Matías Montero
SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION · SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS
How relationships and institutions shape educational opportunity
I am a DPhil researcher in Education at the University of Oxford, funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council. My work examines how gender, institutional prestige, and social ties shape academic careers and educational trajectories.
Matías Montero
DPhil in Education · University of Oxford
ESRC Grand Union DTP Scholar
RESEARCH AGENDA
Connecting structures, relationships, and outcomes
My research moves across higher education, schools, and classrooms, using longitudinal and relational methods to understand when institutions reproduce inequality - and when they create room for change.
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Academic careers
How gender and institutional prestige influence collaboration, research funding, leadership, and attrition across education researchers’ careers.
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Educational transitions
How stratified systems shape course choices, higher-education access, and the trajectories of migrant and international students.
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Relational methods
How social network analysis and quantitative research can reveal the mechanisms linking opportunity structures to educational outcomes.
CURRENT DOCTORAL WORK
Networks and gender disparities across academic careers
My DPhil investigates the formation and persistence of gender disparities in Latin American education research. I model co-authorship and funding networks over time to examine how individual careers and institutional contexts interact.
LATEST
Recent activity
13 AUG 2026
Presented Who Gets Picked? at the 8th European Conference on Social Networks (EUSN 2026) in Norrköping, Sweden.
APR-JUN 2026
Visiting Doctoral Researcher at Universidad Mayor’s Society and Health Research Centre.
MAR 2026
Published a comparative PISA study of pathways to gender equity in mathematics in Studies in Educational Evaluation.
FEATURED OUTPUT
Gender segregation in secondary-school course choices
This American Educational Research Journal article examines socioeconomic gradients and the protective role of school gender culture in Chile.
Ortega, Montero, Canals & Mizala (2025)
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