Pedro Abrantes holds a bachelor’s degree and a PhD in Sociology, from ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Over the last twenty years, he has taught and researched in several higher education institutions, in Portugal and Mexico, focusing on the areas of education, social inequalities and life paths. Simultaneously, he was committed with education development, through successive collaborations with local and national administration, as well as international organizations and foundations.
He is Assistant Professor at Universidade Aberta, since 2013. From 2016 to 2022, he was commissioned in the Ministry of Education, as advisor and afterwards as Deputy-Director of the statistics directorate. Member of the Portuguese Sociology Association, currently coordinating the Classes, Inequalities and Public Policies section.
Among other articles, he published:
- “Socialization and inequality” (Current Sociology, 2013),
- “Gendering social mobility” (Gender & Education, 2014),
- “Full-time Schools in Portugal” (JNAER, 2023),
- “Analysing biographies in transnational educational spaces” (Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2023).