Dr María Elena Gómez-Parra
University of Cordoba, Spain
Dr. María Elena Gómez-Parra (University of Córdoba, Spain) is a Professor specialising in Bilingual and Intercultural Education. She has an extensive track record in these fields, in which she has made important contributions through specialised research, numerous publications, active participation and organisation of international conferences on bilingual education, as well as through her leadership in several Erasmus+ projects. She is Principal Investigator in funded competitive projects, including LinguApp (ref. PRY208/17), BESOC (ref. EDU2017-84800R) and FoBE (ref. PID2021-127031OB-I00), as well as the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master PETaL (PETaL EMJMD).
Dr Roberto Espejo Mohedano
University of Cordoba, Spain
Roberto Espejo Mohedano holds a degree in Mathematical Sciences, specialising in Statistics, and a PhD in Computer Science (Computational Statistics). He is a full professor of Statistics and Operations Research at the University of Cordoba, with more than 37 years of teaching experience.
His research focuses on applied statistics and educational innovation. He has published in high-impact journals and is co-principal investigator of the national projects on bilingualism BESOC (EDU2017-84800R) and FoBE (PID2021-127031OB-I00). He also leads the Andalusian Research Group SEJ-395.
ORCID: 0000-0001-6592-3509
e-mail: Roberto.espejo@uco.es
Dr Leonor María Martínez Serrano
University of Cordoba, Spain
Leonor María Martínez Serrano is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and German Philology at the University of Córdoba. Her research interests include bilingual education, the CLIL approach, Canadian literature, Anglo-American modernism and ecocriticism. She has been a visiting researcher at the University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia (Canada), the University of Bialystok (Poland), the University of the West of Scotland (UK) and the University of Oldenburg (Germany). He has edited the volumes Modern Ecopoetry: Reading the Palimpsest of a More-than-Human World (2021, with Cristina M. Gámez Fernández), The Power and Promise of Bilingual Education (2023), Where Gender and Corpora Meet. New Insights into Discourse Analysis (2024, with Eva Lucía Jiménez Navarro), and Languages and Cultures of the Mind: Mapping New Terrain in Plurilingual Education (2025). She is the author of the monograph Breathing Earth: The Polyphonic Lyric of Robert Bringhurst (2021).
E-mail: l52masel@uco.es
ORCID: 0000-0002-5114-9513
Dr Sonia Navajas Torrente
University of Cordoba, Spain
Sonia Navajas Torrente holds a PhD in Social and Legal Sciences and is Professor of Statistics and Operations Research at the University of Cordoba, where she carries out her teaching and research activity. Her teaching career began in Vocational Training, where she worked as a teacher for more than a decade, before joining the university. During this period she also held the position of Dual Vocational Training Coordinator, successfully leading six projects.
In the research field, his lines of work focus on the design and validation of measurement instruments and Applied Statistics, with special interest in the application of multivariate analysis techniques to improve the quality of educational institutions and their teaching. He is a member of the SEJ395 Research Group on Operations and Applied Statistics at the University of Cordoba and is part of the team of the project PID 2021-127031OB-I00, Perception of Spanish students on the expected usefulness of bilingual education (FoBE -PID2021-127031OB-I00), granted by the Ministry of Science and Innovation.
Dr. José Ángel Roldán Casas
University of Cordoba, Spain
Dr. José Ángel Roldán Casas is Professor in the Department of Statistics and Operations Research at the University of Cordoba (UCO). He holds a degree in Economics and Business Administration (1994) from the UCO and a degree in Mathematical Sciences (2009), with a specialisation in Statistics and Operations Research, from the National University of Distance Education (UNED). He obtained his PhD degree from the UCO in 2000 within the PhD programme Quantitative Methods in Biometric and Social Sciences. He specialises in time series analysis, unit roots, cointegration, market integration, Monte Carlo simulation, financial market efficiency, history of mathematical sciences and statistics, and scientific merit analysis. Although some of his publications are strictly in the field of statistics, most of them are interdisciplinary in nature, involving the development and application of statistical and econometric techniques in disciplines as diverse as financial economics, agricultural economics, education, history of science, scientific recognition, sports science and criminal law. He also participates as a researcher in national projects on bilingual education, including BESOC (ref. EDU2017-84800R) and FoBE (ref. PID2021-127031OB-I00).
Dr. Pilar Couto-Cantero
University of Cordoba, Spain
Dr. Pilar Couto-Cantero is PTU of the UDC and is accredited as a Professor.She has been Academic Secretary of the Faculty of Education Sciences (2004-2010), Coordinator of the Master's Degree in Teaching (2010-2015) and Director of the Department of Specific Didactics (2014-2017), elected member of the Board of the Senate of the UDC (2015-2019). Coordinator of the Departmental Section of the DLL Area (since 2017).
Principal Investigator since 2014 of the DILEC Research Group. Director of the International Journal DIGILEC. External examiner and supervisor in national and international Doctoral Thesis Programmes (DIT, Dublin; Stanford, California).Her research interests are: Teaching and Learning Languages and Cultures (Spanish/English), Bilingual Education, (CLIL, TEFL, TAD) and Emilia Pardo Bazán. She has also developed her own coined line of research: "The Theoretical-Practical Model of Textual Transpodidactics (MTT)" on fictional texts: novels, stories, picture books, theatre, poetry, music, films, etc. and their didactic possibilities for the teaching and learning of languages and cultures (Couto-Cantero, 2014). She is currently Coordinator of the European Erasmus+ Project: «A Welcome Kit to Europe» (AWKE) with €250,000 and ten European partners (2023-2025).
https://awkeproject.eu/
Dr. Patricia Arnaiz Castro
University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Dr. Patricia Arnaiz Castro is a lecturer in the Department of Specific Didactics at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC). She holds a degree in Translation and English Philology from the University of Granada and a PhD from the ULPGC. In the Faculty of Education, she specialises in English teacher training for Primary and Secondary Education. Her research interests focus on foreign language learning, affective factors in language acquisition and bilingual education. She is a member of the Translation, Interpreting and Language Learning research group (TrIAL-520), of which she was director between 2014 and 2021.
Throughout her career, Dr Arnaiz Castro has held various academic and management positions, including co-editor of the Journal of Languages for Specific Purposes (2016-2018), coordinator of the university entrance exam in English at the ULPGC (2014-2018) and coordinator at the ULPGC of the ERASMUS+ Playing beyond CLIL project (2018-2021). She has participated in national research projects on bilingual education and is currently part of the project The Future of Bilingual Education (2023-2026). She is also secretary of the academic committee of an interuniversity doctoral programme and a reviewer of international journals.
Dr. Francisco Javier Marín Marín
University of Cordoba, Spain
Dr. Francisco Javier Marín Marín is Assistant Professor in the area of Statistics and Operations Research at the University of Córdoba. His research focuses on applied statistics and quantitative analysis in educational and interdisciplinary contexts. He has published several articles in high impact JCR journals, including papers in the first decile of their categories, and has participated in regional and national research projects, such as the FoBE project (PID2021-127031OB-I00).