• PhD Programme in Political and Social Sciences
• Crime Analysis and Prevention Itinerary

2024

IREN EYLUL KARAOGLU TUNC

• Intercultural Cities, Convivencia and Public Spaces: Perspectives of Policymarkers, Policy Implementers and Target Groups of Barcelona Interculturality Plan
• Doctorate 2024. Director: Clara Cortina & Martin Lundsteen. 

2023

ANNA MARTÍNEZ

• The Gender and Gendered Parental Impacts in Leisure Time: Assessing Inequality in a European Comparative Perspective
• Doctorate 2023. Director: Clara Cortina

CARLOS PALOMO

•  An Analysis of the Mediators and Moderators of Migrant-Native Gaps in Educational Expectations and Educational Transitions
• Doctorate 2023. Director: Carlos Palomo

JONATHAN KENT

• Urban Fabric Designed for Diversity: How the Structure of Great European Cities Influences Attitudes and Behavior
• Doctorate 2023. Director: John Palmer & Frederic Bartumeus

CARRASCO ARMIJO, IGNACIO

• Towards Stylised Facts on International Migration Research
• Doctorate 2023. Director: Pau Baizán

GOULART, KIMBERLY

• What's in a Job? An Exploration of What We Do and How it Affects Labor and Family Outcomes
• Doctorate 2023. Director: Jorge Rodríguez

2022

GIANGREGORIO, LUCA

• Key sources of income (and wage) inequalities: from the State to the individuals
• Doctorate 2022. Director: Jorge Rodríguez

 

2021

BEGÜM, DERELI

• The Role of Higher Education in Refugee Integration: The Case of Syrians in Turkey
• Doctorate 2021. Director: John Palmer 

MUFAZZER, SEVDA

• Refugees's Onward Migration Decisions and the EU-Turkey Deal. 
• Doctorate 2021. Director: John Palmer

CINELY, BEYDA

• Who manages the money at home? Household financial organization and gender inegualities
• Doctorate 2021. Director: M. José González

SIBEL AGLAMAZ, FATMA

• Understanding the Dynamics of Cultural Stratification. The Case of Spain
• Doctorate: 2021. Director: Jorge Rodríguez)

WANG, YANG

• Integration and Discrimination of Chinese Ethnic Minority in Spain
• Doctorate: 2021. Director: Jorge Rodríguez Menes

 DE FREITAS, JOÃO PAULO TAVARES COELHO

• Strategic planning proliferation and city aspiration-crafting: Investigating city strategic plans through publications, contents and triggers
• Doctorate: 2021. Director: Vom Hau , Matthias & Guiu Paya, Jordi

 

2020

JIMENEZ GARCIA, JUAN RAMON

• Las barreras invisibles para la igualdad. Tres estudios sobre las desigualdades étnicas y de género en el mercado de trabajo durante la Gran Recesión
• Doctorate: 2020. Director: M. José González

 

2019

CIMENTADA BAEZ, JORGE

• Educational Institutions and their Effect on Inequality: Three Papers on Educational Systems and Inequality of Achievement and Opportunity
• Doctorate: 2019. Thesis director: Gosta Esping-Andersen and Bruno Arpino

 

RATNIECE, LUIZE

• Changing Paradigms on Women's Labor Market Participation: Cases of Denmark and the USA
• Doctorate: 2019. Thesis director: Gosta Esping-Andersen and Clara Cortina Trilla

 

NIE, WANLI

• The Interrelationship Between Migration and Family Behaviours International Migration within China and International Migration from China to the U.S.
• Doctorate: 2019. Thesis Director: Pau Baizán

 

CANO LOPEZ, TOMAS

• Time, Love and Parenting: The Role of Fathers in the Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage
• Doctorate: 2019. Thesis Director: Maria José González

 

DI NALLO, ALESSANDRO

• The Diversity of Union and Fertility Trajectories in the UK
• Doctorate: 2019. Thesis Director: Gosta Esping-Andersen

 

2017

CIGANDA SOLIÑO, DANIEL ANDRES

• New Modelling Approaches to Reproductive Decision-Making
• Doctorate: 2017. Thesis Director: Pau Baizán

 

KRAUS, ELISABETH KATHARINA

• Family dynamics of international migrants and their descendants
• Doctorate: 2017. Thesis Directors: Pau Baizán (UPF), Amparo González (CSIC)

 

MALANCU, NATALIA CORNELIA

• Policy, Social Capital and Health: The Multiple Implications of Immigrant Economic Incorporation
• Doctorate: 2017. Thesis director: Mathew J. Creighton and Pau Baizán

 

RUTIGLIANO, ROBERTA

• Fertility and Family Ties in Times of Demographic Changes
• Doctorate: 2017. Thesis Director: Gosta Esping-Andersen and Bruno Arpino

 

