PhD in Education, University of Alcalá
MA in Psychological Intervention with DBM (Developmental Behavioural Modelling), University of Valencia, Spain
MA in Communication and Learning in the Digital Society, University of Alcalá, Spain
From a very young age, Gloria was attracted by learning and developmental processes, and started her professional career in the educational arena, both in formal and in informal contexts and covering all the ages and levels.
In 2011, her dive in Higher Education began. In this context, she has taught a wide variety of courses both to undergraduate, master, and doctoral students, with a particular focus on the fields of Educational Psychology, Developmental Psychology, and Research Methods.
Since 2017, she has been part of MIUC, teaching several modules in the Bachelor in Psychology and in the Bachelor in Politics and International Relations, as well as a module on Research Methods addressed to various master programmes. Likewise, since then she is collaborating as a lecturer on several training programmes in Education addressed to University Professors at the University of Alcalá.
Regarding the foundations of her teaching, she strongly believes in the need to promote students’ self-direction, reflection, and critical thinking.
A lifelong learner, apart from university qualifications, she has been trained in several areas related to her interest in supporting human beings in their life quests, including Gestalt Psychotherapy; Integrative and Transpersonal Psychotherapy; and Psycho-physical Therapy.
As a researcher, she has received various scholarships, has done three research stays in the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) and has participated in varying research projects in the area of Education. In addition to giving several oral presentations at international conferences, she is also the author of various publications in both English and Spanish.
In her PhD thesis, she investigated the emotional experience over time of higher education students immersed in experiential and collaborative learning contexts as a way to understand the potential changes -epistemological, cognitive- that these students underwent throughout such learning experiences. After her PhD defence, during the last years, she has had the great experience of co-supervising two PhD theses, completed at the University of Alcalá.
A native Spanish speaker, Gloria is also fluent in English and speaks some French, German and Italian.
For further information about Gloria’s educational and professional background as well as about her academic publications, please see her profiles in: Linkedin, academia.edu, and researchgate.
