{"id":31,"date":"2026-01-27T07:44:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T06:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2026-05-19T20:39:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T18:39:04","slug":"quienes-somos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/en\/quienes-somos\/","title":{"rendered":"Who we are"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-3g4gr-60facd69182c1daf4107f5c55aa15194 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_section  avia-builder-el-first  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-31'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<\/div><\/div><\/main><!-- close content main element --><\/div><\/div><div id='av_section_2'  class='avia-section av-2vxdr-54ebaa20262c1ca7816bb8a1434df0ae main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_section  el_before_av_section  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-31'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-21bj3-400f674c33b0efe18ebb97845aff7e3a\">\n.flex_column.av-21bj3-400f674c33b0efe18ebb97845aff7e3a{\nwidth:48%;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-21bj3-400f674c33b0efe18ebb97845aff7e3a av_one_half  avia-builder-el-2  el_before_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div'     ><section  class='avia-team-member av-mkw8mzmw-7283dc2e86f29731742a86eba4a0a58a  avia-builder-el-3  avia-builder-el-no-sibling'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" ><div class=\"team-img-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-104 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-104 avia_image avia_image_team' src=\"https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Dr-Maria-Elena-Gomez-Parra.jpg\" alt='Dra. Mar\u00eda Elena G\u00f3mez-Parra'  itemprop=\"image\"   height=\"400\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Dr-Maria-Elena-Gomez-Parra.jpg 400w, https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Dr-Maria-Elena-Gomez-Parra-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Dr-Maria-Elena-Gomez-Parra-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Dr-Maria-Elena-Gomez-Parra-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Dr-Maria-Elena-Gomez-Parra-180x180.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/div><h3 class='team-member-name'  itemprop=\"name\" >Dr Mar\u00eda Elena G\u00f3mez-Parra<\/h3><div class='team-member-job-title'  itemprop=\"jobTitle\" >University of Cordoba, Spain<\/div><div class='team-member-description'  itemprop=\"description\" ><p>Dr. Mar\u00eda Elena G\u00f3mez-Parra (University of C\u00f3rdoba, 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).<\/p>\n<\/div><span class='hidden team-member-affiliation'  itemprop=\"affiliation\" ><\/span><\/section><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-1fno3-52e50b5bee1f4fba10abae116b6fc434\">\n.flex_column.av-1fno3-52e50b5bee1f4fba10abae116b6fc434{\nwidth:48%;\nmargin-left:4%;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-1fno3-52e50b5bee1f4fba10abae116b6fc434 av_one_half  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div'     ><section  class='avia-team-member av-1212z-9a469cb73781d06a808b6cce54bb4219  avia-builder-el-5  avia-builder-el-no-sibling'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" ><div class=\"team-img-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-106 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-106 avia_image avia_image_team' src=\"https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Roberto-Espejo-Mohedano.jpg\" alt='Dr. Roberto Espejo Mohedano'  itemprop=\"image\"   height=\"400\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Roberto-Espejo-Mohedano.jpg 400w, https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Roberto-Espejo-Mohedano-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Roberto-Espejo-Mohedano-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Roberto-Espejo-Mohedano-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Roberto-Espejo-Mohedano-180x180.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/div><h3 class='team-member-name'  itemprop=\"name\" >Dr Roberto Espejo Mohedano<\/h3><div class='team-member-job-title'  itemprop=\"jobTitle\" >University of Cordoba, Spain<\/div><div class='team-member-description'  itemprop=\"description\" ><p>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.<br \/>\nHis 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.<\/p>\n<p>ORCID: 0000-0001-6592-3509<br \/>\ne-mail: Roberto.espejo@uco.es<\/p>\n<\/div><span class='hidden team-member-affiliation'  itemprop=\"affiliation\" ><\/span><\/section><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- close content main div --><\/div><\/div><div id='av_section_3'  class='avia-section av-321fz-8ee53a38bd3868cd0a4c930e8da4694c main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_section  el_before_av_section  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-31'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div  class='flex_column av-2my2v-81f64b5c6d6af5c93e9dc57b9fb2a0c7 av_one_half  avia-builder-el-7  el_before_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div'     ><section  class='avia-team-member av-7kef-58bef037d06474292d8803b138c07e4a  avia-builder-el-8  avia-builder-el-no-sibling'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" ><div class=\"team-img-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-114 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-114 avia_image avia_image_team' src=\"https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Leonor-Maria-Martinez-Serrano-b.jpg\" alt='Dra. Leonor Mar\u00eda Mart\u00ednez Serrano'  itemprop=\"image\"   height=\"400\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Leonor-Maria-Martinez-Serrano-b.jpg 400w, https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Leonor-Maria-Martinez-Serrano-b-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Leonor-Maria-Martinez-Serrano-b-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Leonor-Maria-Martinez-Serrano-b-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Leonor-Maria-Martinez-Serrano-b-180x180.