Ines
Martins Macedo

Inés Martins Macedo earned her PhD in Communication Psychology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), focusing her research on the depiction of juveniles in film and how young people interpret these images. She has published articles and taken part in conferences on film, violence, perception and youth. Both her research and teaching focus on the intersection between art, design, semiotics and communication. Martins Macedo is a member of the UOC's Nodes research group (https://blogs.uoc.edu/nodes/) and is also a member of the teaching innovation group in the UOC's Faculty of Information and Communication Sciences. The multifaceted and transdisciplinary nature of her academic career is reflected in her teaching. She has taught classes on the Psychology of Perception and Introduction to Psychology for the bachelor's degree in Marketing Communication in the UAB's Faculty of Communication. She has also taught courses on Visual Creation, Communication, Design Semiotics, History of Film and Digital Aesthetics at the ESDI Higher School of Design, and Visual Communication as a course instructor on the Digital Arts degree course at La Salle. At the UOC she supervises the External Internship course for the master's degree in Communication and the university master's degree in Advertising, Journalism and Corporate Communication, and the final project and Management Skills course on the master's degree in Corporate Communication.