Marta Curran Fàbregas

Marta Curran Fàbregas is an Assistant Professor of Sociology of Education at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), affiliated with the Department of Applied Sociology and the Educación-Centro Formación Profesor school. She is a core member of the GRISE research group (Sociology of Education Research Group) and part of the TRANSOC institute studying contemporary social transformations.

Her doctoral research from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2017) explored early school leaving processes through a class and gender lens. She has extensive collaborations with Catalan and Spanish municipalities, contributing to policies addressing educational inequality, youth welfare, and school engagement.

Research focuses include: early school leaving prevention strategies, gender dynamics in vocational education, educational marketization, and internationalization trends like the International Baccalaureate's expansion. Her work combines qualitative methods with policy analysis, emphasizing systemic inequities and institutional mediation.

Key contributions include municipal education plans for Figueres and Santa Coloma de Gramenet, analysis of Barcelona's child well-being initiatives, and studies on post-compulsory education market segmentation. She has published widely on educational trajectories, teacher perceptions, and policy implementation in contexts of socioeconomic disadvantage.

Her recent work (2022-2024) examines youth resilience in post-crisis Spain, school positioning strategies, and gendered educational choices using Bourdieu's habitus framework. Current projects explore systemic tracking mechanisms and neoliberal policy impacts on educational access.