Leyre Gambra and Arantza Albertos, the new directors of Master's Degree Educational and Psychological Intervention and Master's Degree [ faculty]
They are replacing Charo Repáraz and Elena Arbués, respectively
30 | 06 | 2026
The Faculty's board has appointed Leyre Gambra as director of Master's Degree Educational and Psychological Intervention and Arantza Albertos as director of faculty Master's Degree .
Leyre Gambra replaces Charo Repáraz, who is retiring after a 40-year career and who has served as director of Master's Degree Educational and Psychological Intervention for the past nine years. The Master's Degree, which will celebrate its 11th edition in the 2026–2027 academic year, aims to train professionals who specialize in the diagnosis, intervention, and prevention of learning difficulties and development disorders development the entire life span. According to the newspaper El Mundo, the program has been ranked among the best in its specialization program for several years.
Leyre Gambra holds a bachelor’s degree in Pedagogy and Education and Master's Degree Educational and Psychological Intervention from the University of Navarra. She earned her doctorate a thesis “Central Coherence: design Validation of a test Study on Procedural Learning Disorders.” She is currently a tenured professor in the School of Education Psychology, where teaching the Degrees Education Pedagogy as well as in the Master's Degree Educational and Psychological Intervention.
Her career professor researcher is closely linked to the field of neurodevelopment and learning, and she plays an active role in group research group research in this subject the University of Navarra. Her main areas of work on the study of specific learning difficulties, with a special interest in Nonverbal Learning Disorder (NLD), as well as on the design validation of assessment tools. She has also collaborated on numerous competitive projects (several of which knowledge Generation Projects knowledge by the State research Agency) focused on social inclusion and improving the quality of life for people with intellectual disabilities, ADHD, and adapted physical activity and sports. She is currently the principal investigator on thegraduate project graduate of the IDAP Screening Inventory for the Detection of NVLD in Schoolchildren Aged 6 to 12.” She completed a research stay at University College Dublin and collaborates with prestigious institutions and professionals such as the University of Melbourne and the University of Southampton.
Arantza Albertos has been appointed the new director of Master's Degree faculty. The professor and researcher position Elena Arbués, who has led the Master's Degree 2023. This program, which began eighteen years ago, has recently been ranked among the best qualifying programs in Spain, according to El Mundo.
Arantza Albertos holds a bachelor's degree in Philosophy and a Ph.D. in Education the University. She also holds Master's Degree research Psychology from the University of the Basque Country. She is currently a tenured professor in the School of Education Psychology at the University of Navarra, where teaching the Degrees Education Degrees Education the Master's Degree faculty.
Her research on adolescent lifestyles and positive or structured leisure activities, self-control, and positive parenting as protective factors against risky behaviors among adolescents. She is a researcher on project within the research group at Institute for Culture and Society. She has completed several research stays research Rome and at Utrecht University, where she participated in the project Adolescents and Alcohol” project . She has participated in several funded projects, including one at the regional level from the Caja Navarra Foundation and two from the research Fund (Ministry of Economics Competitiveness, Carlos III Health Institute). She is currently participating in the project ” project (2026–2028), funded by the same fund, and serves as principal investigator on the project , “Family, Care, and Well-being in Youth: A Multidimensional Study of Human Flourishing, Family Dynamics, and Emerging Risks in the Digital Age.”
The dean of the school, Carolina Ugarte, thanks Professors Repáraz and Arbués for their work and acknowledges “their work raising the profile of both programs over the past few years.”