Mijail Figueroa González

I am a sociologist interested in how working while studying at university shapes students’ life courses and the stratifications of risks and gains associated with student employment. I was recently awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship for my project GROW, which aims to investigate who benefits and who faces challenges when working while studying, and under what conditions. GROW will start in September 2025 and continue for two years.

I am currently the Project Manager of Mapineq – Mapping Inequalities through the Life Course, a Horizon Europe project coordinated by the University of Turku in Finland. I am also an affiliated Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, Austria. Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Erasmus University Rotterdam and the Université libre de Bruxelles.

I hold a Ph.D. in Sociology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2019), where I explored the influence of social origin and academic programs on the motivations for working while studying among Catalan university students. My doctoral journey was enriched by research visits to the Social Inequalities and the Life Course group (SILC) at VU Amsterdam, the Centre for International Research on Education Systems (CIRES) at Victoria University, and the Institut de Recherche sur l’Éducation (IREDU) at the University of Burgundy.