Núria Roca Samon

Núria Roca Samon is currently a PhD researcher at the Sociology Department of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), affiliated with the research group Globalization, Education & Social Policies (GEPS). Her research project focuses on analysing the connection between school segregation and teachers’ stratification in the Catalan educational system. She holds a degree in Sociology (2017) and a Master in Social Policy, Work and Welfare (2020), both from UAB.

Her main research interests in sociology of education are school segregation, inequalities and social exclusion, social class reproduction, educational policies in childhood and social justice. She has collaborated in several research projects related to educational policies at the local level, youth identities, gender, and associative participation. Currently, she is a teacher in the course “Strategies against school segregation” at the Education Department of the Catalan Government.