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Marina Elías

  • marinaelias@ub.edu
  • Department of Sociology
  • Associate professor

Research interests:

Marina Elias Andreu is an associate professor at the Department of Sociology of the University of Barcelona specialized in sociology of education. Her research focuses on education inequalities in the education field. This includes analysis on transitions and trajectories of students to post-compulsory education, students’ profiles in terms of motivations, strategies to study, engagement through inequalities as social background, ethnic differentiation, gender, and other life conditions. Her research projects have permitted the development of policy recommendations and orientations to secondary education and higher education institutions.

Researchers projects:

  • Erasmus + https://web.fe.up.pt/~complext/index.html
  • Efecte compensació
  • Via universitària. https://www.vives.org/programes/estudiants/viauniversitaria-2/
  • Cities Project

Publications

  • Sánchez-Gelabert, A., Elias Andreu, M., & Bouvier, N. (2024) Transition to post-compulsoryeducation according to migrant background and gender in Catalonia: Exploring the effect ofnon-native student concentration.. International Journal of Educational Research. Article. External link.
  • Albert Sánchez-Gelabert, Marina Elias (2023) Going online? Does transferring to online university increase the likelihood of graduation among students from lower social background?. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education. Article. External link.
  • Marina Elias, Lidia Daza, Helena Troiano, Albert Sánchez-Gelabert (2023) Desigualdad en las transiciones educativas en España. El efecto compensación. REVISTA MEXICANA DE SOCIOLOGÍA, Año 19, Vol. 85 número 01/2023 (enero-marzo). Article. External link.
  • Elias Andreu, Marina (2023) Non-Traditional Students in Spain: When Political Discourse of Social Justice Does Not Offer Tools for Social Justice Transformations in Practice. Towards Social Justice in the Neoliberal Bologna Process, Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 79-105. Book chapter. External link.
  • Troiano, H.; Sànchez-Gelabert, A.; Elias, M. (2021) The horizontal stratification of the Catalonian university system: the role of the private university. Research in Post-compulsory Education . Article. External link.
  • Van den Broeck L, Blöndal KS, Elias M, Markussen E. (2022) A search for the determinants of students’ educational expectations for higher education in four European cities: The role of school SES composition and student engagement. European Educational Research Journal. Article.