Margarita León

Margarita León (URL at Academia.edu: https://uab.academia.edu/MargaritaLeon is an Associate Professor in the politics department and a senior Research fellow at the Institute of Government and Public Policies (IGOP) of the Universitat Autònoma Barcelona. From 2003 until 2010 she was a lecturer in European social policy (SSPSSR, University of Kent). She has been a Marie Curie Post-doctoral fellow at the RSCAS, European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She holds a PhD from the London School of Economics (2000) and a MA in Sociological Research from the University of Essex (1995). She has co-edited with A.M. Guillén The Spanish Welfare State in European Context (2011 Ashgate) and edited The Transformation of Care in European Societies (2014, Palgrave). She has published in international peer reviewed journals such as Journal of European Social Policy, Comparative European Politics. South European Society and Politics, or European Journal of Women Studies