Sara Gil is a PhD researcher at the Sociology Department of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, with a research project on the imagined futures of the youth in academic upper secondary tracks. She holds a degree in Sociology (2018) and a MA in Social Policy, Labour and Welfare (2019), both from the same university. Her areas of interest are learner identities, gender roles formation in education, class reproduction through educational systems, social justice theories and qualitative methods. Currently, she is a research team member in the project “LEARNER. Learner identity and learning trajectories in secondary education: curricular policies, pedagogic practices, and students’ social contexts”.
Previously, she participated in the project “EduPost16. The construction of post-16 educational opportunities. An analysis of post-compulsory educational transitions in urban settings” with internships as an undergraduate and master student. She also collaborated as a local expert in the project “EuroStudents. Constructing the higher education student: a comparative study of six European countries”.
Globalisation, Education and Social Policies 