Isabel Ruiz-Mallén

Barcelona

Associated professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and the Director of the Laboratory of Urban Transformation and Global Change (TURBA) at UOC. She has coordinated the European research project COOLSCHOOLS on the multiple benefits of nature-based schoolyards for climate adaptation. Isabel has a professional background in environmental science research and has been working across disciplines, from sustainability education to community-based conservation and climate resilience, in multicultural contexts (global North/South, rural/urban). Her main research interests lie in knowledge co-production and transformative learning behind formal and informal educational processes related to socio-ecological issues.