Gallego_AriasMC

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PhD Researcher

MARIA DEL CARMEN

GALLEGO ARIAS

Spain

Area of expertise, interest, main activities...: 

EDUCATION AND GENDER, LGTBIQ+ AND GENDER, diversity and inclusion in universities and research.

About you (please use English): 

I am a social and educational psychology PhD Researcher at Open University of Catalonia with a fellowship from the Government of Catalonia co-funded by the European Social Fund working with Gender and ICT research group. I was a visiting researcher at University of California, Santa Cruz working with Dr. Campbell Leaper. Before starting the doctoral studies I finished an Official Master Degree in Social Psychology at University of Granada and a Bachelor Degree in Primary Education at University of Extremadura. During the Bachelor Degree I did an internship in Universidad Autónoma de Baja California in México and another in University of Eastern Finland where I developed my Bachelor's thesis and I was a teacher assistant in different Finnish schools. In my PhD I analyse the pre-service teachers' opinions and attitudes of gender roles and stereotypes about males' and females' competences in STEM subjects using qualitative and quantitative methodologies. I also contribute teaching diversity, inclusion and equality in institutions & companies. My expertise is in gender, diversity, inclusion, STEM, education, intersectionality and equality. Website: https://mariadelcarmengallego.weebly.com/

Scientific discipline: 

Social sciences

Stakeholder group: 

Science stakeholders, Policy stakeholders

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Would you like to form part of the GenPORT Gender Expert database?: 

Yes

Area of Gender Expertise: 

Gender

Gender in education

Gender in engineering and technology

Country coverage: 

Spain

Skills and track record: 

I am PhD researcher in Gender and ICT group at Open University of Catalonia. My thesis is about the transmission of gender roles and stereotypes by pre-service teachers. My interests are: academic sexism, underrepresentation of women in STEM occupations, diversity & inclusion in the workplace, LGTBIQ+ discriminations in the workplace, interventions confronting sexism & inequalities in the workplace, women's leadership in companies, increase the sense of belonging in the workplace.