CV
POSITIONS
Associate Professor, 2019 - present
Assistant Professor, 2014-2019
Graduate Program Director, 2020-present
Social Science and Humanities Ethics Comittee, 2014-2019
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Cambridge, 2011-2014
Director of Studies for Social Sciences, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, 2010-2011, 2012-2014
EDUCATION
PhD, Social Science, University of Cambridge, 2006-2010
MA, Social Research Methods, University of Leeds, 2005-2006
BSc, Sociology, University of Bristol, 1998-2001
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
Fondecyt Regular April 2019- 2021, “La convivencia escolar y el desempeño académico de estudiantes indígenas en establecimientos educacionales de chile: nudos críticos”. Principal Investigator $63.726.000 [£75,000 approx]
Centre for Intercultural and Indigenous Research (CIIR) Associate Researcher 2017-present
Millennium Center for the Study of the Life Course and Vulnerability (MLIV) Associate Researcher 2018-present
Public Policy Fund, Universidad Católica de Chile, “Las desigualdades invisibilizadas: población indígena y segregación escolar” [Invizibilized inequalities: indgenous populations and school segregation] Principal Investigator. $ 8.000.000 [£9,500] March 2016- March 2017,
ESRC funded project: “Intercultural Bilingual Education in Chilean Classrooms: An exploration of youth identities, multiculturalism and nationalism”. Designed with Prof. Sarah Radcliffe RES-062-23-3168, University of Cambridge, (£235,156) August 2011 - July 2014
ESRC +3 Quota Award, University of Cambridge, (£36,000), Oct 2006 - Oct2009
Frank Stell Scholarship, Leeds University, (£8,000), Oct 2005 - Oct 2006
CONFERENCES & SEMINARS
World Congress on Education (WCE), Dublin: “First-generation Indigenous students’ educational pathways into Chilean higher education”, July 2018
II Congreso Internacional sobre Educación y Pobreza (CIEP), Villarrica, Chile “Denying systemic inequality in segregated Chilean schools: Race-neutral discourses among administrative and teaching staff”, March 2018
Latin American Studies Association (LASA) conference, New York: “Mind the Gap: Exploring achievement differentials between the indigenous and non-indigenous Chilean population”, May 2016
British Sociological Association (BSA) conference, University of Leeds: “Intersectionalities of youth and indigeneity in Chile”, April 2014
Invited presentation at panel discussion on “The impact of education on ethno-political stability” Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN), London School of Economics, “Mapuche demands during educational reform” January 2014
First Meeting of the International Congress on The Indigenous Peoples of Latin America, 19th-21st Centuries. Advances, Perspectives, and Challenges, Instituto Cultural Oaxaca, Mexico: “Mapuche youth between exclusion and the future: Youth, civic society and citizenship in Chile”, October 2013
British Education Research Association (BERA) Conference, University of Sussex: “Racialised experiences of education in Chile: Mapuche pupil responses to mono-cultural classroom practices and curricula”, Sept 2013
Society of Latin American Studies Conference (SLAS), Manchester University: “Positioning interculturalism in Chile’s Intercultural Bilingual Education Programme: Neo-liberal constraints and failed practices of pluralism”, April 2013
Presentation by invitation at the Society of Latin American Studies Conference (SLAS), Bristol University: “The Writing on the wall: Narrating Mapuche history on blogs and murals”, April 2010
Presentation by invitation at a Post Graduate Research Colloquium, Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, University of Bristol: “Contested representations of Mapuche identity”, June 2009
Society of Latin American Studies Conference (SLAS), Leeds University: “Being and becoming Mapuche; a review of ethnic identity management among a case study”, April 2009
Postgraduates in Latin American Studies Conference (PILAS), University of Cambridge: “Being and becoming Mapuche in Chilean society”, March 2009