Marti Rovira

Marti Rovira

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Biography

I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain) and member of the SocioDemographics Research Group DemoSoc Group. Previously I was a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Sociology Department and a Non-stipendiary Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Nuffield College.

My work to date has explored questions about the intersections between social inequalities and the criminal justice system, with a strong focus on the effects of Criminal Background Checks (CBCs) –requests for information on previous convictions for non-judicial purposes-.

In my past research, I have mainly relied upon quantitative methods, including experimental audit designs. Notwithstanding, my work is methodologically plural, and I always strive to keep up to date with methodological developments in criminology, sociology and beyond. In recent years in my work I have relied on computational social science methods

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Last updated: 13th Nov, 2024

Interests
  • Criminal Records Stigma
  • Collateral Consequences of a conviction
  • Evolution of CBCs requests
  • Prison Leave
  • Social attitudes on Police Officers
  • Criminology
  • Sociological Methods
  • Field Experiments
Education
  • PhD in Law (Criminology), 2016

    Pompeu Fabra University

  • Msc in Sociology of Crime, Control and Globalisation, 2011

    London School of Economics

  • Postgraduate Diploma in Social Research Methods, 2009

    Universitat de Barcelona

  • BA in Political Science, 2006

    Pompeu Fabra University

Recent Publications

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(2023). Collateral consequences of criminal records from a cross-national perspective: An introduction. Criminology & Criminal Justice.

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(2023). The Global Rise of Criminal Background Checks. International Criminology.

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(2021). Assessing Discrimination in Correspondence Studies. Sociological Methods & Research.

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(2021). An audit experiment to investigate the “war on cops”: a research note. Journal of Experimental Criminology.

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(2021). Publicidad, solicitud y cancelación de los antecedentes penales en los tribunales españoles. Revista Electrónica de Ciencia Penal y Criminología.

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(2020). The next Pandora's Box of criminal background checks. European Journal of Criminology.

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Teaching

I have more than seven years of experience teaching, supervising and examining graduate and undergraduate students in modules on criminological theories and on social research methods, at both the University of Oxford and Catalan universities. My work has equipped me to design and implement all stages of undergraduate and graduate courses. I have experience selecting course readings, updating course outlines, delivering lectures, leading seminar discussions, marking exams, tutoring students one-on-one, supervising dissertation projects, and examining students. I have conducted face-to-face as well as online teaching.

Courses:

2024–2025

Criminality (Lecturer)
BA in Criminology and Public Prevention Policies, Pompeu Fabra University

Undergraduate final year dissertation (Lecturer)
BA in Criminology and Public Prevention Policies, Pompeu Fabra University



2023–2024

Criminality (Lecturer)
BA in Criminology and Public Prevention Policies, Pompeu Fabra University

Mapping, Big data & Society (Lecturer)
BA in Criminology and Public Prevention Policies & BA in Political Science, Pompeu Fabra University



2022–2023

Criminality (Lecturer)
BA in Criminology and Public Prevention Policies, Pompeu Fabra University

Methods for criminological research (Lecturer)
BA in Criminology and Public Prevention Policies, Pompeu Fabra University

Undergraduate final year dissertation (Lecturer)
BA in Criminology and Public Prevention Policies, Pompeu Fabra University

2020–2021

Statistical Methods (Labs coordinator).
Msc in Sociology & MPhil in Sociology, University of Oxford

MSc dissertation (Supervisor)
Msc in Sociology & MPhil in Sociology, University of Oxford

Undergraduate final year dissertation (Supervisor_- 1 student)
_BA in Criminology, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya_

2019–2020

Statistical Methods (Labs coordinator)
Msc in Sociology & MPhil in Sociology, University of Oxford

Undergraduate final year dissertation (Supervisor - 2 students)
BA in Criminology, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

2018–2019

Applied Experimental Research (Lecturer)
Nuffield Undergraduate Summer Institute, Nuffield College

Statistical Methods (Labs tutor)
Nuffield Undergraduate Summer Institute, Nuffield College

2017–2018

Criminality (Lecturer & Seminars Coordinator)
BA in Criminology and Public Prevention Policies, Pompeu Fabra University

Longitudinal Methods and Criminal Careers (Lecturer)
BA in Criminology and Public Prevention Policies, Pompeu Fabra University

2016–2017

Criminological theories (Lecturer)
Msc in Criminology and Criminal Justice System, Pompeu Fabra University, Universitat de Girona, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona & Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Penology and Imprisonment (Lecturer [with E. Larrauri])
Msc in Criminology and Criminal Justice System, Pompeu Fabra University, Universitat de Girona, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona & Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Introduction to Criminology (Lecturer [with E. Larrauri] & Labs coordinator)
Criminological theories (Seminars Coordinator)

Criminality (Seminars Coordinator)
BA in Criminology and Public Prevention Policies, Pompeu Fabra University

Undergraduate final year dissertation (Supervisor - 10 students)
BA in Criminology and Public Prevention Policies, Pompeu Fabra University