Biography note

PhD in Social Anthropology (2007, UAB, Spain), Ábel is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Education, at the University of Barcelona. Earlier a ‘Maria Zambrano’ Postdoc Fellow at UPF Department of Communication and research associate at Central European University’s Democracy Institute (CEU/DI). He teaches Anthropology, Education and Youth studies, supervises Master’s theses and doctoral dissertations, and has been a visiting teacher in several European universities. His articles have been published in Ethnic and Racial Studies, the British Journal of Sociology of Education, Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, and Intercultural Education, among others. He editor of the Podcast “Retazos Antropológicos” of the anthropology journal of AIBR.

Research lines

- School-to-work transition among ethnic minority youth

- Social mobility among minorities

- Inequalities in post-compulsory education

Teaching

- Children, Youth and the Media (UPF)

- Theory and Practice of Educational Research (UB)

- Research and Evaluation in the Socio-educational field (UB)

- Tutoring and School Counselling: school, family, community (UB)