Mijail Figueroa González
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow
mfigon@utu.fi Koskenniemenkatu 4 Turku ORCID-tunniste: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2998-4480 |
Student employment; Working while studying; Social inequality; Social stratification; Life course research
INVEST Research Flagship Center
I am a sociologist researching how working while studying at university shapes students’ life courses across Europe, and how risks and gains associated with student employment are socially stratified. I am the principal investigator of GROW-High Gains, High Risks, for Whom? A Holistic Approach to the Inequalities of Working While Studying Trajectories, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship-funded project that examines who benefits and who faces challenges and under what conditions. GROW began in September 2025 and will run for two years.
I am also an affiliated Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, Austria. Previously, I was the Project Manager of Mapineq – Mapping Inequalities through the Life Course, a Horizon Europe project coordinated by the University of Turku in Finland. Before that, I held postdoctoral researcher positions at Erasmus University Rotterdam and the Université libre de Bruxelles.
I earned 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 work included research stays at 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.
- Are some individuals more susceptible to intercultural education than others? Multicultural personality predicts the effects of an intercultural training on cultural intelligence (2024)
- International Journal of Intercultural Relations
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - ¿Por qué trabajan los estudiantes universitarios catalanes? La influencia del origen social y la organización de las titulaciones en las motivaciones para compaginar estudios y trabajo (2019) Figueroa González, Mijail
(G4 Monografiaväitöskirja) - Working whilst studying in higher education: The impact of the economic crisis on academic and labour market success (2017)
- European Journal of Education
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )