Department: Arts and Humanities Department

Unit: Culture, creativity, social justice, critical thinking, humanities

Research group: IDENTICAT Language, Culture and Identity in the Global World

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Email: rmartinezsa@uoc.edu

Doctor by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona with the thesis Taste in music as a cultural production Young people, musical geographies and the imbrication of social hierarchies in Birmingham and Barcelona 2007. Supervised by Dr. Salvador Cardús Ros.

Roger Martínez Sanmartí is a Lecturer of the Arts and Humanities Studies, Director of the Sociology degree program, and a member of the IDENTICAT research group at the Open University of Catalonia. He teaches courses in sociology and cultural studies. His research explores the relationship between culture and inequality, focusing on areas such as education, youth cultures, cultural tastes, and consumption. Currently, he is investigating how more or less heterogeneous relational infrastructures influence the dispositions and trajectories of young people. He holds degrees in Information Sciences (Journalism) and Political Science and Sociology (Sociology) from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where he also earned his PhD in Sociology, with part of his fieldwork carried out in Birmingham when he was Batista i Roca Fellow at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge.