Mariya Ivancheva (Strathclyde Institute of Education) is an anthropologist and sociologist of higher education and labour.

 

Her academic and research-driven advocacy work focus on the casualisation and digitalisation of academic labour, the re/production of intersectional inequalities at universities and high-skilled labour markets, and the role of academic and student communities in broader processes of social change especially in transitions to/from socialism. She is the author of The alternative University: Lessons from Bolivarian Venezuela (Stanford University Press 2023).