Elena Alfaya-Lamas

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Elena Alfaya Lamas obtained an MA in Germanic Philology from the University of Santiago de Compostela in 1994 and a PhD in English Historical Linguistics in 2002. From 1998 to 2000 she was a postgraduate worker and scholarship holder in the Department of Linguistics of The University of Edinburgh. In November 2001 she became an Associate Lecturer at CESUGA-University College Dublin. In October 2003 she obtained a position as an “Isidro Parga Pondal” researcher at the University of A Coruña and in October 2004 she became a Lecturer and Researcher in the area of Information and Documentation Science at the University of A Coruña. Her main research interests are historical linguistics, cognitive linguistics, discourse analysis, gender studies and mind-consciousness studies. She studied with the Mindfulness Association and the Kagyu lineage for years, developing competence in the range of skills necessary to teach Mindfulness, passing the MBI:TAC (The Universities of Bangor, Exeter and Oxford. Mindfulness-based Interventions. Teaching Assessment Criteria. (MBI:TAC)). She is currently co-heading the Mindfulness Association in Spain. She teaches Historical Archives and Records Management, Council Archives, Scientific Research Techniques (undergraduate, 4th year), Information Management and Archivistics (undergraduate, 1st year) and Cataloguing of Electronic Resources (undergraduate, 3rd year).

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