[2] Throughout all this time, Professor Valpuesta carried out an extensive research work, which resulted in the publication of several articles, text annotations, monographs, manuals and legal studies of all kinds.

Manuel Chaves (the former President of the Regional Government of Andalusia) appointed her as the Vice Chancellor of the Pablo de Olavide University (UPO) by statutory order on July 29, 1997.

She was a member of different research groups, presented papers in national and international conferences and published in specialized journals, among which her collaboration in the collective work Enciclopedia Jurídica Básica stands out.

Finally, after several attempts to resolve the conflict, some altercations with workers and after they had threatened to occupy more buildings, she ordered the eviction of the immigrants from the University premises.

Mariano Rajoy (who at the time was Spain's vice-president) linked the protest with the European Council meeting which was being held in Seville during those days,[12] and with a call for a national strike.

[14][15] She also collaborated in different projects with many town halls in Andalucía in order to raise the awareness of rural women about their situation of subordination and work discrimination.

In 2002, she received a Diploma of Honor from the Municipal Chamber of Curitiba (Brazil) and in June 2017 the National University of Catamarca in Argentina named her Doctor Honoris Causa.

[19] The Seville City Council (the Mayor being the socialist politician Alfredo Sánchez Monteseirín) named a street after her, for her activism in feminist and left-wing movements.