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Graduated in Educational Psychology (1997) with the Extraordinary Degree Award, and a PhD from the University of Santiago de Compostela (2007) after defending her doctoral thesis entitled “Students’ Attitudes Towards the University as an Indicator of Quality”, obtaining the Extraordinary Doctoral Award. I have been a university lecturer in the Department of Didactics and School Organisation since 2004, with work experience at three universities: the University of Murcia, the University of Santiago de Compostela and the University of A Coruña, where I have been a tenured associate professor since 2009.

My research career began in 1998 with my Master’s thesis and has always been linked to the field of didactics and school organisation. A distinctive feature of my research experience is that I have joined research groups at three different universities: the University of Santiago de Compostela (from 1998 to the present), the University of Murcia (from 2004 to 2013), and the University of A Coruña (from 2009 to the present).

As a member of these research groups, I have participated in numerous projects on university teaching, tutoring, special education, school timetables, good teaching practices, social exclusion, education for development and global citizenship, and ICT resources for teaching. all of them aimed at contributing to the improvement of the teaching-learning process from different analytical perspectives, and at covering the different levels of the education system (early years, primary, secondary, vocational training and university). Similarly, although the predominant research focus has been on the student as the main source of information, I have also had the opportunity to conduct research based on the expert knowledge of leading teachers of good practice and emeritus professors. 

I have participated in national and international conferences on university teaching and teaching innovation, in some cases collaborating in their organisation. I am a contributor to journals such as Innoeduca and Educatio S.XXI, and a member of the advisory board of the journal Aula de Infantil, published by the Graó publishing house.

I have delved into a line of research on the curriculum and the teaching-learning process, paying special attention to active classroom methodologies and the assessment of learning, with a particular focus on higher education. Methodologically, I have experience in using mixed methods, but my career is more focused on the qualitative perspective, with experience in action research. 

Currently, my research objectives remain to deepen the study of the teaching-learning process through the use of technological resources and the concern for the introduction of the ‘Education for Global Citizenship’ approach into the curricula of the education system.