MARIA DO CARMEN
CAMBEIRO LOURIDO

Graduate in Philosophy and Educational Sciences (Section: Educational Sciences) from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) (1991). In her academic career, she has enjoyed different competitive grants: Collaboration Grant (1989-1991) in the Department of Didactics and School Organisation, Pre-doctoral training Grant from the Xunta de Galicia (1993-1996) in the Department of Theory and History of Education of the Faculty of Educational Sciences (USC). She has been linked to the Institute of Educational Sciences of the USC from 2002 to 2009, first as a Research Fellow and later as Project Staff. Since 2011 she occupied a position as Interim Professor of Substitution for vacancy in the Department of Pedagogy and Didactics of the Faculty of Educational Sciences of the USC, stabilizing to the category of Permanent Lecturer in March 2023. Her research interests are service-learning and competences in higher education, family education, family involvement in school and intrafamily child abuse. She is member of the ESCULCA Research Group of the USC (Competitive Reference Group of the Galician R+D+i System) which won the 1st National Prize for Educational Research 2007 with the Project "Immigrant families in Galicia: the socio-educational dimension of integration", and which also received the María Barbeito Prize of Education in Galicia for Pedagogical Research 2012 (3rd edition) for the work "School performance of students from immigrant backgrounds in Galicia. An optimisation programme for families and schools". She also belongs to the Network of Immigration, School and Society (RIES), made up of 7 research groups of the Galician University System (SUG) and the Network of Excellence "University, Innovation and Learning in the Knowledge Society" (MINECO), in which 7 universities participate, and the PAIDEIA Teaching Innovation Group. She has also participated continuously in numerous research projects, awarded through competitive concurrence, both at regional, national, and European level, as well as R&D&I contracts with public administrations. She has participated in numerous national and international conferences, with more than 40 contributions, and has collaborated in 18 collective works. She is the author of several articles, co-author of 3 guides on Family involvement and academic performance in primary education (USC, 2020) and coordinator of the Report The Infancy in Galicia 2018 (UNICEF, 2018).