Clara Mascaró

Clara Mascaró is a Tutor in Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh, where she also pursues her PhD part-time. Her research focuses on labour market inclusion and social security for working-age disabled people in the United Kingdom and Germany, employing longitudinal analyses of the UK Household Longitudinal Survey and the German Socio-Economic Panel.

• MSc by Research in Social Policy (with Distinction), University of Edinburgh (2018)
• MA (Hons) Economics and Politics (First Class), University of Edinburgh (2015)

Her fields of interest include work and employment, welfare states, social inequality, health inequalities, disability studies, and research methods. Her work bridges the social-relational model of disability with comparative welfare state studies and social stratification frameworks.

Clara has co-authored a 2022 article on activation policies in the Journal of European Social Policy and presented at international conferences such as SASE, REPS, and Espanet. She is also affiliated with the Work, Economy and Welfare Research Group and the Money, Security and Social Policy network.

• Scientific Awards: ESRC +3 Doctoral Scholarship, Prize for Best Performance in MSc by Research (University of Edinburgh), Associate Fellow of the British Higher Education Academy