Department: Análise e intervención psicosocioeducativa

Centre: *Facultade de Educación e Traballo Social

Campus: Ourense

Area: Basic Psychology

Research group: Language Variation and Textual Categorisation (LVTC).

Email: katiarolan@uvigo.es

Doctor by the Universidade de Vigo with the thesis La técnica de reformulación en mediación revisión teórica y análisis experimental 2021. Supervised by Dr. Enrique García Marco, Dr. Francisca Fariña Rivera.

Dr Katia Rolán holds a BA in Psychology (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 2011), an MA in Work and Organisational Psychology, Legal and Forensic Psychology and Social Intervention (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 2014) and a PhD on "The reformulation technique in mediation: theoretical review and experimental analysis" (Universidade de Vigo, 2021). She also obtained a Specialist Degree in Civil and Commercial Mediation (Universidade de Vigo, 2015), as well as an Expert Degree in Affective Neuroscience and Clinical Psychology (Universidad de La Laguna, 2018) and a Specialist in Criminal Mediation and Restorative Justice (UNED, 2013). Dr Rolán worked as a mediator in conflict situations for the Courts (Pontevedra, Santiago and Ourense) between 2015 and 2019. She was also a member of the Ethics and Deontology Committee of the Official College of Psychology of Galicia from 2017 to 2021. She has been a part-time research assistant in several research projects funded by the Universidade de Vigo and funded by the Xunta de Galicia. She has carried out research stays at the Instituto Universitario de Neurociencia of the Universidad de La Laguna. Moreover, she has participated in national and international conferences on Psychology and Language, as a panellist, chair and guest speaker by invitation. She has also been involved in scientific and organising committees. Teaching She has lectured on: 1) Language and special educational needs, 2) Educational intervention of disability and learning disorders, 3) Psychological stress management, negotiation and mediation, 4) Learning and personality development, 5) Descriptive Statistics, and 6) Evaluation. Current Research Projects Her line of research focuses on the study of language, embodiment, pragmatics, and neuroscience. She is currently working on the neurophysiological processing of procedural content and the generation of high-level explanations. She is also a member of the research group Language Variation and Textual Categorisation of the Universidade de Vigo.