Department: Psychology and Educational Sciences Department

Unit: Education and eLearning

Research group: GREDU Education Research Group

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Email: emasdeuy@uoc.edu

Doctor by the Universitat de Lleida with the thesis The digitalisation of music classrooms in schools in Catalonia study of and proposal for a general framework for integrating technology in music education 2015. Supervised by Dr. Antoni Tolmos Tena, Dr. Francesc Xavier Carrera Farran.

Tenure-eligible lecturer at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, since 2024. He holds a PhD with international mention in Education, Society and Quality of Life from the Universitat de Lleida, a Master’s in Education and ICT (e-learning) from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, a Master’s in Educational Technology: e-learning and Knowledge Management from Universitat Rovira i Virgili, a Postgraduate degree in Educational Task Planning and Management from the Universitat de Barcelona, and a Bachelor's degree in Education from Universitat Rovira i Virgili. His research activities focus on three main areas: curricular practices in education, technology-driven innovation as a catalyst for transforming and improving educational practices, and the intersection between technology and music education. Since 2023, he is member of the consolidated research group SGR-GRUMED (Research Group in Music, Education, and Voice) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where he conducts applied research on music within the framework of compulsory education. During his predoctoral stage, he completed a research stay at the Applied Music Research Centre at Roehampton University in London. He has over a decade of professional teaching experience at various educational levels: as a primary school teacher in public schools throughout Catalonia; as a university professor involved in the initial training of teachers, teaching courses on various subjects (music education, educational technology, and supervision and tutoring final projects and curricular practices) at several Catalan universities (Universitat de Lleida, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya y UManresa); and as an expert trainer in technology-driven innovation for various educational companies and institutions. He has received various awards for projects related to innovation and the improvement of educational practices in schools, including the BATEC Award for Educational Research and Innovation from the City of Lleida for the project “MITEM, a Framework Proposal for the Integration of Technologies in Music Education” (2015), and the EDUTEC Award for Educational Innovation with ICT for the project “Connecting the music” (2019).