Queralt Capsada-Munsech
Queralt Capsada-Munsech is Lecturer in Education & Social Inclusion at the School of Education at the University of Glasgow. Queralt’s main research interests are educational inequalities, social stratification and youth transitions from education to the labour market. She currently contributes to the Educational Policies for Global Development (GLOBED), the Education, Public Policy & Equity (EPP&E) and the Inclusive Education Postgraduate Programmes.
She is currently involved in the NORFACE funded LIFETRACK research project. This comparative European research project focuses on the long-term consequences that sorting processes in secondary education have for social inequality in later stages of people’s educational and employment careers. Previous to that she was involved in the EU H2020 YOUNG_ADULLLT research project, focused on lifelong learning policies tackling young adults in vulnerable situations in their transition from education to the labour market.
Queralt got her PhD in Sociology at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF, Barcelona), which was entitled “Overeducation: Incidence, Persistence and Institutional Differences across countries. The influence of field of study and social origin on graduates’ overeducation risk”. During her predoctoral training, she enjoyed research stages at the Directorate for Education and Skills at the OECD (Paris), at the Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies (AMCIS) (Amsterdam) and at the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI, Dublin).
More about Dr Capsada-Munsech:
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/education/staff/queraltcapsadamunsech/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Queralt_Caspada-Munsech
