1. Associate Professor in the Area of Labor Law and Social Security at the Miguel Hernández University of Elche.

2. Specialized in Social Security matters, particularly economic benefits.

3. Ph.D. in Law from the University of Navarra in 2001. Doctoral thesis conducted under the supervision of Doctors SEMPERE NAVARRO A. V. and CAVAS MARTÍNEZ, F., titled: “Non-contributory pensions in the Spanish welfare system”.

4. With more than 300 publications including scientific research monographs, manuals on Social Security, practical cases, articles, and commentaries in journals, presentations, communications, and chapters in collective books.

5. Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and Education Sciences from the University of Valencia in 1989.

6. Served as Deputy Inspector of Employment and Social Security in the Labor Inspection between 1988 and 2010.

– “Labor insertion of people with disabilities”. Currently, part of an emerging research team on this subject linked to the Chair of Disability and Employability TEMPE – APSA, at the Miguel Hernández University, whose objectives focus on proposing new legal-labor measures that facilitate the employment access of workers with disabilities as well as their adaptability at work.

– “Sufficiency and sustainability of Social Security pensions”. This is one of the biggest problems in Social Security, affecting all States. Although it is a broad topic, the research focuses more specifically on the contributory retirement pension, which includes comparative analyses between States. It especially deals with the issue of active aging and the compatibility of the retirement pension with work.

– “Social security provision for self-employed workers”. It is known that self-employed workers have marked differences from employees. The research focuses on proposing legal measures that improve the social protection conditions of this group and their equalization in Social Security with employed workers.

Ms. Rosario Carmona Paredes, Collaborating Professor at Miguel Hernández University of Elche, member of the Department of Legal Science and specifically of the Area of Labor Law and Social Security. Graduate in Labor Relations, Bachelor’s degree in Labor Sciences, and Master’s in Human Resources Management, Work, and Organizations.

Management: Vice-Dean of Degree Projection in Labor Relations and Human Resources.

Member of the Gender Studies Research Center at Miguel Hernández University. A very important line of research is related to equality and labor law with participation from 2010-2013 in the research project “The temporal construction of time from a gender perspective: from work-life balance to co-responsibility”, funded by the Ministry of Equality. She has written “Workplace, sexual and gender-based harassment in En tierra de Hombres”. Book: Cinema and Law in 21 Films and “The specific rights and duties of research staff” which analyzes the equality plans of Public Research Organizations. Book: The professional status of research staff employed under a labor contract.

A second line of research focuses on the study of labor contracting regulations in the public administration, or the figure of the non-permanent indefinite contract in “Jurisprudential construction of the non-permanent indefinite contract” from the book, The professional status of research staff employed under a labor contract in the framework of the Research Project of the same name, funded by the National Institute of Public Administration, or the article in the International and Comparative Journal of Labor Relations and Employment Law “The conventional regulation of the interim contract in the University: substitute teaching staff”, 2017.

A third line, as a member of the Research Group on Alternative Dispute Resolution Methods: Mediation, Arbitration, and Conciliation. Doctoral student in the Doctorate program at Salamanca, Administration, Finance, and Justice in the Social State and developing the doctoral thesis on mediation in labor conflicts since 2017, starting the training actions with the presentation “Extrajudicial and judicial mediation, two parallel models of labor conflict resolution or questioning the role of social agents”, 2017.