María José Hernández Amorós has an international PhD in Educational Research from the University of Alicante with a cum laude distinction. She currently works as a lecturer in the area of Teaching Methods and School Organisation, in the Department of General & Specific Teaching Methods.
In her academic career, she has received training in the field of education, having gained a Degree in Early Childhood Education, a Second-Cycle Undergraduate Degree in Psychopedagogy and a Master's Degree in Educational Research; she won the Special Award for the latter two degrees. She has participated in numerous specialisation courses and undertaken two predoctoral stays at two prestigious universities: the University of Cambridge and the University of Nottingham.
As a researcher, her main lines of work are educational leadership, tutorial action and teacher training. More recently, she has focused her attention on gender and the Sustainable Development Goals. On these topics, she has a wide range of publications with JCR and SJR impact in the field of Social Sciences. She also has several book chapters and has participated in a number of research projects, such as the project “Diseño y Atención a las Oportunidades de Género en la Educación Superior” (“Designing and Addressing Gender Opportunities in Higher Education”) or the project “El Liderazgo Educativo para la Agenda 2030” (“Educational Leadership for the 2030 Agenda”), of which she is principal researcher. She has made a considerable number of contributions to national and international congresses and conferences.
As a lecturer, she has taught on different degrees (First-Cycle Undergraduate Degree in Teaching, Undergraduate Degree in Early Childhood Education, Undergraduate Degree in Primary Education, Second-Cycle Undergraduate Degree in Psychopedagogy) and courses. She has been in charge of supervising undergraduate theses, besides sitting on many undergraduate and Master’s thesis assessment panels. She has taken numerous specialisation courses and seminars and has been a member of several research networks for university teaching. She has also coordinated the Tutorial Action Plan of the Faculty of Education, in which she has been a tutor for many years.
María José Hernández Amorós has an international PhD in Educational Research from the University of Alicante with a cum laude distinction. She currently works as a lecturer in the area of Teaching Methods and School Organisation, in the Department of General & Specific Teaching Methods.
In her academic career, she has received training in the field of education, having gained a Degree in Early Childhood Education, a Second-Cycle Undergraduate Degree in Psychopedagogy and a Master's Degree in Educational Research; she won the Special Award for the latter two degrees. She has participated in numerous specialisation courses and undertaken two predoctoral stays at two prestigious universities: the University of Cambridge and the University of Nottingham.
As a researcher, her main lines of work are educational leadership, tutorial action and teacher training. More recently, she has focused her attention on gender and the Sustainable Development Goals. On these topics, she has a wide range of publications with JCR and SJR impact in the field of Social Sciences. She also has several book chapters and has participated in a number of research projects, such as the project “Diseño y Atención a las Oportunidades de Género en la Educación Superior” (“Designing and Addressing Gender Opportunities in Higher Education”) or the project “El Liderazgo Educativo para la Agenda 2030” (“Educational Leadership for the 2030 Agenda”), of which she is principal researcher. She has made a considerable number of contributions to national and international congresses and conferences.
As a lecturer, she has taught on different degrees (First-Cycle Undergraduate Degree in Teaching, Undergraduate Degree in Early Childhood Education, Undergraduate Degree in Primary Education, Second-Cycle Undergraduate Degree in Psychopedagogy) and courses. She has been in charge of supervising undergraduate theses, besides sitting on many undergraduate and Master’s thesis assessment panels. She has taken numerous specialisation courses and seminars and has been a member of several research networks for university teaching. She has also coordinated the Tutorial Action Plan of the Faculty of Education, in which she has been a tutor for many years.