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Carmela Chávez Irigoyen

Associated Researcher
PhD in Sociology - Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
cchavez@grade.org.pe

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Carmela Chávez Irigoyen holds a PhD in Sociology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, where she also obtained a Degree in Sociology and a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Sciences. She has a Master’s Degree in Advanced Studies in Human Rights and a Master’s Degree in Fundamental Rights from the Carlos III University in Madrid. She has been a doctoral intern at the Center for Comparative Policy in Education at the Diego Portales University in Santiago, Chile, a visiting researcher at the Institute for the Studies for International Development at McGill University in Montreal and a visiting student at the Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Duke University in Durham, United States. Carmela also received a scholarship from the United Nations University in Tokyo where she took courses on Universal System and International Cooperation at the Institute for Sustainability and Peace; and from the Ministry of Education and Research of the German Federal Government to participate in the Winter Academy “Inequality, Education and Social Power: transregional perspectives” held by the Forum Transregionale Studien and the Max Weber Foundation at the Von Humbolt University in Berlin.

She worked as a Specialist in educational systems at the National Superintendence of University Higher Education (SUNEDU) between 2016 and 2023, and as a researcher at the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru between 2013 and 2015.

Currently, her lines of research in higher education revolve around the institutional reforms, educational policies, quality assurance, private eduction and educational trajectories with a gender approach. Her publications have focused on various issues in higher education, human rights, transitional justice and democratic governance.

She teaches courses in Sociology of Education and Research Methodology, and is an Associated Researcher at GRADE. She is a member of the Peruvian Society for Educational Research (SIEP).