Miguel A Santos Rego
Miguel Ángel Santos Rego is a Full Professor of Pedagogy at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), where he earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy and Education in 1985. His research focuses on intercultural education and pedagogy, school and migration, and service-learning and competences in higher education. He has completed further studies at the University of Cambridge and has been a visiting scholar at Florida International University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Southern Mississippi, and the University of Texas at Brownsville. He has authored 42 books, over one hundred book chapters, and nearly 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals, serving as editor of several monographs in journals such as Revista Española de Pedagogía, Frontiers in Education, and Education Sciences. He has supervised 32 doctoral theses and led 26 national and international research projects. Santos Rego coordinates the PAIDEIA Teaching Innovation Group and the Esculca Research Group—recognized as a Competitive Reference Group in Galicia’s R+D+I System—recipient of several National Prizes for Educational Research. He has held various academic and institutional leadership positions, including Vice-Rector of Teaching at USC, Director of the Institute of Educational Sciences, and President of the Scientific Network SITE. Also, he served as President of the Galician Commission for Reports, Evaluation, Certification and Accreditation (CGIACA-ACSUG) and Director of the Department of Pedagogy and Didactics at USC.