I hold a PhD in Society, Technology, and Culture (with International Mention) from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. I was first awarded a PhD scholarship from the UOC and later a full-time PhD grant from the Generalitat de Catalunya, funded by the European Social Fund (ESF). I also hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Primary Education from the University of Extremadura (with a minor in Foreign Languages) and an Official Master’s Degree in Intervention in Social Psychology from the University of Granada.
During my PhD, I carried out a visiting research stay at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where I worked with Professor Campbell Leaper. I am currently collaborating with Professor Leaper and Dr. Milagros Sáinz on several scientific publications derived from my doctoral research.
Previously, I received a grant from Bancaja to complete an internship at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California in Ensenada (Mexico), where I studied part of my undergraduate degree, and an Erasmus grant to undertake an internship at the University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu, where I served as a teaching assistant and completed my Bachelor’s Degree.
My main research interests focus on how to teach science, technology, humanities, and social sciences free from gender gaps, stereotypes, and academic sexism, while promoting diversity, inclusion, and gender awareness in teacher education.
Contact
Email: mgallegoar@uoc.edu
Social: LinkedIn, ResearchGate
FI Grant for Doctoral studies
Publications
Del Pino, A. [Añejandro], Gallego, M. C. [María del Carmen], Durán, B. [Beatriz]. (2024). Estereotipos de género en la animación japonesa como alternativa literaria: el caso de El recuerdo de Marnie y Mary y la flor de la bruja de Hiromasa Yonebayashi. Revista Digital de La Sociedad Española de Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura (E-SEDLL), 159-179. https://cvc.cervantes.es/literatura/esedll/esedll_06.htm
Sáinz, M. [Milagros], & Gallego, M. C. [María del Carmen] (2022). High school students’ sexist beliefs about academic abilities and women’s roles: The influence of School Specialization (Creencias sexistas de los estudiantes de enseñanza secundaria sobre las aptitudes académicas y el rol de las mujeres: la influencia de la especialización escolar). International Journal of Social Psychology, 37, 2, 383-411. https://doi.org/10.1080/02134748.2022.2040865
Gallego-Arias, M.C. [María del Carmen], & Sáinz, M. [Milagros]. (2021). Pre-service primary and secondary teachers’ gender stereotypes about students’ academic abilities and ambivalent sexism. In 2021 XI International Conference on Virtual Campus (JICV), Online. Universidad de Salamanca. https://doi.org/10.1109/JICV53222.2021.9600268