Head of Social Action and Equality

Vice-rectorate of University Awareness, Culture and Dissemination

Lucía Martínez Virto

Tel.: 948 16 8462

Lucía Martínez Virto (Falces, 1985) holds an undergraduate degree in Social Work (2006), a Master’s degree in Social Welfare (2008), the qualification of Expert in Gender (2019) and a PhD from the Public University of Navarre (2013). She has worked in Social Work and Social Services at the UPNA since 2009, first as a pre-doctoral trainee researcher in the Alter team (2009-2013), then as a post-doctoral researcher (2014), Associate Professor (academic years 2013-2014) and Assistant Professor with PhD (2014-2018), and now as Professor with PhD under contract (2018-present).

Over these years, she has specialised in inclusion policies, social work and social services, fields in which she has gradually consolidated an intense research and teaching career. As a researcher, she has participated in more than 24 research projects and contracts: two European projects, four R&D projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economic Affairs, two regional R&D projects -one as principal investigator-, and several TTO contracts -seven as principal investigator. Worthy of note among these are the Navarre Inclusion Plan (2017), the Assessment of the new Social Services primary care model for Pamplona City Council (2018) and the Review of the Spanish minimum income system (Spanish Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality, and EU, 2016). She has also worked as a researcher in the CIPARAIIS chair[e1] , actively participating in its two reports on poverty and social exclusion in Navarre (2012, 2015), and is a member of the UNESCO chair, both leading centres in the field of social outreach and action in Navarre.

As a result of this research work, she has to her name 20 papers in journals, 2 guest articles, a working paper, one book as sole author, 4 co-authored manuscripts and 15 book chapters. She has also given papers at 15 international events (workshops and conferences), coordinated three panels at national conferences and given 12 papers at national and regional conferences. Meanwhile, she has worked extensively in knowledge dissemination and transfer: she has given 21 papers at specialist seminars and events, taken part in 8 territorial committees as an expert on Social Work and Social Services, and organised a total of 9 scientific meetings and seminars focusing on social action in Navarre. She has completed several research and teaching stays in different countries (Kent-UK, Turkey, Portugal, Peru, Hungary and the Netherlands).

She has taught in the Bachelor’s degree in Social Work and Master’s degree in Social Intervention programmes since 2012. She has also coordinated the Specialist Diploma in Social Intervention with Families, Children and Adolescents (2016-2018), for which she is currently Academic Director (2019). She is in charge of mobility with the Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary) and the University of Perugia (Italy). She also has teaching experience at Master’s degree level at other universities and has supervised Bachelor's and Master’s degree final year projects and a doctoral thesis (2017).