Profile Cristina Petreñas

PhD in Education and Society from the University of Barcelona (2014). Master’s Degree in Research in Didactics, Teacher Training and Educational Assessment at the University of Barcelona (2010 – Extraordinary Master’s Award). Master’s Degree in Secondary School Teaching, Vocational Training and Language Teaching – Specialization in Educational Guidance at Pompeu Fabra University and the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) (2018). Bachelor’s Degree in Psychopedagogy from the UOC (2013). Diploma in Social Education from the University of Lleida (2007 – Extraordinary Diploma Award).

Associate Professor in the Department of Education Sciences at the University of Lleida. Previously, she was a Lecturer at the same university (2020–2025), a Juan de la Cierva–Incorporation Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Lleida (2018–2020), a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Lleida (2015–2017), an FPU Predoctoral Fellow at the University of Barcelona (2012–2015), and a Research Support Technician at the University of Barcelona (2009–2012).

Research lines: Her research focuses on educational inclusion, with particular attention to inclusive educational support from early childhood education to higher education, especially in contexts characterized by linguistic and cultural diversity. From this main line emerge several specific areas of interest: co-teaching, classroom management, inclusive assessment in higher education, and the improvement of initial teacher education regarding the competence of educational inclusion.