ITZIAR FERNANDEZ VILLANUEVA
- Knowledge area
- Social Psychology
- Department
- Centre
- Faculty of Psychology
- Electronic mail
- itziar.fernandez@ehu.eus
I started my professional career in Madrid. I studied a five-year degree in Psychology,
specializing in Social, at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). I graduated in
1998 and received a PhD in Psychology from the UCM (Doctor Europeus mention) in
2008. I completed my master’s degree in Conflict Resolution in 2013 at the Autonomous
University of Barcelona (UAB). I obtained a predoctoral fellowship from the Basque
Government (2000-2002) and in 2009 I joined the UCM as an adjunct professor (2009) and
interim (2010-2013) in the Department of Social Psychology at UCM, becoming a member
of the Psychosociology of Social and Gender Violence Research Group
( https://www.ucm.es/psicviol ).
In 2013, I joined the University of the Basque Country (EHU-UPV) as an assistant
professor in the area of knowledge of Analysis and Conflict Resolution (along with
Professor Dr. Ramón Alzate), in the Department of Basic Psychological Processes and their
Development of the Faculty of Psychology at the University of the Basque Country
(EHU-UPV). I am currently teaching in the field of conflict transformation at the Bachelor
of Sciences (B.Sc.) in Psychology and Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Social Work.
In parallel, I have developed my professional career, first as a social psychologist and then
as a mediator in various fields such as: training of trainers in education in values and
culture of peace, parents’ school (ADI-BIDE, 1998-2004); community-based participatory