2016

PESSIN, LÉA

• Changing Gendered Expectations and Diverging Divorce Trends. Three Papers on Gender Norms and Partnership Dynamics
• Doctorate: 2016. Thesis Director: Gosta Esping-Andersen

 

LEVATINO, ANTONINA

• Brain Training - Brain Draining. Skilled Migration, Student Mobility and Transnational Higher Education
• Doctorate: 2016. Thesis Director: Pau Baizán

 

FERNANDEZ ITURRATE, IÑIGO

• Life as a couple in the late 20th and early 21st centuries: how do men's and women's socioeconomic resources influence union stability?
• Doctorate: 2016. Thesis Directors: Marta Domínguez Folgueras and Jorge Rodríguez Menés

 

CAPSADA, QUERALT

• Overeducation: Incidence, Persistence and Institutional Differences across countries. The Influence of field of study and social origin on graduates' overeducation risk
• Doctorate: 2016. Thesis director: Luis Ortiz

 

FERNANDEZ ITURRATE, IÑIGO

• Life as a couple in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. How do men's and women's socioeconomic resources influence union stability?
• Doctorate: 2016. Thesis Directors: Marta Domínguez Folgueras and Jorge Rodríguez Menés

 

2015

LUPPI, FRANCESCA

• Are you ready now for another child? Life satisfaction, work-family trajectories and the progression to the second child
• Doctorate: 2015. Thesis Directors: Maria José González and Letizia Mencarani

 

2014

DELCLÓS GÓMEZ-MORÁN, CARLOS ERIC

• Cultural and Structural Explanations of Fertility:The Spanish Case at the Beginning of the 21st Century
• Doctorate: 2014. Thesis Director: Pau Baizán Muñoz

 

LIU, MAO-MEI

• The Social Roots of Sub-Saharan African Migration to Europe: Networks, Resources and Context
• Doctorate: 2014. Thesis Directors: Pau Baizán Muñoz and Amparo González Ferrer

 

SAFRANOFF YANKILLEVICH, ANA

• Analysing Gender Power Relations through Intermarriage in Spain
• Doctorate: 2014. Thesis Director: Jorge Rodríguez Menés

 

SEIZ PUYUELO, MARTA

• Male unpaid work and female employment trajectories: a dynamic analysis

• Doctorate: 2014. Thesis Directors: Gøsta Esping-Andersen and Teresa Castro Martín

 

WAGNER, SANDER

• Cautious Inference: Random Life Course Events of Parents and Children in Context
• Doctorate: 2014. Thesis Director: Gøsta Esping-Andersen

 

2013

BOERTIEN, DIEDERIK

• Socio-economic resources, relationship processes, and separation
• Doctorate: 2013. Thesis Director: Gösta Esping-Andersen

 

2012

GRACIA MOLINA, PABLO

• Diverging Parenting Behavior: Education, Gender, Class and Institutions
• Doctorate: 2012. Thesis Directors: Gösta Esping-Andersen and Jonathan Gershuny

 

LAPUERTA MÉNDEZ, IRENE

• Employment, Motherhood and Parental leaves in Spain
• Doctorate: 2012. Thesis Director: Maria José González

 

OBUCINA, OGNJEN

• Dynamics of well-being among immigrants
• Doctorate: 2012. Thesis Directors: Pau Baizán Muñoz and Amparo González Ferrer

 

2011

TORRE, MARGARITA

• Towards less segregation? A study of women's occupational mobility in the U.S. labor market
• Doctorate: 2011. Thesis Director: Gösta Esping-Andersen

 

2010

GARRIGA ALSINA, ANNA

• Consequences of parental divorce and family structure on children's outcomes in European societies: individual, cohort and country explanations
• Doctorate: 2010. Thesis Directors: Pau Baizán and Jaap Dronker

 

2009

BILLINGSLEY, SUNNE

• Casualties of Turbulent Economic Transition: Premature Mortality and Foregone Fertility in the Post-Communist Countries
• Doctorate: 2009. Thesis Director: Gösta Esping-Andersen

 

KUCEL, ALEKSANDER

• Three essays on over-education and labor market
• Doctorate: 2009. Thesis Director: Gösta Esping-Andersen

 

VIDAL TORRE, SERGI

• Essays on residential trajectories and social ties in the stage of early adulthood
• Doctorate: 2009. Thesis Director: Pau Baizán Muñoz

 

2008

ÖZCAN, BERKAY

• The Effects of Marital Transitions and Spousal Characteristics on Economic Outcomes
• Doctorate: 2008. Thesis Directors: Gösta Esping-Andersen and Fabrizio Benardi

 

2007

BRODMANN, STEFANIE

• Labour Market Assimilation of Immigrants in Germany and Denmark
• Doctorate: 2007. Thesis Director: Gösta Esping-Andersen