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/div><h3 class='team-member-name'  itemprop=\"name\" >Dr Leonor Mar\u00eda Mart\u00ednez Serrano<\/h3><div class='team-member-job-title'  itemprop=\"jobTitle\" >University of Cordoba, Spain<\/div><div class='team-member-description'  itemprop=\"description\" ><p>Leonor Mar\u00eda Mart\u00ednez Serrano is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and German Philology at the University of C\u00f3rdoba. 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. G\u00e1mez Fern\u00e1ndez), The Power and Promise of Bilingual Education (2023), Where Gender and Corpora Meet. New Insights into Discourse Analysis (2024, with Eva Luc\u00eda Jim\u00e9nez 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).<\/p>\n<p>E-mail: l52masel@uco.es<br \/>\nORCID: 0000-0002-5114-9513<\/p>\n<\/div><span class='hidden team-member-affiliation'  itemprop=\"affiliation\" ><\/span><\/section><\/div><div  class='flex_column av-19yyn-f6b189a6d3c8edab5273b6277e340b84 av_one_half  avia-builder-el-9  el_after_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div'     ><section  class='avia-team-member av-33lj-dba04bd7e5621f1d70704fd994797a3f  avia-builder-el-10  avia-builder-el-no-sibling'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" ><div class=\"team-img-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-116 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-116 avia_image avia_image_team' src=\"https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Sonia-Navajas-Torrente.jpg\" alt='Dra. Sonia Navajas Torrente'  itemprop=\"image\"   height=\"400\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Sonia-Navajas-Torrente.jpg 400w, https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Sonia-Navajas-Torrente-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Sonia-Navajas-Torrente-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Sonia-Navajas-Torrente-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Sonia-Navajas-Torrente-180x180.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/div><h3 class='team-member-name'  itemprop=\"name\" >Dr Sonia Navajas Torrente<\/h3><div class='team-member-job-title'  itemprop=\"jobTitle\" >University of Cordoba, Spain<\/div><div class='team-member-description'  itemprop=\"description\" ><p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<\/div><span class='hidden team-member-affiliation'  itemprop=\"affiliation\" ><\/span><\/section><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- close content main div --><\/div><\/div><div id='av_section_4'  class='avia-section av-3x74j-376e21914a03150e45ed96a6854eb454 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-11  el_after_av_section  el_before_av_section  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-31'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div  class='flex_column av-2xta7-6934152fbbf19ef8541bf52f03c35fed av_one_half  avia-builder-el-12  el_before_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div'     ><section  class='avia-team-member av-mnrao3ek-b12bde0797f84bfb393d773ad40ca96a  avia-builder-el-13  avia-builder-el-no-sibling'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" ><div class=\"team-img-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-122 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-122 avia_image avia_image_team' src=\"https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Dr-Jose-Angel-Roldan-Casas.jpg\" alt='Dr. Jos\u00e9 \u00c1ngel Rold\u00e1n Casas'  itemprop=\"image\"   height=\"400\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Dr-Jose-Angel-Roldan-Casas.jpg 400w, https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Dr-Jose-Angel-Roldan-Casas-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Dr-Jose-Angel-Roldan-Casas-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Dr-Jose-Angel-Roldan-Casas-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Dr-Jose-Angel-Roldan-Casas-180x180.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/div><h3 class='team-member-name'  itemprop=\"name\" >Dr. Jos\u00e9 \u00c1ngel Rold\u00e1n Casas<\/h3><div class='team-member-job-title'  itemprop=\"jobTitle\" >University of Cordoba, Spain<\/div><div class='team-member-description'  itemprop=\"description\" ><p>Dr. Jos\u00e9 \u00c1ngel Rold\u00e1n 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).<\/p>\n<\/div><span class='hidden team-member-affiliation'  itemprop=\"affiliation\" ><\/span><\/section><\/div><div  class='flex_column av-1mnwn-eca6b739d55de6f5f6a4b7bfdf11fd3a av_one_half  avia-builder-el-14  el_after_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div'     ><section  class='avia-team-member av-ustj-256c7dabfa2bfe6c98c7efc83753f1d8  avia-builder-el-15  avia-builder-el-no-sibling'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" ><div class=\"team-img-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-119 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-119 avia_image avia_image_team' src=\"https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Dra.