Alumna Alicia García-Sierra has received the prize for best PhD thesis from the European Consortium for Sociological Research (ECSR).
Entitled 'Three Novel Mechanisms of Intergenerational Transmission of (Dis)Advantages', Alicia's thesis advances understanding of the socioeconomic inequalities in children’s development.
Using data from the UK and US, the thesis examines three different processes of social reproduction, arguing that only by disentangling the complex combination of mechanisms through which inequality is transmitted across generations can appropriate policy responses be created.
Two of Alicia's thesis chapters have now been published in the journals Social Science Research and European Sociological Review.
Alicia joined the Oxford Department of Sociology in 2020, after completing undergraduate and master's degrees at the Charles III University of Madrid. She completed her DPhil in 2023 and is now a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Lausanne.
Her current research examines the relationship between the normative ideal of equality of opportunity and the empirical measures of inequality.
Congratulations, Alicia!
