Department: Sociología Aplicada

Faculty: Educación-Centro Formación Profesor

Centre/Institute: Instituto Complutense de Sociología para el Estudio de las Transformaciones Sociales Contemporáneas (TRANSOC)

Universidad: Complutense University of Madrid

Area: Sociology

Research group: GRISE Grupo de investigación en sociología de la educación

Email: mferna02@ucm.es

Phone: 680858481

Personal web: https://educacion.ucm.es/maria-fernandez-mellizo-soto

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Doctor by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid with the thesis Socialismo, igualdad en la educación y democracia la experiencia de González y Mitterrand 2001. Supervised by Dr. Gøsta Esping-Andersen.

Senior Lecturer in the Department of Applied Sociology at the Faculty of Education, Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). Her expertise is the sociology of education. She has completed three six-year research periods, the most recent of which was awarded in 2021, and received a “Diploma of Teaching Excellence” in the 2021–22 academic year. She has recently published a textbook on the Sociology of Education entitled “The Challenge of Education: A Sociological Perspective” (Ed. Síntesis). She has published in high-impact journals in the top quartiles of the JCR or SCOPUS rankings, as well as with prestigious publishers, both national and international. She is currently co-director of the Research Group in the Sociology of Education (GRISE) at the UCM and coordinates the Julio Carabaña Seminar on the Sociology of Education at that university.