Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Olga Salido

PhD in Political Science and Sociology and Professor of Sociology in the Department of Applied Sociology at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), where she has been Deputy Director (2018-2022) and coordinator of the University Master Applied Sociology: Social Problems (2014-16). Her lines of research focus on the study of socioeconomic inequality from a gender perspective and the comparative analysis of family and gender equality policies. She has recently been Visiting Professor at the Geary Institute for Public Policy, University College Dublin and Visiting Research Fellow at Eurofound (2022-2023). She is PI of the UCM research team within the INCASI 2 project and coordinator of the public policy work package aimed at the creation of a LivingLab on social inequalities. She is also currently co-PI of a research project to study gender bias in higher education and knowledge transfer, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science. Her work has been published in journals such as the European Journal of Industrial Relations, European Review, Journal of Contemporary European Review, Revista Española de Sociología or Evaluation and Program Planning. His recent publications include two co-edited volumes, Sociología en tiempos de pandemia, with Matilde Massó (FES-Marcial Pons, 2021) and Perspectivas y fronteras en el estudio de la desigualdad social, with Sandra Fachelli (CIS, 2020), and director together with Jesús Ruiz-Huerta of the 6th Informe sobre la Desigualdad en España: El impacto de las transiciones en la desigualdad territorial (Fundación Alternativas, 2024).