM “Transphobia and Racism in the Feminist Movement: An Autocritical Perspective from Cis and White Privilege”. The latter was nothing more than the result of years of activism in various social movements, which allowed me to enrich my knowledge base and my practice as a social educator, alongside courses and workshops in Gender and Feminist Studies (Feminist Seminars, Equal Opportunities Awareness, History of Feminist Theory), Self-Care and Emotional Intelligence and Service-Learning with Vulnerable Groups; as well as participating as a Collaborative Fellowship Scholar in supplementary training in the Department of Pedagogy and Didactics at the UDC.
This academic development has been accompanied by a professional career focused primarily on families and young people in vulnerable situations. I was part of the educational team that launched the Andró Nebó Project – Amigonianos Galicia, through which the aim was to improve the socio-educational context for the people living in the Campanario and Portiño neighbourhoods.
Currently, I am part of the Familia Educa Project – Fundación Amigó, which focuses on working with families, mainly single-mother-led and migrant, and more specifically, on activities aimed at adolescents. I am also a member of the ECIGAL group, where I am conducting my doctoral thesis on social movements in vulnerable adolescence.