Antonina Levatino

Antonina Levatino Antonina Levatino is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Seville. She holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). Her research examines the internationalization of higher education, skilled migration, and student mobility, as well as governance reforms related to accountability and institutional autonomy in education. Since the early stage of her career, Antonina has been actively engaged in multiple international research initiatives and projects, such as the REFORMED project, within which she has coordinated large-scale cross-national surveys and applied advanced qualitative and quantitative methodologies.

More recently, she has contributed to GENTRED, which assesses the effects of urban gentrification on educational inequalities in Barcelona; EDUTRACE, a comparative study of education policy reform trajectories within the quality assurance cycle; and a Barcelona-based project evaluating the effects of desegregation policies. Additionally, she participates in the COST Actions ENIS (European Network on International Student Mobility: Connecting Research and Practice), a collaborative network advancing interdisciplinary research on international student mobility, and OPEN (Rising Nationalisms, Shifting Geopolitics, and the Future of European Higher Education/Research Openness), which fosters pan-European dialogue on the challenges facing higher education openness.