Dr Maria Villares-Varela

Maria teaches on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules, such as:

SSPC2004 Theorising the Social World

SSPC6004 Social Challenges: Global and Local Action

SSPC2013 Race and Ethnicity in Society

SSPC3004 Real World Research

SSPC2003 Qualitative Methods

SSPC2013 Race and Ethnicity

María's research explores work and employment relations in migrant firms, with a particular focus on gendered and classed-based experiences of work. Prior to her role at Southampton María was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship (CREME), University of Birmingham, where she contributed to the Centre’s research in the area of migrant and ethnic minority entrepreneurship. Before that she was based at the International Migration Institute (IMI), University of Oxford, where she worked as a Research Officer in the projects ‘The Drivers and Dynamics of High-Skilled Migration’ and ‘The Determinants of International Migration’ (DEMIG).

She has published her research in a wide range of journals. She is member of the Editorial Board of the journal Sociological Research Online and was previously member of the editorial boards of Work, Employment & Society and Sociology.

She has been a visiting scholar at COMPAS (University of Oxford); IMES (University of Amsterdam); ISET (London Metropolitan University); School of Social Sciences and Law (Oxford Brookes); and ERCOMER (University of Utrecht).