MarÃa de los Angeles Zapata RodrÃguez
MarÃa de los Angeles Zapata RodrÃguez
María de los Angeles Zapata Rodríguez is a Peruvian doctoral student at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh Business School, where she is funded through a James Watt Scholarship. She is doing research at the intersection of disability and gender in women living with chronic pain in employment, a cross-cultural study between Scotland and Peru. She is a member of the Centre for Research on Employment, Work and the Professions. She is also currently studying towards a PG Certificate in Business Research Methods. She is an Associate Fellow of Advance HE, and currently tutoring for undergraduate courses in Business Management. Her mother tongue is Spanish.
Background
In 2019, María graduated from the MBA at the Edinburgh Business School, having been awarded the Shaping Entrepreneurial Women Scholarship by the 30% Club. Previously, Maria had experience in the public, private, and non-governmental sectors, having a deep engagement with gender inequality issues in workplaces. Her first degree is in Politics, and her second degree is in Education.
María is a founding member of the Peruvian NGO for Food Security (ASANUT), and continues to lead a Real Estate project in Peru. She has been an advocate in education leading several projects in public speaking for more than 8 years in Peru, participating and been awarded in many international conferences, in Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Spain, Venezuela, and the USA. She is the first member of her family to get a postgraduate degree in a language other than Spanish as well as the first to study abroad.