Fitxa persona

Rosa Isusi Fagoaga is a professor of musical expression teaching at the Faculty of Teacher Training at the University of Valencia, where she has been a lecturer and researcher since 2014 and vice-dean since 2021 to the present.

She holds a PhD from the University of Granada (2002) and a higher conservatory degree (1997). She has been teaching for more than 30 years and has taught at various educational levels.

She has 3 periods of research activity (six-year periods) recognized by the CNEAI (2006-2023) and more than a hundred publications. Her lines of research are, on the one hand, teaching, social, and sustainable innovation for the development of skills and, on the other, the optimization of music and heritage teaching, as well as its transfer. She has been part of research teams in several projects funded by the Generalitat Valenciana, the national research plan, and the European Erasmus+ program. She is currently co-principal investigator of a project under the knowledge generation plan of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, together with Adela García Aracil from the INGENIO Institute (CSIC-UPV), with whom she has formed UTRANSFER, a unit associated with the CSIC through INGENIO, within the University of Valencia. She is part of the iMUSED (Investigating Music Education) research group at the University of Valencia, led by Ana M. Botella Nicolás.

She has been the editor of the journal Creativity and Educational Innovation Review and the Monografies i Aproximacions collection of the University Institute of Creativity and Educational Innovations at the University of Valencia since 2017, both founded together with Francesc J. Hernàndez. She is co-creator of the University Network for Social Innovation together with Adela García Aracil and of the Didàctiques i Transformació Educativa collection published by Tirant Lo Blanch together with Margarida Castellano Sanz.

She is involved in several university educational innovation projects, one at the Faculty of Teacher Training, another focused on the use of soundscapes as an interdisciplinary educational tool (PAISOL'HORT), and another emerging project that he has been coordinating since 2023 on the development of skills through active methodologies (COMETA).

She is part of the group of experts for the process of developing the Valencian Regional Government's R&D&I Strategy for Security and Emergencies 2026-2029, organized in collaboration with the Network of Valencian Universities (RUVID).

She has been Vice Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Faculty, and Quality at the Faculty of Teacher Training (2021-2023), co-director of the Carme Miquel Interuniversity Chair of Educational Transformation (2022-2023) on behalf of the University of Valencia through an agreement with the Valencian Regional Government, and since 2024 she has been Vice Dean of Postgraduate Studies, Research, and Quality.

She has been a member of the Governing Board of the Spanish Society of Musicology (2016-2024). She has been an associate professor at the Complutense University of Madrid (2005) and San Vicente Mártir University of Valencia (2005-2007) and has collaborated with the International University of Valencia (2012-2014) and the University of Málaga (2001-2003). She was a civil servant music teacher in secondary education for twenty years (1994-2014) and, prior to that, a choir teacher in primary education and a piano teacher at a music school.

She has been an advisor to the Valencian Institute of Music (now the Valencian Institute of Culture) of the Valencian Regional Government, for which she has coordinated the online cataloguing of the musical heritage of the Royal College Seminary of Corpus Christi in Valencia (2006-2014). This is the largest historical music archive and library in the Valencian Community and the access to the catalog with more than 5,500 entries is available through the Valencian Library website.