Licentiate Award (1997) and Doctorate (2002), at present, and since 2008, is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Education Sciences of the University of Valéncia, attached to the Department of Comparative Education and History of Education, from which he teaches subjects such as Comparative Education, Development Cooperation and Education, International Education and Intervention and Educational Mediation. Her teaching also extends to participation in various national and international masters and postgraduate programs: she has been co-director and teacher of the intercultural mediation module in the Diploma of Mediation in Socioeducational Intervention at the University of Valencia (10 editions). He teaches in the International Master of Migration (Erasmus Mundus), the Interuniversity Master of Development Cooperation (MCAD) and the Master of Social Action (MASE), all of them from the Universitat de Valéncia. She has been and is also invited to other masters, from the Autonomous University of Madrid, the University of Barcelona and the University of Malaga, with topics related to her research. In 2016-2017 he made a MOOC on "Intercultural and Family Mediation", of 18 hours, for the University of Valencia.

He belongs to the Spanish Society of Comparative Education, of which he was a member of the Board of Directors from 2008 to 2010, and, at present, she is Vicepresident of SEEC from  2021, to REEDES (Spanish Network of Development Studies) since 2012 (from which he works in the Development Education Group) and the Spanish Network of University Teaching (RED-U) (from 2015-2018, on behalf of the UV) and has been a member of the Plenary Council of the Patronat Sud Nord of the University of Valencia, from 2012 until its dissolution in 2016.

She has been Vice Dean of Innovation and Educational Quality in the Faculty of Philosophy and Science of Education of the UV, from 2009 to 2011, and she is Secretarian of Faculty from 2022. From 2015 to 2018, she has been the Director of the Training Center Manuel Sanchis Guarner of the University of Valencia, from which he has been responsible for the policies of university teacher training and educational innovation of the UV.

During his research career he has participated in numerous R + D, published more than 50 articles in both national and international journals, and more than 85 documents between books and book chapters, some of them in high-impact publishing, such as Springer. He has three terms of acreditated research. He has supervised 5 doctoral theses and 10 are in process.

In terms of Innovation, he has participated in competitive projects of educational innovation, of which he has directed 6, related to competencies of the practicum, university teaching methodologies or Service Learning (SL). Within the latter he creates GIASU (University Service Learning Innovation Group) in 2010. In 2015, he institutionalized Service Learning as director of the Servei de Formació de Profesorado Universitari (SFPIE) through the cApSa project. Since 2016 he has managed the GER (Stable Groups and Networks) 'UVapS: Universitas Valencianes pe l'ApS', which currently brings together almost 50 professors from all the Universitat de València (UV) and Castellón (UJI) degrees ) linked to this methodology.

He has attended and actively participated in national and international conferences and has given thirty conferences, national and international (in Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Germany, etc.).

In recent years, its main lines of research and study have focused on the main topics of analysis related to Comparative and International Education, making stays for it in the Institute of Education (London), in the IIEP (Institute for Research and Planning Education) of UNESCO (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and the University of Concepción (UDeC) of Chile:

1. Epistemology and methodology of the Comparative Education and International Education disciplines.
2. The analysis of the educational policies of the main international organizations and their relationship with the MDGs (currently MSGs) (collaborating for projects of various NGDOs and, currently, with the Conselleria de Transparència, Social Responsibility, Participation and Cooperation of the Valencian Community for the development of the strategic lines of Education for Development linked to the aforementioned Objectives). 

3. Issues linked to Development Cooperation and its connection with Education, both from the point of view of policies and from the vision of Education for Development (EpD).
4. Study of educational policies aimed at managing immigration and the culture of intercultural mediation, both internationally (in countries such as Italy, Sweden, Portugal or Canada) and intranational (in the environment of the Valencian Community itself).
5. Methodologies related to university teaching (since the implementation of pilot convergence and innovation projects in Spanish universities): Service Learning (SL) and other metholologies of learning and teaching at higher education.

Dr. Santiago Mengual Andrés is currently a Senior Lecturer and the Director of the Comparative Education and History of Education Department of the School of Philosophy and Education, University of Valencia, Spain. He has a Master’s degree in Educational Psychology and a Ph.D. from the University of Alicante, Spain. He was A Vicedean of Research, Innovation and Quality of of the School of Philosophy and Education, University of Valencia. He was the Academic Secretary of Valencian Community delegation of AIDIPE (Interuniversity Association for Educational Research). He was a consultant of the Master in E-Learning (UOC). Since 2003 he has taught several graduate national and international courses. He has also participated as a teacher, coordinator or director in over 30 seminars, workshops and training courses in Educational Technology and Research Methods in Education. His research areas are mainly focused on the role of ICT in Education with more than 95 contributions (articles, book chapters, books, proceedings, etc.). He is currently the Executive Editor of the Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research and reviewer of several scientific journals indexed in JCR and Scopus. In the past 10 years he has served as a Research Fellow in 30 R & D projects financed by public funds and 3 contracts of public-private research, all closely related to Educational Technology and Scientific Publishing

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