Dr. Carolina Guzmán Valenzuela

Dr. Carolina Guzmán Valenzuela is a Serra Hunter Fellow in the Department of Psychology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain) and a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Tarapacá (Chile). She studied Psychology at the University of Valparaíso for her Bachelor's degree and at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Santiago (Chile) for her Master's degree with a focus on Educational Psychology, before completing her doctorate in Educational Sciences at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Most recently, she was Professor of Higher Education at the University of Tarapacá.

Her research over the last 15 years has focused on the role of universities in the 21st century, particularly in Latin America. She focuses on global higher education, internationalization, epistemic injustice, social inequality and the theorization of qualitative research, especially in the context of education and social sciences. With an interdisciplinary approach drawing on sociology, political theory, philosophy and decolonial thinking, she examines knowledge production and the concept of the 'transformative university' as an agent of social change.

She has led several cross-national research projects for which she has received around £700,000 in competitive funding. She has published over 40 journal articles and more than 10 book chapters. She is currently leading a project on the decolonization of universities in Latin America.