Department: Didácticas especiais

Centre: *Facultade de Educación e Traballo Social

Campus: Ourense

Area: Didactics of Musical Expression

Research group: Special didactics 6 - physical activity, expression and creativity

Email: lucia.casal@uvigo.gal

Doctor by the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela with the thesis Boas prácticas psicopedagóxicas para a educación vocal e do canto na infancia estudo de casos en dous programas de referencia internacional 2020. Supervised by Dr. Miguel Ángel Zabalza Beraza, Dr. Carol Gillanders.

Singer with a Degree in Psychopedagogy, and with two Master’s Degrees in Therapy and in Training Processes. In the period 2014-2021 she worked at the USC as a teacher in the Department of Pedagogy and Didactics (7 years), as an international projects officer (10 months), and as an officer of teachers’ training and innovation (9 months). Since the year 2021 she is a teacher and researcher in the Department of Special Didactics (Area of Didactics of Musical Expression) of the UVIGO. With training and expertise in didactics and in vocal technique, she has taught in music schools, and did several international research stays in Italy, Czech Republic, Argentina, England, and Brazil, in which she combined the study of vocal and singing education, singing therapy, singing, (early)childhood education, innovation, and equity. She combined all these topics in her PhD titled: “Best psychopedagogical practices for vocal education and childhood singing: case studies of two internationally renowned programs”, supervised by Miguel Ángel Zabalza y Carol Gillanders. She is the coordinator of the psychopedagogical project of vocal and singing education VOCES LEDAS, and actively takes part in conferences and seminars linked to education, being also the author of diverse publications and collaborator of national and international research groups.