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Marta Maicas Pérez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Business Management at the Faculty of Economics, University of Valencia. Her career combines university teaching and research in the field of Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) organizations, with a particular focus on Feminist Economics approaches. She is involved in national and European research projects, including the Horizon Europe project SWIFT (Supporting Women-Led Innovation in Farming Territories), which aims to strengthen the organization of women in agroecology and rural settings, and CLIMALBIO (LINCGLOBAL2023-CSIC), which seeks to promote structural changes in production and consumption systems in response to the ecological emergency.

She holds a PhD in Local Development and Cooperation from the Universitat Politècnica de València, where she also carried out teaching and research. Her doctoral thesis focused on feminist organizational change processes within SSE organizations, using a Feminist Participatory Action Research methodology and drawing on theoretical frameworks such as Feminist Organizational Theories, Feminist Economics and Gender and Development Theories.

Her current academic interests include the construction of liveable organizations, organizational change strategies with a focus on sustainability, strategic planning in third sector organizations, and, more broadly, management and corporate strategy in the SSE field. She maintains active collaboration with social movements and projects related to rurality, feminism, and food sovereignty.

In the field of teaching, she coordinates an educational innovation project aimed at promoting socially and ethically responsible academic work, in collaboration with an interdisciplinary teaching team. She has developed several gamified learning experiences with social organizations to promote social justice and gender equality, and regularly participates in educational innovation conferences with contributions on critical and participatory pedagogies.

She has taught the feminist studies module in the Master’s in Development Cooperation at the Universitat Politècnica de València, and has been a facilitator in the transformative learning processes "Aprenentatge en Acció" of the same programme from 2016 to 2021.

Her academic background includes a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration and Management (UPV), a Bachelor in Business Administration from the École Supérieure de Commerce (ICN Nancy, France), a Master's Degree in Development Cooperation (UPV), and a Master's in Teacher Training (UMH).

She has undertaken training and research stays at prestigious institutions such as the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, the Gender Studies Department at the University of Tampere (Finland), and the Hegoa Institute (Bilbao). She has also participated in research programmes at the Manipal Institute of Technology (India), the NGO Veterinarians Without Borders (Honduras), Daytona University (USA), and the University of Tifariti (in the Sahrawi refugee camps).

Her main areas of interest include feminisms, Solidarity and Feminist Economy, third sector organizational management, feminist and activist participatory research methodologies, facilitation, and process work.