About
Dr Cristina Azaola is an Associate Professor in Education at Southampton Education School. Cristina's work is concerned with educational inequalities, specifically, educational inclusion and exclusion in deprived urban and rural areas.
She employs a broad range of qualitative approaches and has conducted research in a variety of international contexts with a special focus in Mexico.
Cristina is also Director of the MSc in Education.
Research
Research groups
Research interests
- Social inclusion and exclusion through schooling
- School belonging in urban and rural educational settings
- Education inequalities: the public and private school divide
- Migration and education
Current research
Cristina is interested in understanding social inequalities and how different school experiences affect peoples’ life opportunities and expectations.
She is also interested in looking at people’s agency in contexts of social disadvantage in order to understand its role in people’s achievements and would welcome proposals in related topics.
Research projects
Completed projects
Publications
Teaching
Module leader for
- EDUC6342 Dissertation (MSc)
- PhD and Masters’ supervisions
External roles and responsibilities
Biography
Cristina is a graduate of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, she holds an MA in Educational Research from Lancaster University and a PhD from the University of Bristol.
Prizes
- Revisiting Bourdieu: alternative educational systems in the light of the theory of social and cultural reproduction (2015)