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Accepting PhD Students
Cristina Iannelli is Professor of Education and Social Stratification. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Academy of Social Sciences. She has extensive research experience as leader and co-investigator of several national and international research projects. Between 2017 and 2021 she was Co-Director of the ESRC large grant ‘Understanding Inequalities’, a multidisciplinary and international research project aimed to explore the causes, consequences and policy implications of social inequalities across different dimensions and spatial scales (https://www.understanding-inequalities.ac.uk/about). From 2013 to 2017 she was Co-Director of the ESRC-funded centre AQMeN (Applied Quantitative Methods Network; http://www.research.aqmen.ac.uk) in the University of Edinburgh and led the ‘Education and Social Stratification’ research strand which involved collaborators from Scotland, Ireland, Germany and the US. The main aim of this strand was to examine the role of institutional differentiation of curriculum and status in reproducing social inequalities in education and the labour market.
After the award of her PhD at the European University Institute (Florence), she worked as Research Fellow at the Centre for Educational Sociology in the University of Edinburgh. During this period she was involved in two major European projects, A Comparative Analysis of Education to Work Transitions in Europe (CATEWE) and Evaluation and Analysis of the Labour Forces Survey 2000 Ad Hoc Module on School-To-Work Transitions in Europe.
She was the principal investigator of the ESRC project Education and Social Mobility in Scotland in the 20th Century which provided an up-to-date picture of social mobility patterns in Scotland. After this study she was awarded a three-year ESRC Research Fellowship on The Role of Educational Structure and Content in the Process of Social Mobility.
She was successfully involved in the creation of a Scotland-wide Applied Quantitative Methods Network (AQMeN) (funded by the ESRC and the Scottish Funding Council) which aimed to boost capacity in quantitative methods in Scotland. In January 2013 AQMeN became an ESRC-funded research centre.
She was involved in a further two major initiatives, Edinburgh Q-Step and the Administrative Data Research Centre in Scotland.
Research Supervision
I am keen to supervise research under the headings above.
Current PhD students
Past PhD students
Dafni Dima (completed) ‘Labour market transitions before and during the Great recession in Europe’
Alice Dias Lopes (completed) ‘International Mobility in Higher Education: understanding the dynamics of inequality and social stratification in the Brazilian educational system’
Dulce Carolina Mendoza (completed) ‘Analysing educational transitions in upper secondary and higher education in Mexico. An empirical application of the capability approach and sociological perspectives on inequalities in education’
Susan Whittaker (completed) ‘Higher education students crossing internal UK borders: Student and country differences and their contribution to higher education inequalities’
Gitit Satat-Kadar (completed): 'Participation in Out-of-School Activities and the Socio-Economic Gap in Children's Academic Outcomes'
Morag Treanor (2009-2011, completed): 'Exploring children's outcomes at the transition to primary school of children experiencing persistent poverty in Scotland'
Alaba Agbatogun (completed): 'Comparative effects of interactive mobiles and communicative approach on the learning outcomes of the educationally disadvantaged Nigerian pupils in ESL classrooms'
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Cristina Iannelli (Contributor)
Activity: Consultancy types › Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups
Cristina Iannelli (Participant)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Cristina Iannelli (Participant)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Cristina Iannelli (Speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Cristina Iannelli (Speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Iannelli, C., Dibben, C. & Taylor, J.
1/11/13 → 31/10/18
Project: Research
7/07/17
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
28/06/17
5 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
5/05/17
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
6/01/16
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
Cristina Iannelli & Markus Klein
20/11/15
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment