Degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology (Miguel Hernández University), Degree in Humanities (University of Alicante), Master’s Degree in Immigration, Refugeeism and Intercommunity Relations (Autonomous University of Madrid) and PhD in Social Anthropology, with a European doctoral certification and a PhD Special Award (Autonomous University of Madrid). Alicia Ferrández Ferrer is a member of the Department of Contemporary Humanities, where she teaches and researches in the area of Social Anthropology.

She has specialised in research and analysis of cultural diversity in the contemporary world, delving into transnational Latin American migrations and how these migrants use the media in their claims for citizenship rights. She conducts research in Spain and England.

She currently participates in different national and international projects on the Roma people and the recent changes that are taking place in the educational, family and reproductive spheres. She has also directed a teaching innovation and research project focused on the Roma people and their university educational trajectories at the University of Alicante.

As a lecturer, she primarily teaches Social Anthropology on several undergraduate and second-cycle undergraduate degrees. She has also taught postgraduate courses, such as the Master’s Degree in Migration, Conflict and Social Cohesion at Bilbao’s University of Deusto, and has supervised internships for postgraduate students on the Master’s Degree in Immigration, Refugeeism and Intercommunity Relations and the Lifelong Learning Course in Migrations and Co-development (Autonomous University of Madrid).

She is a member of the Sociological Observatory for Education (OBSOEDU, University of Alicante), the University Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Social Development (IMEDES, UAM) and the Valencian Association of Anthropology (AVA).