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Dr Marta Cristina Azaola PhD

Lecturer

Dr Marta Cristina Azaola is Lecturer within Southampton Education School at the University of Southampton.

Her area of interest lie in the field of sociology of education, focusing particularly on theories of social reproduction and critical theory. Her work is concerned with educational inequalities, specifically, educational inclusion and exclusion in deprived urban and rural areas. She has participated in a wide range of international projects. In rural Mexico she conducted an ethnographic study exploring the ways in which home-school-community links impact the educational and occupational trajectories of individuals. Recently, she coordinated a workshop aimed at enhancing reflective learning and school collaboration across rural schools, and currently, she investigates the experiences of school belonging across deprived urban upper secondary schools in Mexico. She has also explored issues of choice, opportunity, and wellbeing amongst migrant pupils in England and Jersey as well as the relationship between gender, mothering and leadership amongst head teachers in South Africa. 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.

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Research interests

I am interested in understanding social inequalities and how different school experiences affect peoples’ life opportunities and expectations. I am also interested in looking at people’s agency in contexts of social disadvantage in order to understand its role in people’s achievements. I would welcome proposals in related topics.

Affiliate research group

Centre for Research in Inclusion

Research project(s)

School Belonging: Experiences and challenges from high school students in Mexico

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Book Chapters

Azaola, M. C., & Kelly, A. (2015). Juxtaposing interpretations of research on school principalship. In P. Smeyers, D. Bridges, N. C. Burbules, & M. Griffiths (Eds.), International Handbook of Interpretation in Educational Research Methods (pp. 1-13). (Springer International Handbooks of Education). Springer.
Kelly, A., & Azaola, M. C. (Accepted/In press). Student involvement in leadership. In Leading Learning: Process, Themes and Issues in International Contexts (pp. 1-11). (Leadership for Learning Series). Routledge.
Azaola, M. C. (2013). Education in Mexico. In J. Ainsworth (Ed.), Sage Sociology of Education: An A-to-Z Guide SAGE Publications.
Azaola, M. C. (2013). Extended kinship and education. In J. Ainsworth (Ed.), Sage Sociology of Education: an A-to-Z Guide SAGE Publications.
Azaola, M. C. (2010). Relazione famiglia -educazione in una zona rurale di Michoacán, Messico. In F. Gobbo, & C. Tallè (Eds.), Antropologia ed Educazione in America Latina (pp. 231-243). (Etnografia dell'educazione; Vol. 3). CISU.

Conferences

Azaola, M. C. (2013). Community school programmes in Latin America. Latin-American Perspectives on Education, United Kingdom.
Lumby, J., & Azaola, M. C. (2011). South African female headteachers: gender and motherhood in relation to leading schools. Paper presented at BERA Annual Conference, United Kingdom.
Azaola, M. C. (2010). Revising Bourdieu: Social reproduction theory in light of alternative educational systems. Paper presented at BERA Annual Conference, United Kingdom.
Azaola, M. C. (2010). Rural women’s resilience and their impact on their children’s transitions. Paper presented at Economic and Social Research Council International Spring School, United Kingdom.
Azaola, M. C. (2009). Formal education on offer in disadvantaged communities. Paper presented at X Congreso Nacional de Investigacion Educativa del COMIE, Mexico.
Azaola, M. C. (2009). Three structures influencing home-school-community links: Policies, schools and families. Paper presented at European Network about Parents in Education (ERNAPE), Sweden.
Azaola, M. C. (2007). Rural education and parental involvement in Mexico. Paper presented at Latin-American Perspectives on Education Seminar, United Kingdom.
Azaola, M. C. (2007). What does education mean for us and how do we get involved? Parents’ accounts in a Mexican rural community. Paper presented at European Research Network about Parents in Education (ERNAPE), Cyprus.
Azaola, M. C. (2006). An application of Bourdieu’s theory of practice into an under-explored area. Paper presented at Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Research Methods Festival, United Kingdom.
Azaola, M. C. (2006). Methodological implications of getting in and out of the fieldwork. Paper presented at Ethnography and Education Conference, United Kingdom.

Journal Special Issue

Azaola, M. (2018). Educación media superior en Iberoamérica: aportaciones a las prácticas y políticas educativas de la región. Sinectica, 51, 1-3. https://doi.org/10.31391/S2007-7033(2018)0051-001

Report

Lumby, J., Azaola, M., de Wet, A-M., Skervin, H., Walsh, A., & Williamson, A. (2010). Women school principals in South Africa: leading the way. University of Southampton.

Review

Azaola, M. (2019). Comparing ethnographies: local studies of education across the Americas. Journal of Education for Teaching. https://doi.org/10.1080/02607476.2019.1675393

Module leader for

EDUC 1039 Education in other countries (BSc)
EDUC 2027 Internationalisation and Education (BSc)
EDUC6457 Globalisation and Education Policy (MSc)
PhD and Masters’ supervisions

Dr Marta Cristina Azaola
Southampton Education School University of Southampton Building 32 Southampton SO17 1BJ United Kingdom

Room Number NNN: 32/2021

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