Patricia Rueda Diez
Teaching Fellow and LLC Outreach and Widening Participation Officer
- Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
- Department of European Languages and Cultures
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0)131 650 3746
- Email: Patricia.Rueda@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Room 3.12
50 George Square - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9LH
Availability
Office Hour: Tuesdays at 12.00 midday
Background
Mrs Patricia Rueda Díez took a BA (Hons) in Media at the Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid, followed by a Posgraduate course in Screenwritting at The University of Edinburgh and a PDA in Photography at The Edinburgh College. After working as a photographer for four years she completed the ELE Spanish Teaching qualification and taught Spanish in various schools and academies in Edinburgh before joining the Language department at Edinburgh University in 2012.
Patricia co-organised the Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival (ESFF), for its first nine editions from 2014 to 2023, as producer of the Festival.
From 2023 Patricia is, with Dr Sergi Mainer, the Outreach and Widening Participation officer for LLC.
Qualifications
BA (Hons) in Media at the Rey Juan Carlos University 2000-2005
Posgraduate course in Screenwritting at The University of Edinburgh 2006
PDA in Photography at The Edinburgh College 2006-2009
ELE Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language 2009
Undergraduate teaching
- Spanish 1A
- Spanish 1B
- Spanish 2
- Spanish 4
- Foundation Spanish Language 1
- Foundation Spanish Language 2 (Course Organiser)
- Foundation Spanish Language 3 (Course Organiser)
- Foundation Spanish Language 4
She has strong interests in cinema, photography theatre and art. During her time in Edinburgh she has also done summer work at Fettes Centre for Languages and Culture. She has collaborate with the Hispanic department’s annual student theatre production for four years (2012-2015) and has been the producer of the Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival for 9 years (2014 to 2022).