Marta Estellés

Dr. Marta Estellés is a Senior Lecturer at the Te Kura Toi Tangata School of Education. She has previously been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Auckland (2020-2022), a Lecturer at the University of Cantabria (2017-2019) and a visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia (2019, 2020) and Arizona State University (2015). Her research analyses educational policies, discourses, and curricula as sites of broader socio-political struggles aimed at shaping particular kinds of citizens –from global/national citizens through to identity-safe individuals and digital consumers– and their implications for critical democratic education. Her research draws from a variety of disciplines, including sociology of education, curriculum and policy studies, social studies education, social theory, history and philosophy. Over the past three years, she has been working on a project funded by the Spencer Foundation, which explores the increasing confluence of safety and citizenship discourses in educational debates. During her career, Dr. Estellés has received several awards and appointments, including Best Conference Paper Award by the AERA Democratic Citizenship in Education SIG (2024), Research Excellence Award by the Division of Education (2023), and best dissertation in Humanities by the University of Cantabria (2018).