Contracted Professor Doctor in the Department of Sociology: Methodology and Theory. School of Political Science and Sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Doctor in Sociology (UCM) and Master of Arts in Sociology (University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA). She has held various positions of management at Universidad Complutense de Madrid: Coordinator of the University Master’s Degree in “Research Methodology in Social Sciences”, Vice Dean of Post-graduate Studies and External Internships, and Delegate of the Rector for Lifelong Learning, External Internships and Employability. She was Vice-President of Institutional and International Relations of the Spanish Sociology Federation (FES), Coordinator of the CRUE External Internships Subgroup and Vice-President of the University Network of Post-graduate Studies and Lifelong Learning (RUEPEP).

She has taught various bachelor’s degree and master’s degree courses related to research methodology and data analysis, although she also has extensive teaching experience on proprietary degree programmes, such as the proprietary Master’s Degree in Programme and Public Policy Assessment, the Specialised Course in Applied Social Research and Data Analysis at the Centre for Sociological Research (CIS) and the Expert in Project Teams and Leadership Course, which she heads up.

Her main fields of research fall into the Sociology of Work and Professions and into the analysis of inequality, both from the perspective of job insecurity and the perspective of higher education (including living and working conditions of university students, external internships, social responsibility of universities and university dual training). She has completed two six-year periods of research and one six-year period of knowledge transfer. She forms part of the Editorial Committee of the Sociological Research Collection of the Spanish Sociology Federation - Editorial Síntesis, the Board of Directors of the magazine entitled Cuadernos de Relaciones Laborales and the Editorial Board of the magazine entitled Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas (REIS).

She is the author of various publications, which include her book on the “Organización Social del Trabajo” (Editorial Pirámide, 1996) and such articles as “La dedicación al estudio y el trabajo de los estudiantes universitarios en España” (2014) (with Margarita Barañano) in RASE 7 (1): 82-103; “Las prácticas académicas externas: Reflexiones para los estudios de Sociología” (2016), in Revista Española de Sociología (RES) 25 (3 Supl): 137-151; “La brecha de género en el trabajo profesional” (2016), in Díaz Martínez, C. and Simó Noguera, C. (coord): La brecha salarial y la brecha de cuidados: Dos factores de desigualdad de género. Valencia: Tirant Humanidades, pp. 133-160, “Building in sociology in a pluralistic society: forty years of sociological practice in Spain” (with Fdez. Esquinas, M. and Torres, C.) (2020), in Hanafi, S. and Yi, C. C. (ed.) Sociologies in dialogue (Sage Studies in International Sociology), London: Sage Publications; and “Estudiantes y titulados de Sociología” (with M. Arroyo), in Fernández Esquinas, M. and Domínguez, M. (coord.): La Sociología en España: diagnóstico y perspectivas de futuro. Colección Academia, Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (upcoming publication).

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