I am a Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor (Type A - Focus on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) at the University of Galway, where I have worked since 2003. I graduated with BA in English Philology (1994-1998). I continued my studies with a Postgraduate Masters of Education (English) (1998-1999) and a Ph.D. in Language Teaching and Learning (2003-2013) with University of Valladolid, Spain. The University of Galway is also my alma mater as I graduated with an MA Spanish (Translation Studies) (2004-2005).

I completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher education (2021-2022) in the University of Galway and I am a UDL Badge Facilitator from 2022. I am also an Ally ambassador at the university.

My research runs along three main threads and I welcome Ph.D. students on any of these topics:

1) Spanish Language Teaching and Learning and student voice.

2) Translation Studies and Children and Young Adult fiction.

3) Skills for the Development of Creative Competence.

Active Projects:

- Channel for Proyecto EstudiantELE and other podcasts: https://www.youtube.com/@TranslationELE

- CLTS - Research Network for Childrens Literature Translation Studies

https: //cltsconference.wordpress.com/

https://www.youtube.com/@ChildrensLiteratureTranslation

My Ph.D. dissertation focused on the use of classroom research tools for enhancement ofthe language classroom at university level. The case study I developed enabled student voices to lead and discuss current language teaching and learning approaches and provided the tools for a continuous assessment of teaching by students, more relevant that student feedback at the end of the module. I aim to support research on language teaching and learning for the development of independent-learning, intercultural and creative competences.

I am also translating and doing research on Children and YA fiction, mainly on translation of children character identity, the treatment of taboo topics through cultures and the readership response in these texts and audiovisual materials.

One of my latest research interests is on how to apply Children/Young Adult inclusive practice to the literary and translation industries.

I speak Spanish as my first language, English (C2) as my home language and Irish (B1) as my beloved language. I dabble in Portuguese (B1). I feel more comfortable in this four languages when it comes to research with or on them but I am interested in languages in general.

Language Teaching and Learning of Spanish as a Foreign Language; Applied Linguistics; Translation Studies and Translation; Children's and Young Adult Fiction in Spanish; Creativity; Student as Producer; Forensic linguistics.