Department: Department of Pedagogy and learning

Faculty: Faculty of Education Sciences

Area: Didactics and School Organisation

Research group: ESCULCA - Knowledge and educational action

Email: iris.estevez.blanco@usc.es

Personal web: https://www.usc.es/esculca/o-gi-esculca/equipo/

Doctor by the Universidade da Coruña with the thesis Análisis del desarrollo profesional del docente universitario de Ciencias de la Salud a través de las Ecologías de Aprendizaje 2020. Supervised by Dr. Mercedes González Sanmamed, Dr. Antonio Valle Arias.

Iris Estévez is a Doctoral Assistant Professor in the area of Didactics and School Organization of the Department of Pedagogy and Didactics of the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) (Spain). She holds a PhD from the Universiadade da Coruña (UDC- Interuniversity Doctorate Program in Equity and Innovation in Education) and her doctoral dissertation was developed within the framework of a Competitive Project of the State Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation (MINECO), supported with funding from an FPI predoctoral fellowship. The doctoral thesis was defended in April 2020, and obtained a rating of Outstanding Cum Laude, with International Mention and Extraordinary Doctorate Award. One of its main lines of research is aimed at an in-depth understanding of the processes of professional development and teacher training at different educational stages. Mainly, the studies developed are aimed at the analysis of the processes of motivation, learning, socialization and configuration of teaching identity through the emerging paradigm of Learning Ecologies. Another of the key axes of her research work focuses on the analysis of the variables involved (cognitive, emotional and behavioral) in the process of doing school homework by the student, as well as on the study of parental involvement and of the role of teachers around this tasks.. Recently, she has begun working on two new research lines (gender perspective - online and offline sexual violence and educational inclusion of students with educational needs) in collaboration with colleagues from USC and other spanish universities. He has carried out two international research stays, one of them at Kennesaw State University (USA) and another at the Universidade do Minho (Portugal). Likewise, she has participated as a researcher in numerous competitive research projects, both national and regional. In addition, she is a member of the GI_ESCULCA of the USC, an external collaborator of the GI_GIPED (UDC) and is part of two teaching innovation groups (PAIDEIA-USC and GIPEDINNOVA-UDC).