-Pilar-Couto-Cantero.jpg\" alt='Dra. Pilar Couto-Cantero'  itemprop=\"image\"   height=\"400\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Dra.-Pilar-Couto-Cantero.jpg 400w, https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Dra.-Pilar-Couto-Cantero-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Dra.-Pilar-Couto-Cantero-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Dra.-Pilar-Couto-Cantero-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Dra.-Pilar-Couto-Cantero-180x180.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/div><h3 class='team-member-name'  itemprop=\"name\" >Dr. Pilar Couto-Cantero<\/h3><div class='team-member-job-title'  itemprop=\"jobTitle\" >University of Cordoba, Spain<\/div><div class='team-member-description'  itemprop=\"description\" ><p>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).<\/p>\n<p>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 Baz\u00e1n. 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: \u00abA Welcome Kit to Europe\u00bb (AWKE) with \u20ac250,000 and ten European partners (2023-2025).<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/awkeproject.eu\/<\/p>\n<\/div><span class='hidden team-member-affiliation'  itemprop=\"affiliation\" ><\/span><\/section><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- close content main div --><\/div><\/div><div id='av_section_5'  class='avia-section av-2fyjb-da08300bc5f1fd81b40484c2a4875812 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-16  el_after_av_section  el_before_av_button_big  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-31'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-2c8tf-bfc6955c1a0509ea4b4e6102b797c26d\">\n.flex_column.av-2c8tf-bfc6955c1a0509ea4b4e6102b797c26d{\nwidth:48%;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-2c8tf-bfc6955c1a0509ea4b4e6102b797c26d av_one_half  avia-builder-el-17  el_before_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div'     ><section  class='avia-team-member av-mnrarh0w-9b623412caf967c51eb10195e00dad23  avia-builder-el-18  avia-builder-el-no-sibling'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" ><div class=\"team-img-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-123 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-123 avia_image avia_image_team' src=\"https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Dra-Patricia-Arnaiz-Castro.jpg\" alt='Dra. Patricia Arnaiz Castro'  itemprop=\"image\"   height=\"400\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Dra-Patricia-Arnaiz-Castro.jpg 400w, https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Dra-Patricia-Arnaiz-Castro-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Dra-Patricia-Arnaiz-Castro-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Dra-Patricia-Arnaiz-Castro-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Dra-Patricia-Arnaiz-Castro-180x180.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/div><h3 class='team-member-name'  itemprop=\"name\" >Dr. Patricia Arnaiz Castro<\/h3><div class='team-member-job-title'  itemprop=\"jobTitle\" >University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain<\/div><div class='team-member-description'  itemprop=\"description\" ><p>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.<br \/>\nThroughout 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.<\/p>\n<\/div><span class='hidden team-member-affiliation'  itemprop=\"affiliation\" ><\/span><\/section><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-6893-898d5cba0c4735f27977e3adbf417f08\">\n.flex_column.av-6893-898d5cba0c4735f27977e3adbf417f08{\nwidth:48%;\nmargin-left:4%;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-6893-898d5cba0c4735f27977e3adbf417f08 av_one_half  avia-builder-el-19  el_after_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div'     ><section  class='avia-team-member av-8607-6e92769bde61b27c247c929ac40c348e  avia-builder-el-20  avia-builder-el-no-sibling'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" ><div class=\"team-img-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-118 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-118 avia_image avia_image_team' src=\"https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Dr-Francisco-Javier-Marin-Marin.jpg\" alt='Dr. Francisco Javier Mar\u00edn Mar\u00edn'  itemprop=\"image\"   height=\"400\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Dr-Francisco-Javier-Marin-Marin.jpg 400w, https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Dr-Francisco-Javier-Marin-Marin-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Dr-Francisco-Javier-Marin-Marin-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Dr-Francisco-Javier-Marin-Marin-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/futureofbilingualeducation.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Dr-Francisco-Javier-Marin-Marin-180x180.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/div><h3 class='team-member-name'  itemprop=\"name\" >Dr. Francisco Javier Mar\u00edn Mar\u00edn<\/h3><div class='team-member-job-title'  itemprop=\"jobTitle\" >University of Cordoba, Spain<\/div><div class='team-member-description'  itemprop=\"description\" ><p>Dr. Francisco Javier Mar\u00edn Mar\u00edn is Assistant Professor in the area of Statistics and Operations Research at the University of C\u00f3rdoba. 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