López-Íñiguez, Guadalupe

Guadalupe López-Íñiguez is a University Researcher and Docent in Music Education at the Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki, and Honorary Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne. She holds a PhD in the psychology of music education and a master’s degree in cello performance. Her interdisciplinary research examines how music education supports human development and ethically sustainable excellence across educational and professional pathways, with particular interests in giftedness, identity, motivation, emotion, wellbeing, care, and socio-cognitive constructivism. She has led internationally funded research projects for nearly two decades, including the ongoing "The Politics of Care in the Professional Education of Children Gifted for Music" project (Research Council of Finland, 2022–2027). A former professional cellist, recording artist, and studio teacher, she is an internationally recognised keynote speaker and author and co-editor of books published by Oxford University Press, Springer, and Routledge. [Note: For the 2027/28 academic year, Dr. López-Íñiguez may accept 1–2 doctoral researchers whose proposed research projects clearly align both with her scholarship and with the candidates’ prior academic and artistic expertise, demonstrating a coherent trajectory between their previous work and proposed doctoral research.] Current Doctoral Supervision: • Giuseppe Gentile, "Music Performance Anxiety in Pre-University Education: a Psychosocial–Psychodynamic Perspective" • Chun Li, "Promoting Music Teachers’ Aesthetic Care and Support of Gifted Children’s Aesthetic Existence in Specialist Music Education" • Antti Snellman, "Sup­port­ing Stu­dent Au­ton­omy in Finnish Mu­sic Schools: En­hanc­ing Teach­ers’ Re­flec­tive Prac­tice" • Kaisa Vähi, "In­stru­men­tal Ped­a­gogy in the Con­text of Po­liti­cal Regime Change: A Sys­tems View to Es­ton­ian Mu­sic Schools’ Cur­ric­u­lar Adapt­abil­ity" Completed Doctoral Dissertations Supervised: • Dora Utermohl de Queiroz, "Fostering Self-regulation in the Online Teaching and Learning of String Instruments" • Tuula Jääskeläinen, "Music Students' Experiences of Workload, Stress, and Coping in Higher Education" • Pedro Rodríguez, "New Pedagogical Approaches to the Context and Musical Meaning of the Viola Repertoire of the 20th and 21st Centuries"