Another academic year comes to an end at GEPS! We closed 2025–2026 with our annual plenary, sharing project updates and setting priorities for the year ahead. We also held our annual PhD Conference, where our PhD students presented their research. Thanks to everyone who made it possible! ☀️

📢 Join us tomorrow for the last GEPS seminar of the academic year! We're delighted to have Clara Fontdevila (UAB), who will present her research. 📅 Friday, 19th June (13.15 h) 📍 Online, via TEAMS 🔗 rb.gy/c0lxh8 Don't miss it!

Very happy to share our paper on the theoretical and conceptual relationship between identity and habitus, published in the @bjse.bsky.social with my colleagues and friends @ainatarabini.bsky.social and @saragilmo.bsky.social. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Roots and leaves: rethinking the relationship between habitus and identity

This article addresses the longstanding but under-theorised relationship between habitus and identity in the sociology of education. While both concepts are central to analyses of inequality, they ...

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🔜 Save the date! We're delighted to have Clara Fontdevila (UAB) joining us for the next GEPS seminar. 📅 Friday, 19th June (13.15 h) 📍 Seminari A (F. Sociologia & online) 🔗 Registration rb.gy/c0lxh8 Don't miss it!

📢 Save the date! GLOBED celebrates its 10th Anniversary Conference! Reconnecting, Reflecting, and Rethinking Education Policy 📍 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 🗓️ 1–2 October 2026. Call for contributions open until 15 June 2026. Info & submissions here: surl.lu/ywpjuh Join us!

GLOBED_Conference | GLOBED - Erasmus+ M.A. in Education Policies for Global Development-

We are delighted to announce that GLOBED will celebrate its 10th anniversary in 2026 with the conference: “Reconnecting, Reflecting, and Rethinking Education Policy” 📍 Barcelona 📅 1–2 October 2026 T...

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📢Join us tomorrow for the next GEPS seminar! We are delighted to welcome Judith Jacovkis (UB), who will present: "A la zaga de Google. Los límites de la adopción de plataformas de software libre en la educación" 📅 Thursday, May 14 (1:15 pm) 📍 Seminari A (F. Sociologia, UAB & online) 🔗 rb.gy/c0lxh8

📚 New paper out! “Vocational narratives: How students make sense of their educational choices” (Sociology). With @javierrujas.bsky.social y.social & @saragilmo.bsky.social we rethink “vocation” as a social construct & show how young people use it to legitimise their choices. 🔗 shorturl.at/ekCql

Vocational narratives: How students make sense of their educational choices - Aina Tarabini, Javier Rujas, Sara Gil, 2026

This article explores how young people use vocational narratives to make sense of their Post16 educational choices. Based on 97 qualitative interviews with stud...

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Big news from GLOBED at UAB 🎉 www.globed.eu/study-program/ The Erasmus Mundus Joint Master in Education Policies—coordinated by GEPS—has reached a new record: 2,500 applications for 30 places (2026–2028). Huge thanks to everyone who made this possible 🙏 surl.li/mcknbj

Study program - globed

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🔜 Save the date! We're honored to welcome Carolyn Jackson for the next GEPS seminar. She will share insights from 20+ years of research on changing concerns about masculinity in education. 📅 Friday, April 24 (13:15) 📍 Seminari A (F. Sociologia & online) 🔗 Registration: rb.gy/c0lxh8 Don't miss it!

Gracias @Nacho_Meneses por esta entrevista! Un placer! elpais.com/economia/for...

Aina Tarabini, socióloga: “El abandono escolar es solo la parte visible de desigualdades mucho más profundas”

El fracaso educativo en España está en su mínimo histórico, pero sigue entre los países con peores cifras de la UE. El problema empieza mucho antes de que los alumnos dejen los estudios

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🔜 Save the date! We're honored to have Kathleen Lynch join us for the next GEPS seminar on February 27. Don't miss it! 📅 Friday, 27th February (13:15 h) 📍 Online, via TEAMS 🔗 Registration rb.gy/c0lxh8

🔜 Save the date! We're delighted to have Marcel Pagès joining us on February 6 for the first GEPS Seminar of 2026. Don't miss it! 📅 Friday, 6th February (13.15 - 14.45 h) 📍 Seminari A (B3BIS/-111) F. Sociologia, UAB & Online 🔗 Registration: rb.gy/c0lxh8

📣 We’re pleased to announce that Aina Tarabini has taken on the role of Director of GEPS (from 17 December), succeeding Xavier Bonal. We would like to thank him for his leadership and service to the group over the years!! Website updates coming soon. Stay posted! 🔔

We are honoured to have Mattias Nylund in the first GEPS seminar of the academic year. Don't miss it! 📅 31st Oct, 12-13:30 h 📍Seminari A (B3BIS/-111) & Online 🔗 Registration: rb.gy/c0lxh8

Together with @sheilagonzalez.bsky.social, we are editing a special issue on school desegregation policies for Education Policy Analysis Archives. If you are working on related topics, consider submitting a proposal. 🗓 Abstracts due: Dec 8 🔗 More info: epaa.asu.edu/index.php/ep...

We are excited to present our seminar programme for the first semester of the academic year 2025-2026. We hope to see you all!

The GEPS research team is off on vacation! We'll be back soon with new projects to keep advancing a just and equitable education system. In the meantime, check our website (geps-uab.cat) to stay updated! 🌱📚

@gepsuab.bsky.social concluded the academic year with the celebration of the Phd Conference. A one-day event where the PhD fellows presented their research and engaged in insightful discussions with professors and peers. An enriching space for learning, sharing and community-building.

📚 El dijous passat, la #SaraGil va defensar la seva tesi doctoral: "Imaginar ser, imaginar para ser", a @politiquesuab.bsky.social. Amb un estudi qualitatiu longitudinal, explora els futurs imaginats de joves de batxillerat i les desigualtats que travessen les seves trajectòries educatives 👇

We've updated our research group's website with a whole new section on PhD theses! For GEPS, building a school of thought is essential—and training and supporting PhDs is a key part of that mission. We've also updated projects, seminars & more. Check it out: geps-uab.cat/phd-theses/

PHD theses

Here you can find the ongoing PhD theses and the PhD theses supervised since 2015 at GEPS research center. ONGOING PHD THESES PHD THESES SUPERVISED SINCE 2015

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🔜 Save the date! On Friday (Apr 25th), join us for the next GEPS Seminar with @mariarodo.bsky.social. She will discuss visual and digital methods for studying intersectionality. Don’t miss it! 📅 April 25, 13-14.30h 📍 Seminari A (Sociologia UAB) & Online 📝 bit.ly/3UOIYay

🔜 Save the date! On Friday (Apr 25th), join us for the next GEPS Seminar with @mariarodo.bsky.social. She will discuss visual and digital methods for studying intersectionality. Don’t miss it! 📅 April 25, 13-14.30h 📍 Seminari A (Sociologia UAB) & Online 📝 bit.ly/3UOIYay

We will present the Research Handbook on Education Privatization and Marketization with Kevin Welner, @chrislub.bsky.social and Frank Adamson on April 28 at @colorado.edu. Join us in person or online: cuboulder.zoom.us/j/98520681372 — 9:30 AM (UTC-6)

📢 Welcome to the new account of GEPS! We are a research group based at UAB, with members from the Department of Sociology and the Department of Theories of Education. Here, we will share our research activities and key insights on research and education policy. Follow us to stay updated! 📚🔍